Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
LINK came into the perpetual-futures era as the original DeFi bellwether — its 2020 rows glow green from the oracle-narrative run that peaked before most of the market's 2021 highs. That timing offset is LINK's signature: several of its best months arrived earlier in the cycle than the majors', and its 2021 peak-to-trough turn started sooner too.
Since then LINK's grid has tracked the broad alt market with a slight value-tilt: long quiet stretches, occasional narrative-driven bursts around oracle and tokenization news. The weekday view is worth a look here — averaged across a year it is usually flat, a useful reminder that day-of-week effects in crypto are mostly noise.
Its most saturated green cells sit in the 2020 DeFi-summer rows, when the oracle narrative led the market. The Median row under the monthly grid tracks which calendar month holds the highest median across all years as new data lands.
Directionally yes, but offset — LINK front-ran the 2021 cycle, peaking and turning earlier than BTC. Comparing the two grids column by column shows where the timing diverged.
Last daily close of the period divided by the last close of the previous period, minus one, in USD on UTC boundaries — identical across every coin page, so cells are comparable between coins.