Grayscale Announces Altcoin Outline! They Revealed the Altcoins to Watch for the First Quarter of 2026!

Grayscale, the world’s largest digital asset-focused investment platform, announced that it has added new altcoins to its “Assets Under Evaluation” list for the first quarter of 2026.

Accordingly, the company announced 27 altcoins that it is actively evaluating for its future investment products.

Grayscale stated, “The Assets Under Evaluation list includes cryptocurrencies that are not currently included in Grayscale investment products but have been identified by our team as potential candidates for inclusion in a future product.”

At this point, Grayscale added Tron (TRX) to its Smart Contracts category, while ARIA Protocol joined its Consumer and Culture category.

Nous Research and Poseidon were added to the Artificial Intelligence category, while Prime Intellect was removed from the list.

In the infrastructure and services segment, the DoubleZero decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project was added.

Smart contracts and altcoins in the finance sector make up the largest portion of the assets under review, with the smart contracts segment including cryptocurrencies such as Aptos (APT), Arbitrum (ARB), Binance Coin (BNB), Celo (CELO), Mantle (MNT), MegaETH (MegaETH), Monad (MON), Polkadot (DOT), Toncoin (TON), and Tron (TRX).

The finance sector category also includes Ethena (ENA), Euler (EUL), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Jupiter (JUP), Kamino Finance (KMNO), Lombard (BARD), Maple Finance (SYRUP), Morpho (MORPHO), Pendle (PENDLE), Plume Network (PLUME), and Sky (SKY).