The Graph volatility and risk: how violent it has been
2,158 daily moves since 17 Dec 2020. On a typical day GRT moves 3.0% in one direction or the other; on 1 day in 20 it has lost more than 8.7%, and its deepest fall from a record close was −99%.
Volatility is the standard deviation of daily log returns multiplied by the square root of 365, the usual way to put it on a yearly scale. “1 in 20” and “1 in 100” are the 5th and 1st percentiles of all daily moves, read straight from the history with no model.
The 10 largest one-day falls, and what followed
| Day | Move | Close | 7 days later | 30 days later |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2021 | −39.1% | $0.7458 | +13.0% | −18.2% |
| 11 May 2022 | −38.0% | $0.1523 | +3.3% | −9.9% |
| 21 Dec 2020 | −36.1% | $0.4720 | −19.3% | +10.6% |
| 10 Oct 2025 | −25.1% | $0.06080 | +2.0% | +9.4% |
| 23 Dec 2020 | −24.6% | $0.4116 | −9.0% | +24.2% |
| 9 Nov 2022 | −23.1% | $0.05820 | +6.0% | +12.4% |
| 7 Sep 2021 | −21.7% | $0.8339 | +3.1% | −13.5% |
| 21 Jun 2021 | −21.5% | $0.5042 | +13.4% | +10.6% |
| 9 May 2022 | −20.4% | $0.2385 | −27.0% | −37.5% |
| 27 Dec 2020 | −18.2% | $0.3968 | −24.7% | +35.3% |
After these 10 falls, GRT was higher a week later in 6 of 10 cases and higher 30 days later in 6 of 10. 10 hand-picked extremes are an anecdote, not a test. The full count is on the 10% drop in a day study: 51 scored cases, verdict “no better than chance”.
The 10 largest one-day gains, and what followed
| Day | Move | Close | 7 days later | 30 days later |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec 2020 | +112.8% | $0.2612 | +37.2% | +98.6% |
| 19 Dec 2020 | +82.8% | $0.4775 | +1.5% | +29.7% |
| 7 Feb 2023 | +61.6% | $0.2085 | −18.8% | −43.9% |
| 11 Feb 2021 | +60.8% | $2.04 | +12.6% | −12.0% |
| 20 Dec 2020 | +54.6% | $0.7383 | −46.3% | −27.1% |
| 16 Jan 2021 | +38.0% | $0.4660 | +25.4% | +358.6% |
| 26 Dec 2020 | +35.2% | $0.4848 | −32.4% | +9.3% |
| 9 Mar 2024 | +33.1% | $0.4522 | −18.6% | −22.1% |
| 27 Sep 2026 | +30.3% | $0.03597 | −17.9% | −37.3% |
| 14 May 2022 | +29.3% | $0.1923 | −17.8% | −44.6% |
After these 10 gains, GRT was higher a week later in 4 of 10 cases and higher 30 days later in 4 of 10. The full count is on the 10% jump in a day study: 67 scored cases, verdict “weak evidence”.
Moves are from one daily close to the next (00:00 UTC), Binance spot. “Open” means that many days have not passed yet.
The Graph and Bitcoin
Over the last 365 days GRT has moved closely with Bitcoin: the correlation of their daily moves is 0.66, where 1 means in step and 0 means unrelated. For each 1% Bitcoin moved in a day, GRT moved about 1.16% on average.
| Period | Days | Correlation | Move per 1% of Bitcoin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last 90 days | 90 | 0.56 | 1.36% |
| Last 365 days | 365 | 0.66 | 1.16% |
| All shared history | 2,158 | 0.56 | 1.32% |
Daily close-to-close moves on the 2,158 days both pairs traded. What GRT did in the week after a Bitcoin shock is tested separately: after Bitcoin drops 5% in a day.