Crypto companies like Ripple, Coinbase and others donate $189 million for the US midterm elections

According to Public Citizen data, Ripple, Coinbase, and other crypto companies contributed $189 million to the 2026 US midterm elections. In total, crypto companies account for 517 percent of the $37 billion corporate political donations.

Previously, during the 2024 US election, the crypto industry donated about $160 million in political donations. After the Trump administration came to power, the crypto industry sped up lobbying to consolidate the results of regulatory deregulation.