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Winklevoss Twins Seed Pro-Trump Crypto PAC With $21 Million in Bitcoin

The new Digital Freedom Fund stakes out a partisan strategy in a field long billed as bipartisan.

Overview

  • Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss donated 188.4547 BTC (about $21 million) to launch the Digital Freedom Fund to back President Trump’s crypto agenda and support Republican candidates in the 2026 primaries and midterms.
  • The PAC says it will push a “skinny” market-structure bill designed to avoid overlapping SEC and CFTC oversight and to keep compliance burdens low for builders.
  • Its platform includes opposing a U.S. central bank digital currency and advancing a Bitcoin & Crypto Bill of Rights that protects ownership, self-custody, and peer-to-peer transactions.
  • The group also calls for legal protections for software developers and fair banking access, and it voices support for the SEC’s Project Crypto and the CFTC’s Crypto Sprint.
  • Federal Election Commission filings show the committee was formed recently and has not yet disclosed additional donors, highlighting a contrast with larger bipartisan efforts such as Fairshake.