Grayscale Expands Candidate Asset List with Focus on AI and Finance

On April 11, digital asset investment platform Grayscale updated its list of candidate assets, highlighting a focus on AI and finance sectors. According to BlockBeats, the AI category saw the most additions, with nine projects including Fabric Protocol, Flock, Grass, Kaito, Kite AI, Nous Research, Poseidon, Venice, and Virtuals Protocol. These join existing considerations like Bittensor, Livepeer, Near, Render, and Story, indicating ongoing institutional interest in the AI and crypto intersection. In the finance sector, seven DeFi projects—Ethena, Hyperliquid, Jupiter, Kamino Finance, Maple Finance, Morpho, and Pendle—were added. These complement existing products such as Aave, Aerodrome, Curve, Ondo, and Uniswap. The smart contract platform category saw the inclusion of Celo, Mantle, MegaETH, Monad, Toncoin, and Tron, along with Canton Network. The utility tools category added DoubleZero, Geodnet, Helium, Jito, LayerZero, and Wormhole. Grayscale's current product suite already covers major assets like BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, AVAX, BNB, and ADA. The candidate list does not guarantee the launch of related products, and Grayscale plans to update the list within 15 days after each quarter's end.