Trump to meet Coinbase, Ripple and crypto leaders at White House

President Trump is scheduled to meet executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken and other crypto and prediction-market firms on Aug. 19 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig are expected to join the session. Representatives from Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi, plus venture firms and industry groups including Andreessen Horowitz, Chainlink, Paradigm and the Digital Chamber, are listed as attendees. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are also invited. Organizers have not released a final attendee list and the president’s participation has not been officially confirmed.

The meeting is positioned as a small-group precursor to the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the following day. The 35-person advisory panel will open on Aug. 20 with a session titled “Crypto’s Regulatory Evolution: From Uncertainty to Clarity,” to be led by CFTC Chairman Mike Selig. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are expected at the White House session, and executives from CME Group, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, including DTCC chief Frank La Salle, are likely to attend the advisory meeting.

Kalshi will arrive in Washington after recent regulatory developments. The CFTC ordered the platform to continue operating in New York after the state attorney general sought to shut it down, using the agency’s emergency authority to override the state action. The CFTC has also increased scrutiny of so-called “mention markets,” and in April brought an insider-trading enforcement action tied to event contracts.

Congress is on recess until September. The CLARITY Act, federal legislation that would set rules for digital assets, faces a Senate cloture vote on Sept. 15 and currently has a low probability of passage. With the bill’s future uncertain, the SEC and CFTC have been moving forward with regulatory work independently rather than waiting for new law.

The White House meeting and the CFTC advisory session are among several regulatory engagements in Washington this week meant to discuss how federal agencies will oversee token issuers, crypto exchanges and prediction-market operators and how those markets connect with traditional financial infrastructure.