Kim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million in a crypto-related fine to the SEC. Here are other high-profile celebrities who have backed recent crypto ventures.

Matt Damon's first foray into cryptocurrency came with a Super Bowl commercial for Crypto.com earlier this year.

The commercial went viral for comparing cryptocurrency to some of humankind's greatest achievements, like the invention of the airplane or space exploration.

If people invested in crypto after seeing Damon's commercial when it first aired, their investment would be down significantly today.

Tom Brady regularly promotes cryptocurrency projects, even changing his profile picture on Twitter to the laser eyes meme, a symbolic way to show support for Bitcoin.

Brady co-founded an NFT agency called Autograph, which raised $170 million in Series B funding.

In April this year, Brady purchased a Bored Ape NFT, a favorite amongst celebrities, for $430,000.

In May of this year, FTX announced that Naomi Osaka would become an ambassador for the crypto exchange, joining other famous athletes like Tom Brady and Steph Curry.

Osaka now wears a patch with the company's name while playing professional tennis as part of the partnership.

Jimmy Fallon has been an enthusiastic backer of Bored Ape NFTs, even briefly changing his profile picture on Twitter to his Bored Ape avatar and discussing the NFTs on his NBC late-night talk show, "The Tonight Show." Fallon owns at least two other NFTs, as well.

Post Malone is another backer of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. Last fall, the musician purchased two Bored Apes for $700,000.

He featured the two Apes in the music video for his song "One Right Now" with The Weeknd.

This year, Larry David starred in a Superbowl commercial for FTX that hinted to viewers to invest in cryptocurrency.

After the price of crypto started collapsing, Jeff Schaffer, David's longtime collaborator and the director of the commercial, told the New York Times that neither he nor David knew much about crypto.

"Unfortunately, I don't think we'd have anything to add as we have no idea how cryptocurrency works (even after having it explained to us repeatedly), don't own it, and don't follow its market," he said. "We just set out to make a funny commercial!" he said.

Mayweather Jr. has promoted crypto for years, but more than once, he found himself in hot water for his promotional methods.

CNN reports that the pro-boxer was sued along with Kim Kardashian for his promotion of EthereumMax, though a settlement for his participation has not yet been announced.

In 2018, Mayweather Jr. agreed to pay the SEC more than $600,000 in fines for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting several ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings.

Steph Curry has starred in commercials for FTX as an ambassador for the exchange.

Last year, Curry told Bloomberg that he believed crypto could be leveraged for economic opportunity and social mobility.

Curry also owns a Bored Ape NFT, which he bought for $180,000 last summer.

LeBron James and the LeBron James Family Foundation announced a multi-year partnership with Crypto.com earlier this year. James starred in a commercial for the company, in which he had a conversation with his younger self about the future.

Snoop Dogg entered the world of crypto early.

He embraced Bitcoin back in 2013, tweeting, "My next record available in bitcoin n delivered in a drone."

Earlier this year, the musician announced that he planned to turn Death Row Records, a record label he bought earlier this year, into an "NFT label."

Earlier this year, Madonna teamed up with Beeple, the digital artist whose NFT sold for $69 million in an auction, to release a graphic NFT collection that includes NSFW images of the Queen of Pop giving birth to a tree.

The images, which were auctioned in May amid the collapse in crypto prices, sold for significantly less than expected, according to the New York Post.

Paris Hilton went all in on NFTs during the past two years, but she has invested in crypto for years.

In April 2021, Hilton launched her own NFT collection, with one selling for over $1.11 million, according to CNBC.

Hilton once told The Guardian that she owns more than 150 NFTs.

In January, Fortune reported that Kaling signed on to become an "entertainment advisor" to notable cryptocurrency investor Katie Haun.

Kaling also invests in bitcoin mining company TeraWulf.

In January of this year, Bieber purchased a Bored Ape NFT for $1.29 million, well higher than the asking price, according to Bitcoin.com.

Bieber is also an investor in crypto fintech startup MoonPay, which also counts Gwyneth Paltrow, Snoop Dogg, and Ashton Kutcher as stakeholders.