Trade Arbitrum in Bulgaria

Arbitrum (ARB) is tradable as a perpetual from Bulgaria: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Arbitrum trading legal in Bulgaria?

Spot crypto is legal to hold, buy and sell, and the service side runs on MiCA plus a national act, the Закон за пазарите на криптоактиви (Law on the Markets in Crypto-Assets), which the National Revenue Agency cites alongside Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 when it defines what a crypto-asset is. The Financial Supervision Commission (Комисия за финансов надзор, FSC) is the competent authority, and the transitional period during which firms merely registered with the FSC could operate ended on 1 July 2026: from that date only licensed providers may offer crypto-asset services in the EU. Two companies hold an FSC licence, and firms licensed elsewhere in the EU may serve Bulgarian residents after notifying the FSC, which is how the large international venues reach the market - Kraken, for instance, serves Bulgaria under an Irish MiCA CASP authorisation passported across the EEA.

What the contract is

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

Pick ARB in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 10x .

ARB-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of ARB 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.

10% flat personal income tax on the annual tax base. The two 10% figures in the Bulgarian rules are different things and are easy to conflate: the taxable income from crypto disposals is the year's gains less the year's losses, then cut by a statutory 10% expense allowance, and that taxable income is taxed at the 10% flat rate the National Revenue Agency states for personal income (15% for sole traders).

Trading ARB from Bulgaria: legal.

Regulator for Arbitrum trading in Bulgaria: Комисия за финансов надзор (Financial Supervision Commission, FSC).

For Bulgaria residents trading Arbitrum: 10% flat personal income tax on the annual tax base.

Bulgaria traders can fund Arbitrum positions using SEPA / SEPA Instant transfer (EUR), Debit card and PayPal.

Bulgaria residents can trade Arbitrum on 16 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.