Lido DAO (LDO) is 9.6× the size of BENQI (QI) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, LDO is ahead by 3.9 percentage points (QI -59.1% against LDO -55.1%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.41 across 399 shared trading days). QI has been the more volatile of the two, at 164% annualised against LDO's 95%.
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0.41over 399 shared trading days
Measured on daily returns rather than on prices. Two assets that both simply trend upward score near 1.0 on raw prices whether or not they move together, so returns are what answer the question people mean by correlation.
| Metric | QI | LDO |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -87.5% | -81.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.17 | 0.14 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +166.5% | +58.2% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -44.8% | -51.2% |
Relative strength over 90 days: QI outperformed LDO by 33.0% — measured on the QI/LDO ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.