Trade Ethereum in Peru

Ethereum (ETH) is tradable as a perpetual from Peru: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Ethereum trading legal in Peru?

Peru does not ban crypto, and it does not licence it either. The state's one firm hold on the sector is anti-money-laundering: the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP, through the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera del Perú, publishes the list of 'sujetos obligados' - the businesses that must report to the UIF - and item 30 on that list is 'Proveedores de Servicios de Activos Virtuales (PSAV)'. That is a reporting duty: nothing here requires a Peruvian crypto venue to hold a licence, sets capital or conduct requirements for one, or prohibits an individual from buying, holding or selling crypto.

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.

Crypto gains are taxed at an effective rate of 6.25% as second-category income.

Trading ETH from Peru: legal.

Regulator for Ethereum trading in Peru: Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) and Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera del Perú (UIF).

For Peru residents trading Ethereum: Crypto gains are taxed at an effective rate of 6.25% as second-category income.

Peru traders can fund Ethereum positions using Bank Transfer, Debit Card and Mobile Money (Yape, Plin).

On Canborsa, traders in Peru can use up to 25x leverage on Ethereum.