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What would buying IMX have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Immutable closes.
What IMX actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 1,708 daily closes this page replays — 10 January 2022 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 4 years and 8 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.033× — a loss of 96.7% |
| Highest close in this window | $4.16 on 16 January 2022 |
| Where it sits against that high | 97% below |
| Deepest fall | −97.6%, 16 January 2022 → 18 August 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 1 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 98.6% |
| Best calendar year | 2023: +453.6% |
| Worst calendar year | 2025: -83.9% |
| Annualised volatility | 109.9% |
IMX year by year
First close to last close each year. 2022 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2022 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | -89.9% | partial year |
| 2023 | +453.6% | best full year |
| 2024 | -41.9% | |
| 2025 | -83.9% | worst full year |
| 2026 | -50.7% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, IMX returned 0.033× — a loss of 96.7%. Long holding periods are usually presented as the thing that rescues a volatile asset, and over this particular window for this particular coin, they did not. It is worth setting the calculator above to the full range and seeing that result written out before assuming time fixes an entry.
The deepest fall took IMX down 97.6%, from $4.16 on 16 January 2022 to $0.1002 on 18 August 2026 — 4 years and 7 months of falling. IMX has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 16 January 2022 is still waiting, 33 days later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
109.9% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All IMX calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying IMX on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.033× — a loss of 96.7%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 4 years and 8 months we hold for IMX it did not happen.
＋What is the worst IMX has fallen?
97.6% in this data, from 16 January 2022 down to 18 August 2026 — 4 years and 7 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 IMX series starts in 2022; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How much time does IMX spend below its previous high?
98.6% of all days in this window sat more than 20% below a previous peak. Put another way, for most of the time you would have owned it, the screen showed a number lower than one you had already seen — which is the part of a backtest's headline return that the headline never conveys.
＋What were IMX's best and worst years?
2023 was the best at +453.6%, and 2025 the worst at -83.9%. 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 4 years and 8 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Partly. 4 years and 8 months covers real bull and bear conditions for IMX but not a full cycle end to end, so the extremes above are better guides than the average. Coins on this site with longer records give more meaningful answers.
What to keep in mind for IMX
IMX rises and falls with the gaming narrative, which has been one of the most cyclical in crypto.
Trades on Immutable cost no gas to the player — the protocol takes a percentage fee instead, which is where staking rewards come from.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices IMX went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.