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Crypto capital backs Reform UK with $97 million in back-to-back donations

9/13/2026

Digital-asset wealth made one of its most concentrated entries into British political finance with a pair of donations totaling $97 million.

Ben Delo, co-founder of the crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party. Christopher Harborne, a fellow crypto billionaire, matched that figure a day later.

The sequencing is part of the story. Delo committed almost $50 million first; Harborne's matching donation followed a day later.

Two donors from the same sector directed their capital at one party inside a 24-hour window.

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