The latest disclosure of the grayscale candidate asset list, with significant expansion in AI tracks and DeFi projects

ME News report: On April 11 (UTC+8), digital asset investment platform Grayscale recently updated its list of candidate assets for its products, covering six major crypto sectors. New candidate assets are particularly concentrated in the AI and finance categories.

In the AI sector, the most new candidate assets were added, including Fabric Protocol, Flock, Grass, Kaito, Kite AI, Nous Research, Poseidon, Venice, and Virtuals Protocol, for a total of 9 projects. Alongside Bittensor, Livepeer, Near, Render, and Story, these are all taken into consideration, reflecting continued institutional focus on the AI + crypto track.

In the finance sector, seven DeFi projects—Ethena, Hyperliquid, Jupiter, Kamino Finance, Maple Finance, Morpho, and Pendle—entered the candidate list. They complement existing products in Grayscale’s lineup, such as Aave, Aerodrome, Curve, Ondo, and Uniswap.

For the smart contract platform sector, 6 new projects were added: Celo, Mantle, MegaETH, Monad, Toncoin, and Tron. Canton Network was also included. In the utility tools sector, new additions include DoubleZero, Geodnet, Helium, Jito, LayerZero, and Wormhole.

At present, Grayscale’s existing product suite already covers mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, AVAX, BNB, and ADA. The candidate list does not necessarily mean related products will be launched. Grayscale said it will update the list within 15 days after the end of each quarter. (Source: BlockBeats)