- 1. Top coins with the least volatility in March 2025
- 2. Update (November 2026): The Least Volatile Crypto Assets Now
- 2.1. Which Crypto Assets Have the Lowest Volatility Right Now?
- 2.2. How Is Crypto Volatility Measured Over Different Time Frames?
- 2.3. Why Is Crypto So Volatile Compared With Traditional Markets?
- 2.4. Why Are Stablecoins Left Out?
- 2.5. Why Are Gold-Backed Tokens the Least Volatile?
- 2.6. What Is the Bitcoin Volatility Index Now, and How Does It Compare With 2025?
- 2.7. What Changed for TRX, XAUT, XMR and BNB Since March 2025?
- 2.8. What Are the Risks Behind "Low Volatility"?
- 3. Frequently Asked Questions
- 4. Conclusion
Last Updated: November 3, 2026
Quick Answer: Low-volatility crypto assets are cryptocurrencies whose prices swing the least from day to day, measured by realized volatility: the annualized standard deviation of daily returns. In Blockchainreporter’s calculation from CoinGecko daily prices for the 30 days to November 3, 2026, the least volatile large non-stablecoin assets were LEO Token (17.1%), PAX Gold (17.2%), Tether Gold (18.7%) and Bitcoin (29.5%). Over 90 days, the gold-backed tokens PAXG and XAUT led at about 23%, with TRX fourth at 30.4%.
This article first reported CryptoRank’s list of the least volatile cryptocurrencies on March 5, 2025, when TRX, XAUT, XMR and BNB held up best in a falling market. The original report follows, corrected where needed. The November 2026 update below ranks the largest crypto assets by 30-day and 90-day volatility, explains why gold tokens lead, tracks Bitcoin’s volatility since 2025 and sets out the risks behind “low volatility”.
Original report, published March 5, 2025
In the volatile landscape of virtual currencies, monitoring how assets move can help investors and traders make informed decisions. In the month to early March 2025, the market went through heightened price swings that pushed most tokens lower, while a few held up against the downtrend.
In the 30 days to March 4, 2025, the total crypto market capitalization fell by 18%, according to data CryptoRank.io published on X that day. CryptoRank’s post put the loss at “more than $60B”, but that figure does not fit an 18% decline: Bitcoin alone was worth about $1.7 trillion at the time, so an 18% drop across the market meant a loss of several hundred billion dollars. Prices kept swinging despite President Trump’s announcement of a US crypto strategic reserve. On March 6, 2025, the day after this report, he signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile, built from digital assets the government already held through forfeitures, according to the White House.
Top coins with the least volatility in March 2025
CryptoRank named four assets that held up best in the 30 days to March 4, 2025. Their price changes over that period, as CryptoRank reported them at the time:
1. TRON (TRX)
According to CryptoRank’s data, TRON emerged as the asset with the least volatility in the crypto market. Its price rose by 4.4% over the month, beating all other tokens on the list for price stability.
TRX’s price was less volatile over the period than most other large cryptocurrencies, with lower highs but smaller declines.
2. Tether Gold (XAUT)
Tether Gold was the second least volatile asset on CryptoRank’s list. Despite the wider price swings of those 30 days, XAUT rose 4.3% over the period.
XAUT is less volatile than most crypto assets because each token is backed by physical gold, so its price follows the price of gold rather than crypto market sentiment. It appeals to users who want the convenience of a crypto token with the price stability associated with precious metals.
3. Monero (XMR)
Next was Monero, which fell only 3.4% over the month. Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency designed to make transactions hard to trace, and its price held up better than most large cryptocurrencies during the sell-off.
4. BNB
Lastly, BNB fell 8.2% over the 30 days, compared with a 13% drop for Bitcoin. BNB was less volatile than most other large cryptocurrencies, helped by its close ties to Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, which provides deep liquidity for the token. BNB also has a quarterly Auto-Burn that permanently removes tokens from its supply.
Update (November 2026): The Least Volatile Crypto Assets Now
Twenty months after CryptoRank’s list, the calmest large crypto assets are tokens backed by physical gold, a thinly traded exchange token and Bitcoin. Blockchainreporter’s calculation of 30-day and 90-day realized volatility from CoinGecko daily closes (November 3, 2026) covers the 20 largest non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies by market value plus the two largest gold tokens, Tether Gold and PAX Gold. A lower figure means smaller day-to-day price swings.
Which Crypto Assets Have the Lowest Volatility Right Now?
