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Avalanche all-time high and real returns AVAX
Avalanche. A smart contract blockchain designed for fast settlement and custom sub-networks.
Key numbers
- 1-month change
- +40.3%
- Volatility (30-day, annualised)
- 116.2%
- Market value
- $4.5bn
- 24h trading volume
- $357.2m
Avalanche all-time highs and real returns
In dollars and pounds, before and after inflation, since Sep 2020.
+96.6%Avalanche after US inflation since Sep 202011.8% a year
Up 153% in dollars since Sep 2020. After US inflation, up 96.6%. Against money printing, up 102%.
In pounds, up 147%, or up 87.7% after UK inflation.
- $ nominal
- +153%16.5% a year
- £ nominal
- +147%16.0% a year
- Real $ (US CPI)
- +96.6%11.8% a year
- Real £ (UK CPI)
- +87.7%10.9% a year
- vs US M2
- +102%12.2% a year
- Measured from
- Sep 2020to Oct 2026, 6 years 1 month
- Avalanche, Real $ (US CPI)$10.96
- $ nominal$10.96
- Oct 2026, latest
Loading the chart. Every figure is also in the table below.
| Period | $ nominal | £ nominal | Real $ (US CPI) | Real £ (UK CPI) | vs US M2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Past year from Oct 2025 | −39.8% | −40.2% | –a (see note a) | −41.8% | −42.6% |
| 5 years from Oct 2021 | −83.0% −29.9% a year | −82.4% −29.4% a year | −86.0% −32.5% a year | −86.1% −32.6% a year | −84.6% −31.2% a year |
| Since Sep 2020 first month in our data | +153% 16.5% a year | +147% 16.0% a year | +96.6% 11.8% a year | +87.7% 10.9% a year | +102% 12.2% a year |
- a US CPI was not published for Oct 2025.
On month-end closes, Avalanche's highest price was $120.41 in Nov 2021, which is $145.12 in Oct 2026 dollars after US inflation. The latest close of $10.96 is 92.5% below the real high. The intraday record, $144.96 on 21 November 2021, is higher than any month-end close.
Cycle peaks, falls and recoveries
Month-end highs followed by a fall of 50% or more, and the high that stands today, in Oct 2026 money.
| Peak | $ then | Today's $ (US CPI) | £ then | Today's £ (UK CPI) | vs M2 today | Fall after | Back above, $ | Back above, real $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2021 Cycle peak | $32.80 | $41.14 | £23.70 | £30.91 | $37.95 | −63.6% low Jun 2021 | 4 months | 4 months |
| Nov 2021 All-time high | $120.41 | $145.12 | £90.86 | £113.95 | $131.71 | −94.7% low Jul 2026 | Not yet | Not yet |
Return since our first month and since each cycle low
From the month-end close in the first column to Oct 2026.
| From | $ then | $ nominal | Real $ (US CPI) | Real £ (UK CPI) | vs US M2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2020 First month in our data | $4.329 | +153% 16.5% a year | +96.6% 11.8% a year | +87.7% 10.9% a year | +102% 12.2% a year |
| Jun 2021 Cycle low | $11.95 | −8.3% −1.6% a year | −25.6% −5.4% a year | −25.9% −5.5% a year | −19.6% −4.0% a year |
| Jul 2026 Lowest since the high | $6.386 | +71.6% | +71.0% | +73.8% | +70.6% |
Avalanche cycle highs and lows on record (intraday)
3 hand-checked dates, some before our monthly data starts
| Date | Event | $ then | Today's $ (US CPI) | £ then | Today's £ (UK CPI) | vs M2 today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | ATH | $146.00 | $175.96 | £110.17 | £138.17 | $159.70 |
| Dec 2022 | Bottom | $8.700 | $9.819 | £7.204 | £8.133 | $9.537 |
| Mar 2024 | Peak | $61.00 | $65.42 | £48.27 | £52.12 | $67.92 |
Every month AVAX closed at a new high
8 month-end closes above every earlier one
| Month | Close, $ | Today's $ (US CPI) |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | $120.41 | $145.12 |
| Sep 2021 | $66.63 | $81.37 |
| Aug 2021 | $39.50 | $48.37 |
| Apr 2021 | $32.80 | $41.14 |
| Mar 2021 | $28.72 | $36.32 |
| Feb 2021 | $23.96 | $30.51 |
| Jan 2021 | $13.47 | $17.25 |
| Sep 2020 | $4.329 | $5.572 |
How these figures are worked out
Sources, inflation measures and what is left out
- Month-end closes from Binance, Sep 2020 to Oct 2026. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so its figure is the latest close rather than a month-end. Our history for Avalanche starts in Sep 2020, so longer windows are left out.
