Trump to host Coinbase, Ripple, and other crypto executives at White House meeting

President Donald Trump is expected to host crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House on August 19, 2026. The meeting, featuring leaders from Coinbase, Ripple, and Kalshi, serves as a precursor to the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee launch on August 20. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig will attend. This comes as the CLARITY Act faces a September 15 Senate cloture vote, with prediction markets pricing its 2026 passage odds at under 20%.

White House crypto meeting attendees

• ▪President Donald Trump is expected to host a meeting with cryptocurrency and prediction-market executives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
• ▪Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are potential attendees at the August 19, 2026 White House meeting.
• ▪Expected attendees at the August 19, 2026 White House meeting include executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket, Kalshi, Andreessen Horowitz, Chainlink, Paradigm, and the Digital Chamber.
• ▪Invitations for the August 19, 2026 White House meeting were also extended to executives from Kraken, the New York Stock Exchange, and Nasdaq.

SEC regulatory participation

• ▪Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins is confirmed to attend the August 19, 2026 White House meeting, as confirmed by an agency spokesperson.
• ▪The Securities and Exchange Commission canceled an August 14, 2026 open meeting that was scheduled to consider a proposed offering framework for certain crypto-related investment contracts.

CFTC regulatory participation

• ▪The Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently used its emergency authority to order prediction-market platform Kalshi to keep operating in New York after the state attorney general sued to shut it down.
• ▪Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig is expected to participate in the August 19, 2026 White House meeting.

CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee launch

• ▪The August 20, 2026 Commodity Futures Trading Commission Innovation Advisory Committee meeting will feature panels on crypto regulation, artificial intelligence in trading, and prediction markets.
• ▪The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Innovation Advisory Committee is scheduled to hold its inaugural three-hour meeting in Washington on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
• ▪The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Innovation Advisory Committee consists of 35 members, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.

CLARITY Act Senate status

• ▪Progress on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has been delayed in part due to ongoing deliberations over ethics provisions that would limit President Donald Trump's personal involvement in the cryptocurrency industry.
• ▪The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act requires at least 60 Senate votes to clear cloture, meaning it needs bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats to proceed.
• ▪Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi price the probability of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passing into law in 2026 at approximately 19% to 20% as of mid-August 2026.
• ▪Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed with the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with a procedural vote scheduled for September 15, 2026.

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