Axie Infinity Investment Calculator
What would buying AXS have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Axie Infinity closes.
What AXS actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 2,140 daily closes this page replays — 4 November 2020 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 5 years and 10 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 6.56× |
| Highest close in this window | $160.38 on 7 November 2021 |
| Where it sits against that high | 99.4% below |
| Deepest fall | −99.5%, 7 November 2021 → 31 December 2025 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 2 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 88.4% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +15,622.5% |
| Worst calendar year | 2022: -93.6% |
| Annualised volatility | 138% |
AXS year by year
First close to last close each year. 2020 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2020 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | +268.8% | partial year |
| 2021 | +15,622.5% | best full year |
| 2022 | -93.6% | worst full year |
| 2023 | +39.8% | |
| 2024 | -32.8% | |
| 2025 | -87.5% | |
| 2026 | +9.8% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, AXS returned 6.56×. That headline is the easy part. The number underneath it is that the position spent 88.4% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak — so for most of the time you owned it, you were looking at a figure lower than one you had already seen.
The deepest fall took AXS down 99.5%, from $160.38 on 7 November 2021 to $0.805 on 31 December 2025 — 4 years and 2 months of falling. AXS has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 7 November 2021 is still waiting, 21 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
At 138% annualised volatility, AXS sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All AXS calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying AXS on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
Yes — 6.56× from 4 November 2020 to 13 September 2026. The figure is real but it is also the single luckiest entry available in this window, and it required holding through a fall of 99.5% on the way. Set the calculator to a date you might plausibly have chosen instead and the answer usually changes a great deal.
＋What is the worst AXS has fallen?
99.5% in this data, from 7 November 2021 down to 31 December 2025 — 4 years and 2 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our AXS series starts in 2020; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does AXS lose half its value?
2 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 88.4% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak. A drop of that size is not an exceptional event for this asset — it is a recurring feature of the record, which is the thing to size a position around.
＋What were AXS's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +15,622.5%, and 2022 the worst at -93.6%. The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 5 years and 10 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Reasonably. 5 years and 10 months spans roughly one full cycle for AXS — enough for the drawdown figure to mean something, not enough to call it a pattern. The assets here with a decade or more behind them support firmer conclusions.
What to keep in mind for AXS
AXS fell more than 99% from its 2021 high and now trades on gaming-narrative cycles rather than on the game's own numbers.
Ronin transactions are cheap by design, since the sidechain exists to keep a game playable — the cost that matters is the bridge back to Ethereum.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices AXS went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.