Taiwan: Crypto Trading Rules & Available Platforms

Taiwan's regulator currently permits crypto trading.

Asset classes on Canborsa

Crypto perps

52 markets ›

Stock & pre-IPO perps

26 markets ›

Commodity perps

4 markets ›

Index perps

4 markets ›

The main route onto AML-registered platforms; fiat/crypto exchange is a licensable service under Article 6 of the Virtual Asset Service Act.

Depends on each card issuer's own merchant-category policy for crypto; not a reliable primary rail.

Usdt p2p/otc

funding rail

WORKS

Used to reach offshore venues that cannot accept New Taiwan dollars; arranging this as a business requires AML registration.

Not used to fund crypto accounts, based on observed market practice; no regulation on this has been identified.

There is no dedicated crypto tax. For an individual, gains on virtual currency that is not securities in nature are property transaction income — sale price less original acquisition cost and related expenses — aggregated into consolidated gross income and taxed at the individual's ordinary progressive rate.

Taiwan treats crypto trading as legal.

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

For crypto traders in Taiwan: There is no dedicated crypto tax.

Identity verification is mandatory and anonymity is expressly barred.

Crypto perpetuals and CFDs fall outside Taiwan's virtual-asset regime and inside its futures regime.