Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
AVAX's grid is dominated by one stretch: the late-2021 run when the alt-L1 narrative made Avalanche one of the market's leaders, stacking consecutive months of saturated green. Most of what follows is the long unwind — 2022's red rows — and the shorter, sharper cycles of the years since, including the memecoin-driven revival on its own chain.
With its history starting from a September 2020 listing, AVAX sits between SOL's compressed extremes and the majors' steadier calendars. The loss/gain bars on the Yearly tab tell its story fastest: a couple of outlier years in each direction, with the log scale keeping both visible on one axis.
The alt-L1 boom of late 2021 — several consecutive months near the top of the color scale — followed by the 2022 unwind. Together they account for much of the spread in AVAX's yearly totals.
It appears as a YTD row: months that have closed are final, the in-progress month is italic, and the year's total on the Yearly tab compounds only what has closed so far. Year medians exclude the unfinished year.
Futures — daily closes of the AVAX USDT perpetual Coinfuty tracks. For monthly horizons perp and spot closes track each other closely, with any basis difference far smaller than a typical monthly move.