How to Trade Ethereum (ETH) in Spain

From Spain, exposure to Ethereum runs through a USDC-settled perpetual.

Is Ethereum trading legal in Spain?

Spot crypto is lawful in Spain, and the question of who may serve a Spanish resident is now settled by MiCA. To provide crypto-asset services anywhere in the EU a firm must be authorised as a crypto-asset service provider under Article 63 of MiCA, or be an already-regulated financial institution — a credit institution, central securities depository, investment firm, market operator, e-money institution, UCITS management company or AIFM — authorised to provide crypto services under Article 60.

A provider licensed in another EU member state may serve Spain once it has obtained its MiCA authorisation there and notified its intention to operate in Spain. The CNMV's own investor page on CFDs describes them generically as leveraged, high-risk, non-standardised products traded off regulated markets, and says nothing about crypto underlyings or about what may be sold to a Spanish retail client.

What the contract is

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

Pick ETH in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 25x .

ETH-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of ETH 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.

Capital gains from cryptocurrency are subject to capital gains tax with progressive rates ranging from 19% to 28% depending on gain amount.

Trading Ethereum from Spain: legal.

Regulator for Ethereum trading in Spain: Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV).

For Spain residents trading Ethereum: Capital gains from cryptocurrency are subject to capital gains tax with progressive rates ranging from 19% to 28% depending on gain amount.

Canborsa charges 0.07% per side (0.14% round trip) on Ethereum.