Crypto & Perp Trading in Uganda

Uganda restricts parts of crypto activity.

Asset classes on Canborsa

Crypto perps

52 markets ›

Stock & pre-IPO perps

26 markets ›

Commodity perps

4 markets ›

Index perps

4 markets ›

A Bank of Uganda circular bars its licensees from facilitating crypto transactions; a court challenge failed.

Mobile money providers are Bank of Uganda licensees, so the crypto ban likely reaches them.

No crypto-specific tax provision exists in Ugandan law as indexed. Searched across the whole ULII corpus, the exact phrase "digital asset" returns three documents and not one of them is a tax statute — two are Uganda Government Gazette trade-mark notices (27 September 2019 and 20 September 2024) where the words appear inside class specifications for goods and services, and the third is a commercial judgment.

Crypto trading in Uganda is regulated.

Uganda residents can choose from 30 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

No crypto-specific tax provision exists in Ugandan law as indexed.

Statutory, through the anti-money-laundering regime, with no crypto-specific licence involved.

No Ugandan rule authorises leveraged crypto derivatives — perpetual futures, margin trading or contracts for difference — for a retail client, and none addresses them directly.