Rulemaking · CFTC · Dec 16, 2025

Withdrawal of Interpretive Guidance: Retail Commodity Transactions Involving Certain Digital Assets

Docket or bill: 2025-22872
Official record: https://www.regulations.gov/document/CFTC-2025-0939-0001
Tracked as: Withdrawal of Interpretive Guidance: Retail Commodity Transactions Involving Certain Digital Assets
Issued by: Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Traceable spending around this event

Tracked direct contributions from crypto donors to candidates in the year before the event, with transfers to PACs and parties and independent expenditures reported apart, and lobbying on FIN issue codes in the surrounding window. These are partial, tracked figures scoped to a window, not totals for the industry. Independent expenditures are spent for or against candidates, not given to them, and are never added to the giving figures.

Giving window: Dec 16, 2024 – Dec 16, 2025. Donation records in this database currently run through Oct 20, 2026; lobbying filings through 2026. Figures computed Oct 29, 2026.

Tracked direct giving to candidates (crypto)

0 contributions to person recipients

Transfers to PACs and parties (crypto)

$35,004,500

6 contributions to non-person recipients

IE support

0 independent expenditures for candidates

IE oppose

0 independent expenditures against candidates

Lobbying (FIN)

$1,039,911,445

2,716 filings, whole-filing LDA totals

Positions on record

none recorded

Tracked direct giving to candidates (crypto)$0

Transfers to PACs and parties$35,004,500

Lobbying (FIN)$1,039,911,445

Giving to candidates, transfers to PACs, independent expenditures and lobbying are separate figures and are not summed.

Positions

No entity positions are recorded for this event yet. Positions are shown only where an entity has a cited stance on the record. Stances inferred from donations are not shown.

Top lobbying on these issues

Clients with the most reported lobbying spend on FIN issue codes in the window around the event. Lobbying reports cover multiple issues, so spend is not attributable to this event alone.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.$144,750,000 · 8 filings
Boeing$23,270,000 · 8 filings
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$14,740,000 · 1 filings
NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL INC$13,250,000 · 6 filings
AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION$12,430,000 · 7 filings
KOCH GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC$12,330,000 · 5 filings
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS$11,352,932 · 8 filings
REAL ESTATE ROUNDTABLE$10,879,342 · 23 filings

Figures are drawn from tracked FEC donations and Senate LDA lobbying disclosures held in this database. See the methodology for how spending is scoped to an event window. The spending shown is publicly disclosed, and no violation of law is alleged. Its timing does not establish that any spending caused the outcome.