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Grayscale Research just published its new “Top 20” list for promising altcoins in Q3 2025. The list mostly remains the same from Q2, removing Lido DAO (LDAO) and Optimism (OP) to add Avalanche (AVAX) and MORPHO. The firm assessed these altcoins on their market sector performance and individually. AVAX and OP are both smart contract protocols, but it swapped the two out due to company-specific circumstances. Grayscale’s Newest Top 20 List Grayscale Research periodically makes lists like this, updating its “Top 20” alongside “Assets Under Consideration” and other sector-specific assessments. The firm uses a diverse set of criteria to assess its preferred altcoins, tracking which market sectors perform better than others. Today, Grayscale released its new recommendations for Q3 2025: We have updated the Grayscale Research Top 20. The Top 20 represents a diversified set of assets across Crypto Sectors that, in our view, have high potential over the coming quarter. This quarter’s new assets are Avalanche $AVAX and Morpho $MORPHO. All the assets in our Top 20… pic.twitter.com/gqy0NBLsE1 — Grayscale (@Grayscale) June 26, 2025 Grayscale used a complicated metric to compile this list; for example, it added and removed altcoins from the same market category. It categorized LDAO under “Utilities & Services,” which was the lowest performer, and replaced it with MORPHO, from the second-highest “Financials.” Grayscale Market Sector Performance. Source: Grayscale However, AVAX and OP are both smart contract protocols, and Grayscale assessed that this sector didn’t grow or shrink much. In other words, Avalanche’s business developments must account for its place in Grayscale’s list. In Q2 alone, new partnerships gave the blockchain a surge in on-chain activity, whereas Optimism suffered a 54% drop in ETH reserves. Grayscale further clarified that Ethereum’s new focus on interoperability could make an L-2 like Optimism redundant. AVAX’s organic growth stands out…

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