President Donald Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting with crypto CEOs. The administration’s new Innovation Advisory Committee at the CFTC includes the chief executives of Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi, and the committee roster also includes leaders of CME Group, Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange as well as Frank La Salle of DTCC; membership includes leaders from prediction market and artificial intelligence companies. The meeting will be held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.
The meeting will be held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig is listed on the committee roster, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick are noted as possible attendees. The Innovation Advisory Committee’s roster also includes leaders from CME Group, Nasdaq and the Intercontinental Exchange, and it names Frank La Salle of DTCC.
The above summarizes the publicly reported participants and the meeting location. The summary does not address the meeting agenda or potential outcomes.
The Thursday afternoon meeting at the CFTC will dig into the Innovation Advisory Committee’s innovation agenda, with an opening session titled ‘Crypto’s Regulatory Evolution: From Uncertainty to Clarity.’ Discussion topics listed for the meeting include ‘the remaining challenges to a durable federal market structure.’ The agenda is organized around regulatory evolution and federal market structure, and planned sessions will examine the committee’s innovation priorities. The schedule frames these sessions under titles and topic prompts that address regulatory clarity and market framework issues.
The above summarizes the publicly reported agenda items for the Thursday CFTC meeting. The summary does not address potential outcomes or attendee details.
The White House and President Donald Trump have been mired in debate over advancing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act through final votes in the U.S. Senate. The debate has centered on advancing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to final Senate votes as it relates to the crypto industry. Further legislative action on the measure may depend on ethics restrictions noted in the reporting.
Those debates frame the legislative context surrounding the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Ethics restrictions are noted as a potential influence on whether the bill moves forward.
The White House meeting with crypto CEOs and Innovation Advisory Committee members functions as a central platform for discussing regulatory clarity and the federal market-structure challenges confronting crypto markets. By bringing the committee’s innovation agenda and regulatory-evolution topics into a focused forum, the gathering provides a setting for addressing remaining questions about how federal market structure can be made more durable.
