White House Crypto Summit Attendees: Who Has the Industry's Hottest Ticket?

The hottest ticket in crypto is to the White House Crypto Summit on Friday. The question now is who will attend.

While many lists have been circulating, White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks said a list of 10 attendees compiled by Eleanor Terret of Fox Business News, looked “correct but not complete.” Sacks added that other lists he’s seen circulating on X are wrong.

Terret clarified that the 10 mentioned had received invitations but had not necessarily confirmed that they are going.

Later updates by Terrett over the course of March 6, and by several attendees themselves, expanded the list to 24. Her original X post cited a list of 20 to 25 attendees, with a larger reception after the Summit, which is expected to last from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST.

Also, guests have been announcing their invitations on X for several days. Michael Saylor, Shayne Coplan, Kyle Samani, Matt Huang, are among those who have confirmed on X that they are attending the Summit.

The new additions not confirmed by Sacks, nor by the guests themselves, are noted with an asterisk:

• Chris Dixon, Managing Partner of a16z*
• Nathan McCauley, CEO and co-founder of Anchorage Digital
• Emin Gün Sirer, founder and CEO Ava Labs
• Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo
• David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine owner BTC Inc.
• Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink
• Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
• Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com*
• JP Richardson, CEO of Exodus Movement
• Raghu Yarlagadda, CEO of Falcon X Network
• Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder and President and CEO of Gemini
• Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder and CEO of Gemini
• Arjun Sethi, CEO of Kraken
• Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings
• Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy)
• Brian Brooks, board member of Strategy and former Acting Comptroller of the Currency
• Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital
• Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm
• Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket
• Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple*
• Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood
• Chris Giancarlo, former CFTC chairman and senior counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallagher*
• Jonathan Steinberg, founder and CEO, WisdomTree Funds
• Zach Witkoff, co-founder of World Liberty Financial

From the White House

• David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar
• Bo Hines, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets

Other likely attendees include Acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Uyeda and Acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Caroline Pham, as well as other members of the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets. These are Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

President Donald Trump will almost certainly be there for at least part of the four-hour event.

RSVPs

A number of the invitees had something more to say on X.

“I'll be attending the White House Digital Asset Summit on Friday. Thank you to President Trump for the invitation,” Huang said. “I look forward to discussing how America can take a leadership role in promoting the principles of open crypto and enabling builders in ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana.”

“I’ll be attending The Digital Assets Summit on Friday, March 7th at the White House,” Samani said. “I look forward to collaborating with industry peers, the Trump administration, and elected officials to ensure crypto thrives in America. Thank you to President Trump for this wonderful opportunity!”

“I'm honored to join the White House Digital Asset Roundtable tomorrow, representing Polymarket,” Coplan said. “Thank you to President Trump for the invitation. This admin's commitment to collaboration with American innovators is revitalizing the American dream.”

“I’m incredibly honored to be invited to attend the White House’s first-ever Digital Assets Summit tomorrow,” said McCauley. “This is the start of the Golden Age for crypto in America.

Thanks @DavidSacks and @BoHines for your leadership.”

“Very much looking forward to participating in the @WhiteHouse Crypto Summit tomorrow,” said Brooks. “Once in a generation opportunity led by @realDonaldTrump to reestablish America as the home of innovation and value creation.”

“Going to President Trump's Digital Assets Summit in Washington DC this Friday,” Tenev posted. “What are the most important issues to you?”

What About Ethereum

One question that has been raised is why no Ethereum-focused attendees have been named so far.

Witkoff acknowledged that concern and offered to be the voice of Ethereum at the Summit, asking what topics he should bring up.

“Seeing a lot of people on X calling for an ETH representative at the White House crypto summit on Friday,” said Witkoff, whose project is built on Ethereum’s Layer 1. “@worldlibertyfi has been one of the biggest supporters of Ethereum from day one—we stand with the entire ETH community. What does my ETH fam want us to discuss?”

Huang also said he would be discussing how to enable “builders in ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana.”

Other attendees have close ties to Ethereum. Coinbase’s Base is an Ethereum Layer 2, which gives it a strong connection, and Kraken’s Ink is on the Optimism Superchain, another Ethereum Layer 2.