FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2026
CONTACT: Jarice Thompson, jarice@ourfinancialsecurity.org
New Poll Reveals Republicans, Democrats, and Independents Agree that Crypto Needs Strong Regulations
Washington, D.C. — A new poll shows that voters across party lines are concerned about the crypto industry’s influence in Washington, and worried that legislation shaped by crypto donations will enrich the industry at the public’s expense. The poll was commissioned by Americans for Financial Reform and the Center for Responsible Lending and completed by a bipartisan polling team from Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting.
“Voters have seen serious crypto corruption and high ranking government officials raking in profits while everyday people experience crypto-fueled losses and scams,” said Mark Hays, associate director of crypto and fintech at Americans for Financial Reform and Demand Progress Action. “Voters want crypto to have to play by the same kinds of rules as other financial companies, not dictate special privileges for itself.”
Key findings from poll:
- A large majority of voters think crypto has too much influence in Washington and are deeply concerned about the impact of that influence.
- Nearly nine in ten Democrats (89%) and three quarters of independents and Republicans are concerned about the dangers of laws about crypto shaped by campaign donations from the crypto industry.
- After reading head-to-head arguments about cryptocurrency, voters are more likely to agree that crypto is an unregulated unstable market that needs sensible regulation, versus an argument that crypto is a promising innovation that shouldn’t be regulated like conventional banking.
- 62% of voters said they were less likely to support a candidate who takes a lot of money from the crypto industry; 46% said they were much less likely to do so. Only 9% of voters said they would be more likely to support such a candidate.
The crypto industry and its allies in Congress are pushing for a vote on the CLARITY Act on the Senate floor. The bill as currently written contains no provisions to address the corruption or conflicts of interest that the industry is known for.
Read the polling memo here. Read the poll results by party affiliation and by gender and age here.
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