The money, which funded ads that aired across Ohio, was the most ambitious effort in an audacious multistate campaign by crypto firms to influence dozens of crucial congressional races.

The 2024 election cycle has seen an upswell of political spending by the crypto industry, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is confident that lawmakers will be very friendly to the market next year.

Crypto VCs invested $2.4 billion in the third quarter of 2024, a 20% drop compared to the third quarter. The industry is on track to barely get more funding than in 2023. High interest rates, spot ...

Forget about the election, the crypto industry is already thinking about the 2026 midterms. Fairshake, a bipartisan super political action committee that aims to elect pro-crypto politicians ...

The crypto community is celebrating the victory of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election while officials are finalizing election results. Trump, the ...

The cryptocurrency market has matured “dramatically” in 2024 as billions of dollars flow into spot crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and transaction volume spikes on blockchain networks ...

Yet both have made their support for crypto a part of their platforms. Trump, who used to think cryptocurrency “seems like a scam,” now says that, if elected, he’ll turn the United States ...

Crypto usage has reached record levels, according to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in its annual “State of Crypto” report released Wednesday. The report highlights a dramatic ...

Bitcoin Bitcoin and crypto have surged after China announced it would further support its economy with monetary stimulus—adding to a BlackRock-fueled boom. The bitcoin price has topped $65,000 ...

The spending comes from an organization called Fairshake, along with two other affiliated crypto-funded groups, known as super PACs, which by law can spend unlimited sums in politics. Since ...

At the time, the twins called the former president "pro-bitcoin, pro-crypto, and pro-business." Records of these crypto donation figures were released just as Trump launched his own crypto banking ...

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler might be expected to leave his post with the new administration, regardless of who wins the election, but he is using his remaining time to maintain his focus on crypto.