Bitcoin and Ethereum Record Multi-Year Lows in January Returns

Feb 1 — data shows that Bitcoin’s return for January 2026 was -10.17%, marking the fifth-worst January performance since 2013, below the historical January average return of 2.81% and the median return of 0.29%.
Ethereum’s January 2026 return stood at -17.52%, the third-worst January since 2017, far below its historical January average of 16.81% and median of 15.90%.