Lido DAO Investment Calculator
What would buying LDO have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily Lido DAO closes.
What LDO actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 1,589 daily closes this page replays — 9 May 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 4 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.185× — a loss of 81.5% |
| Highest close in this window | $3.79 on 10 January 2024 |
| Where it sits against that high | 90.2% below |
| Deepest fall | −93.7%, 10 January 2024 → 30 June 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 4 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 92.3% |
| Best calendar year | 2023: +144.8% |
| Worst calendar year | 2025: -68.1% |
| Annualised volatility | 118.6% |
LDO 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 | -52.4% | partial year |
| 2023 | +144.8% | best full year |
| 2024 | -40.1% | |
| 2025 | -68.1% | worst full year |
| 2026 | -39.2% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, LDO returned 0.185× — a loss of 81.5%. 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 LDO down 93.7%, from $3.79 on 10 January 2024 to $0.2399 on 30 June 2026 — 2 years and 6 months of falling. LDO has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 10 January 2024 is still waiting, 23 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
118.6% annualised volatility is ordinary for a major crypto asset and still several times a stock index. All LDO calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying LDO on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.185× — a loss of 81.5%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 4 years and 4 months we hold for LDO it did not happen.
＋What is the worst LDO has fallen?
93.7% in this data, from 10 January 2024 down to 30 June 2026 — 2 years and 6 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 LDO series starts in 2022; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does LDO lose half its value?
4 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 92.3% 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 LDO's best and worst years?
2023 was the best at +144.8%, and 2025 the worst at -68.1%. 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 4 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
Partly. 4 years and 4 months covers real bull and bear conditions for LDO 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 LDO
LDO trades on Ethereum staking flows and on governance proposals about the protocol's fee, and has fallen hard on competition from restaking products.
LDO is an Ethereum token with ordinary gas costs; staking or unstaking ETH through Lido carries its own gas plus the protocol's fee on rewards.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices LDO went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.