Federal Election Commission filings show that Protect Progress PAC, an affiliate of crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake, had spent more than $986,000 as of Tuesday to back incumbent Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District and oppose challenger Donavan McKinney. The spending came in the two weeks before the Aug. 4 Democratic primary, which will determine the party’s candidate for the November election. Protect Progress PAC had also spent about $1 million to support Thanedar in 2024, when he won 54.9% of the Democratic primary vote and 68.6% in the November election. Fairshake and its affiliated groups have reported a $191 million war chest for key elections. Other crypto-linked PACs named in the filing include Fellowship, backed by Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital, and the Blockchain Leadership Fund, backed by Anchorage and Chainlink Labs. Protect Progress PAC also spent more than $100,000 to support Rep. Greg Stanton in Arizona, while Defend American Jobs PAC spent more than $65,000 backing Republican candidate Amanda McKinney in Washington’s 4th District.

Fellowship PAC disclosed its first federal election spending, paying $300,000 to Nxum Group LLC to support Georgia House candidate Clay Fuller. The PAC has multiple ties to Tether’s U.S. operations.

Federal Election Commission filings, cited by CryptoSlate, show that the Winklevoss twins donated about $10.018 million worth of Bitcoin to MAGA Inc., a super PAC tied to Donald Trump, on June 19. The filing also says the committee sold the donated Bitcoin through Gemini. The contribution came 23 days after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission joined Gemini’s request to remove parts of a 2025 judgment. In that filing, the CFTC said that under current enforcement standards, its complaint against Gemini would not be brought, and noted both that Gemini was itself a victim of fraud and that federal digital asset policy had changed. The parties also asked the court to lift a permanent injunction, though the $5 million civil penalty already paid by Gemini would not be returned. The disclosures connect a major crypto-denominated political donation with a parallel shift in the regulatory posture around Gemini.

Anthropic filed FEC documents on April 3, 2026 to establish AnthroPAC, its first employee-funded political action committee with a $5,000 annual contribution cap. The move follows a $20 million pledge to Public First Action and a legal battle with the Pentagon over AI use in autonomous weapons. AI industry midterm spending has reached $185 million.

Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI autonomously discovered thousands of critical zero-day vulnerabilities in major OSes and browsers, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg, prompting the launch of Project Glasswing with up to $100 million in defensive AI credits.

The $11 trillion asset manager Vanguard Group has reversed its long-standing skepticism and now permits trading of crypto ETFs and mutual funds linked to BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, HBAR, and LTC. The move affects more than 50 million investors and triggered a 6% surge in Bitcoin on the first day.

Vanguard now allows trading of crypto ETFs and mutual funds for BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, HBAR, LTC, impacting over 50 million investors. This marks a major policy shift for the $11 trillion asset manager.

Vanguard Group, managing $11 trillion, now allows trading of crypto ETFs and mutual funds linked to BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, HBAR, and LTC. Over 50 million investors gain exposure, triggering a 6% Bitcoin surge as analysts call it the 'Vanguard Effect'.