Chainlink (LINK) is 1.9× the size of Ethena USDe (USDE) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, USDE is ahead by 27.8 percentage points (LINK -27.7% against USDE +0.1%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.11 across 399 shared trading days). LINK has been the more volatile of the two, at 71% annualised against USDE's 0%.
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0.11over 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 | LINK | USDE |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -69.2% | -0.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.47 | -0.02 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +61.6% | +0.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -43.6% | -0.1% |
Relative strength over 90 days: LINK outperformed USDE by 35.1% — measured on the LINK/USDE ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.