Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
SOL is one of the highest-beta large caps in crypto, and its returns grid shows it: the color scale that comfortably contains Bitcoin's months gets pushed to its edges here. Solana's recorded history begins with its perpetual listing in September 2020 and packs several full cycles into few years — the 2021 vertical rally, the brutal 2022 collapse around the FTX failure, and the 2023–2024 recovery that unwound much of it.
That compressed history makes the Median row especially worth reading with care: with fewer complete years than BTC or ETH, a single extreme year still moves SOL's monthly medians noticeably. The Quarterly tab smooths some of that noise and is often the more honest lens for a market this volatile.
Substantially more. SOL's monthly cells regularly reach magnitudes that are rare for Bitcoin, in both directions — the same heat scale simply saturates more often. The Yearly tab shows how those swings compound over each year.
September 2020, the month Solana's USDT perpetual began trading on Binance. Everything on the page — monthly cells, medians, weekly and daily views — is computed from that point forward.
Yes — 2022 shows as a row dominated by red cells, with the deepest ones late in the year around the FTX collapse. It is a good example of why the yearly view pairs each year's total with its month-by-month texture.