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Congressional Committees With the Most Crypto Hearings on Record

Which parts of Congress have held hearings on crypto? This counts hearings since 2017 whose official title mentions bitcoin, crypto, digital assets, blockchain, stablecoins or similar, by committee, using the hearings the Government Publishing Office has printed and published. It is a floor, not a full count of every hearing held.

Data as of · 50 hearings with printed records on GovInfo, Jun 2017 to Apr 21, 2026 · newer hearings appear after a publishing lag

Illustration: 12 congressional committees ranked by crypto-titled hearings with a printed record on GovInfo, 50 hearings in all.
Congressional Committees With the Most Crypto Hearings on Record, data as of 2026-10-22
Rank Committee Chamber Hearings First held Latest held Most recent hearing
1 House Financial Services House 22 Jun 8, 2017 Jun 4, 2025 American Innovation And The Future Of Digital Assets: From Blueprint To A Functional Frame…
2 Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Senate 10 Feb 6, 2018 Feb 14, 2023 Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards Are Needed For Digital Assets
3 House Agriculture House 6 Jul 18, 2018 Apr 9, 2025 American Innovation And The Future Of Digital Assets
4 Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Senate 2 Feb 15, 2018 Feb 9, 2022 Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, And Innovation
4 House Energy and Commerce House 2 Jan 20, 2022 Jun 7, 2023 Building Blockchains: Exploring Web 3 And Other Applications For Distributed Ledger Techno…
4 House Homeland Security House 2 Jun 9, 2022 Apr 21, 2026 Online Scams, Crypto Fraud, And Digital Extortion: An Examination Of How Transnational Cri…
4 House Science, Space, and Technology House 2 Feb 14, 2018 May 8, 2018 Leveraging Blockchain Technology To Improve Supply Chain Management And Combat Counterfeit…
8 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Senate 1 Aug 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 The Energy Efficiency Of Blockchain And Similar Technologies And The Cybersecurity Possibi…
8 Senate Environment and Public Works Senate 1 Mar 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 Air, Climate, And Environmental Impacts Of Crypto-Asset Mining: Legislative Hearing On S. …
8 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senate 1 Jun 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 Rising Threats: Ransomware Attacks And Ransom Payments Enabled By Cryptocurrency
8 Joint Economic Committee Joint 1 Nov 17, 2021 Nov 17, 2021 Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets And The Role Of Government
8 House Small Business House 1 Mar 4, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 Building Blocks Of Change: The Benefits Of Blockchain Technology For Small Businesses

Hearings = packages in GovInfo’s Congressional Hearings collection for the 115th to 119th Congress whose title contains bitcoin, cryptocurrency, crypto (not “cryptography”), digital asset(s), virtual currency, blockchain, stablecoin or CBDC; subcommittee hearings are counted under their full committee, and one joint hearing counts for both of its committees.1 GovInfo carries only hearings that were printed, and printing lags, so the counts are a floor: many hearings, especially Senate ones, have no printed record there, and the latest hearing in the collection overall is later than the latest crypto one shown. Titles that mention crypto only in the text, not the title, are not counted. Ranks are by count, and ties share a rank.

The top 8

Crypto legislation and oversight in Congress runs mainly through the House Financial Services Committee, which handles banking and securities, and through the agriculture committees, which oversee the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the regulator of commodity markets. For the bills themselves, see federal bitcoin and digital-asset bills.

#1

House Financial Services

22 hearings

House Financial Services has 22 crypto-titled hearings with a printed record on GovInfo, the first held Jun 8, 2017 and the latest Jun 4, 2025.1 Most recent three: “American Innovation And The Future Of Digital Assets: From Blueprint To A Functional Framework--Day 1” (Jun 4, 2025); “American Innovation And The Future Of Digital Assets Aligning The U.S. Securities Laws For The Digital Age” (Apr 9, 2025); “Navigating The Digital Payments Ecosystem: Examining A Federal Framework For Payment Stablecoins And Consequen…” (Mar 11, 2025).

#2

Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

10 hearings

Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has 10 crypto-titled hearings with a printed record on GovInfo, the first held Feb 6, 2018 and the latest Feb 14, 2023.1 Most recent three: “Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards Are Needed For Digital Assets” (Feb 14, 2023); “Crypto Crash: Why The Ftx Bubble Burst And The Harm To Consumers” (Dec 14, 2022); “Protecting Investors And Savers: Understanding Scams And Risks In Crypto And Securities Markets” (Jul 28, 2022).

Sources

  1. U.S. Government Publishing Office, GovInfo: Congressional Hearings (CHRG), 115th to 119th Congress (January 2017 to date); title, held date and committee read from each package’s metadata record, retrieved 2026-10-22. Only hearings with a printed record on GovInfo are included.

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