How to Trade Aave (AAVE) in Sweden

From Sweden, exposure to Aave runs through a USDC-settled perpetual.

Is Aave trading legal in Sweden?

Spot crypto is legal and the service side is supervised under MiCAR, which FI describes as replacing national regulation of crypto-assets where such existed and as directly applicable in every EU member state, including Sweden; a Swedish complementary act, the kompletteringslag to the MiCA Regulation, fills in the national detail. Buying, holding and selling crypto-assets as a retail investor is unrestricted. Leveraged derivatives sit in a different regime and FI says so explicitly: instruments that track the value of bitcoin or other crypto-assets are not regulated by MiCAR but by MiFID and MiFIR.

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.

30% on the whole gain, taxed as income from capital; losses are deductible at 70%. Skatteverket treats a crypto-to-crypto exchange as a disposal that must be declared, which is the opposite of the Austrian rule, and the same applies to paying for goods or services with crypto, lending crypto out and using it as a gambling stake.

Trading AAVE from Sweden: legal.

30% on the whole gain, taxed as income from capital; losses are deductible at 70%.

Identity is established with BankID, Sweden's bank-issued electronic identification.

From Sweden, you can fund an Aave position using Swish, BankID-authenticated bank transfer (SEK) and SEPA bank transfer (EUR).

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