NEAR Protocol: near.com perps positions become confidential by default - 17 Sep 2026
NEAR Protocol has made perpetual positions on its near.com trading platform confidential by default. Trades open from an existing account and cannot be traced back to the trader, while funding from any chain or asset remains supported. The change applies to all positions on the platform without requiring traders to opt in.Default confidentiality differs from optional privacy features because it removes the choice to expose positions, so order flow on near.com no longer reveals trader identity. Traders funding from other chains keep that privacy without changing their setup, which lowers the friction of moving perps activity to NEAR.If adoption follows, perps volume and privacy-focused attention could shift toward the NEAR ecosystem, a possible speculative tailwind for the token. The effect depends on traders actually valuing position privacy over the transparency found on most perps venues.PERPS NOW CONFIDENTIAL BY DEFAULTOpen a position from the account you already use, and nobody can tell it's yours.Only on