{"id":67566,"date":"2026-01-13T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67566"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:01:41","slug":"senates-draft-bill-gives-xrp-sol-doge-bitcoin-like-status-heres-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67566","title":{"rendered":"Senate&#8217;s Draft Bill Gives XRP, SOL, DOGE, Bitcoin-Like Status\u2014Here&#8217;s Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate Banking Committee released a draft bill Tuesday that would treat <strong>XRP<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>), <strong>Solana<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"SOL\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SOL-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>), <strong>Dogecoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"DOGE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/DOGE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>), and more the same way regulators currently treat <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>)\u2014as commodities, not securities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Tokens Get Bitcoin-Like Treatment<\/h3>\n<p>The draft <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/354411\/crypto-bill-draft-grants-xrp-solana-and-dogecoin-same-legal-status-as-bitcoin\">specifies<\/a> that tokens qualify as \u201cnon-ancillary assets\u201d if served as the principal asset of an ETF listed on a national securities exchange as of January 1.<\/p>\n<p>That means it escapes SEC securities rules and doesn\u2019t need to file the same disclosures other crypto projects do.<\/p>\n<p>This matters because every altcoin ETF that launched before New Year\u2019s Day just gave those tokens a regulatory hall pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>XRP, SOL, DOGE, <strong>Litecoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/LTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"LTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ltc\/usd\">LTC<\/a>), <strong>Hedera<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/HBAR-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"HBAR\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/hbar\/usd\">HBAR<\/a>), and <strong>Chainlink<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/LINK-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"LINK\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/link\/usd\">LINK<\/a>) all qualify based on ETFs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49886882\/senates-draft-bill-gives-xrp-sol-doge-bitcoin-like-status-heres-why-it-matters?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Senate's\" draft bill gives xrp sol doge bitcoin-like status why it matters>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Banking Committee released a draft bill Tuesday that would treat XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), and more the same way regulators currently treat Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)\u2014as commodities, not securities. How Tokens Get Bitcoin-Like Treatment The draft specifies that tokens qualify as \u201cnon-ancillary assets\u201d if served as the principal asset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-67566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}