{"id":602706,"date":"2026-05-21T21:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/crypto-pac-backed-by-anchorage-and-chainlink-announces-endorsements-for-2026-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:52:46","slug":"crypto-pac-backed-by-anchorage-and-chainlink-announces-endorsements-for-2026-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/crypto-pac-backed-by-anchorage-and-chainlink-announces-endorsements-for-2026-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto PAC backed by Anchorage and Chainlink announces endorsements for 2026 midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto<\/p>\n

Federal Election Commission filings showed only $175,000 in contributions to the hybrid PAC, which could influence US voters through media buys before key elections in several states.<\/p>\n

A political action committee (PAC) that claimed to \u201csupport candidates working to advance digital asset and blockchain policy in the United States\u201d announced its picks for the 2026 election cycle, potentially influencing key races with money from the crypto industry.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday notice, the Blockchain Leadership Fund said<\/a> it had endorsed ten candidates for the 2026 US midterm elections, four in the Senate and six in the House of Representatives. Chainlink Labs and Anchorage Digital announced the launch of the PAC<\/a> in March amid other committees that spent heavily in the 2024 US election cycle, like Fairshake.<\/p>\n

The PAC\u2019s picks included Republicans Barry Moore, Kurt Alme and Jon Husted for US Senate races in Alabama, Montana and Ohio, respectively, and Houston Gaines, Jim Kingston and Jon Bonck for House runs in Georgia\u2019s 10th district, Georgia\u2019s 1st district and Texas\u2019 38th district, respectively. It will also support Democrats Angie Craig\u2019s run for the US Senate in Minnesota and Adrian Boafo, and Christian Menefee and Don Davis for House races in Maryland, Texas, and North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Federal Election Commission filings showed only $175,000 in contributions to the hybrid PAC, which could influence US voters through media buys before key elections in several states. A political action committee (PAC) that claimed to \u201csupport candidates working to advance digital asset and blockchain policy in the United States\u201d announced its picks for the 2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-602706","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\/602706","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=602706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}