Each quarter compounds its three months — the coarsest grain that still shows a cycle turning inside a single year.
This page compresses Solana (SOL)'s history into four cells per year — Q1 through Q4 — coarse enough to watch a cycle turn inside a single year. With a history this volatile, the quarterly lens is often the most honest one for SOL: it smooths week-scale noise while still catching the cycle turning. The contrast between Q4 2021 and Q4 2022 — top of the scale to near the bottom — is the whole SOL story in two cells.
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. SOL's data starts at its perpetual listing in September 2020. Few years of data pack in several full cycles — the 2021 vertical rally, the 2022 collapse around FTX, and the recovery that unwound much of it.
Solana is down 6.9% 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.
Solana returned +60.3% in Q3 2026, its most recent completed quarter, compounding that quarter's three monthly returns. The median Q3 return on record is +34.8%, so it came in above the norm.
Solana's 2026 quarters so far: Q1 −33.3%, Q2 −11.4%, Q3 +60.3%, Q4 −6.9% (in progress). Compounded together they put Solana down 11.8% year-to-date.
2025: Q1 −34.2%, Q2 +24.3%, Q3 +34.8%, Q4 −40.3%. The strongest quarter was Q3 at +34.8% and the weakest Q4 at −40.3%; the full year compounded to −34.2%.
Across 6 completed Q4s on record, the median Q4 return for Solana is −10.0%. The best Q4 was 2023 at +376.8%, the worst 2022 at −70.0%, and 3 of 6 closed positive. The current Q4 is excluded until it closes.
By median return across all completed years, Q1 has been Solana's strongest quarter at +35.7% and Q2 its weakest at −10.9%. Q1 +35.7%, Q2 −10.9%, Q3 +34.8%, Q4 −10.0% are the four medians; they shift as each new year is added.
Across 26 completed quarters, Solana's best was Q1 2021 at +1,236% and its worst Q2 2022 at −72.5%. 15 of 26 quarters closed positive.
Because SOL's monthly cells saturate so often that adjacent months blur together. Quarters compound three months into one figure, which separates sustained trends from single-month spikes — useful for a market this fast.
SOL's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in September 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.