BNB Investment Calculator
What would buying BNB have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily BNB closes.
What BNB actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 3,234 daily closes this page replays — 6 November 2017 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 8 years and 10 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 463× |
| Highest close in this window | $1,307.4 on 8 October 2025 |
| Where it sits against that high | 44.4% below |
| Deepest fall | −80%, 6 January 2018 → 7 December 2018 |
| Time to get back to that peak | 4 months after the low — 19 April 2019 |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 4 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 74.6% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +1,253.8% |
| Worst calendar year | 2022: -53.3% |
| Annualised volatility | 96.3% |
BNB year by year
First close to last close each year. 2017 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2017 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +443% | partial year |
| 2018 | -27.7% | |
| 2019 | +128.9% | |
| 2020 | +172.3% | |
| 2021 | +1,253.8% | best full year |
| 2022 | -53.3% | worst full year |
| 2023 | +27.6% | |
| 2024 | +124% | |
| 2025 | +22.1% | |
| 2026 | -15.9% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, BNB returned 463×. That headline is the easy part. The number underneath it is that the position spent 74.6% 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 BNB down 80%, from $22.6 on 6 January 2018 to $4.52 on 7 December 2018 — 11 months of falling. Getting back to that peak took a further 4 months, reached on 19 April 2019. Add those together and the round trip was 15 months — the length of time someone who bought at the top had to hold before they were merely even again.
96.3% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All BNB calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying BNB on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
Yes — 463× from 6 November 2017 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 80% 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 BNB has fallen?
80% in this data, from 6 January 2018 down to 7 December 2018 — 11 months of falling. It took a further 4 months to get back to that peak, on 19 April 2019, so the full round trip was 15 months. Bear in mind our BNB series starts in 2017; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does BNB lose half its value?
4 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 74.6% 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 BNB's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +1,253.8%, and 2022 the worst at -53.3%. 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 8 years and 10 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
It is among the longer records available here — 8 years and 10 months covering several complete cycles, which is enough for the drawdown and recovery figures to carry real weight. It is still one path that already happened, and the next sequence of prices has no obligation to resemble it.
What to keep in mind for BNB
BNB carries exchange-specific risk on top of market risk: regulatory news about its issuer can move it independently of BTC.
BNB Chain transactions cost cents, so fees rarely change the maths — the bigger cost is usually slippage on thin BNB Chain liquidity pools.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices BNB went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.