- Real figures divide by US CPI (BLS, via FRED) or UK CPI (ONS, joined to the ONS long-run RPI before Jan 1988) and are stated in Oct 2026 money. The M2 lens divides by the US M2 money supply (Federal Reserve, via FRED). Pounds convert at each month's GBP/USD rate.
- US CPI is published with a lag: Oct 2026 uses the Aug 2026 figure.
- UK CPI is published with a lag: Oct 2026 uses the Aug 2026 figure.
- US M2 is published with a lag: Oct 2026 uses the Aug 2026 figure.
- A return of 12 months or more also shows its yearly rate. Gaps in a source are left as gaps and never filled in.
Avalanche price history, past year
Daily closes from Kraken. Last refreshed .
Where Avalanche stands today
52-week range
- Below the high
- 57.1%
- Above the low
- 73.7%
Avalanche is in the bottom quarter of its 52-week range, 57.1% below the $23.83 high it reached on 13 Oct 2025, and only 64% of the past year's closes were lower than where it trades now.
Moving averages
- 50-day$9.149 +11.8%
- 200-day$8.143 +25.6%
Price compared with each average. Bars to the right mean the price is above it.
Avalanche is 11.8% above its 50-day average and 25.6% above its 200-day average, so on both the shorter and the longer view the trend we measure is still pointing up. The 50-day line last crossed above the 200-day on 30 Sept 2026, the pattern traders call a golden cross.
Trend score
- Trend100
- Momentum80
- RSI score75
- Drawdown0
- Uptrend
- 65 or more
- Sideways
- 36 to 64
- Downtrend
- 35 or less
Rules-based, from 400 daily prices. It describes the trend so far and does not predict the next move. How it works.
Why it sits in this zone
Avalanche is in the Mild discount zone with a Bargain Score of 63. Two or more of the looser buy-side conditions are met (Price 93% below ATH and greed high), which puts it on the discount side of the scale without the full set of signals behind it. The all-time high of $144.96 dates from November 2021, and the price is now 93% below it. Falls of this size are common for coins after a cycle peak, though not every coin recovers from them.
What drives the score
The largest weighted part of the score is price distress, at 0.95 out of 1, while market sentiment contributes least at 0.31. It has come through one full market cycle by the model's definition, and its chance of a new all-time high is rated High. Base-layer networks like this one compete for the same developers and users, and a chain that loses momentum has often stayed behind for a long time.
Where the cycle targets come from
The cycle targets of $152.21, $166.70 and $188.45 are anchored to the previous all-time high, because a reduced repeat of Avalanche's past range would not reach it, so the low scenario sits just above the old high, a 1,387% move from today's price.
Avalanche performance and biggest moves
Returns over time
| Period | AVAX | BTC | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 week | -11.9% | -2.7% | −9.2 pts |
| 1 month | +40.3% | +8.3% | +32.0 pts |
| 3 months | +52.8% | +28.6% | +24.2 pts |
| Year to date | -16.8% | -4.9% | −11.9 pts |
| 1 year | -57.1% | -27.8% | −29.3 pts |
Avalanche is down 57.1% over the past year, against −27.8% for Bitcoin, so it has trailed that comparison by 29.3 percentage points.
Best and worst days in the past year
- Days that closed higher
- 46%
- Moves of 5% or more
- 53
The biggest one-day rise since 13 Oct 2025 came on 19 Sept 2026 (+23.0%) and the sharpest fall on 5 Feb 2026 (−14.4%). Of the 366 days in that period, 46% closed higher than the day before and 53 moved by 5% or more in one direction or the other.
Is Avalanche overbought, and how volatile is it?
