Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2026, Chainwire
VALR, the Pantera-backed crypto exchange, today announced the launch of its AI servicewhich marks an important step in making crypto trading more accessible to all participants. The service introduces AI-powered tools to human users while opening up the platform’s infrastructure to autonomous AI agents.
For human users, the AI Service enhances the trading experience by providing intuitive assistance: users can now perform intelligent market analysis, gain insights into their own account activity and performance, get trading suggestions, and leverage the service for immediate and customized AI support. Soon, the AI Service will allow users to develop customized trading strategies and explore automated trading options directly within the VALR platform. This makes complex crypto markets easier to navigate and allows individuals and businesses to make more informed decisions.
At the same time, VALR enables autonomous AI agents to participate directly in digital asset markets as independent economic actors. Under the open Agent Skills Standard, the platform’s API infrastructure is fully accessible to agents like OpenClaw, as well as coding-focused agents including Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, OpenCode, and others.
The comprehensive suite of endpoints supports secure authentication, real-time market data, trade execution, account management and portfolio monitoring, all within VALR’s regulated environment and backed by institutional-grade security and liquidity.
These double developments AI assistance for people and direct access for AI agentspositioning VALR to serve an expanding ecosystem where both people and intelligent systems create, manage and exchange value.
The rise of agentic finance
AI agents are autonomous systems that sense data, reason, plan, and act with minimal human input. Their growing role in financial operations is driving what’s called “agentic finance,” where agents manage microtransactions, wallets and on-chain operations.
According to Gartner, 40% of enterprise software applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. Industry analyzes predict that the global market for AI agents will grow from approximately $8 billion in 2025 to approximately $50 billion in 2030. Reports from institutions such as Deloitte and McKinsey highlight how agentic AI is transforming banking and finance, including treasury management, credit management. assessment, fraud detection and compliance.
AI agents are already active in crypto markets, especially in automated trading. Blockchain and crypto infrastructure are particularly suited to this shift, offering programmable money, instant settlement, and open API access that traditional financial markets cannot easily provide to non-human market participants.
A platform for the next phase of digital finance
With the launch of the AI Service, VALR is positioning itself at the forefront of the digital economy, an economy that requires a reliable, compliant infrastructure for both human users and AI participants to seamlessly generate and exchange value.
Farzam Ehsani, co-founder and CEO of VALR, said: “AI agents are heralding a significant expansion of the global economy. What was once reserved for humans is now open to intelligent, autonomous systems capable of creating and exchanging value at scale. VALR is proud to be at the forefront of this shift – where crypto and AI intersect – by providing regulated, high-performance infrastructure that serves every participant in the digital economy: individuals, businesses and now AI agents. This is how we build the next generation of humanity’s financial system unlocking new frontiers of prosperity.”
For developers looking to integrate with VALR’s infrastructure, the open-source VALR Agent Skills repository is available at https://github.com/valrdotcom/valr-agent-skills.
It provides AI agents with the necessary context and tools to securely authenticate and interact with the VALR platform, in accordance with the Agent Skills Standard.
About VALR
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Johannesburg, VALR is a global crypto exchange offering a comprehensive suite of products including Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetual Futures, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC services, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles and VALR Pay. Backed by leading investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, with regulatory approval in Europe. The exchange serves more than 1.8 million registered users and 2,000 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. VALR is committed to advancing a just financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of humanity. For more information, visit valr.com.