EigenLayer Investment Calculator
What would buying EIGEN have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily EigenLayer closes.
What EIGEN actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 711 daily closes this page replays — 1 October 2024 to 11 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 23 months (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.054× — a loss of 94.6% |
| Highest close in this window | $5.5 on 16 December 2024 |
| Where it sits against that high | 96.1% below |
| Deepest fall | −97.3%, 16 December 2024 → 2 April 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 | 93.2% |
| Best calendar year | 2025: -90.4% |
| Annualised volatility | 129.2% |
EIGEN year by year
First close to last close each year. 2024 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2024 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -12.3% | partial year |
| 2025 | -90.4% | best full year |
| 2026 | -43.4% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, EIGEN returned 0.054× — a loss of 94.6%. 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 EIGEN down 97.3%, from $5.5 on 16 December 2024 to $0.151 on 2 April 2026 — 16 months of falling. EIGEN has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 16 December 2024 is still waiting, 8 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
One caveat specific to EIGEN: we only hold 23 months of daily closes for it, which is not enough to cover a full cycle. Any result the calculator gives you is a statement about one short stretch of an unusually eventful market, and the confidence you can place in it is correspondingly low. The coins on this site with six or more years of history give far more meaningful answers.
Note that EIGEN's best calendar year in this window is still a negative one (2025, -90.4%). There is no year in the data where holding it for the twelve months made money.
At 129.2% annualised volatility, EIGEN sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All EIGEN calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying EIGEN on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.054× — a loss of 94.6%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 23 months we hold for EIGEN it did not happen.
＋What is the worst EIGEN has fallen?
97.3% in this data, from 16 December 2024 down to 2 April 2026 — 16 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 EIGEN series starts in 2024; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How much time does EIGEN spend below its previous high?
93.2% 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.
＋Is 23 months of data enough to trust this backtest?
No, and that is the honest answer for EIGEN specifically. 23 months does not cover a full market cycle, so any result here describes one short stretch rather than a pattern. Treat it as a record of what happened, not as evidence about what tends to happen.
What to keep in mind for EIGEN
EIGEN is a high-beta token tied to the restaking narrative; it has fallen well below its 2024 debut and reprices hard around unlock dates and shifts in restaking sentiment.
EIGEN is an ERC-20 on Ethereum, so transfers cost Ethereum gas; for a small position the exchange trading fee usually dwarfs it.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices EIGEN went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.