President Trump is set to meet with executives from crypto and prediction-market firms at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, according to multiple reports. Expected attendees include leadership from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple and Chainlink, alongside prediction-market platform Kalshi, investment firm Paradigm and industry trade group the Digital Chamber.
CFTC Chair Mike Selig and SEC Chair Paul Atkins are also expected to be present, though the White House had not released a formal agenda or confirmed attendee list at the time the meeting was reported. The gathering underscores how closely the administration continues to coordinate directly with industry leadership on digital-asset policy.
Timed a Day Ahead of a Key CFTC Meeting
The White House session falls one day before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's first-ever advisory meeting dedicated to crypto and prediction markets, scheduled for August 20. The timing has drawn attention because it comes as prediction markets tracking the odds of the CLARITY Act — the primary market-structure bill working through Congress — put its passage probability at around 21% ahead of the summit, up from lower levels earlier in the year.
Part of a Broader Pattern of Direct Engagement
This is not the administration's first such meeting. The White House hosted what was described as its first dedicated crypto summit earlier in 2026, and the industry has continued to push for faster movement on federal market-structure legislation even as individual agencies — including the SEC, which recently postponed a planned meeting on crypto offering rules — have moved more slowly on formal rulemaking than the executive branch's public engagement might suggest.
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No formal announcements are expected to come directly out of the August 19 meeting itself, but the presence of both the CFTC and SEC chairs alongside senior industry executives makes it one of the more closely watched White House–industry sessions of the year, particularly given its proximity to the CFTC's first substantive crypto-focused advisory meeting the following day.
