On October 24, 2024, Americans for Financial Reform along with Demand Progress partnered with Public Citizen to host a webinar entitled “Crypto Companies’ Unprecedented Election Spending”

The webinar featured commentary and analysis from experts and policy makers regarding the outsized spending by crypto billionaires and firms in this year’s election cycle, and the impact such spending has or may have on policy making and consumer financial protection.

Representative Summer Lee (D-PA) offered a keynote address for the event, and was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Vox reporter Whizy Kim. Mark Hays, Associate Director for Crypto and Fintech, was featured as a panelist alongside technologist and writer Molly White, and Rick Claypool, Research Director for Public Citizen.

Watch a full recording of the event here.