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Grayscale Research predicts smart contracts will lead the crypto market in Q1 2025, with competitors like Solana and Sui gaining ground. Tokenization, DePin, and scaling solutions also emerge as key areas of interest in Grayscale’s Top 20 crypto investment list. Despite Ethereum’s ETF success and upgrades, it underperformed, losing market share to faster-growing rivals. Grayscale Research forecasts that smart contracts will dominate the crypto market by Q1 2025, highlighting key competitors and investment opportunities. Grayscale Report Highlights Strong Competition in the Smart Contract Market Grayscale, one of the leading Bitcoin ETF issuers, released this report with several comments on its main predictions. The firm concluded that crypto markets soared in Q4 2024 and that fierce competition between smart contract platforms has been a major growth facilitator. It also provided a “Top 20” list of highest-performing DeFi/Web3/crypto investment options. Grayscale Research’s Top 20. Source: Grayscale The firm called smart contracts “the most competitive market segment in the digital assets industry,” noting that Ethereum underperformed despite landmark victories like the ETF and a substantial software upgrade. Instead, competitors like Solana, Sui, and TON ate up their market share, highlighting the dynamic energy of this sector. Grayscale puts the highest expectations on smart contracts. However, only a few of its Top 20 assets fall into this category, and this doesn’t even include the leading asset. Other areas of interest include several that were high-interest in the last report, such as scaling solutions, tokenization, and DePin. “Regardless of design choices and a network’s strengths and weaknesses, one way smart contract platforms derive their value is through their ability to generate network fee revenue. The greater the ability of a network to generate fee revenue, the greater the network’s ability to pass on value to the network in the form of token burn or staking…

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