What changed at South African crypto exchanges
Exchanges change fees, networks and rules on their own pages without notice. We re-read each exchange's official pages at least every 30 days for fees and every 45 to 90 days for rails, products, licences and KYC, and every difference we find is listed here with the date of the read that still showed the old version, the date of the read that showed the new one, and the page.
Checked 4 October 2026 · 11 changes at Binance, Bitget, Luno, VALR
An entry needs two of our reads of the same official page that differ, or a page that states its own edit date next to the new text. Corrections of our own mistakes are not changes at the exchange and are not listed; they are handled under theeditorial policy. Each exchange's profile shows its own entries, and the current figures are in the exchange data.
Seen in October 2026
| Exchange and change | Before | After | When we saw it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binance: USDT withdrawal fees on Ethereum and Arbitrum Crypto Deposit & Withdrawal Fees (USDT networks) (opens in a new tab) | Ethereum 0.3 USDT; Arbitrum 0.1 USDT | Ethereum 0.9 USDT; Arbitrum 0.4 USDT (Binance says it adjusts these fees with network conditions) | Between 27 September 2026 and 4 October 2026 |
| Binance: USDT minimum withdrawal on BNB Smart Chain Crypto Deposit & Withdrawal Fees (USDT networks) (opens in a new tab) | 5 USDT | 3 USDT, the figure our first read showed | Between 27 September 2026 and 4 October 2026 |
| Binance: USDT withdrawals on Asset Hub Polkadot Crypto Deposit & Withdrawal Fees (USDT networks) (opens in a new tab) | Withdrawals enabled, as on every listed network | Withdrawals paused on this network only; deposits still open | Between 7 September 2026 and 4 October 2026 |
| Bitget: USDT withdrawals after the security incident Bitget public coins API (USDT) (opens in a new tab) | Paused on all 12 USDT chains | Enabled on all 12 USDT chains, with fees and minimums unchanged (no Bitget announcement we read confirmed that rand withdrawals had resumed) | Between 27 September 2026 and 3 October 2026 |
| Luno: Capitec Pay limit in the Capitec and Absa help article Bank transfers from Capitec and Absa are not available (Luno Help Centre) (opens in a new tab) | Up to R150,000 per deposit | Up to R100,000 per deposit (Luno’s fee page gave R100,000 at every read, so the article now matches it) | Between 6 September 2026 and 3 October 2026; page dated 29 September 2026 |
| VALR: Terms of Service Terms of Service (VALR Help Center) (opens in a new tab) | Version effective 2 July 2026 | Version effective 13 September 2026 (South African customers still contract with VALR (Pty) Ltd; we did not compare the two texts clause by clause) | Between 6 September 2026 and 3 October 2026; page dated 13 September 2026 |
Seen in September 2026
| Exchange and change | Before | After | When we saw it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binance: USDT minimum withdrawal on BNB Smart Chain Crypto Deposit & Withdrawal Fees (USDT networks) (opens in a new tab) | 3 USDT | 5 USDT | Between 7 September 2026 and 27 September 2026 |
| Binance: Help page for rand deposits by bank transfer (EFT) How to Deposit ZAR to Binance via Bank Transfer? (opens in a new tab) | No help page; the rail was named only on the South Africa page | A help page: pay from your own account, the exact amount entered, with a reference code that changes for every deposit | Between 7 September 2026 and 27 September 2026; page dated 15 September 2026 |
| Bitget: USDT withdrawal fees on seven chains Bitget public coins API (USDT) (opens in a new tab) | Ethereum 0.8; BNB Smart Chain 0.15; Arbitrum 0.15; Optimism 0.15; Polygon 0.2; Solana 1; Plasma 0.001 USDT | Ethereum 2; BNB Smart Chain 0.01; Arbitrum 0.1; Optimism 0.014; Polygon 0.07; Solana 0.5; Plasma 0.012 USDT | Between 7 September 2026 and 27 September 2026 |
| Bitget: Withdrawals after a security incident Bitget to Resume Withdrawals in Phases (announcement) (opens in a new tab) | Deposits and withdrawals enabled on all 12 USDT chains | Withdrawals paused after a hot-wallet security incident on 24 September 2026; deposits and trading continued (the announcement set a phased restart, ending with fiat and P2P on 2 October) | Between 7 September 2026 and 27 September 2026; page dated 26 September 2026 |
| Bitget: Prohibited Countries in the Terms of Use Terms of Use (Bitget Support Center) (opens in a new tab) | Version of 14 August 2026: 25 countries, Thailand not among them | Version of 15 September 2026: Thailand added; South Africa still not prohibited | Between 8 September 2026 and 27 September 2026; page dated 15 September 2026 |