Kalshi · NEAR Protocol up or down · 1m to 1W charts
NEAR Protocol 15 MinUp or Down
Kalshi opens a new up-or-down NEAR window on every quarter hour. This page is that contract: the target to beat, live Coinbase NEAR-USD candles from 1 minute to 1 week, and what a stake pays after the taker fee. Changing the chart tab changes the candles only, never the NEAR contract in the panel.
The odds and payout on this page still update on their own.
Short-term read
Move needed
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Typical move
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ATR 14
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15m range
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1h range
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vs VWAP
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Heuristics, not odds of winning. σ = recent realized volatility of these candles, scaled to the time left.
Coinbase NEAR-USD candles, your time zone. The chart is Coinbase. Kalshi settles this contract on its own published index for NEAR, which is a different feed and can differ from the candles here.Charts by TradingView
Settlement
What price actually settles a 15-minute window
Kalshi settles this 15-minute window on the CME CF NEAR Protocol-Dollar Real Time Index, a CF Benchmarks real-time index. In the final minute before the window closes, sixty one-second prints of that index are collected and averaged, and that average is compared with the same sixty-second average taken before the previous close. The strike type is greater or equal, so a window that lands exactly level resolves YES.
CME CF NEAR Protocol-Dollar Real Time Index
Kalshi
Built from
Order books, not trades. The constituent books are consolidated, uncrossed, and reduced to a depth-weighted mid.
Updates
About once per second, to roughly every 200 milliseconds on request.
Administrator
CF Benchmarks Ltd, an FCA-authorised benchmark administrator, register 847100.
Methodology
Published and versioned, with a named exchange list. CF calls this one a Real Time Index.
The three exchanges behind the number
CoinbaseKrakenCrypto.com
Three exchanges, all added in 2025. Gemini and Bitstamp quote NEAR and neither is a constituent. Binance is not a constituent, which is worth knowing if you watch Binance and trade Kalshi.
Three or more price aggregators and market data vendors using exchange order books. Chainlink does not name them publicly.
Reported as
A consensus median across the oracle network, delivered as a signed report.
In use since
7 August 2026 on Polymarket’s bitcoin up-or-down market, replacing a single-price snapshot.
Methodology
Not published. Polymarket’s own docs say the sampling boundaries, weighting and rounding are not specified.
Polymarket warns readers not to try to reproduce the value independently “without a specification from Chainlink.” That is the honest difference between the two: one publishes its rules and its venue list, the other publishes neither.
Ties work the same way at both. Polymarket resolves Up when the closing TWAP is greater than or equal to the opening price, exactly as Kalshi resolves YES on a level window.
Do they disagree? Rarely, and almost only on near-flat windows. Both are order-book derived and both average about sixty seconds, so the outcome only flips when a window’s net move is smaller than the gap between the two indices, which research published on 24 August 2026 measured at roughly 2.5 basis points between a major exchange mid and the Chainlink price. That was measured on bitcoin, where it came to about $21 with bitcoin near $86,000. We have found no published study measuring the CME CF NEAR Protocol-Dollar Real Time Index against Chainlink directly, so we are not going to put a number on that. The study.
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Before the next trade
After a loss, a big win or a long session, take a few minutes off the desk before the next trade.
On the desk today: . Counts while a desk page is open and on screen.
Foreword
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Trading 15-minute markets moves fast. A setup can change in minutes, so I want the right information in front of me before I make a decision.
That’s why I use PM Countdown. It puts the indicators and market information I care about in one place, so I can review the setup, understand the price being offered, and decide whether it’s actually worth taking.
The reset is part of my process too. After a big win, a tough loss, or too much time at the screen, five minutes away helps me come back focused instead of chasing the next trade.
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Answer honestly. Only you see this, and nothing is saved.
Is the next trade about getting that loss back?
Do I know today’s loss limit in dollars?
Have I reached it?
Would I size the next trade bigger than I planned this morning?
Have I moved some of it to my bank account?
Does money I just won feel easier to risk than money I put in?
Would I size up the next trade because I’m up?
Do I know when I’m stopping today?
Have I stood up in the last hour?
Have I eaten something in the last few hours?
Did I get a normal night’s sleep?
Is it later than I planned to stop?
After a loss
Let this one go.
