Grayscale updates the list of candidate assets: the AI sector added 9 new projects, and the DeFi sector added 7 new projects

Gate News announcement, April 11, digital asset investment platform Grayscale updated its product candidate asset list, covering six major crypto sectors. The newly added candidate assets are especially concentrated in the AI and financial categories. In the AI sector, the most candidate assets were added, including nine projects: Fabric Protocol, Flock, Grass, Kaito, Kite AI, Nous Research, Poseidon, Venice, and Virtuals Protocol, as well as Bittensor, Livepeer, Near, Render, and Story, all considered for inclusion. In the financial sector, seven DeFi projects such as Ethena, Hyperliquid, Jupiter, Kamino Finance, Maple Finance, Morpho, and Pendle entered the candidate list, complementing existing products including Aave, Aerodrome, Curve, Ondo, and Uniswap. In the smart contract platform sector, six new projects were added: Celo, Mantle, MegaETH, Monad, Toncoin, and Tron, and Canton Network was added as well. In the utility tools sector, DoubleZero, Geodnet, Helium, Jito, LayerZero, and Wormhole were added. Currently, 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 that related products will be launched. Grayscale said it will update the list within 15 days after the end of each quarter.