RSI (14-day)
Neutral- Sessions at 70+ (past year)
- 9
- Sessions at 30 or lower
- 28
Avalanche's RSI of 50.2 is near the middle of the scale, which tells us the up and down days of the last three weeks have more or less cancelled each other out. For context, it last went above 70 on 29 Sept 2026 and last fell below 30 on 21 Jun 2026.
Volatility against other cryptocurrencies
2nd most volatile of 14- Typical daily move
- 6.1%
- Calmest in group
- TRX 11.7%
Avalanche's 30-day volatility is 116.2%, which works out at a move of roughly 6.1% on an ordinary day. That makes it the 2nd most volatile of the 14 cryptocurrencies we track, well above the group median of 73.4%. One very large day, such as an earnings release or a sudden sell-off, can lift a 30-day figure for weeks, so we would read the ranking as this month's picture.
Avalanche compared with similar assets
| Asset | Price | Today | 1 month | 1 year | RSI | Trend score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVAXAvalanche | $10.23 | +0.48% | +40.3% | -57.1% | 50 | 74 Uptrend |
| ETHEthereum | $2,498.86 | +1.62% | +0.9% | -41.1% | 43 | 54 Sideways |
| SOLSolana | $106.59 | +0.53% | +7.4% | -48.9% | 41 | 54 Sideways |
| LINKChainlink | $12.88 | +1.42% | +15.0% | -35.1% | 48 | 74 Uptrend |
Over the past year Chainlink has held up best in this group (−35.1%) and Avalanche has been the weakest (−57.1%). Avalanche comes 4th of 4, 21.9 percentage points behind Chainlink.
About Avalanche
Avalanche launched in 2020. Projects can run their own custom chains that connect to the main network, which is how several games and financial firms use it.
- Ticker
- AVAX
- Type
- Crypto
- Category
- Smart contract platform
- Priced in
- USD
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Avalanche: questions people ask
Answers are built from the same live figures shown above, so they change as the price does. Last checked 14 Oct 2026.
What was Avalanche's all-time high in today's money?
Avalanche's highest recorded price was $144.96 on 21 November 2021, from CoinGecko's record of intraday trades. Restated with US CPI to Oct 2026, that is $174.70 in today's dollars. In pounds it was £109.39 at the time, or £137.19 after UK inflation.
On month-end closes, which is what our tables use, the peak was $120.41 in Nov 2021, worth $145.12 today. The latest price is 92.5% below the real high.
Has Avalanche beaten inflation since Sep 2020?
Our monthly history for Avalanche starts in September 2020. Since then it is up 153% in dollars and up 96.6% after US inflation, so it has beaten inflation over that stretch. Measured in pounds after UK CPI the figure is up 87.7%. Against the US M2 money supply it is up 102%.
How long did Avalanche take to recover from past crashes?
After the Apr 2021 peak of $32.80 it fell 63.6% by Jun 2021, and closed above the old high again after 4 months. In real terms it took 4 months. After the Nov 2021 peak of $120.41 it fell 94.7% by Jul 2026, and has not closed above that high since. In real terms it has not recovered.
These use month-end closes, so intraday highs and lows were more extreme.
What is the price of Avalanche today?
Avalanche was trading at $10.23 when we last checked, at 00:14 BST on 14 Oct 2026, which is up 0.5% on 24 hours earlier. Crypto never closes, so we fetch a fresh price from CoinGecko every five minutes, and the figure here can be a few minutes old by the time you read it. At that price all the Avalanche in circulation is worth about $4.5bn, and $357.2m changed hands over the past day. Over the last month the price has moved +40.3% and over the last year −57.1%.
Is Avalanche overbought?
No, or at least not on the 14-day RSI, which reads 50.2 at the moment. We'd only start calling Avalanche overbought above 70 and it hasn't been there since 29 Sept 2026, while the last time it went the other way and dropped below 30 was 21 Jun 2026. RSI looks back over 14 sessions and asks how much of the movement was up and how much was down, so a reading in the 50s or 60s mostly tells us the past few weeks have been fairly even. Avalanche spent 9 sessions at 70 or above in the past year, which is one reason we don't treat a high reading as a cue to sell: in a strong run it can stay there for weeks.
What were Avalanche's best and worst days in the past year?
