White House due to sit Atkins, CFTC chair Selig, Coinbase, Polymarket, Ripple, Gemini, Nasdaq, NYSE, CME and DTCC on 19 Aug. No official readout. CLARITY stuck. SEC Reg Crypto is the paper.
The White House is due to sit SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig with Coinbase, Polymarket, Ripple, Gemini, Nasdaq, NYSE, CME and DTCC on Wednesday, 19 August. Coinpedia names that room. The White House has not published an attendee list or a readout.
This is a meeting. It is not a statute.
The CLARITY Act is the bill that would split SEC and CFTC oversight of digital assets. The Senate Banking Committee advanced it in May, 15-9. The full Senate has not voted. Coinpedia says the hold-ups are stablecoin rewards, consumer protection, and ethics. Congress left for the August recess. It returns 14 September.
Atkins has already said the Commission can write rules under existing powers if Congress stays deadlocked. Coinpedia quotes him: “We need the certainty of a statute that will help future-proof so that we have clear direction to go forward.”
That is the fork. Push the bill, or let the agencies run.
The paper is already up. The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on Tuesday: a $5 million four-year startup exemption, a $75 million yearly raise, and a safe harbor that can take a token off investment-contract status. Sixty days of comment after the Federal Register, not a calendar close we invented. That note is live: SEC Posts Reg Crypto.
The CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee meets 20 August, one day after this room. Coinpedia puts Coinbase, Polymarket, Ripple, Nasdaq, CME and DTCC on that committee too.
South Korea’s Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission voted 18 August to order domestic ISPs to block Polymarket, treating it as illegal gambling. Yonhap: the subcommittee issued a corrective access-block after finding a winner-takes-all structure on domestic markets, including “August Seoul rainfall.” Decentralisation does not exempt it, the commission said. That is an administrative block order. It is not a court ban.
That is colour on one invitee. It is not the meeting.
No official readout is out. Until one posts, the room is expected names and a bill that has not reached the floor.
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