President Donald Trump is expected to host Coinbase, Ripple and other crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, kicking off a week of regulatory meetings in Washington.
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Trump is expected to meet Coinbase, Ripple and Kalshi executives at the White House on August 19.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC’s Mike Selig are expected to join as well.The CLARITY Act still faces a Senate cloture vote on September 15 with about a 19% passage chance.The gathering functions as a small-group precursor to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the next day. That 35-person panel convenes Thursday for an opening session titled “Crypto’s Regulatory Evolution: From Uncertainty to Clarity,” with CFTC Chairman Mike Selig running point on the agenda.
Wall Street and Crypto Share the RoomSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins is slated to appear, along with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Other attendees will likely include executives from CME Group, Nasdaq, Intercontinental Exchange and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) chief Frank La Salle.
The White House had not confirmed a final attendee list or published a formal agenda as of the reports, and Trump’s own participation, while expected, remained unofficial.
That said, Ripple’s presence alongside Coinbase, Gemini and Kalshi shows the administration courting both token issuers and prediction-market operators in the same conversation, while the addition of NYSE, Nasdaq and DTCC executives suggests Washington is treating crypto market structure as inseparable from mainstream market plumbing.
