Trade Circle Internet Group in Colombia

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

Is Circle Internet Group trading legal in Colombia?

Colombia neither bans crypto nor licenses it, and those are two different facts that a reader has to hold at once. An individual may lawfully buy, hold and sell crypto-assets, and the tax authority treats that as ordinary asset ownership: DIAN's Concepto Unificado on criptoactivos of 17 October 2023 classifies crypto-assets as intangible assets that form part of a taxpayer's patrimonio and can produce taxable income, and it obliges Colombian tax residents to report their holdings every year.

What Colombia does not have is a supervisory regime. On 26 July 2024 the Superintendencia Financiera stated that it does not supervise, regulate, oversee, endorse or grant permits for transactions or business models based on virtual assets, and that dealings in digital or crypto-assets are not part of the financial system.

What the contract is

A perpetual on CRCL tracks price and does not confer ownership of the underlying — the same contract mechanics apply in every jurisdiction; what differs by country is legal status and funding rails.

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 CRCL-PERP

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

CRCL-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of CRCL 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.

No crypto-specific rate. DIAN treats crypto-assets as intangible assets (bienes inmateriales o incorporales): holdings are declared in patrimonio at 31 December each year, and profits fall under the ordinary impuesto sobre la renta y complementarios; there is no dedicated crypto regime. Airdrop rewards are the one carve-out the concept names, treated as ganancia ocasional under art. 302 of the Estatuto Tributario.

Trading CRCL from Colombia: legal.

Colombia traders can fund Circle Internet Group positions using Bank transfer (COP).

17 platforms serve Colombia for Circle Internet Group trading, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

Canborsa offers up to 10x leverage on Circle Internet Group for traders based in Colombia.

On Canborsa, Circle Internet Group trading from Colombia costs 0.07% per side.