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By Jesse Hamilton, Cheyenne Ligon, Christine Lee, Nikhilesh De|Edited by Aoyon Ashraf
Mar 4, 2025, 10:46 p.m. UTC
What to know:
- Executives from crypto companies, including Coinbase, Chainlink, and Exodus, will attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s first White House crypto summit.
- It’s unclear how many crypto executives will attend or what the agenda may include.
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently dropped its enforcement suit against Coinbase and Robinhood, both of which made seven-figure donations to President Trump’s inaugural committee.
Executives from a wide array of crypto companies, including Coinbase, Chainlink and Exodus, will represent the industry Friday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s first White House crypto summit.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Chainlink Labs co-founder Sergey Nazarov, Exodus CEO J.P. Richardson and Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor have all confirmed their attendance at the event, which will also feature “big donors,” according to two people who asked not to be named.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev also hinted that he would attend the summit, posting a screen capture from the movie National Treasure on X (formerly Twitter) and captioning it “see you soon, DC.”
Trump himself—who said he would host the summit—David Sacks—Trump’s crypto and AI czar—and Bo Hines, the executive director of the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets—will represent the White House.
It’s unclear just how many crypto executives will attend or what the event’s agenda may include.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently closed a long-running probe into Robinhood Crypto and dropped its enforcement suit against Coinbase. Both firms made seven-figure donations to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee — Coinbase contributed $1 million, and Robinhood contributed $2 million. Other crypto firms that are thought to be represented at the crypto summit, including Ripple and Circle, also made large donations.
A Ripple spokesperson referred CoinDesk to the White House when asked if any Ripple executive would attend the Friday summit. Representatives for Circle did not return a request for comment.
Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk’s deputy managing editor on the Global Policy and Regulation team, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022, he worked for more than a decade covering Wall Street regulation at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, writing about the early whisperings among federal agencies trying to decide what to do about crypto. He’s won several national honors in his reporting career, including from his time as a war correspondent in Iraq and as a police reporter for newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he studied journalism and history. He has no crypto holdings.
On the news team at CoinDesk, Cheyenne focuses on crypto regulation and crime. Cheyenne is originally from Houston, Texas. She studied political science at Tulane University in Louisiana. In December 2021, she graduated from CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on business and economics reporting. She has no significant crypto holdings.
Christine Lee is an anchor and producer at CoinDesk. Previously, she anchored live daily market updates and reported business news features for television stations around the world at Thomson Reuters. She first began covering cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg TV Canada.
Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk’s managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. When he’s not reporting on digital assets and policy, he can be found admiring Amtrak or building LEGO trains. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers’ Journalist of the Year in 2020.
