Trade Aave in Australia

Aave (AAVE) is tradable as a perpetual from Australia: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Aave trading legal in Australia?

Australia treats spot crypto and crypto derivatives as different regulatory objects and gives them different answers, but neither is banned. Holding and trading crypto is lawful — ASIC's consumer site describes buying and selling crypto on a trading platform as an ordinary thing to do while warning it is highly speculative — though it is careful to say that crypto-assets, even Australian dollar stablecoins, are not legal tender in Australia and are not widely accepted as payment. The government was consulting on exposure-draft legislation to bring digital asset platforms and tokenised custody platforms in as new financial products when INFO 225 was last updated, so this perimeter is expected to move.

What the contract is

The contract itself does not change by geography: a AAVE perpetual settles in USDC everywhere.

Sign up on Canborsa with email, X or a wallet

No document upload to open the account. Canborsa is non-custodial: your collateral stays under your own keys until a position opens.

Email X Wallet

Fund the account with USDC

Deposit USDC over Canton, Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain or Arbitrum. Canborsa takes no fiat, so buying the USDC happens wherever you normally buy stablecoins.

→Robinhood Chain

Open AAVE-PERP

Pick AAVE in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 20x .

AAVE-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of AAVE at 5x uses $200 of collateral. Higher leverage moves the liquidation price closer to your entry: your exposure is the position size, whatever margin you posted. Set a stop-loss below your entry before you walk away.

Cryptocurrency in Australia is taxed at rates between 0% and 45%, with a 50% capital gains discount for crypto held longer than a year before disposal.

Trading AAVE from Australia: legal.

Regulator for Aave trading in Australia: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

KYC obligations and AML compliance are compulsory for cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia, according to ASIC.

Australia residents can trade Aave on 18 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

On Canborsa, traders in Australia can use up to 20x leverage on Aave.