What Happens When Kenya’s Crypto Licensing Deadline Expires Tomorrow?

Kenya’s cryptocurrency industry is approaching a major regulatory turning point. The one-year transition period under the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025, expires on November 4, 2026. The deadline requires businesses that were already providing covered virtual asset services when the law commenced to comply with the new regulatory framework. Now the question is: which cryptocurrency businesses have secured the necessary authorisation, and what happens to those that have not? The expiry of the transition period does not automatically mean every international exchange will stop serving Kenyan customers.