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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has sharply increased its investment in lobbying over the past two years. 
Binance and Binance.US spent more than $1 million lobbying politicians in 2023-2023, according to new data provided by <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2023&amp;id=D000103173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenSecrets</a>, a US non-profit that tracks political campaign donations. In total, Binance Holdings invested $850,000 in 2023, and Binance.US spent $340,000, both up significantly from the previous year. 
Binance.US led the way in spending last year by investing more than $1 million lobbying for Binance.US and just $50,000 for Binance worldwide, the report found. 
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These lobbying efforts in 2022 focused on two specific bills: the Digital Consumer Protection Act and the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act, the report says. 
However, Binance is not the only crypto company investing in fresh lobbying efforts: Coinbase has spent&nbsp;roughly twice as much as Binance, with more than $2.1 million spent in 2023, while Kraken spent&nbsp;about $888,000 on lobbying this year. 
In total, 56 companies <a href="https://crypto.news/coingecko-coinbase-tops-crypto-lobbying-spenders-in-2023/">have spent</a> an estimated $20 million on crypto lobbying in the U.S., with Coinbase leading among crypto companies, and just 10 companies contributing more than half of crypto’s total resources towards influence of government officials. 
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