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[PRESS RELEASE – Johannesburg, South Africa, December 23rd, 2025] South Africa has been on the forefront of crypto innovation and has produced one of the leading regulatory frameworks across the world. Since April 2024, over 300 crypto asset service providers have obtained a licence. VALR, which was among the first to obtain such a crypto licence in South Africa, also recently obtained an Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider (ODP) licence from the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). This enables VALR to provide a range of over-the-counter derivatives, including Contracts for Difference (CFDs), Quarterly and Perpetual Futures Contracts, Options, Forwards, and Swaps, all with crypto assets as the underlying. This marks one of the first occasions in South Africa that a financial service provider is licensed to offer these products with crypto assets as the underlying. In 2025, VALR has made significant strides in growing its global user base to over 1.7 million registered users, with hundreds of thousands of monthly active users and tens of thousands daily. While the exchange has listed a considerable number of new crypto assets, with now more than 100 coins available for trade on the app across Simple Buy & Sell, Spot and Futures, USDT/ZAR, BTC/ZAR, and XRP/ZAR continue to be the most popular crypto pairs on VALR. Over the course of the past seven years, VALR – in tandem with an increasingly sophisticated crypto industry – has moved well beyond its initial offering of exchange services only. In an effort to offer an ever more expansive suite of financial services, both catering to people’s everyday needs and institutions wishing to integrate with crypto, VALR now enables its customers to use the VALR app for payments at over 31,000 stores and 700,000 locations in South Africa. This is achieved through the app’s integration with Zapper, Scan-to-Pay, and…

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