Update (March 7, 10:00 am UTC): This article has been updated to reflect up-to-date information on the confirmed attendees of the first White House Crypto Summit and recent related events.
As US President Donald Trump prepares to host the first White House Crypto Summit on March 7, more than 20 key industry leaders have been confirmed as attendees.
The roundtable, scheduled from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm UTC, is expected to include more than 25 participants, including members of the Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, according to Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett.
As of Friday morning, Terrett reported that at least 22 crypto executives and two White House representatives had confirmed their attendance.
“Unclear as of now who aside from Bo Hines and David Sacks will be in attendance, but if you go back to Trump’s executive order, the presidential working group also includes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the SEC chair, the CFTC chair and others,” Terrett wrote.
The list of confirmed crypto executives so far
The list of crypto executives and government attendees confirmed as of March 6 at 9:00 pm UTC includes the following:
Confirmed and unconfirmed government industry leaders coming to the White House Crypto Summit. Source: Eleanor Terret
Confirmed and unconfirmed government officials coming to the White House Crypto Summit. Source: Eleanor Terret
With the event just hours away, speculation continues about additional attendees. Notably, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao have not confirmed they’ll attend the summit.
Tether CEO spotted at another DC event hosted by CFTC
Some community members speculated that Ardoino may have received an invitation after the CEO posted photos from Washington, D.C. However, no official confirmation has been made.
In the meantime, Ardoino was among the attendees at another meeting in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. According to Terret, CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham hosted a crypto CEO forum on March 6 that featured industry leaders like Ardoino, Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, Crypto.com’s Kris Marszalek, Circle president Heath Tarbert and Coinbase’s institutional head Greg Tusar.
Source: Eleanor Terret
Additional attendees at the CFTC forum included Ripple’s policy head, Lauren Belive, MoonPay’s Keith Grossman, and Coinbase’s chief policy officer, Faryar Shirzad.
“A larger, invite-only reception is being planned across the street from the White House for those not invited to the roundtable meeting,” Terrett said, adding that the plans are not fully finalized and things could change.
As speculation around the summit continued, the crypto community called for the inclusion of other key industry figures, including ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko.
Community clashes over Trump’s Bitcoin reserve EO
The highly anticipated White House Crypto Summit comes amid heated debate surrounding Trump’s executive order establishing a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a “Digital Asset Stockpile” on March 6.
While many industry leaders and government officials saw the order as a historic and positive event for crypto, others were not happy about the US Bitcoin (BTC) reserve apparently only including confiscated BTC without a firm commitment to buy more.
Source: Senator Cynthia Lummis
According to 10x Research, Trump’s BTC reserve order didn’t meet crowd expectations, as the community largely anticipated significant buying instead of just keeping 200,000 BTC that have been seized over the years through criminal and civil forfeiture.
“Although additional measures could be announced later, the latest development highlights the significant gap between an ideal scenario and the actual policy rollout,” 10x Research said in an X post on Thursday, March 7.
On the other hand, Coinbase product strategy head Conor Grogan estimated that Trump’s executive order removed at least $18 billion of sell-side pressure.
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