Trump Hosts White House Crypto Meeting to Push CLARITY Act
When a White House meeting’s guest list includes the CEOs of Coinbase, Nasdaq, and Robinhood alongside both the SEC and CFTC chairs, it stops being a photo opportunity and starts being an actual pressure campaign.
President Trump hosted crypto executives, financial-market leaders, and federal regulators at the White House to push Congress toward passing the CLARITY Act, the market-structure bill meant to finally settle which digital assets count as securities and which count as commodities. Attendees included Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, Intercontinental Exchange’s Jeffrey Sprecher, Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman, Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev, Kraken’s Arjun Sethi, Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov, Gemini’s Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and venture investors Matt Huang and Chris Dixon, alongside SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, and White House digital-asset adviser Patrick Witt.
“Now we need Congress to take the next step by passing the Clarity Act, a fair version of the Clarity Act,” Trump told the room. The bill already cleared the House back in 2025 but has sat stalled in the Senate since, and this meeting was a fairly direct signal that the administration wants that logjam broken.
Getting this specific a lineup of exchange, custody, and DeFi leadership in the same room as both top regulators is a genuine show of coordinated pressure, but it doesn’t change Senate math on its own. Whether “a fair version” of the bill actually satisfies the senators currently holding it up is the part this meeting couldn’t settle.
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