Coinbase-backed crypto advocacy group endorses 32 US midterm candidates

Stand With Crypto's 2026 campaign builds on its 2024 effort, the first cycle that the group was active, Mason Lynaugh, executive director of Stand With Crypto, said in an interview.

"In 2024 we were very much proving that the crypto voter is real. In 2026 we're very much showing that we have the organizing capacity and that our advocates are a true voting bloc that can move the needle," said Lynaugh.

Coinbase launched Stand With Crypto in 2023 to jumpstart a grassroots advocacy campaign with the goal of advancing pro-crypto legislation. It aims to influence elections by organizing and mobilizing voters rather than through large campaign expenditures.

It says it has more than 3 million registered U.S. "advocates."