Crypto & Perp Trading in Ukraine

Ukraine has no settled position on crypto.

Asset classes on Canborsa

Crypto perps

52 markets ›

Stock & pre-IPO perps

26 markets ›

Commodity perps

4 markets ›

Index perps

4 markets ›

NBU rules cap outbound crypto purchases at UAH 100,000 per month across foreign-currency accounts.

Domestic hryvnia payments fall outside the cross-border restriction that targets transfers out of Ukraine.

Blocked: the crypto carve-out covers card credentials and e-payment instruments, not ordinary outbound wires.

USDT P2P

funding rail

LIMITS

Widely used in practice in Ukraine.

A law bars using virtual assets to pay for goods or services, but that law has not yet taken effect.

Individuals are subject to 18% personal income tax plus a 5% military levy on crypto gains and income from virtual asset transactions.

Ukraine treats crypto trading as not clearly regulated.

22 exchanges serve Ukraine, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

In Ukraine, Cross-border bank transfer to a foreign exchange and Crypto as a means of payment for goods and services is not available for crypto funding.

No domestic route exists and no domestic prohibition targets the trader.

Regulator for crypto trading in Ukraine: National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) licenses capital-market activity including derivative contracts; the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sets the currency restrictions; no authority currently supervises virtual assets.