Stand With Crypto, the advocacy group Coinbase launched in 2023, endorsed 32 candidates for US House seats on Monday, a move aimed at shaping digital asset policy in the next Congress.
The slate arrives just over two months before the US general election. It is the group’s largest midterm commitment to date. Stand With Crypto said it backed politicians it considers “proven digital asset policy champions,” targeting competitive races “where Stand With Crypto advocate numbers are most likely to influence outcomes,” according to the announcement.
In practice, that means concentrating volunteer pressure and voter outreach on races the group believes it can tip rather than running a broad national slate. The endorsements are advisory. The organization does not bundle contributions itself, though allied PACs have. During the 2024 cycle, organizations and PACs backed by crypto companies spent more than $170 million supporting candidates they considered favorable to the industry, many of whom won. The group said more than 270 “pro-crypto” candidates were sent to Congress in 2025.
The timing is deliberate. The House passed the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act with bipartisan support in July 2025, but the bill has since stalled in the Senate. Debate there has turned to ethics questions, tokenization and stablecoin rewards. A cloture motion is scheduled once the Senate returns from recess on Sept. 15. From there, the chamber has only 14 days in session before breaking ahead of the November election. After the midterms, the Senate would have 22 days before 2027 to return the bill to the House.
That calendar is new territory. The same Congress that took up CLARITY could pass it in a lame-duck window or leave it for the next session, depending on how the midterms reshape committee chairs and vote margins.
Mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, framed the endorsements as pressure on that timeline. “Crypto Voters have become a durable, motivated voting bloc, which has the potential to swing key congressional races in the midterms,” Lynaugh said in a statement. He added that candidates “overlook Crypto Voters at their own peril.”
The endorsement process began earlier this year. In March, Stand With Crypto announced six candidates in its first tranche, three Republicans and three Democrats, all of whom advanced from their primaries to the November ballot. The party breakdown of the full 32-candidate slate was not specified in the announcement.
The push also arrives amid a broader political fight over the industry’s proximity to the executive branch. Last week, President Donald Trump stood alongside several crypto chief executives and urged the Senate to pass a “fair version” of CLARITY. A recent poll found a majority of Americans calling the Trump family’s crypto investments not “appropriate,” a signal that crypto’s political branding is not uniformly positive even as industry spending climbs.
Stand With Crypto has not said whether further endorsements are expected beyond the 32. The group rates politicians on their crypto-friendliness and says it aims to elect the most pro-crypto Congress in history.
