Solana (SOL) is 2150.5× the size of IOST (IOST) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, SOL is ahead by 20.5 percentage points (IOST -64.6% against SOL -44.1%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.30 across 399 shared trading days). IOST has been the more volatile of the two, at 155% annualised against SOL's 66%.
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0.30over 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 | IOST | SOL |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -83.3% | -73.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.06 | 0.44 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +221.3% | +47.8% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -55.2% | -46.1% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SOL outperformed IOST by 7.1% — measured on the IOST/SOL ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.