The table shows annualized realized volatility from CoinGecko daily prices at 00:00 UTC, ranked from least to most volatile over 30 days. The 30-day window runs from October 4 to November 3, 2026, and the 90-day window from August 5 to November 3, 2026. Market cap ranks are CoinGecko’s on November 3, 2026.
| Rank | Asset | 30-day volatility | 90-day volatility | 30-day price change | Market cap rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEO Token (LEO) | 17.1% | 25.5% | +4.6% | 16 |
| 2 | PAX Gold (PAXG) | 17.2% | 23.2% | -4.8% | 54 |
| 3 | Tether Gold (XAUT) | 18.7% | 23.5% | -5.0% | 32 |
| 4 | Bitcoin (BTC) | 29.5% | 38.7% | -9.5% | 1 |
| 5 | WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) | 31.1% | 50.4% | -12.5% | 15 |
| 6 | Ethereum (ETH) | 36.6% | 51.9% | -16.3% | 2 |
| 7 | BNB (BNB) | 40.7% | 39.5% | -11.3% | 4 |
| 8 | Solana (SOL) | 42.5% | 57.5% | -23.2% | 7 |
| 9 | XRP (XRP) | 44.8% | 69.0% | -16.0% | 5 |
| 10 | TRON (TRX) | 47.4% | 30.4% | -4.9% | 8 |
| 11 | Dogecoin (DOGE) | 47.6% | 66.1% | -20.1% | 13 |
| 12 | Monero (XMR) | 48.5% | 55.5% | +9.0% | 12 |
| 13 | Litecoin (LTC) | 50.8% | 60.3% | -23.6% | 26 |
| 14 | Stellar (XLM) | 55.8% | 69.6% | -24.6% | 19 |
| 15 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) | 60.4% | 71.5% | -6.0% | 10 |
| 16 | Chainlink (LINK) | 64.8% | 73.6% | -21.3% | 17 |
| 17 | Bitcoin Cash (BCH) | 68.5% | 96.4% | -13.7% | 20 |
| 18 | Cardano (ADA) | 69.8% | 73.9% | -22.7% | 18 |
| 19 | Zcash (ZEC) | 96.4% | 124.0% | -13.1% | 11 |
| 20 | Uniswap (UNI) | 96.4% | 106.4% | -21.7% | 25 |
| 21 | Rain (RAIN) | 103.7% | 99.2% | -40.4% | 24 |
| 22 | NEAR Protocol (NEAR) | 139.6% | 125.8% | -20.0% | 21 |
What the table shows:
- Gold-backed tokens are the steadiest over 90 days. PAX Gold (23.2%) and Tether Gold (23.5%) had the lowest 90-day volatility of any asset measured, and they nearly tied LEO over 30 days.
- Bitcoin is the calmest major cryptocurrency. Its 30-day volatility of 29.5% was below Ethereum’s 36.6% and BNB’s 40.7%, which equals a typical daily move of about 1.5%.
- TRX is calm over 90 days, not over 30. TRX had the fourth-lowest 90-day volatility (30.4%), but a sharp two-day swing at the end of October lifted its 30-day figure to 47.4%.
- Monero no longer qualifies. XMR’s 30-day volatility was 48.5% after a rally of about 72% over the 90 days.
- LEO’s low reading comes with very thin trading. CoinGecko showed about $247,000 in 24-hour volume for LEO on November 3, 2026, against a market value of about $8.5 billion.
- The most volatile are smaller altcoins. NEAR Protocol (139.6%), Rain (103.7%), Zcash (96.4%) and Uniswap (96.4%) had the highest 30-day volatility in the table.
We also measured six more large assets ranked between 28th and 34th on CoinGecko: Canton (CC), Avalanche (AVAX), Sui (SUI), Gram (GRAM, formerly Toncoin), Hedera (HBAR) and Quant (QNT). All six had 30-day volatility above 57%.
How Is Crypto Volatility Measured Over Different Time Frames?
Realized volatility measures how widely an asset’s daily returns spread around their average. The figures above follow four steps:
- Take one price per day: CoinGecko’s daily US dollar price recorded at 00:00 UTC.
- Turn the prices into daily log returns: the natural logarithm of each day’s price divided by the previous day’s price.
- Compute the sample standard deviation of those returns: 30 returns (31 prices, October 4 to November 3, 2026) for the 30-day figure and 90 returns (91 prices, August 5 to November 3, 2026) for the 90-day figure.
- Annualize the result by multiplying it by the square root of 365, because crypto markets trade every day of the year.
