Arweave (AR) is 1.9× the size of Golem (GLM) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, AR is ahead by 18.2 percentage points (GLM -35.0% against AR -16.8%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.53 across 399 shared trading days). AR has been the more volatile of the two, at 119% annualised against GLM's 73%.
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0.53over 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 | GLM | AR |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -74.0% | -80.7% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.38 | 0.58 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +59.8% | +124.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -43.6% | -53.3% |
Relative strength over 90 days: AR outperformed GLM by 28.5% — measured on the GLM/AR ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.