Clarity Act Can End a Decade Of SEC Fights Over XRP, ADA, HBAR & XLM

According to Fire Hustle, the Clarity Act would hard‑code into law what regulators only sketched out in March guidance: XRP, ADA, HBAR and XLM would be classified as “digital commodities” and placed under the purview of the CFTC, which already oversees commodities such as oil and gold.

The distinction matters because current SEC–CFTC language is nonbinding guidance; a future SEC chair could reverse it. Federal statute is much harder to unwind.

“The difference between guidance and federal law is the difference between a memo and a contract,” the analyst says, arguing this would shut down the SEC’s decade‑long “regulation by enforcement” approach against these networks.

She emphasizes that a future administration could not simply revive SEC actions against these four tokens without Congress passing a new law.

The bill has cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15–9, largely along party lines, but still needs 60 votes on the Senate floor.

Then, Fire Hustle notes at least seven more Democratic senators would need to sign on and concedes the July 4 target could slip to August or later, particularly amid debate over whether President Trump could personally hold digital commodities while in office.

Much of the video focuses on what could unlock “the day Trump’s pen hits the paper.” Cardano, hit directly in the SEC’s 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase, is described as having suffered two years of depressed interest as exchanges and funds stayed away.

With ADA explicitly non‑security and proof‑of‑stake rewards carved out as non‑securities activity for a network of its size, the analyst expects its risk profile to change sharply. An ADA ETF filing from Grayscale is already on the table, she notes.

HBAR and XLM, already named as digital commodities in March guidance, are portrayed as closest to institutional scale. Hedera has a live spot HBAR ETF on Nasdaq via Canary Capital and a governing council that includes Google, IBM, McLaren and FedEx.

The analyst claims many council members have been stuck at pilot stage, wary a future SEC chair might reframe their activity as securities offerings; statutory clarity, she argues, removes that final obstacle to “running businesses, not pilots.”

On Stellar, she highlights that USDC and PayPal’s PYUSD both live on the network, as does Franklin Templeton’s tokenized U.S. money market fund. The analyst says XLM would be cleared by the Clarity Act on July 4, then benefit again when separate Genius Act stablecoin rules are finalized on July 18 — a one‑two regulatory punch no other public chain currently has. XLM ETF applications are described as “already sitting at the SEC, waiting on this exact moment.”

XRP, the longest‑running SEC target of the four, is framed as the headline beneficiary. Ripple prevailed in key parts of the SEC case but lingering questions left ETF filings from 21Shares, Bitwise, Canary, Grayscale and Franklin Templeton in limbo. The analyst links XRP’s outlook to Ripple’s conditional federal trust bank charter, the RLUSD stablecoin’s listing on OKX with roughly $1.6 billion in market cap, and ongoing pilots with BlackRock and MasterCard for settlement via the XRP Ledger.

If the law lands as described, the main implication for investors is sharper regulatory separation between “digital commodities” and securities, a green light for spot ETFs in these four assets, and clearer conditions for large institutions to move pilots into production. Fire Hustle stresses, however, that the Senate math and timing remain uncertain and reminds viewers that crypto remains “extremely risky” and subject to political slippage as well as market volatility.

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