Ethereum vs Cardano
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.
| Ethereum | Cardano | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2,127 | $0.1752 | hourly close, 00:00 UTC |
| Market cap | $259.98 billion | $6.452 billion | price × circulating supply |
| Fully diluted value | $259.98 billion | $7.884 billion | price × maximum (or total) supply |
| Circulating supply | 122.2 million ETH | 36.83 billion ADA | |
| Maximum supply | None fixed | 45.00 billion ADA | |
| All-time high | $4,832 22 Aug 2025 | $2.97 3 Sep 2021 | daily close |
| From the all-time high | −56.0% | −94.1% | |
| Return, 7 days | −6.5% | −9.3% | |
| Return, 30 days | −14.5% | −27.9% | |
| Return, 90 days | +13.6% | −8.2% | |
| Return, 1 year | −37.5% | −69.2% | |
| Return, 3 years | +0.3% | −52.4% | |
| Volatility, 1 year | 60% | 74% | annualised, daily log returns |
| Deepest fall from a peak, 1 year | −56.2% | −75.7% | 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
- 0.811 moves in lockstep, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite; daily log returns
- Correlation, 90 days
- 0.78the same over the last 90 days
- Beta of ADA to ETH
- 1.00a 1% move in ETH came with 1.00% in ADA on average, 1 year
If Cardano had Ethereum's market cap
$7.06 per ADA, 40.3x today's price
Ethereum's market cap of $259.98 billion divided by Cardano's circulating supply of 36.83 billion ADA. 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, Ethereum or Cardano?
Ethereum: −37.5% against −69.2% for Cardano, on daily closes to 8 Nov 2026.
Is Cardano more volatile than Ethereum?
Cardano's annualised volatility over the past year was 74%, against 60% for Ethereum.
Do Ethereum and Cardano move together?
Their daily returns had a correlation of 0.81 over the past year and 0.78 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 Ethereum than Cardano?
Ethereum's market cap of $259.98 billion is 40.3x Cardano's $6.452 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