Polkadot (DOT) is 37.0× the size of Lisk (LSK) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, LSK is ahead by 58.6 percentage points (LSK -5.1% against DOT -63.7%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.12 across 399 shared trading days). LSK has been the more volatile of the two, at 228% annualised against DOT's 88%.
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0.12over 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 | LSK | DOT |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -79.7% | -82.9% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.33 | 0.13 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +904.2% | +55.9% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -73.5% | -44.2% |
Relative strength over 90 days: LSK outperformed DOT by 116.0% — measured on the LSK/DOT ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.