After a big win
Move some of it to your bank.
What to do with a big win: the set-aside, the move off the exchange, and the size of the next bankroll.
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How to read this NEAR Protocol desk
Four numbers, then a decision
Each number below feeds one question: after the fee, is the price you would pay for this NEAR Protocol window lower than what you think it is worth?
The price Kalshi publishes for NEAR Protocol when the quarter-hour window opens. It is fixed at the open. Check the market subtitle on Kalshi before you size: it says whether NEAR Protocol has to finish above that figure, or at it or above.
NEAR now and the gap
The live Coinbase NEAR-USD price and its distance from the price to beat. Kalshi settles this contract on its own published index for NEAR, a different feed from Coinbase, so the two can drift apart. That gap is what you are trading.
Up and Down prices
Up is what Kalshi asks for YES on this NEAR Protocol window, and Down is 100 minus the YES bid, which is what NO costs. Take a price in cents as the market's chance in percent: 44¢ means about 44%.
If you're right, if you're wrong
What your stake pays at the current ask after Kalshi's taker fee, and what you lose if NEAR Protocol settles the other way: all of it. This market reopens four times an hour, so settle that number before anything else.
15m
Real contract. A new NEAR Protocol window opens on every quarter hour and settles at its close. Every chart tab shows that same contract in the panel on the right.
1h · 4h · 1D · 1W
Chart views. Longer NEAR Protocol candles behind the same 15-minute contract, for context. Switching to them never changes which window the panel prices.
5m
Our layout. The last 5 minutes of the live NEAR Protocol window are shaded, with a countdown to when they begin.
30m · 45m
Our layout. Two or three NEAR Protocol windows side by side. Each one is its own trade, and a window Kalshi has not opened yet has no price to beat, so this page shows none for it rather than a guess.
1m · 2m · 3m
Chart views. Short NEAR Protocol candles inside the live window. Three-minute candles split a window into exactly five bars. Two-minute candles cannot, so the window box is drawn by time, not by bar.
Fees on a 15-minute NEAR Protocol window
A coin flip still costs a fee, and at 50¢ it costs the most
Kalshi's fee peaks on a contract priced near 50¢, and many NEAR Protocol windows trade right there. You pay the spread and the fee before the price moves at all, and a market that reopens four times an hour turns a small cost per trade into a large one per day.
Worked example: 100 Up contracts at a 51¢ ask on a NEAR Protocol window
This is arithmetic, not a live NEAR Protocol quote. 100 contracts at 51¢ cost $51.00, and the fee is $1.75 (0.07 × 100 × 0.51 × 0.49, rounded up to the cent), so $52.75 goes out. If NEAR Protocol settles on your side they pay $100. To break even you have to be right on more than 52.75% of trades like this one, and selling before the close costs a second fee.
Fee formula: Kalshi's taker fee is 0.07 × contracts × price × (1 − price), rounded up to the cent; a resting limit order can pay less. Most published write-ups on these markets cover the bitcoin window: predictionmarketspicks.com calls the spread plus fees on a near coin flip "a steep, constant drag", and TheLines puts the fee at 1¢ to 2¢ per contract.
Sizing
¼ Kelly, capped at 5%
Full Kelly on a NEAR Protocol contract priced at P, when you think the true chance is q, is (q − P) ÷ (1 − P). We size at a quarter of that, at most 5% of the bankroll, and at nothing when the result is zero or below. Four NEAR Protocol windows an hour means four chances to stake too much.
Full KellyWaiting
¼ KellyWaiting
StakeWaiting
Ignores fees, which lower it further. Your chance is your own estimate, and if it is off, Kelly sizes too big. Source: betstamp on Kelly, which advises never risking more than 5% on a single trade.
Take a break between windows
96 NEAR Protocol windows a day is not a reason to trade every one
Fast markets reward slow rules. You do not need to be in any of these windows. Before the first one, decide how many you will trade and how much you can lose, then stop when either runs out. After a losing NEAR Protocol window, sit out the next.
Pick a money limit for the session before you start, and keep to it.
Do not raise your stake to win back the last window.
Skip any NEAR Protocol window where you cannot say why the price is wrong.
TheLines' guide to these markets says the same: "Take breaks. Avoid rushing into consecutive trades."
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