To turn an annual figure back into a typical daily move, divide it by about 19.1, the square root of 365. Over the past 30 days, that works out to about 0.9% a day for PAX Gold, 1.5% for Bitcoin and 1.9% for Ethereum. Realized volatility looks backward: it describes how much prices moved, not how much they will move.
The time frame changes the picture. For Bitcoin, the same method gives 29.5% over 30 days, 38.7% over 90 days and 43.9% over the full year to November 3, 2026, because the shorter windows leave out the sharper swings of late 2025 and early 2026. Two kinds of tools track volatility: realized measures computed from daily price histories, such as those published by CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap, and implied measures such as Deribit’s DVOL index, which shows the volatility priced into Bitcoin options. Volatility charts plot either measure over time.
Why Is Crypto So Volatile Compared With Traditional Markets?
Most crypto assets swing far more than traditional assets. Over the past 90 days, Bitcoin’s realized volatility (38.7%) was about 1.7 times that of the gold-backed tokens (about 23%), and several large altcoins topped 100%. Common reasons include:
- No cash flows to anchor prices. Coins such as Bitcoin pay no earnings, interest or dividends, so their prices rest on supply, demand and expectations.
- Round-the-clock trading. Crypto trades every day, so news reaches prices at any hour, including weekends when stock and gold markets are closed.
- Smaller markets. Even Bitcoin’s market value of about $1.55 trillion (CoinMarketCap, November 3, 2026) is small next to global stock and bond markets, and smaller tokens can move sharply on modest trading.
- Leverage. Crypto derivatives allow high leverage, and forced liquidations can deepen price moves in both directions.
- Exchange and security events. On October 29, 2026, the day of the Binance hack, Bitcoin fell 4.2% and BNB 8.2%, according to CoinGecko daily prices.
Why Are Stablecoins Left Out?
Fiat-backed stablecoins such as Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) are designed to trade at $1, so their volatility shows how well the peg holds rather than market risk. Over the 30 days to November 3, 2026, USDT’s price changed by 0.12% and USDC’s by 0.07%, according to CoinGecko. Including them would put them at the top of any ranking by design, which says nothing about the price risk of assets that trade freely. For the same reason, the table leaves out tokenized money-market funds and loan products whose prices barely move by design. In the US, payment stablecoins are now covered by the GENIUS Act, the federal stablecoin law signed in July 2025.
Why Are Gold-Backed Tokens the Least Volatile?
Tether Gold (XAUT) and PAX Gold (PAXG) are the least volatile non-stablecoin crypto assets because each token is backed by physical gold, so their prices track the gold market rather than crypto sentiment. Paxos says each PAXG token represents one fine troy ounce of London Good Delivery gold held in LBMA-accredited vaults in London and is redeemable one to one for physical gold. Tether Gold says XAUT is backed by physical gold, and its website showed 2,090 gold bars weighing 25,735.58 kilograms behind the token on November 3, 2026.
Three features keep their measured volatility low:
- Gold moves less than crypto. Over the 90 days to November 3, 2026, both tokens were about 40% less volatile than Bitcoin (23.2% and 23.5% against 38.7%).
- The two tokens move as one. The correlation between their daily returns over 90 days was 0.998, so the low reading reflects gold itself rather than one issuer.
- Gold does not trade on weekends. Over the past 90 days, Tether Gold’s average daily move on Saturdays and Sundays was 0.17%, against 1.11% on weekdays. Counting weekdays only and annualizing with 252 trading days, as is usual for traditional assets, gives almost the same 90-day figure (about 23%), so the weekend pause is not what makes the tokens calm.
Low volatility has not meant steady prices. Both tokens set records on January 28, 2026, at $5,504.62 for XAUT and $5,619.09 for PAXG on CoinGecko, and traded about 29% to 30% lower on November 3, 2026. Their daily returns also had a correlation of 0.51 with Bitcoin’s over the past 90 days, so they often moved in the same direction as crypto, only by less. For background on the market, read how tokenized gold trading grew in 2026.
What Is the Bitcoin Volatility Index Now, and How Does It Compare With 2025?
Deribit’s DVOL index, a widely watched Bitcoin volatility index that tracks the 30-day implied volatility priced into Bitcoin options, closed at 39.3 on November 2, 2026, compared with 44.12 on November 2, 2025 and 62.07 on March 4, 2025, the day of CryptoRank’s list. By that measure, Bitcoin is less volatile than a year ago. A DVOL reading of 39.3 implies an expected daily move of about 2.1%.
