The compounded annual return, its month-by-month texture, and the two months that did the most work in each direction.
This page lists every year of Cardano (ADA)'s history on Coinfuty as a single compounded annual return, next to its month-by-month texture. ADA is the grid's cleanest illustration of compounding's asymmetry: yearly rows deeply negative without containing a single crash month. The up-month counter beside each row — how many of twelve closed green — summarizes the grind faster than any single cell.
Each year compounds its twelve monthly returns from UTC daily closes, with the current year riding as a year-to-date row until it closes. ADA's data starts at its perpetual listing in early 2020. The run into the September 2021 peak gave way to one of the most persistent bleed patterns among large caps.
Cardano is down 23.8% year-to-date in 2026, compounding 9 completed months plus October to date, through the daily close of 10 October 2026 (UTC). The YTD chip stays provisional until the year closes.
Cardano returned −60.6% over calendar 2025, from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was July at +29.1% and its worst February at −32.9%.
Cardano's completed calendar years on Coinfuty: 2017 +3,220%, 2018 −94.3%, 2019 −20.0%, 2020 +442.0%, 2021 +634.5%, 2022 −81.2%, 2023 +141.9%, 2024 +42.2%, 2025 −60.6%. 5 of 9 years closed positive, and 2026 is down 23.8% so far.
The median completed year for Cardano is +42.2%, across 9 full years on record. The median is used instead of the mean because Cardano's yearly results are extreme in both directions, and one outlier year would distort a simple average.
Cardano's best completed year on record is 2017 at +3,220% and its worst is 2018 at −94.3%. Both are compounded from monthly returns, so they match what a position held through the entire year would have earned.
Compounding. A sequence of −5% to −15% months multiplies into a severe annual total even though no individual month looks catastrophic. The month strip beside each yearly row makes that arithmetic visible.
ADA's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in early 2020, and each row needs a calendar year — so the table is exactly as deep as its perpetual history and grows as years close.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves −1%, not 0%. The yearly totals multiply the monthly factors together, which is what a held position would have earned.