A handful of crypto billionaires with extreme anti-democratic views stand to profit immensely from passage of the CLARITY Act – the massive deregulatory crypto bill poised for a Senate floor vote this year.
While touting crypto as a tool for financial freedom and inclusion, leading crypto industry figures celebrate anti-democratic ideas and are using crypto to push policies that entrench political and economic power in the hands of a wealthy few. These same crypto billionaires are a core pillar of support for President Trump, effectively enabling the President’s own authoritarian agenda. They have donated extensively to fund his campaigns and his vanity projects, played roles in his administration, and in some cases contributed to the profits of his family businesses.
A vote for CLARITY is a vote to enrich these oligarchs still further and to advance their agenda.
The CLARITY Act was drafted largely by and for the crypto industry and its leaders. They and the President are doing everything they can to make it become law. If it does, it will make these crypto billionaires even richer and more powerful, fueling their anti-democratic objectives, while funneling even more wealth to Trump allies and to other supporters of a less democratic America.
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The Top Crypto & Big Tech Billionaires
| The 25 Crypto & Big Tech Billionaires that will Gain from GENIUS & CLARITY Acts | ||
| Billionaire | Crypto or Corporate Affiliation | Forbes Net Worth in Billions* |
| Elon Musk | X | $402.40 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | Meta | $247.60 |
| Jeff Bezos | Amazon | $238.20 |
| Changpeng (CZ) Zhou | Binance | $67.50 |
| Giancarlo Devasini | Tether, Bitcoin | $22.40 |
| Peter Thiel | Palantir, Founders Fund (VC) | $22.10 |
| Pavel Durov | Telegram | $17.10 |
| Brian Armstrong | Coinbase, Ethereum | $16.10 |
| Michael Saylor | Strategy (fmr. MicroStrategy), Bitcoin | $10.90 |
| Jean-Louis van der Velde | Tether, Bitcoin | $9.50 |
| Paolo Ardoino | Tether | $9.50 |
| Chris Larsen | Ripple | $9.40 |
| Justin Sun | Tron, Polo Digital Assets | $8.50 |
| Stuart Hoegner | Tether | $6.20 |
| Donald Trump | $Trump, World Liberty Financial, Trump Media | $5.20 |
| Mike Novogratz | Galaxy Digital Holdings (VC) | $4.70 |
| Fred Ehrsam | Coinbase, Paradigm, Etereum | $4.20 |
| Cameron Winklevoss | Gemini | $4.20 |
| Tyler Winklevoss | Gemini | $4.20 |
| Jeremy Allaire | Circle | $3.50 |
| Tim Draper | Draper Fisher Jurvetson (VC) | $3.30 |
| Howard Lutnick | Sec. Commerce (fmr. Cantor Fitzgerald) | $3.30 |
| Jed McCaleb | Stellar, XRP | $2.90 |
| Matthew Roszak | Bloq, Bitcoin, Ethereum, VC | $2.80 |
| Marc Andreessen | Andreessen Horowitz (VC) | $2.00 |
*as of July 13, 2025