The past year has not been calm throughout. DVOL closed at 82.62 on February 5, 2026, its highest daily close since at least January 2025, and at 33.59 on September 17, 2026, its lowest over the same period. The index averaged 46.04 in 2025, 42.41 so far in 2026 and 37.54 over the past 90 days.
Realized volatility tells the same story. Bitcoin’s 30-day realized volatility was 29.5% on November 3, 2026. Since December 2025, it has ranged from 22.1% (the 30 days to August 16, 2026) to 83.4% (the 30 days to March 5, 2026), and over the full year to November 3, 2026, it was 43.9%. Bitcoin traded at $77,098.82 on CoinMarketCap at 11:13 UTC on November 3, 2026, down 9.57% in 30 days and about 39% below its record of $126,198 set on October 6, 2025, while the Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 26 (Fear), down from 37 a day earlier, according to alternative.me. For what a quiet market can hide, see why Bitcoin’s low volatility doesn’t mean low risk.
What Changed for TRX, XAUT, XMR and BNB Since March 2025?
| Asset | Price on March 4, 2025 | Price on November 3, 2026 | Change | 30-day volatility | 90-day volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRON (TRX) | about $0.24 | about $0.32 | +31.5% | 47.4% | 30.4% |
| Tether Gold (XAUT) | about $2,910 | about $3,933 | +35.1% | 18.7% | 23.5% |
| Monero (XMR) | about $224 | about $605 | +169.6% | 48.5% | 55.5% |
| BNB (BNB) | about $584 | about $698 | +19.5% | 40.7% | 39.5% |
| Bitcoin (BTC), for comparison | about $87,282 | about $76,709 | -12.1% | 29.5% | 38.7% |
March 4, 2025 prices are daily closes on Binance (TRX, BNB, BTC), Kraken (XMR) and OKX (XAUT); November 3, 2026 prices are CoinGecko’s 00:00 UTC prices.
- TRON (TRX): TRX was the calmest large coin after the gold tokens and LEO over 90 days, and its daily returns had almost no correlation with Bitcoin’s (0.06). Its 30-day figure jumped after TRX rose 6.9% on October 29, 2026, then fell 6.7% on October 30 and 7.8% on October 31, according to CoinGecko daily prices; daily candles on Binance, Kraken and OKX show the same spike and drop. TRON carries about $94.0 billion in stablecoins, 32.1% of the total and second only to Ethereum, according to DefiLlama.
- Tether Gold (XAUT): XAUT remains one of the least volatile crypto assets and is now worth about $3.15 billion, according to CoinGecko. It rose with gold to a record in January 2026 and has since fallen about 29%.
- Monero (XMR): XMR is no longer a low-volatility asset. It rose about 72% in the 90 days to November 3, 2026, and set its record of $797.73 on January 14, 2026, according to CoinGecko. In August 2025, the Qubic mining pool claimed control of a majority of Monero’s hashrate and a six-block chain reorganization followed, The Block reported on August 12, 2025; developers disputed the 51% claim.
- BNB: BNB’s 90-day volatility of 39.5% sits close to Bitcoin’s, but its link to Binance cut both ways in October 2026. BNB fell 8.2% on October 29, 2026, the day Binance was hacked, with about $6.3 billion taken, as widely reported. Binance began reopening withdrawals in phases on November 1 and reopened them for more assets on November 3, according to its recovery updates. Read why BNB is leading the majors as withdrawals resume. BNB Chain completed its 37th quarterly burn on October 19, 2026, removing 1,646,196.44 BNB; the Auto-Burn aims to cut total supply to 100 million BNB.
What Are the Risks Behind “Low Volatility”?
- Low volatility is not low risk. The gold tokens fell about 29% to 30% from their January 28, 2026 records while remaining among the least volatile crypto assets.
- Thin trading can make prices look calm. LEO had the lowest 30-day volatility in the table, but its 24-hour trading volume was only about $247,000 on November 3, 2026, according to CoinGecko.
- Calm periods can end suddenly. Bitcoin’s 30-day realized volatility rose from 26.9% in mid-January 2026 to 83.4% by early March 2026, and two days of swings lifted TRX’s 30-day figure far above its 90-day level.
- Issuer and custody risk. Gold tokens depend on the issuer holding the gold and honoring redemptions. Tether Gold charges a one-time 0.25% fee to buy or redeem XAUT directly, and Paxos says PAXG is redeemable one to one for physical gold.
