Crypto & Perp Trading in Switzerland

Switzerland permits crypto trading under its current rules.

Asset classes on Canborsa

Crypto perps

52 markets ›

Stock & pre-IPO perps

26 markets ›

Commodity perps

4 markets ›

Index perps

4 markets ›

Domestic franc transfers and euro SEPA transfers are the default funding route, with no restriction found.

The dominant mobile payment app tied to a bank account; acceptance for crypto purchases is a bank-by-bank commercial choice.

Card funding is an issuer decision with no regulatory bar found.

State-owned postal bank widely held by retail customers; whether it processes exchange transfers is a bank policy question.

USDT P2P

funding rail

WORKS

Peer-to-peer transfer is unrestricted by regulation; the risk is commercial counterparty risk.

No capital gains tax for a private investor: the FTA treats buying and selling payment tokens like transactions in conventional currencies, so gains in private assets are in principle tax-free and losses non-deductible. Two things are taxed instead.

Switzerland treats crypto trading as legal.

31 exchanges serve Switzerland, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

Remote identity verification is the norm and is expressly regulated: FINMA lists digital client onboarding among the crypto-adjacent services it supervises and points to Circular 2016/7 on video and online identification, updated in 2021, as the governing text.

Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority).