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The digital assets advocacy group Stand With Crypto grew by 675,000 online signups last year, reaching about 2.6 million in the U.S. as the country heads toward its 2026 congressional elections.
The group has been deploying its members into political letter-writing campaigns to support U.S. crypto legislation, totaling 925,000 in 2025 and more than a million emails since its founding, according to a Thursday report shared with CoinDesk. It now has chapters in every state, the group said, and it's organized four fly-ins to Washington to directly engage in policy efforts.
In October, it announced it had coordinated 250,000 letters to lawmakers to counter Wall Street bank lobbying that's sought to re-open the stablecoin yield stance in the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. That argument over whether the dollar-based tokens should be able to offer yield to users has marked a fundamental dispute between the crypto sector and banks. Bankers see it as a threat to their core deposit-taking business, and digital assets platforms want to offer incentives for customers to utilize their businesses.
Coinbase set up Stand With Crypto in 2023 and funded its initial activity, and it remains a partner and donor alongside other companies, such as Kraken, Gemini, Anchorage Digital and Paradigm, in addition to donations from members. Since its founding, U.S. voters have increasingly seen crypto as an important political topic that shapes their thinking about candidates, according to polling in the past couple of years. One of the organization's most high-profile efforts is the grading of U.S. politicians along lines of crypto support. Congress' midterm elections are approaching in November, and lawmakers are likely to have further opportunities in the coming months to make decisions to advance or resist crypto legislation.
Two months ago, Stand With Crypto launched its 2026 candidate questionnaire that's intended to evaluate candidates in federal and state races. Its results, expected to be released early this year, will direct how the organization is deployed in the elections.
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