• Educate policymakers on Circles business model. Educate Members of Congress on stablecoin and cryptocurrency issues and legislation, including H.R.4763, the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act; H.R. 4766, the Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023, and S.2281, the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act.; and anti-money laundering legislation, including S.2355, the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement and Enforcement Act, and S.266, the Digital Asset Anti Money Laundering Act. Monitor cryptocurrency proposals.

Duration: October 4, 2021 to present

General Issues: Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Banking

Spending: about $960,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2021: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Treasury - Dept of, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)