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Grayscale Adds 6 New Crypto Assets To Its Top Picks For Q1 2025

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Nidhi Kolhapur

Grayscale, the leading asset manager has recently highlighted 6 new cryptocurrencies in its top picks for Q1 2025 in its latest press release. The asset manager notes that grayscale Investment Resarch’s ‘Top 20’ represents a diversified set of assets across Crypto Sectors with high potential over the coming quarter.

In Q4 2024, cryptocurrency valuations saw a significant surge largely due to the favorable market reaction to the U.S. election results. The total industry market capitalization increased from $1 trillion to $3 trillion during the quarter.  

Digital Assets Growth And Smart Contract Platforms

According to the Crypto Sectors Market Index (CSMI), the digital assets market cap now stands at a level comparable to the global inflation-linked bond market, more than double the size of the U.S. high-yield bond market. However, it noted that, it remains smaller than the global hedge fund industry and the Japanese equity market.

Grayscale also noted that the Smart Contract Platforms Crypto Sector is likely the most competitive market segment in the digital assets industry. Regardless of design choices or a network’s strengths and weaknesses, smart contract platforms derive value primarily through their ability to generate network fee revenue. This quarter, the Grayscale Research Top 20 includes the following smart contract platforms: ETH, SOL, SUI, and OP.

The Grayscale Research Top 20

Each quarter, Grayscale Research analyzes digital assets to create a Top 20 list of high-potential assets across Crypto Sectors, considering factors like network growth, upcoming catalysts, sustainability of fundamentals, token valuation, token supply inflation, and potential tail risks. The new assets this quarter are HYPE, ENA, VIRTUAL, JUP, JTO, and GRASS. It also added that all the assets in the Top 20 list have high price volatility and should be considered as high-risk.

For Q1 2025, Grayscale’s Top 20 list emphasizes on tokens that touch on at least one of the three central market themes:

(1) the U.S. election and its impact on industry regulation, especially for decentralized finance (DeFi) and staking;
(2) advancements in decentralized AI technologies and blockchain use by AI agents; and
(3) growth in the Solana ecosystem.

Grayscale noted that based on these themes, the above-mentioned six new assets are being added to the Top 20 list. Further, other cryptocurrencies that remain in the asset manager’s top pick for the coming quarter are BTC, ETH, SOL, LINK, and SUI, among many other top crypto coins.

Nidhi Kolhapur

Nidhi is a Certified Digital Marketing Executive and Passionate crypto Journalist covering the world of alternative currencies. She shares the latest and trending news on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain.

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