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Solana SOL

crypto

Price History

$0.570$79.63$158.69$237.74
2020-04 · DCA start$0.691

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-95.2%-63.5%-31.7%0.0%
2020-042026-08 · -68.2%

Worst drawdown: −95%, peaking Nov 2021 and bottoming Dec 2022 — 36 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$7,700
Value today
$67,927
Return
+782.2%
Months invested
77

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $8,625 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +687.6%.

Lump sum instead — $7,700 all at once in Apr 2020: $841,546 (+10829.2%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Nov 2024): $1,380 on $2,200 invested (-37.3%).

Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2020-04: +782.2%

About Solana

Solana is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption by providing a fast, secure, and low-cost environment for decentralized applications. It distinguishes itself by scaling globally without the use of complex sharding or multiple layers, instead maintaining a single, unified ledger to avoid liquidity fragmentation. This architecture allows it to process thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, often at a cost of less than a penny per transaction. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under layer 1, with a market cap of about $59.9B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.6/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5) and smart contract / technical (3.0/5).

Scoring well: governance / team at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: supply & concentration. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.6/5)85% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/587.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/595.2
  • Beta vs BTC3/51.3
Liquidity1.7/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap3/52.5
  • Top exchange % of volume1/59.2
  • Significant listings1/540.0
Supply & Concentrationunrated · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %not yet researched
Smart Contract / Technical3.0/5 · weight 12%
  • Audit status3/5unaudited long track record
  • Admin key / upgradeabilitynot yet researched
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)not yet researched
Custody / Bridge1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliance1/5no bridge dependency
Governance / Team1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Team1/5doxxed track record
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatory3.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profile3/5significant premine centralized issuer
Systemic / Correlation3.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC3/50.54

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