In the second quarter of 2022, New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand received more than $150,000 in campaign contributions from the crypto industry.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Sam Bankman-Fried, head of the FTX bitcoin exchange, transferred $5,800, and the Cameron brothers and Tyler Winklevoss, the founders of the Gemini trading platform, $2,900 each.
Gillibrand’s donors also include FTX.US President Brett Harrison, Messari founder Ryan Selkis, Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla, Aptos CEO Mohammad Shaikh and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Multicoin Capital, Meta, Uniswap, dYdX and others. companies’ representatives.
Gillibrand is a co-sponsor of a bill introduced in June to regulate the crypto industry. The document introduces legal terminology for digital assets and virtual currencies, and also defines the powers of oversight agencies.
Recall that US Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis, another co-author of the bill, was supported by senior executives of a16z, Kraken, and other cryptocurrency companies and venture funds.
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