Dogecoin ETF Could Debut Next Week—How Will It Impact Price?

The primary US exchange-traded fund providing publicity to Dogecoin (DOGE) may debut as quickly as subsequent week, after the ETF Alternatives Belief filed a post-effective modification that units September 9, 2025 because the efficient date for a set of single-coin funds that features the REX-Osprey DOGE ETF (ticker: DOJE). The submitting—Put up-Efficient Modification No. 367—explicitly names the DOGE fund alongside proposed TRUMP, BTC, XRP and BONK funds, and states that the modification “designates September 9, 2025 as the brand new efficient date” for these merchandise.

Dogecoin ETF Set To Launch

Market expectations have been turbocharged by a teaser from the issuer itself. On Wednesday, REX Shares wrote: “The REX-Osprey™ DOGE ETF, $DOJE, is coming quickly! DOJE would be the first ETF to ship traders publicity to the efficiency of the long-lasting memecoin, Dogecoin.” Quickly after, Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas added gasoline, noting: “Appears to be like like Rex goes to launch a Doge ETF by way of the 40 Act a la $SSK subsequent week primarily based on the tweet beneath mixed w how they only filed an efficient prospectus. Doge appears to be like like the primary one to exit.”

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What makes DOJE viable on a near-term timeline is construction. As an alternative of the “commodity ETP” pathway (which generally requires a bespoke 19b-4 trade rule change), DOJE sits inside a ’40-Act open-end ETF registration underneath the ETF Alternatives Belief—the identical chassis REX-Osprey used to record its Solana fund (SSK) earlier this summer time.

The January 21, 2025 prospectus for the belief features a full DOGE fund part, stating the funding goal is to trace the efficiency of Dogecoin and disclosing that the fund could use derivatives (together with swaps) and a completely owned Cayman subsidiary—the REX-Osprey DOGE (Cayman) Portfolio S.P.—to carry positions, topic to a 25% cap for the subsidiary to protect RIC tax therapy.

REX-Osprey’s SSK is the speedy precedent. That fund listed in early July underneath a ’40-Act framework and shortly gathered belongings and buying and selling exercise. MarketWatch reported the Cboe itemizing, ~$20 million first-day buying and selling quantity, and the fund’s positioning as the primary US ETF with direct Solana publicity plus staking rewards. Notably, SSK crossed $100 million AUM inside weeks.

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The September 9 effectiveness designation is the important thing gating merchandise earlier than an inventory venue can submit a buying and selling date; it helps the “subsequent week” launch expectation flagged by Balchunas. Notably, the identical submitting block references further single-coin funds—TRUMP, XRP, BONK, BTC—indicating a broader shelf past DOGE.

How The Dogecoin ETF Might Have an effect on Value

ETFs can affect spot markets by way of primary-market creations and redemptions when internet inflows require the sponsor (or licensed contributors) to supply the underlying publicity. Whereas attribution isn’t clear in crypto, Solana’s spot price rose roughly 34% from round $152 on July 3, 2025 (the day after SSK’s launch window) to roughly $204 as we speak, with SSK racing to $100 million+ AUM in its early weeks.

That precedent is directionally related for DOGE if DOJE lists and attracts sustained creations. In such a situation, the fund complicated and its licensed contributors would want to amass DOGE cash or DOGE-linked exposures—by way of spot purchases, swaps, or different devices—to satisfy primary-market demand, doubtlessly tightening obtainable float on the margin.

Liquidity in SOL is considerably deeper, with greater than 3 times the market capitalization and buying and selling quantity of DOGE, whereas DOGE stays extra retail-driven, so the magnitude of any ETF-related impulse may actually be extra pronounced. Nonetheless, the mechanism is analogous: internet inflows beget internet buys of the reference asset, and the secondary market visibility can broaden the investor base past native crypto venues.

At press time, DOGE traded at $0.216.

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