Bollcoin, October 29 — DeFi researcher Ignas published a roundup of this year's strong-performing tokens, noting that only three categories — trading, AI and privacy — have outperformed Bitcoin so far this year. Among them: 1) Trading tokens stood out most, with DRV up 665%, HYPE up 200%, PUMP up 121% and RAY up 106%; the logic behind these gains is that speculative trading generates fee revenue for the protocols, which then support token value through buyback mechanisms. 2) In AI tokens, VVV rose 1431%, NEAR 203% and GRASS 151%. 3) In privacy tokens, ZEC rose 137% and XMR 37%. Ignas also mentioned QNT and MORPHO in the institutional-adoption narrative, up 173% and 89% respectively.