During a private Oval Office meeting with crypto and traditional finance executives, President Donald Trump appeared "bullish" on passing cryptocurrency legislation, as his administration works to devise a plan to get a bill through Congress as soon as next month.
On Wednesday afternoon, following a press conference with technology leaders and federal agency chairs during which Trump said regulators were working to onshore Hyperliquid and called for a “fair version” of the Clarity Act to pass, some executives were invited into the Oval Office.
It is not clear who all was in the room, though executives including Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi, ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse were at the press conference. One source told The Block that Trump was "bullish" about getting Clarity done.
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov, who was at the Oval Office meeting, said it was productive.
"The main discussion was really around Clarity and around just soliciting some basic feedback," he said in an interview with The Block, which beforehand he was holding a gold coin, seemingly an Oval Office challenge coin, that he said he had received.
