3 Altcoins That Benefit Most From the CLARITY Act and Why

The Crypto Market Structure Bill, CLARITY Act, passed the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. The vote sends the crypto market structure bill toward a full Senate floor test and resets risk profiles for altcoin holders.

Three tokens stand out as direct beneficiaries with profiles that fit the bill’s grandfather clauses, decentralization tests, and DeFi protections. Meanwhile, XRP, Solana, and Hyperliquid each align with the mechanics that the legislation favors.

XRP Lands a Path Out of SEC Limbo

XRP, the native asset of the Ripple network, sits closest to the bill’s grandfather clause. That language fast-tracks commodity status for tokens with approved or pending ETF products, sidestepping the full mature-blockchain test.

Historically, secondary-market XRP sales have drawn SEC scrutiny. The bill ends that exposure for tokens meeting the new commodity definition.

It explains why the token is up by almost 7% in the last 24 hours, to trade for $1.51 as of this writing.

“CLARITY Act talks just took a BIG step forward. Sen. Warner confirms progress after Republicans accepted key changes. Translation: regulation is aligning… and that’s exactly what XRP has been waiting for. The rails are being built,” one user noted.

Solana Anchors the DeFi Safe Harbor Case

Solana (SOL) qualifies as a mature blockchain under the bill’s decentralization thresholds. The token also benefits from DeFi safe harbors that shield non-custodial developers, validators, and liquidity providers from broker registration.

The chain runs the largest DeFi ecosystem outside Ethereum by transaction volume. Perpetuals, staking products, and tokenized real-world assets concentrate activity onshore.

Institutional rotation through SOL ETFs and staking yields gains a regulatory floor the broader market has lacked.

Unlike XRP, however, the Solana price is up only by a modest 1.68%, and was trading for $92.70 as of this writing.

Hyperliquid Already Reacted To the CLARITY Act

Hyperliquid (HYPE) operates a fully on-chain perpetuals exchange on its own layer one. That architecture maps directly onto the bill’s DeFi safe-harbor provisions.

These provisions protect non-custodial protocols from broker and dealer registration requirements while preserving anti-fraud enforcement.

HYPE trades at $43.86 as of this writing, recording gains of up to 12% in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, BitGo’s custodial support has expanded institutional access.

HYPE carries no legacy SEC entanglements and strong product-market fit in one of crypto’s highest-volume sectors. The token gains room to grow as US capital re-enters DeFi rails.

However, the bill still requires reconciliation with the House version and a 60-vote Senate floor passage.

Senators have already piled more than 100 amendments onto the markup. Language around stablecoin yield or DeFi treatment could still reshape the upside for each token.