U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet technology and crypto industry leaders at the White House on Wednesday, bringing senior regulators and executives from some of the sector’s biggest firms together as Washington pushes ahead with a new digital asset framework.
Trump’s public schedule shows the president delivering remarks with technology leaders at 2:30 p.m. in the Roosevelt Room, with the White House press pool in attendance.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Chair Mike Selig and White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt are expected to attend, along with representatives from Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple and Chainlink, as well as Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange, according to Semafor.
Trade groups including the Digital Chamber, the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Blockchain Association are also expected at the meeting.
The gathering puts crypto leaders and top U.S. regulators in the same room as the administration pushes to make the United States a more competitive home for the industry.
As part of its wider crypto agenda, the White House has made digital assets a major policy focus, establishing a working group on the sector and backing a roadmap aimed at strengthening U.S. leadership in digital finance. That agenda has included calls for clearer rules on market structure, oversight and innovation across the crypto industry.
SEC steps in as broader crypto legislation stalls
The White House meeting comes as federal regulators take a bigger role in shaping U.S. crypto rules while lawmakers remain divided over the Clarity Act, a sweeping market structure bill that would define when digital assets should be treated as securities or commodities and how oversight is split between the SEC and CFTC.
With Congress yet to pass the bill, pressure has shifted toward regulators appointed by President Donald Trump to provide the legal clarity the industry has sought for years. That effort accelerated on Tuesday, when the SEC proposed a new framework that could exempt some token offerings from parts of U.S. securities law.
One exemption would allow eligible companies to issue up to $5 million in tokens over four years, while another would permit offerings of up to $75 million in a 12-month period, subject to disclosure and reporting requirements.
The proposal also includes a safe harbor that could keep certain qualifying crypto assets from being treated as investment contracts.
The rules are still only a proposal and could change before adoption, but the move shows regulators pressing ahead as Congress struggles to settle the broader framework.
