Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is grabbing headlines for an upcoming Super Bowl ad campaign and a Tom Brady endorsement deal, a sign of the digital currency industry’s increasingly mainstream ambitions. But the company’s executives are quietly emerging as crypto kingmakers in the nation’s capital as they spend millions to launch super PACs, bankroll congressional campaigns and recruit former government officials with an inside track on looming crypto regulations.
“I care about policy more than politics,” Bankman-Fried said in an interview crammed between meetings on Capitol Hill. “As the industry and our firm gets a higher profile, I think it becomes more and more important for us to be engaging with policymakers in D.C.”
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