VALR, Africa’s Leading Digital Asset Infrastructure Provider, Eyes Kenya for Expansion

[PRESS RELEASE – Johannesburg, South Africa, May 18th, 2026]

VALR, Africa’s main digital asset infrastructure supplier, served as diamond sponsor of the Kenya Blockchain & Crypto Conference held in Nairobi on 14 and 15 May 2026.

Peter Mwangi, VALR’s newly appointed Country Manager for Kenya, delivered a keynote deal with during which he outlined his imaginative and prescient for Kenya as an up-and-coming digital asset hub on the African continent. He drew parallels between the nation’s pioneering adoption and growth of cellular cash and the alternatives in funds, monetary inclusion, and infrastructure on the digital asset entrance. Shelley Havemann, VALR’s Head of Payments, participated in a panel dialogue on stablecoins, the way forward for funds, and VALR’s position in remodeling finance.

VALR additionally hosted a meetup within the capital for enterprise leaders in finance to discover partnership alternatives. These actions underscore VALR’s strategic deal with Kenya and its assist for the nation’s rising digital asset ecosystem.

Kenya’s Digital Finance Leadership and Recent Regulatory Progress

Kenya is recognised for its early and pioneering adoption of cellular cash, which has pushed vital advances in monetary inclusion, funds, and broader financial participation throughout the continent. Recent regulatory developments have strengthened this basis. The Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Act was enacted in October 2025 and got here into power in November 2025. The finalisation of the supporting 2026 VASP Regulations underneath the Capital Markets Authority establishes a transparent licensing and oversight framework. This framework aligns Kenya with worldwide requirements, promotes investor safety and accountable innovation, and creates a stable base for digital asset progress. These steps reinforce the imaginative and prescient outlined in Mwangi’s keynote and place Kenya as an more and more essential digital asset market in Africa.

(Peter Mwangi, VALR’s Country Manager for Kenya)

VALR Brings Scale, Infrastructure, and Innovation 

Founded in Johannesburg in 2018, VALR rapidly grew to develop into South Africa’s largest crypto change by buying and selling quantity. It has since developed into Africa’s main digital asset infrastructure supplier. VALR processes greater than 15 billion US {dollars} in stablecoin volumes yearly and persistently ranks among the many high 10 world minters of USDC. The platform serves over 1.8 million registered customers and greater than 2,000 company and institutional shoppers, together with firms listed on the JSE and Nasdaq.

VALR gives institutional-grade infrastructure, together with API integration, multi-account administration, governance controls, an OTC desk, staking, lending, borrowing, VALR Pay, and crypto-as-a-service options that energy different establishments’ choices. The firm additionally lately launched its AI Service, which options an intuitive chat assistant for market evaluation, account insights, and assist, along with open API assist for autonomous AI brokers underneath the open Agent Skills Standard.

Through its convention participation and Nairobi meetup, VALR is bringing this confirmed experience and infrastructure on to Kenyan establishments and the broader African market. VALR welcomes discussions with Kenyan monetary establishments and companies all for partnership alternatives.

About VALR

Founded in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by main traders together with Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is a worldwide crypto change, and the main digital asset infrastructure supplier on the African continent, providing a complete suite of merchandise, together with Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetual Futures, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC providers, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, with regulatory approval in Europe, VALR serves over 1.8 million registered customers and a pair of,000 company and institutional shoppers worldwide. The change is devoted to advancing a simply monetary future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For extra info, go to valr.com.

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