Crypto’s Big Loser: Illinois Shock, $221M Still Standing!

Fairshake, the industry-backed super PAC with more cash than a Wall Street bank vault, poured $10 million into ads branding Stratton as “anti-innovation,” a charge so flimsy it would crumble under the weight of a single cryptocurrency ETF. Yet, local political muscle-think Governor JB Pritzker’s endorsement and a chorus of endorsements from Illinois’ most distinguished citizens-proved mightier than crypto’s gilded promises. One can only imagine the existential crisis of a PAC that spent $191 million on a race it still claims to have “won.”
![Discretization error overwhelmingly dominates performance at high tail percentiles, evidenced by a [latex]146K[/latex] error at the 90th percentile, while a quantum advantage of 2-2.5× emerges in oracle-model comparisons only at the 95th and 97th percentiles, suggesting a narrow operating regime for quantum benefit.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.15664v1/plot_exp4_tail.png)