Going back to 13 Oct 2025, Avalanche's best day was 19 Sept 2026, when it rose 23.0%, and its worst was 5 Feb 2026, a fall of 14.4%. We measure each day from one daily close to the next in US dollars, so a spike that reversed within the same day won't show up here. Across those 366 days it moved 5% or more on 53 of them and finished higher 46% of the time, which gives you a feel for how bumpy holding it has been.
How has Avalanche done compared with Bitcoin?
Over the past 12 months Avalanche is down 57.1%, and since the start of the year it is down 16.8%. We put it next to Bitcoin because that is the obvious alternative for most people weighing up Avalanche, and it moved −27.8% over the same 12 months, a gap of 29.3 points in Bitcoin's favour.
How far is Avalanche below its 52-week high?
About 57.1%, so it would need to rise 132.9% to get back there. The highest close in the past year was $23.83 on 13 Oct 2025 and the lowest was $5.889 on 19 Jun 2026, which puts today's price 24% of the way up that range. We work this out from daily closing prices rather than the intraday highs and lows an exchange reports, so our high can be a little lower than the one you'll see quoted elsewhere.
How far is Avalanche below its all-time high?
Avalanche is 92.9% below its all-time high of $144.96, which it set on 21 November 2021, and its all-time low is $2.80, from December 2020. Getting back to the high from today's price of $10.23 would take a rise of about 1,316%. These figures come from CoinGecko and refresh every five minutes.
What zone is Avalanche in today?
The model places Avalanche in the Mild discount zone on a Bargain Score of 63, a partial set of buy-side conditions led by Price 93% below ATH and greed high. Rather than a recommendation, the label is a reading of where Avalanche's price and the wider market sit against the model's rules at this moment, and because the Fear & Greed value and the daily RSI both update at midnight UTC, just after midnight is when it is most likely to change. The 3-dot meter beside it shows where that zone sits on the five-step scale, from one dot for Expensive to five for Deep discount.
How long have Avalanche's past recoveries taken?
Avalanche has had one earlier fall of 50% or more in our price history: after its $60.65 peak in March 2024 it fell 90% and has not closed above that level since. Those are the only data points we have for this coin, which is too few to say anything reliable about the next recovery, since market conditions, supply and competition are different each cycle and some coins never regain a previous high.
What are the cycle targets for Avalanche?
The model starts from Avalanche's full range, its all-time high of $144.96 divided by its all-time low of $2.80, which is roughly 51.8-fold. It shrinks that multiple with a decay factor, on the assumption that each cycle is smaller than the last, and applies it from the low. For Avalanche that reduced repeat would not reach the old high, so the targets are anchored just above it instead, at $152.21, $166.70 and $188.45, which puts the low scenario 1,387% above today's price. They describe what a reduced repeat of the past would look like and say nothing about whether that will happen. Cryptoassets are high risk, and you should be prepared to lose all the money you put into them.
Why does Avalanche have a Bargain Score of 63 but sit in the Mild discount zone?
Because the score and the zone measure different things. The score blends price distress, sentiment, positioning, resilience and supply into one number, while the zone checks whether specific conditions line up, such as Fear & Greed crossing a threshold or the RSI reaching oversold or overbought levels. With Fear & Greed at 57 (Greed) and Avalanche's RSI at 38, not enough of the buy-side conditions are met to move Avalanche further up the scale.
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Avalanche: what the numbers say
Claude Haiku ·Avalanche closed at $10.29 in the past 24 hours, down 0.62%. That leaves it 56.8% below its 52-week closing high of $23.83, set on 13 October 2025, yet 74.7% above the lowest close of the past year, $5.889 on 19 June 2026. The price sits above its 50-day average of $9.15 and its 200-day average of $8.14.
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The trend score is 75, labelled Uptrend, with momentum at 81 and a 30-day change of 41.13%. The drawdown component sits at zero, a reminder of how far the token remains from its October high. The 14-day RSI reads 50.8, which keeps it in neutral territory. Volatility over 30 days is annualised at 116.2%, far above Ethereum, Solana and Chainlink, which each moved less than 1% in the past 24 hours. Over the past year, the token has lost 54.75%.
Written by AI from this site's live data and checked figure by figure before publishing. Educational only, not financial advice.