Grayscale Expands Consideration List with Over 30 New Crypto Assets Including MONAD, Hyperliquid, and Pendle

The digital asset manager updated its quarterly assets under consideration list on January 12, adding tokens across smart contract platforms, DeFi, AI, consumer applications, and utilities sectors.

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Summary

Grayscale announced on January 12, 2026 an expanded list of over 30 digital assets under consideration for future investment products, organized according to its Crypto Sectors framework. The firm currently holds 28 tokens in its existing product suite. Under smart contract platforms, Grayscale added names such as Aptos, Arbitrum, Binance Coin, Celo, Mantle, MONAD, Toncoin, Polkadot, and MegaETH. For the financials category, which covers DeFi transactions and services, new additions include Ethena, Euler, Hyperliquid, Jupiter, and Pendle. The asset manager also expanded its consideration list to include AI-focused assets such as Flock, Grass, Kaito, Nous Research, Worldcoin, Virtual Protocol, and Poseidon, alongside consumer and culture tokens like ARIA Protocol, Bonk, and Playtron. Under utilities and services, Grayscale is considering Wormhole, DoubleZero, Jito, Geodnet, and Layer Zero. The firm stated it aims to update this list at least every 15 days after quarter-end as it reevaluates assets, and noted that inclusion does not guarantee a future product launch.

Terms & Concepts
  • Grayscale Crypto Sectors: A comprehensive framework developed by Grayscale in partnership with FTSE Russell to organize and categorize the digital asset class into distinct market segments.
  • DeFi: Decentralized Finance, referring to crypto assets that seek to deliver financial transactions and services without traditional intermediaries.
  • Smart Contract Platforms: Crypto assets that serve as baseline platforms upon which self-executing contracts are developed and deployed.