Trade Bonk in Thailand

This page answers one question for Thailand: how a resident actually gets BONK exposure, and what the rules say.

Is Bonk trading legal in Thailand?

Spot crypto is legal in Thailand but only as a licensed activity. The Emergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses B.E. 2561 (2018) requires a digital asset business operator to hold a licence granted by the Minister of Finance on the SEC's recommendation, and operating without one is a criminal offence carrying two to five years' imprisonment plus fines. The licence categories the SEC has consulted on are spot-side businesses — exchange, broker and dealer, later advisory services and fund management — and as recently as February 2026 the SEC was still consulting on a framework to permit spot crypto ETFs, which it described as an initial phase using relatively simple structures.

What the contract is

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

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

BONK-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of BONK 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.

Personal income tax exemption on the gain from transferring crypto through an SEC-licensed Thai exchange, broker or dealer, for assessable income received 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2029 (Ministerial Regulation No. 399, B.E. 2568, issued 27 August 2025, adding item (109) to Ministerial Regulation No. 126).

Trading BONK from Thailand: legal.

Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand (SEC).

For Bonk traders in Thailand: Know-your-client measures and client due diligence process required for digital asset operators

From Thailand, you can fund a Bonk position using Bank Transfer (Thai QR), Bank Transfer (PromptPay) and P2P (Peer-to-Peer).

Thailand residents can trade Bonk on 14 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.