Bitwise Files for Dogecoin ETF Amid Shifting US Regulations

Crypto asset supervisor Bitwise has utilized to launch a Dogecoin exchange-traded fund amid additional indicators U.S. policymakers are warming to crypto.

The appliance, filed with federal regulators on Tuesday, marks the issuer’s newest step towards rolling out a Dogecoin ETF, which it laid the authorized groundwork for final week. 

The fund, if authorized, would expose buyers to the worth actions of the eighth-largest crypto by market capitalization.

Dogecoin is buying and selling at $0.32 at writing time, CoinGecko data reveals. The asset touched a three-year-high price of $0.475 final November—roughly across the time Elon Musk ramped up his tweeting about launching his eponymous extra-governmental company, D.O.G.E.

Alternate-traded funds are funding autos that allow buyers to achieve publicity to property with out straight investing in them. 

Federal regulators within the U.S. authorized Bitcoin and Ethereum-based ETFs within the first half of 2024, resulting in a rush of institutional dollars into digital property. 

Such digital asset-based funds have up to now attracted greater than $4 billion in investments in 2025, in keeping with a Coin Shares report launched Monday.  

And now, as a new crop of regulators takes the helm on the Securities Alternate Fee beneath President Donald Trump, some speculate approvals for different crypto-based funds will quickly comply with. 

Bitwise’s utility to supply the Dogecoin ETF with the SEC comes simply days after the agency registered a statutory trust for the fund. That belief, registered final week via CSC Delaware Belief Firm in Wilmington, laid the authorized groundwork for the asset supervisor to file for its ETF.

The meme coin-based fund would add to the issuers’ two present choices that commerce on U.S. inventory exchanges—The Bitwise Bitcoin ETF and Bitwise Ethereum ETF.

In the meantime, the asset supervisor additionally filed for Solana and XRP-based ETFs late final yr in a bid to broaden its digital asset-based funding choices. Different issuers have adopted Bitwise’s lead, making use of to roll out funds within the U.S. that might maintain cryptocurrencies as huge and different as Official Trump, Bonk, and HBAR. 

The SEC usually has 45 days from the submitting date to make an preliminary resolution to approve, deny, or prolong its assessment of ETF purposes. This timeframe may be prolonged a number of occasions, with the ultimate deadline for a choice normally set inside 240 days of the preliminary submitting.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair