Trade Amazon in Austria

Amazon (AMZN) is tradable as a perpetual from Austria: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Amazon trading legal in Austria?

Spot crypto is legal and the service side is supervised: MiCAR applies directly, and the Austrian accompanying act, the MiCA-Verordnung-Vollzugsgesetz (MiCA-VVG), was passed by the National Council on 3 July 2024 and entered into force on 20 July 2024, naming the FMA as the competent authority. Buying, holding and selling crypto-assets as a retail investor is unrestricted, and market abuse in crypto-assets is prosecuted as an administrative offence under sections 13 and following of the MiCA-VVG, with fines up to EUR 5 million for individuals and EUR 15 million or 15 percent of annual turnover for legal persons.

What the contract is

The contract itself does not change by geography: a AMZN 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 AMZN-PERP

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

AMZN-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of AMZN 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.

27.5% special tax rate (besonderer Steuersatz) on income from cryptocurrencies. Section 27(1) EStG counts income from cryptocurrencies among income from capital assets; section 27b defines that income as current income plus income from realised increases in value; section 27a(1) no. 2 sets the special rate at 27.5% for everything other than bank deposits and unsecuritised bank claims, which take 25%.

Trading AMZN from Austria: legal.

From Austria, you can fund an Amazon position using SEPA bank transfer (EUR).

Austria residents can trade Amazon on 15 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

Canborsa offers up to 20x leverage on Amazon for traders based in Austria.

On Canborsa, Amazon trading from Austria costs 0.07% per side.