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Trade Brent Crude in Germany

STATUSLegal REGULATORBaFin CLASSCommodity

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

Brent Crude · BRENT-PERPCommodity · Germany

Price · 24h—

Max leverage20x

Funding · APR—

In GermanyAvailable

Canborsa fee0.07% per side

Trade BRENT on Canborsa ›

Brent Crude in Germany · at a glance

Legal

legal statusBrent Crude exposure from Germany

20x

max leverageBrent Crude on Canborsa

0.07%

0.14% round-tripCanborsa fee per side

funding intervalSettled while a position is open

What the law actually says

Is brent crude trading legal in Germany?

Spot crypto is legal and the service side is licensed: since MiCAR applies, crypto-asset service providers need an authorisation, and BaFin runs that procedure together with the Deutsche Bundesbank, with the national Kryptomärkteaufsichtsgesetz (KMAG) and the 2025 delegated and implementing regulations filling in the detail. Holding, buying and selling crypto as a retail investor is unrestricted.

Leveraged derivatives are treated as a consumer-protection problem instead. Under a product intervention BaFin ordered a general prohibition on marketing, distributing and selling contracts for difference to retail clients, lifted only where the provider meets all five protective conditions at once.

What the contract is

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

Regulator — Germany

RegulatorBaFin

Websitewww.bafin.de

CryptoLegal

Funding · local rails

How to fund a trade from Germany

The routes traders use to reach USDC before a deposit.

Rails · deposit routes

Rail

Status

Note

SEPA Bank Transfer

WORKS

Settles within one business day, or in seconds via SEPA Instant where supported, per one exchange's Germany page.

Sofortueberweisung

WORKS

Widely used for buying bitcoin in Germany, per one exchange's Germany page.

Credit/Debit Card

WORKS

Accepted for crypto purchases but used less than in English-speaking markets, per one exchange's Germany page.

Apple Pay / Google Pay

WORKS

Banxa accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay among other methods for buying Bitcoin in Germany.

Availability · by platform

Platforms that offer brent crude perps in Germany

7 venues open brent crude perps to traders in Germany.

Platform

Sign-up

Max lev

Taker fee

CanborsaSign up›

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

20x

0.07%

Avantis

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

25x

0.045%

Helix

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

30x

0.0001%

Hyperliquid

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

20x

0.045%

Lighter

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

20x

0%

Ondo

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

15x

0.025%

Ostium

Browser Wallet Non-custodial

15x

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How to start trading brent crude from Germany

Four steps from sign-up to an open position.

01.

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

02.

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.

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Robinhood Chain

03.

Open BRENT-PERP

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

BRENT-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

04.

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of BRENT 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.

Position · PnLexamplePnL: $3,425.52|+53.6%

Tax note — Germany

Section 23 EStG taxes private sale transactions in "other assets" where less than one year passes between acquisition and disposal, at the taxpayer's personal income tax rate; a calendar year whose total private-sale gains stay under EUR 1,000 is exempt.