- Exchange risk. BNB’s ties to Binance, still the largest exchange by 24-hour trading volume on CoinGecko on November 3, 2026, give it deep liquidity but also exposed it to the October 29 hack.
- Network risk. Monero’s August 2025 chain reorganization showed that a coin’s mining network can come under strain regardless of its recent price behavior.
- Backward-looking numbers. Realized volatility only measures the past. Bitcoin options priced 39.3% volatility on November 2, 2026 (DVOL), above the 29.5% Bitcoin actually delivered over the previous 30 days.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are low-volatility crypto assets?
Low-volatility crypto assets are cryptocurrencies whose prices change the least from day to day. Volatility is usually measured as the annualized standard deviation of daily returns. In November 2026, the least volatile non-stablecoin examples are gold-backed tokens such as PAX Gold and Tether Gold, at about 17% to 19% over 30 days, compared with about 30% for Bitcoin and 37% for Ethereum.
Which cryptocurrency has the lowest volatility in 2026?
Among large non-stablecoin assets, PAX Gold and Tether Gold had the lowest 90-day volatility on November 3, 2026, at 23.2% and 23.5%. Over 30 days, LEO Token edged them at 17.1% against 17.2% for PAX Gold, but LEO trades very thinly. Bitcoin was the least volatile major coin, at 29.5% over 30 days and 38.7% over 90 days.
Which cryptocurrencies are the most volatile right now?
Among the 20 largest non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies, NEAR Protocol had the highest 30-day volatility on November 3, 2026, at 139.6%, followed by Rain at 103.7% and Zcash and Uniswap at 96.4% each. That compares with 29.5% for Bitcoin. High volatility means larger daily swings in both directions, so these assets can gain or lose value much faster.
Are stablecoins low-volatility crypto assets?
Technically yes, but they are usually left out of volatility rankings. Fiat-backed stablecoins such as USDT and USDC are built to hold a fixed $1 price, so their tiny price changes reflect how well the peg works, not market risk. Including them would put them at the top of every ranking by design, which says little about freely traded assets.
Is TRX still a low-volatility cryptocurrency?
Over 90 days, yes. TRX had 90-day volatility of 30.4% on November 3, 2026, the lowest among large coins after the two gold tokens and LEO. Its 30-day figure rose to 47.4% after TRX jumped about 7% on October 29 and fell about 14% over the next two days, so the answer depends on the window used.
How is crypto volatility calculated?
Take one closing price per day, convert the prices into daily log returns and compute the standard deviation of those returns over the chosen window, such as 30 or 90 days. Multiply the result by the square root of 365 to annualize it, since crypto trades every day. Dividing the annual figure by about 19.1 gives the typical daily move.
Does low volatility mean a crypto asset is safe?
No. Low volatility only means prices moved less in the recent past. Gold-backed tokens lost about 30% from their January 2026 records, thinly traded tokens can look calm simply because few trades happen, and exchange tokens depend on the health of their exchange, as BNB’s 8% drop on the day of the October 29, 2026 Binance hack showed.
What is the Bitcoin volatility index, and what is its current value?
A widely used Bitcoin volatility index is Deribit’s DVOL, which measures the volatility priced into Bitcoin options over the next 30 days. DVOL closed at 39.3 on November 2, 2026, implying typical daily moves of about 2.1%. That is down from 44.12 a year earlier and 62.07 in early March 2025, although the index spiked to 82.62 in February 2026.
Conclusion
Highly volatile cryptocurrencies can deliver large gains but also large losses, which is why many traders watch which assets move the least. In March 2025, CryptoRank named TRON, Tether Gold, Monero and BNB as the calmest assets in a falling market. By November 2026, gold-backed tokens and Bitcoin are the least volatile large assets, TRX remains calm over 90 days, BNB’s 90-day volatility sits close to Bitcoin’s, and Monero no longer qualifies. Low volatility can make price behavior more predictable, but it does not remove issuer, liquidity or exchange risk, and the rankings can change within weeks. For a broader view of balancing risk, see our guide on how to build a crypto portfolio.
Data sources: CoinGecko daily prices (August 5 to November 3, 2026) and market data (November 3, 2026, 10:58 UTC); CoinMarketCap (Bitcoin, November 3, 2026, 11:13 UTC); Deribit DVOL index; alternative.me Crypto Fear and Greed Index; DefiLlama stablecoin data; Tether Gold and Paxos websites; BNB Chain; Binance announcements; Binance, Kraken and OKX daily candles; White House; CryptoRank’s March 4, 2025 post on X.
