{"id":584221,"date":"2026-04-15T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/crypto-pac-fellowship-discloses-11m-from-cantor-fitzgerald-and-anchorage-digital\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:53:03","slug":"crypto-pac-fellowship-discloses-11m-from-cantor-fitzgerald-and-anchorage-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/crypto-pac-fellowship-discloses-11m-from-cantor-fitzgerald-and-anchorage-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto PAC Fellowship discloses $11M from Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDkyZGQtOGY3My03NTZkLWI3MmUtODQ1NDhkMzhlMzBlLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto PAC Fellowship discloses $11M from Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The committee, led by Tether\u2019s head of government affairs, reported spending $3 million on advertising through a company co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines.<\/p>\n<p>The latest filing by the crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) headed by stablecoin issuer Tether\u2019s head of government affairs shows $11 million in contributions from financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday filing with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Fellowship PAC <a title=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00915181\/1963591\/\" href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00915181\/1963591\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">revealed<\/a> it had received $10 million from financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchor Labs, the company behind the crypto bank Anchorage Digital. The January 2026 contributions came amid $3 million in spending by the PAC for \u201cissue advocacy advertising\u201d with the Nxum Group, a marketing company co-founded by former White House crypto adviser and Tether US CEO Bo Hines.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the significant contributions from Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage, Fellowship initially <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-backers-political-action-committee-100\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-backers-political-action-committee-100\">claimed to have<\/a> \u201cover $100 million\u201d from undisclosed backers aligned with the crypto industry at its launch in September. FEC filings showed no receipts over $200 between Aug. 7, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2025, but did not necessarily include any contributions after March 31.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-pac-fellowship-discloses-11m-from-cantor-fitzgerald-and-anchorage-digital\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The committee, led by Tether\u2019s head of government affairs, reported spending $3 million on advertising through a company co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines. The latest filing by the crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) headed by stablecoin issuer Tether\u2019s head of government affairs shows $11 million in contributions from financial institutions. In a Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}