Grayscale's Latest Disclosure of Candidate Asset List Shows Significant Expansion in AI and DeFi Projects

BlockBeats News, April 11 — Digital asset investment platform Grayscale recently updated its candidate asset list, covering six major crypto sectors. The newly added candidate assets are particularly concentrated in the AI and financial categories. The AI sector saw the most additions to the candidate asset list, including 9 projects: Fabric Protocol, Flock, Grass, Kaito, Kite AI, Nous Research, Poseidon, Venice, and Virtuals Protocol. These are being considered alongside Bittensor, Livepeer, Near, Render, and Story, reflecting institutional interest in the AI+crypto space. In the financial sector, 7 DeFi projects—Ethena, Hyperliquid, Jupiter, Kamino Finance, Maple Finance, Morpho, and Pendle—were added to the candidate list, complementing existing products such as Aave, Aerodrome, Curve, Ondo, and Uniswap. For the smart contract platform sector, 6 projects were added: Celo, Mantle, MegaETH, Monad, Toncoin, and Tron, with Canton Network also included. In the utility tools sector, new additions include DoubleZero, Geodnet, Helium, Jito, LayerZero, and Wormhole. Currently, Grayscale's existing product suite covers mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, AVAX, BNB, and ADA. The candidate list does not guarantee the launch of related products. Grayscale stated that the list will be updated within 15 days after the end of each quarter.