Ethereum vs Solana
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 | Solana | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2,127 | $86.54 | hourly close, 00:00 UTC |
| Market cap | $259.98 billion | $51.15 billion | price × circulating supply |
| Fully diluted value | $259.98 billion | $55.15 billion | price × maximum (or total) supply |
| Circulating supply | 122.2 million ETH | 591.1 million SOL | |
| Maximum supply | None fixed | None fixed | |
| All-time high | $4,832 22 Aug 2025 | $261.97 18 Jan 2025 | daily close |
| From the all-time high | −56.0% | −67.0% | |
| Return, 7 days | −6.5% | −8.5% | |
| Return, 30 days | −14.5% | −20.7% | |
| Return, 90 days | +13.6% | +13.9% | |
| Return, 1 year | −37.5% | −45.2% | |
| Return, 3 years | +0.3% | +91.1% | |
| Volatility, 1 year | 60% | 62% | annualised, daily log returns |
| Deepest fall from a peak, 1 year | −56.2% | −62.8% | 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
- 0.881 moves in lockstep, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite; daily log returns
- Correlation, 90 days
- 0.85the same over the last 90 days
- Beta of SOL to ETH
- 0.91a 1% move in ETH came with 0.91% in SOL on average, 1 year
If Solana had Ethereum's market cap
$439.83 per SOL, 5.08x today's price
Ethereum's market cap of $259.98 billion divided by Solana's circulating supply of 591.1 million SOL. 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 Solana?
Ethereum: −37.5% against −45.2% for Solana, on daily closes to 8 Nov 2026.
Is Solana more volatile than Ethereum?
Solana's annualised volatility over the past year was 62%, against 60% for Ethereum.
Do Ethereum and Solana move together?
Their daily returns had a correlation of 0.88 over the past year and 0.85 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 Solana?
Ethereum's market cap of $259.98 billion is 5.08x Solana's $51.15 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