Uniswap (UNI) is 51.9× the size of Orca (ORCA) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, UNI is ahead by 35.0 percentage points (ORCA +3.9% against UNI +38.9%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.32 across 399 shared trading days). ORCA has been the more volatile of the two, at 119% annualised against UNI's 101%.
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0.32over 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 | ORCA | UNI |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -64.8% | -74.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.26 | 0.73 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +150.1% | +143.9% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -42.0% | -47.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: UNI outperformed ORCA by 26.4% — measured on the ORCA/UNI ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.