Crypto Compound Growth Calculator

See how a crypto holding really compounds when the years go up and down, why the growth rate falls short of the average return, and how deep the falls on the way can be.

Your investment

Repeats the pattern. Blank runs it once.

Yearly returns

Negative for a fall, such as −60. Leave later years blank.

Your compound growth

Enter a starting amount, check the yearly returns and choose Calculate. Your figures appear here.

Compound Growth Rate

0%

The yearly rate that really applied

Average Yearly Return

0%

The simple average of the years

Cost of the Swings

₹0.00

Against the average earned steadily

Biggest Fall

–

From a peak to a later low

Final Value

₹0.00

Profit and what is left after 30% tax

A scenario from the returns you enter, not a forecast; fees are not included. For one steady rate, use the Crypto CAGR Calculator.

How it is calculated

Each year’s return is applied to the value at the end of the year before, so a fall cuts into earlier gains and a rise builds on what is left.

  • Each year = value × (1 + that year’s return). Your pattern repeats when you run it for more years than it has
  • Compound growth rate = (final value ÷ starting amount) raised to the power of 1 ÷ years, minus 1
  • Average yearly return = the yearly returns added up and divided by the number of years
  • Cost of the swings = starting amount × (1 + average return) raised to the years, minus the final value
  • Biggest fall = 1 − lowest value ÷ the highest value before it
  • Gain to recover = 1 ÷ (1 − biggest fall), minus 1
  • After tax = final value − 30% of the profit, if everything is sold at the end

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on how compounding works when crypto rises and falls.

How a crypto holding compounds through uneven years. Enter a starting amount and the return for each year, such as +150%, −60%, +40% and +80%, and it applies them one after another. ₹1,00,000 through those four years ends at ₹2,52,000, a compound growth rate of 25.99% a year.

Because a percentage fall is taken from a bigger amount than the rise that came before it. The four years above average 52.5%, but earning 52.5% steadily for four years would turn ₹1,00,000 into ₹5,40,853.16. The swings cost ₹2,88,853.16. The bigger the swings, the bigger this gap, which is often called volatility drag.

Doubling ₹1,00,000 gives ₹2,00,000, and halving that gives back ₹1,00,000. The average of the two years is +25%, yet the compound growth is 0%. Any loss needs a larger gain to undo it: −50% needs +100%, and −60% needs +150%.

The largest drop from a high point to a later low, often called the drawdown. In the cycle above the value rises to ₹2,50,000 in year 1 and falls to ₹1,00,000 in year 2, a fall of 60%. The calculator also shows the gain needed to get back to the high, here 150%, and marks the peak and the low in the table.

It repeats your returns in order. The four-year cycle run for 8 years ends at ₹6,35,040: the same 25.99% compound growth, applied twice over. Leave the years blank to run the pattern once. A one-year pattern, such as 20%, runs like a steady rate.

It assumes everything is sold at the end and the profit is taxed at India’s flat 30%, plus 4% cess, with no tax on a loss. On the ₹1,52,000 profit above, tax at 30% is ₹45,600. Selling and buying back in between would bring tax forward and lower the growth further. For the full tax on a sale, use the India Crypto Tax Calculator.

The Crypto CAGR Calculator works with one steady rate. The Crypto Investment Calculator adds money every month at a steady return. The Crypto Compound Interest Calculator grows staking or lending interest. This one shows what happens when the yearly returns are uneven, as crypto’s are.

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