Cardano vs Polkadot
Cardano measured against Polkadot over three years of daily closes: returns, risk, drawdowns and risk-adjusted ratios. Change the assets, benchmark or period in the bar above the report.
Snapshot as of
1,095 common daily closes, Oct 26, 2023 to Oct 24, 2026. Risk-free rate 5.0% (10Y US Treasury), 365-day annualization.
ADA has the highest risk-adjusted score. It leads DOT by 10.9 points.
| ADA | 18.1 | Risk High |
| DOTBenchmark | 7.2 | Risk High |
| 2026 | −39.97% | −40.07% |
| 2025 | −59.18% | −72.96% |
| 2024 | +42.93% | −19.92% |
| 2023 | +114.40% | +94.96% |
| ADA | −24.92% | −9.12% | +72.14% | −24.36% |
| DOTBenchmark | −74.70% | −36.80% | +33.24% | −26.80% |
| DOTBenchmark | −93.49% | Mar 15, 2024 | Aug 19, 2026 | Not yet | 953d |
| ADA | −88.34% | Dec 7, 2024 | Jun 29, 2026 | Not yet | 686d |
| ADA | −59.67% | Mar 12, 2024 | Aug 6, 2024 | Nov 21, 2024 | 254d |
| DOTBenchmark | −31.28% | Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 23, 2024 | Mar 3, 2024 | 68d |
| ADA | −29.65% | Dec 14, 2023 | Jan 26, 2024 | Mar 2, 2024 | 79d |
| DOTBenchmark | −14.73% | Nov 13, 2023 | Nov 22, 2023 | Dec 6, 2023 | 23d |
| 2026 | −39.97% | −8.5% | −8.6% | −17.0% | +0.5% | −3.6% | −38.3% | +16.5% | +13.6% | +26.8% | −13.8% | — | — |
| 2025 | −59.18% | +11.7% | −32.8% | +2.4% | +5.3% | −0.9% | −16.2% | +32.1% | +7.8% | −2.1% | −25.4% | −30.9% | −15.5% |
| 2024 | +42.93% | −14.4% | +22.6% | +2.1% | −29.0% | −2.3% | −14.1% | +4.7% | −13.6% | +14.6% | −10.7% | +203.2% | −20.1% |
| 2023 | +114.40% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | +7.9% | +26.1% | +57.6% |
Sharpe and Sortino measure excess return over the risk-free rate (“vs cash”); Information ratio and Treynor are the benchmark-relative measures. Sortino downside deviation uses the full sample as its denominator. VaR is 95% parametric (normal). Data: CoinGecko (crypto), Financial Modeling Prep and Yahoo Finance (stocks, indices, commodities). Past performance does not indicate future results.