Senior executives from the crypto and prediction markets sectors are expected to visit the White House on Aug. 19 to meet with President Donald Trump and U.S. regulators.

The gathering could become an important policy moment for crypto companies as Washington continues working to refine rules for digital assets and emerging monetary markets. It also extends a pattern of direct engagement between the administration and the industry, following a White House crypto summit in March that convened executives with the president as officials announced a strategic bitcoin reserve.

Some executives from crypto firms and prediction market platforms are anticipated to attend the meeting, according to a person familiar with the matter. The White House has not publicly released an attendee list, but the event is expected to include some of the leading figures in the digital asset industry.

Representatives from prediction markets are also likely to take part. These platforms sell event contracts that pay out based on real-world outcomes, from elections to sports, and have grown rapidly in recent years. They have increasingly faced scrutiny from regulators over market contracts, disputes with regulators, and questions involving competition and confusion between federal and state oversight. Some state gaming regulators have moved to treat sports-related event contracts as gambling, setting up legal fights over whether the CFTC's federal authority preempts state law.

For crypto companies, a direct meeting with top policymakers could provide an opportunity to raise unresolved issues involving market structure, trading platforms, and federal regulators.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins will attend the White House meeting, an SEC spokesperson told Bloomberg. CFTC Chair Michael Selig is also planning to participate, according to a person familiar with the event.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are separate regulators responsible for different parts of the U.S. financial system: the SEC primarily oversees securities markets, while the CFTC supervises futures and derivatives. More recently, their authority has begun to overlap in the crypto sector, particularly around derivatives and token-based financial products.

The meeting also comes as officials continue efforts to establish clearer rules for digital assets. Fragmented regulation and uncertainty over which agency is responsible for different products have long been cited as major challenges for the crypto industry in the United States. Congress has been working on the problem in parallel: President Trump signed the GENIUS Act in July, creating the first federal framework for payment stablecoins, and the House passed the CLARITY Act, a market-structure bill that would divide oversight of digital assets between the SEC and CFTC. That bill now awaits Senate action.

The White House event is scheduled for one day before the first CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting on Aug. 20.

The committee includes participants from the crypto, derivatives, prediction markets, exchanges, and financial infrastructure sectors. It plans to discuss the future of crypto regulation and the growing role of prediction markets.

During the crypto session, participants are expected to address regulatory uncertainty, overlapping federal and state authority, and the lack of a comprehensive U.S. market-structure framework.

In the prediction markets discussion, the committee is expected to cover event contracts, market surveillance, risks of manipulation, and customer protection.

Together, the two meetings have placed crypto and prediction markets at the center of U.S. financial policy discussions, with SEC and CFTC leadership and major digital asset executives converging on Washington within days of each other.