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Crypto\u2019s favorite buy-the-dip strategy failed to make money for Ethereum and Cardano investors who stuck with it since the start of 2022.<\/p>\n

An investor who placed $100 into Ethereum every month from January 2022 through August 2026 would have contributed $5,600 but ended up with about $4,898, a 12.5% loss, CryptoRank data showed. The same strategy applied to Cardano would have left just $2,616, representing a 53.3% loss.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the results were far stronger. The $5,600 invested in Tron’s TRX token would have grown to $16,521, a 195% return. Bitcoin would have produced $8,660, XRP $8,465, and Solana $8,025, leaving all three with gains of more than 40%.<\/p>\n

The differences show how dollar-cost averaging, or DCA, can soften poor entry prices without guaranteeing a profit. Buying a fixed amount regularly allowed investors to accumulate more tokens during downturns, but the outcome still depended on how strongly each asset recovered.<\/p>\n

2024 rally created most of the gains before the reversal<\/h2>\n

The strongest returns from the strategy were built during the 2024 crypto rally, when portfolios accumulated through the previous two years surged in value.<\/p>\n

By the end of 2024, the hypothetical Solana portfolio had reached $17,728, while XRP stood at $14,345, Bitcoin at $10,193 and Cardano at $7,251.<\/p>\n

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DCA Investment in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano (Source: CryptoRank)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That rally coincided with a major expansion of institutional access to crypto. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products in January and spot Ethereum products in May, giving investors regulated vehicles for gaining exposure to the two largest digital assets.<\/p>\n

The rally further accelerated after Donald Trump won the November 2024 presidential election. Trump had campaigned on making the US a global crypto hub, building a national Bitcoin stockpile and replacing SEC Chair Gary Gensler, whose enforcement-heavy approach had drawn years of criticism from the industry.<\/p>\n

Following his electoral victory, Bitcoin reached repeated record highs as traders bet on a more favorable regulatory environment, while ETF inflows also accelerated.<\/p>\n

Trump has since followed through on parts of that agenda. His administration established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and US Digital Asset Stockpile, while he signed the GENIUS Act, creating a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.<\/p>\n

The subsequent market downturn, however, erased much of the wealth those recurring buyers had accumulated.<\/p>\n

Solana’s portfolio fell from $17,728 at the end of 2024 to $8,025 by August 2026, wiping out $9,703, or nearly 55%, even as the investor continued adding $100 every month.<\/p>\n

XRP dropped by $5,880 from its 2024 level to $8,465, while Cardano surrendered $4,635 to finish at just $2,616. In Cardano’s case, the reversal was severe enough to turn what had been a profitable position at the end of 2024 into a 53.3% loss on the full $5,600 invested by August 2026.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin proved more resilient. Its portfolio rose further to about $10,800 in 2025 before retreating to $8,660 this year. Ethereum followed a similar path, reaching $6,501 in 2025 before falling to $4,898, below the investor’s cumulative contributions.<\/p>\n

The retreat has also reduced the value of assets held by US crypto ETFs. SoSoValue data shows the market has fallen from more than $123 billion during its expansion to roughly $92 billion as crypto prices declined. Bitcoin ETFs alone now hold about $78.3 billion, while Ethereum products hold roughly $10.6 billion.<\/p>\n

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Crypto ETFs Asset Under Management (Source: SoSoValue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TRX was the clear exception. Its DCA portfolio increased at every annual snapshot, climbing from $1,000 in 2022 to $3,679 in 2023, $11,032 in 2024, $13,723 in 2025 and $16,521 by August 2026.<\/p>\n

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DCA softened crashes but also diluted winning trades<\/h2>\n

Even the losing Ethereum and Cardano portfolios show how recurring purchases reduced the damage from entering the market near the beginning of 2022.<\/p>\n

Ethereum traded around $3,770 at the start of that year and near $1,900 in early August 2026, leaving the token roughly 50% lower. The hypothetical DCA portfolio, however, lost only 12.5% because later purchases were made at considerably lower prices.<\/p>\n

Cardano produced a similar result. ADA fell about 85% from roughly $1.38 to $0.20 over the period, while the recurring investment lost 53.3%. Buying through the decline lowered the investor’s average cost, although not enough to return the position to profit.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Solana shows how powerful that effect can be when an asset stages a strong recovery.<\/p>\n

SOL remained about 59% below its early-2022 price of $170 by August 2026, yet the monthly investment was still up 43.3%.<\/p>\n

This is because buyers who continued purchasing through its post-FTX collapse, when it traded below $10, accumulated far more tokens before the subsequent rebound.<\/p>\n

However, TRX demonstrated the other side of the strategy. The token climbed from roughly $0.075 at the beginning of 2022 to about $0.33 by August, a gain of more than 300%, while the DCA portfolio returned 195%.<\/p>\n

Because each successive $100 purchase bought fewer tokens as TRX appreciated, recurring purchases captured less upside than deploying the same capital earlier would have.<\/p>\n

The results show that DCA was most effective when prices collapsed and later recovered strongly. It reduced losses in Ethereum and Cardano and transformed Solana’s poor starting point into a profitable position, but it also limited the gains available from an asset such as TRX that rose relatively consistently throughout the period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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