Each quarter compounds its three months — the coarsest grain that still shows a cycle turning inside a single year.
This page compresses BNB's history into four cells per year — Q1 through Q4 — coarse enough to watch a cycle turn inside a single year. Quarterly is BNB's best lens: its slow trends round to small numbers month by month but accumulate into legible quarter cells. Q1 2021 stands alone as the repricing quarter; most others sit closer to Bitcoin's profile than to the alt cohort's.
Each quarter compounds its three calendar months from UTC daily closes, so a cell is what a position held through those months would actually have returned. BNB's data starts at its perpetual listing in early 2020. Backed by exchange cash flows and periodic burns, it has historically fallen less in bad stretches and lagged the wildest rallies.
BNB is down 2.5% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October through the daily close of 10 October 2026 (UTC). The figure keeps moving until the quarter closes.
BNB returned +40.8% in Q3 2026, its most recent completed quarter, compounding that quarter's three monthly returns. The median Q3 return on record is +33.1%, so it came in above the norm.
BNB's 2026 quarters so far: Q1 −28.6%, Q2 −11.5%, Q3 +40.8%, Q4 −2.5% (in progress). Compounded together they put BNB down 13.2% year-to-date.
2025: Q1 −13.9%, Q2 +8.7%, Q3 +53.5%, Q4 −14.3%. The strongest quarter was Q3 at +53.5% and the weakest Q4 at −14.3%; the full year compounded to +23.2%.
Across 9 completed Q4s on record, the median Q4 return for BNB is +23.7%. The best Q4 was 2017 at +572.8%, the worst 2018 at −38.5%, and 5 of 9 closed positive. The current Q4 is excluded until it closes.
By median return across all completed years, Q3 has been BNB's strongest quarter at +33.1% and Q2 its weakest at −3.9%. Q1 +28.0%, Q2 −3.9%, Q3 +33.1%, Q4 +23.7% are the four medians; they shift as each new year is added.
Across 37 completed quarters, BNB's best was Q3 2017 at +1,014% and its worst Q3 2019 at −51.1%. 20 of 37 quarters closed positive.
Q1 2021, when the Smart Chain boom repriced BNB within weeks — its most saturated quarterly cell by a distance. The steadiness everywhere else is the more unusual feature among alts.
BNB's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in early 2020, so the grid starts with the first quarter completed after that date. All medians are computed from that point on.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves −1%, not 0%. The quarterly figure multiplies the monthly factors together, which is the return a held position would actually see.