California House District 16 election

Spending by cryptocurrency-focused PACs

General electionUpcoming on November 3, 2026

Sam Liccardo (D, incumbent)	No cryptocurrency-focused PACs have made expenditures pertaining to this specific race.
Peter Soule (R)

Non-partisan primaryHeld on June 2, 2026

Sam Liccardo (D, incumbent)	No cryptocurrency-focused PACs made expenditures pertaining to this specific race.
Peter Soule (R)
Kevin Johnson (R)

Money involved in this election

Spending by crypto-focused committees

No cryptocurrency industry committees have made expenditures involving this election.

Other spending from the industry

Cryptocurrency-related companies and individuals associated with the industry have also supported candidates in this race more directly without going through industry-focused PACs. Direct contributions are not tied to a specific sub-race.

Sam Liccardo (D)

$131,300 total from 12 cryptocurrency companies and associated people

By contributor

Khosla Ventures

21%

Robinhood

21%

Xapo Bank

14%

Khosla Ventures$28,000

Vinod Khosla (Founder)$14,000.00
Samir Kaul (Partner)$14,000.00

Robinhood$28,000

Vlad Tenev (CEO)$13,000.00
Robinhood Markets, Inc.$10,000.00
Jason Warnick (Chief Financial Officer)$5,000.00

Xapo Bank$18,200

Wences Casares (Business Owner)$18,200.00 via Liccardo Victory Fund

Coinbase$11,500

Jesse Pollak (Vice President of Engineering)$3,500.00
Brian Armstrong (CEO)$3,500.00
Emilie Choi (President)$3,500.00
Coinbase, Inc.$1,000.00

Electric Capital Partners$10,500

Avichal Garg (Co-Founder)$10,500.00

Kalshi$7,000

Tarek Mansour (Founder & CEO)$7,000.00

Paxos$7,000

Charles Cascarilla (CEO)$7,000.00

PayPal$7,000

Kausik Rajgopal (Executive)$7,000.00

Paradigm$6,600

Fred Ehrsam (Founder)$6,600.00

Stripe$5,000

Stripe Inc. Political Action Committee$5,000.00

Circle Internet Financial$1,500

Circle Internet Group, Inc.$1,500.00

Galaxy Digital$1,000

Galaxy Digital Services II LLC Political Action Committee (Galaxy Digital PAC),$1,000.00

Other support to a candidate may exceed the amounts shown in the “Money involved in this election” chart if funds have been contributed to a super PAC aligned with a candidate, but the PAC has not yet spent the funds.

No cryptocurrency-focused PACs have run any known ads related to this election.

These are mostly tracked by hand, and so some advertisements may be missing. Have you seen a cryptocurrency PAC-funded advertisement pertaining to this election? Send it in!

California House District 16 election

General electionUpcoming on November 3, 2026

Non-partisan primaryHeld on June 2, 2026

Money involved in this election

Spending by crypto-focused committees

Other spending from the industry

Sam Liccardo (D)

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General electionUpcoming on November 3, 2026

Non-partisan primaryHeld on June 2, 2026

Sam Liccardo (D)