Democratic Crypto Supporters Call for Crypto-Friendly Party Platform

More than a dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and a long list of candidates for congressional seats are pushing their national committee to adopt a pro-crypto stance, according to a letter they sent on Saturday.

Lawmakers including Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and others signed the letter requesting a "forward-looking approach" to digital assets, asking their party to add supportive language to the official platform, pick a vice-presidential candidate who favors crypto and replacing Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler with an agency chief that supports crypto.