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Lobbying client · Delaware · filed 2025 to 2026

Cryptocurrency and scale global payouts

$415,000 Reported spend

11 Filings counted

2 Outside firms hired

0 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 11 filings. 2 further filings for this client were restated by a later amendment and are left out of every total here. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

Who filed for this client 2

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS $350,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC $65,000 Outside firm · 5 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $280,000 6 filings
2025 $135,000 5 filings

Issues lobbied 1

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities 5

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 3

Treasury, Dept of 3
White House Office 3
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) 1

Recent filings 13 total

Q3 report

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · $80,000 income · posted Oct 18, 2026

View → Q3 termination

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · $9,000 income · posted Oct 14, 2026

View → Q2 report

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · $9,000 income · posted Aug 7, 2026

View → Q2 report

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · $80,000 income · posted Jul 16, 2026

View → Q1 report

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · $22,000 income · posted May 21, 2026

View → Q1 report

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · $80,000 income · posted Apr 17, 2026

View → Q4 reportNo activity

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · $80,000 income · posted Jan 20, 2026

View → Q4 amendment

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · $25,000 income · posted Jan 14, 2026

View → Q4 report

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC Amended

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · $30,000 income · posted Jan 14, 2026

View → Q3 amendmentNo activity

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · $30,000 income · posted Oct 24, 2025

View → Q3 reportNo activity

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Amended

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · $25,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2025

View → Registration

TERRAPIN STRATEGY, INC

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · posted Oct 13, 2025

View → Registration

CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · posted Sep 16, 2025

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Filings through October 18, 2026, the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.