Today we celebrate Youth Day, a day that honours the courage, energy, and vision of South Africa’s youth.
You are the future. the thinkers, creators, and leaders who will shape our tomorrow.
📌The deadline for submitting public comments on the draft Capital Flow Management Regulations, 2026
has been extended to 30 June 2026.
🔗Read the full statement here: https://t.co/kR2yvosR94
#GovZAUpdates#NationalTreasury
11. You cannot regulate decentralized mathematics as though it were a traditional bank account. And you cannot expect a nation to lead in the future economy while simultaneously demonstrating fear of the technologies that will define it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
No to the New South African Proposed Crypto Regulations!?
1. What concerns me most about these proposed crypto regulations is not merely the severity of the penalties, but the philosophical and economic misunderstanding embedded within them.
# NewCryptoRegulations @VALRdotcom
10. The irony is profound: Blockchain technology may become one of the most transformative financial innovations of the 21st century, and yet some policymakers are approaching it with frameworks intellectually rooted in the limitations of the 20th.
9. Balanced regulation is necessary. Fraud, money laundering, and illicit activity should absolutely be addressed. But intelligent regulation should target criminal behaviour, not undermine the foundational principles of an entire technological revolution.
8. SA willeither become Africa’s hub for blockchain innovation, digital capital markets, tokenized assets, and next-generation financial infrastructure or we can create an environment so restrictive that innovators, developers, investors, and entrepreneurs simply leave SA.
7. The countries that dominate future financial infrastructure will be those that understand a simple principle: innovation flourishes where freedom, property rights, and technological understanding coexist.
6. Attempting to regulate decentralised systems using frameworks built for centralized financial infrastructure demonstrates a fundamental mismatch between the technology and the regulatory mindset approaching it.
5. The architecture of crypto is rooted in mathematics, cryptography, distributed consensus, and decentralised trust models. These systems were specifically designed to remove single points of failure, excessive concentration of power, and dependency on institutions!
4. Blockchain technology introduced something historically unprecedented: the ability for individuals to possess and transfer value without reliance on centralized intermediaries. That is not a loophole in the system — that is the innovation.
3. Throughout history, true ownership has always depended on control. If an external authority can compel access to your assets at any moment, then your ownership is conditional, not absolute.
2. The requirement that individuals must surrender private keys, passwords, and access credentials to the state under threat of imprisonment fundamentally redefines the meaning of ownership itself.
This is the kind of infrastructure vision Africa needs. Tokenized sovereign debt markets could fundamentally reshape capital access across the continent improving liquidity, reducing issuance friction, broadening participation, and creating transparent secondary markets in ways.
Let me put this into the universe:
One day @VALRdotcom will help the National Treasury of South Africa issue sovereign bonds directly on a blockchain and enable millions of people and institutions, domestically and internationally, to buy and trade them.
We will do this for governments across Africa as well as corporates and institutions.
Access will improve, costs will reduce, efficiency will increase.
The future is bright.
Happy New Year from all of us at VALR 🎉
Thank you for your continued support throughout 2025. We wish you and your loved ones a prosperous 2026 filled with success and growth.