White House Sets Stage for Digital Asset Policy Talks

The White Home is making ready for its first crypto summit on Friday, March 7, and invitations have been issued to trade leaders and consultants.

The occasion can be hosted by Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, and trade leaders are hoping for regulatory readability that might assist the US retain blockchain expertise and foster home crypto enterprise development following years of oppression beneath the earlier administration.

On March 5, Fox Enterprise reporter Eleanor Terrett stated that “invitations have been despatched to attendees by way of electronic mail this afternoon,” that means Tuesday. Nevertheless, there have been no additional particulars within the missive past time and site, she stated.

NEW: Just a little extra element right here — invitations have been despatched to attendees by way of electronic mail this afternoon.

Per the e-mail, the occasion is scheduled to go from 1:30PM – 5:30PM.

No additional particulars within the missive past time and site. https://t.co/tdoISvsLxC

— Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett) March 4, 2025

Attendees Listing Rising

Terrett additionally reported that extra attendees are confirming their look on the summit, together with Technique founder Michael Saylor, Bitcoin Journal CEO David Bailey, Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang, and Exodus CEO JP Richardson.

“The visitor checklist, in line with two sources near the proceedings, can be smaller than beforehand anticipated,” she stated.

The gathering of round 20-25 individuals can be a roundtable setting on the White Home and embrace different members of the Presidential Working Group on Digital Property, which is why the trade invitations can be fewer, she added.

Apart from Sacks and the Govt Director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Property, Bo Hines, it was unclear who else would attend on behalf of the federal government.

Nevertheless, the President’s Working Group on crypto additionally consists of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, and the chairs of the SEC and CFTC.

“A bigger, invite-only reception is being deliberate throughout the road from the White Home after for these not invited to the roundtable assembly.”

Additionally on the checklist of attendees are Kyle Samani, managing accomplice at Multicoin Capital, Zach Witkoff, the co-founder of the Trump household DeFi platform World Liberty Finance, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, and Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi.

An unconfirmed checklist of invite recipients was additionally posted, which included Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Ark Make investments’s Cathie Wooden, Circle boss Jeremy Allaire, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson, Vitalik Buterin, and the Winklevoss twins. Nevertheless, these individuals have but to be formally confirmed.

Potential dialogue subjects embrace establishing a US crypto reserve, stablecoin oversight, potential tax incentives for crypto companies, and AI’s position in crypto fraud detection and compliance.

Ethereum Illustration?

Ethereum advocate Anthony Sassano commented on Ethereum illustration, contemplating that Trump’s DeFi platform is predicated on and shopping for ETH, Coinbase’s layer-2 and stablecoin are Ethereum-based, and Robinhood and Kraken are working carefully with Ethereum L2s.

“Would like to have somebody from Etherealize within the room (hopefully Danny Ryan) however Ethereum does have fairly good illustration already.”

Core Ethereum developer Ryan responded with, “I believe I may do a wonderful job broadly representing Ethereum’s pursuits in this sort of surroundings. Put me in.”

Individuals are asking if Ethereum goes to be represented on the White Home Crypto assembly and properly, all of those persons are constructing on Ethereum.

World Liberty Finance is constructed on Ethereum layer 1 and has been stacking ETH

Chainlink is chain agnostic however an enormous a part of their… pic.twitter.com/2BygmTTzcG

— sassal.eth/acc (@sassal0x) March 4, 2025