Ripple, Coinbase Lead $189M Crypto Midterm Spending Push
The headline number is the sector's biggest midterms haul yet, but the concentration of funds behind Fairshake and a handful of issuers points to a more coordinated industry push than 2024.
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The headline number is the sector's biggest midterms haul yet, but the concentration of funds behind Fairshake and a handful of issuers points to a more coordinated industry push than 2024.
The $5.5M was the smallest line item in a $188.9M 2026 cycle war chest that has now placed crypto-friendly candidates in safe seats before market structure bills ever reach the House floor.
The win extends Fairshake-aligned victories past federal races into state-level Democratic primaries, signaling the industry's political infrastructure is durable enough to swing statehouse contests,…
The single-seat spend is the biggest Fairshake has made in a House race so far, and the broader primary haul shows the industry's campaign-finance muscle scaling ahead of a November it has already…
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The industry's $150M cash pile is reshaping the next Senate faster than it can deliver the market-structure bill that cash is supposed to buy.
Fairshake, the crypto industry's flagship super PAC, scored its most expensive primary win of the 2026 cycle on Tuesday…
The hybrid PAC's six-figure-per-race plan won't rival Fairshake's super-PAC firepower, but it sharpens the industry's strategy of rewarding incumbents who've already proven to be DeFi allies — a…
An 11-for-11 sweep across California, New Jersey and South Dakota, with Democrats taking 10 of 11 wins, shows the industry's political bet is now explicitly cross-aisle — designed to hold influence…
From FTX's collapse to $139M in 2024 cycle spending and a 2026 fund already larger than the industry's entire peak-year SEC defense — the sector that once begged for legitimacy now grades legislators…
Fairshake's $6.5M helped topple a House Financial Services Committee incumbent — and a new Tether-linked super PAC is now steering tens of millions toward Republicans, testing the sector's bipartisan…
The spend is real, but the structural read is bigger: a single industry is now able to swing incumbent-on-incumbent runoffs and Senate primaries, in both parties, inside one cycle.
Fairshake's Protect Progress helped flip a 20-year Democratic incumbent — the first casualty of the cycle for the anti-crypto wing of the party, with the PAC's $395M war chest now picking off more…
A clean primary night for the industry's flagship PAC is less about June vote totals than about locking in November general-election seats — and the spend shows the bid is now structural, not…