Do Members of Congress Trade Crypto?

Every member with a crypto trade

A member of Congress who buys or sells a security or other investment asset worth more than $1,000 has to report it within 45 days, and that includes cryptocurrency. House reports mark a coin with the asset code [CT]. The table lists every member with a crypto-linked transaction on the reports Coldpine has on file, split into coins held directly, spot crypto funds and crypto-company stocks. Trades in a spouse’s or dependent child’s account go on the member’s report and count for the member.

Coins held directly

9 members reported buying or selling a coin itself: 50 purchases and 16 sales. Bitcoin is the most common, 16 transactions from 6 members, then ether, 14 transactions from 2 members. The other 36 are smaller tokens. Michael A. Collins accounts for 63.6% of the coin transactions on file, so most of the coin record is one member’s. Of the 11 members who traded coins or crypto funds, Brandon Gill reported the largest purchases, in ranges adding up to $1.22 million to $2.75 million.

Spot crypto funds

Exchange-traded funds that hold bitcoin or ether trade like a stock, so a member can own crypto exposure in an ordinary brokerage account. Marjorie Taylor Greene (6), Brandon Gill (2) and Sheri Biggs (1) reported 9 transactions in these funds, such as IBIT, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust: 9 purchases and 0 sales.

Crypto-company stocks

Shares in companies whose business is crypto (an exchange, a bitcoin treasury company and bitcoin miners) are a third route. Rohit Khanna (9), Shri Thanedar (3), Tim Moore (2), Alan Armstrong (1), Garret Graves (1), Neal Patrick Dunn (1) and Rob Bresnahan (1) reported 18 transactions in them: 9 purchases and 9 sales. The stocks counted are Coinbase, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and three bitcoin miners. A crypto-company stock is still a stock, and its price moves with the company as well as with crypto.

By party and over the last year

Republicans reported 76 of the 93 crypto-linked transactions (13 members) and Democrats 17 (4 members). Set Michael A. Collins aside and the count is 34 Republican to 17 Democratic. On reports filed in the last 365 days, 11 members disclosed 21 transactions. Who trades the most across every asset is in the most active stock traders in Congress.

What this does and does not show

These are reported transactions, not holdings. A member who bought bitcoin before taking office and has not sold files no periodic transaction report for it, and coins held at the start of a term appear only on the annual financial disclosure, which this count does not use. Amounts are reported in ranges, so the sums above are a floor and a ceiling, not a figure. Reporting a trade is what the law requires, and none of these counts is evidence of wrongdoing by any member.

Methodology and honest caveats

The figures cover periodic transaction reports filed from January 1, 2023 through October 29, 2026. Coldpine’s House record goes back to January 2023, but its Senate record begins with reports filed in January 2026, so a senator’s earlier crypto trades are not counted. A coin counts when the House asset code is [CT] or the asset is a named coin (bitcoin, ether, litecoin, cardano, solana, ripple, dogecoin) rather than a fund or company. Spot crypto funds are IBIT, FBTC, GBTC, BITO, ARKB, BITB, HODL, BTCO, EZBC, BRRR, BTCW, BITX, ETHA, ETHE and FETH. Crypto-company stocks are COIN, MSTR, MARA, RIOT and CLSK; brokers such as Robinhood, and miners that have moved mainly into hosting AI computing, are left out. A ticker alone is not enough: SUI is both a coin and the stock of Sun Communities, so a coin is identified by the asset’s name or code, never by its symbol. Each member is counted once, and a member who appears under two spellings, or who moved from the House to the Senate, is counted once. How we parse filings is set out in our methodology. Figures are computed live and update as new filings arrive, so they may differ from the ones quoted the day this was published.