Ripple's Garlinghouse Says Crypto Backers Won on Both Sides of the Aisle

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is calling it: crypto's political stock just went up. In a post flagged by Cointelegraph, he said pro-crypto members won on both sides of the aisle, framing the results as a cross-party win rather than a one-sided affair. He didn't stop at the scoreboard, either.

Garlinghouse paired the claim with a number: 67 million Americans use crypto, and that figure is still climbing. His message to Washington was blunt — those users, in his words, aren't going anywhere. It's the kind of line that reads less like a victory lap and more like a headcount for future fights.

The Ripple chief has spent years in the middle of US crypto policy battles, with his company's long-running legal clash with the SEC making it a fixture in the debate over how digital assets get regulated. So when Garlinghouse talks about which lawmakers won, he's speaking as someone with plenty riding on the answer.

Garlinghouse isn't naming names or mapping out legislation here — the takeaway is simpler. Pro-crypto candidates, in his telling, picked up seats across party lines, and he wants that read on the record while the results are fresh. The quote landed via Cointelegraph's account on X.

For crypto watchers, the subtext is the size of the bloc. Sixty-seven million users is an electorate-sized number, and Garlinghouse is treating it as leverage that outlasts any single election cycle. Whether lawmakers respond in kind is the next thing to watch.