First Spot Dogecoin ETF Set To Go Live On November 26
Bitwise Asset Management seems to have set the clock for the primary US spot Dogecoin ETF to go efficient as early as Tuesday, Nov. 26, after invoking Section 8(a) of the Securities Act—an method that makes a registration assertion routinely efficient in 20 days until the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intervenes.
Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas flagged the maneuver on Friday, writing: “Looks like Bitwise is doing the 8(a) transfer for his or her spot Dogecoin ETF, which principally means they plan on going efficient in 20 days barring an intervention.”
Countdown For A Spot Dogecoin ETF Is Now Ticking
The authorized foundation rests on the mechanics of Section 8(a). When an issuer removes the usual “delaying modification” language from its S-1 registration and specifies effectiveness “in accordance with Section 8(a),” the submitting is slated to turn out to be efficient routinely after 20 days—until the SEC acts to cease, delay, or require additional amendments.
Context issues. In September, the SEC adopted generic listing standards that streamline the trail for spot digital-asset ETFs on main exchanges, changing the earlier case-by-case 19b-4 gauntlet and compressing timelines. That coverage shift has coincided with issuers more and more leveraging 8(a) to go efficient with out an express “inexperienced mild” order, as seen throughout October’s authorities shutdown when a number of non-BTC/ETH crypto ETFs launched after dropping their delaying amendments.
The October precedents are the actual story behind Dogecoin’s timeline. On October 28, Bitwise’s Solana Staking ETF (ticker: BSOL) started buying and selling on the NYSE, giving buyers 100% direct SOL publicity with staking economics within the wrapper; inside hours it established orderly major and secondary market stream and have become the reference instrument for US SOL publicity.
In parallel, Canary Capital listed a spot Hedera product on Nasdaq beneath ticker HBR, opening regulated entry to HBAR and demonstrating that smaller-cap networks may additionally clear the operational bar on day one.
Those launches landed whereas the SEC’s capability was constrained, and so they arrived exactly as a result of issuers had eliminated the delaying amendments and allowed their S-1s to go efficient after 20 days.
Balchunas’s learn on Dogecoin—“plan on going efficient in 20 days barring an intervention”—aligns with how these October debuts really materialized. In every case, there was no splashy, bespoke approval order; as a substitute, the clock merely ran beneath 8(a) and buying and selling commenced when the window closed with out SEC objection.
That is why the implied calendar date issues right here: as Bitwise pulled its delaying modification on November 6, the statutory depend factors to effectiveness round Tuesday, November 26, assuming the Commission doesn’t intercede with a cease order or a further-amendment request which may as depend upon the top of the US authorities shutdown.
At press time, DOGE traded at $0164.
