How to Trade Ethereum (ETH) in Uzbekistan

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

Is Ethereum trading legal in Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan permits crypto and taxes it at zero, then closes the market to a short list of nationally licensed venues. Ownership and trading are lawful, and the state has gone further than tolerance: until 1 January 2029, transactions of legal entities and individuals connected with crypto-asset turnover are not objects of taxation and the income from them is not included in the taxable base.

Two hard boundaries define the rest. First, venue: since 1 January 2023, citizens and legal entities of Uzbekistan may carry out purchase, sale or exchange of crypto-assets 'exclusively through national service providers', and service providers 'may be exclusively legal entities that are residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan'.

The licensed provider types are the crypto-exchange, the mining pool, the crypto-depository and the crypto-shop.

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.

Zero, under a dated exemption. Crypto-asset transactions of both individuals and legal entities — non-residents included — are outside the object of taxation until 1 January 2029, and the income from them is excluded from the taxable base for all taxes and other obligatory payments (Presidential Resolution No. PP-3832 of 03.07.2018, paragraph 2, as amended by Presidential Decree No.

Trading Ethereum from Uzbekistan: regulated.

Regulator for Ethereum trading in Uzbekistan: National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) licenses crypto-exchanges, crypto-depositories, crypto-shops and mining pools, registers miners, and writes the trading rules for crypto-asset turnover.

For Uzbekistan residents trading Ethereum: Zero, under a dated exemption.

For Ethereum traders in Uzbekistan: Full identity verification at a licensed national exchange, with an unusually long retention obligation.

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