Cardano vs Polkadot
The past year, from the same start
Side by side
Price, size and supply, then returns, volatility and the deepest fall, each on the coin’s own daily closes.
| Cardano | Polkadot | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.1752 | $0.8621 | hourly close, 00:00 UTC |
| Market cap | $6.452 billion | $1.475 billion | price × circulating supply |
| Fully diluted value | $7.884 billion | $1.810 billion | price × maximum (or total) supply |
| Circulating supply | 36.83 billion ADA | 1.711 billion DOT | |
| Maximum supply | 45.00 billion ADA | 2.100 billion DOT | |
| All-time high | $2.97 3 Sep 2021 | $53.82 4 Nov 2021 | daily close |
| From the all-time high | −94.1% | −98.4% | |
| Return, 7 days | −9.3% | −9.5% | |
| Return, 30 days | −27.9% | −30.3% | |
| Return, 90 days | −8.2% | +7.1% | |
| Return, 1 year | −69.2% | −73.5% | |
| Return, 3 years | −52.4% | −83.1% | |
| Volatility, 1 year | 74% | 78% | annualised, daily log returns |
| Deepest fall from a peak, 1 year | −75.7% | −77.0% | daily closes |
How they move together
Whether one coin’s good and bad days are the other’s too, measured on the days both have a close.
- Correlation, 1 year
- 0.771 moves in lockstep, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite; daily log returns
- Correlation, 90 days
- 0.67the same over the last 90 days
- Beta of DOT to ADA
- 0.81a 1% move in ADA came with 0.81% in DOT on average, 1 year
If Polkadot had Cardano's market cap
$3.77 per DOT, 4.37x today's price
Cardano's market cap of $6.452 billion divided by Polkadot's circulating supply of 1.711 billion DOT. A thought experiment, not a forecast: supply and demand would not stay the same.
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Questions
Which has done better over the past year, Cardano or Polkadot?
Cardano: −69.2% against −73.5% for Polkadot, on daily closes to 8 Nov 2026.
Is Polkadot more volatile than Cardano?
Polkadot's annualised volatility over the past year was 78%, against 74% for Cardano.
Do Cardano and Polkadot move together?
Their daily returns had a correlation of 0.77 over the past year and 0.67 over the last 90 days. A correlation near 1 means they mostly rise and fall on the same days; near 0 means their moves are unrelated.
How much bigger is Cardano than Polkadot?
Cardano's market cap of $6.452 billion is 4.37x Polkadot's $1.475 billion.
Where do these figures come from?
From CryptoKeyhole’s own US dollar price indexes of public exchange markets (daily closes at 00:00 UTC) and the supply our nodes count or, for coins whose chain we do not run, the project’s own published supply. Returns use each coin’s own closes; volatility, falls and correlation use the days both coins have a close.
Daily statistics as of the latest closed UTC day; prices are hourly closes. Last update