How to Trade Gram (GRAM) in Argentina

Getting Gram exposure from Argentina takes a wallet and USDC; the legal status and rail-by-rail detail follow.

Is Gram trading legal in Argentina?

Nothing prohibits an individual from buying, holding or selling crypto. What Argentina does bar is the banking system's involvement: BCRA Comunicacion 'A' 7506 of 5 May 2022 tells financial entities they may neither carry out nor facilitate for their clients operations in digital assets - expressly including crypto-assets and instruments whose returns are determined by the movements of those assets - unless authorised by a competent national regulator or by the BCRA itself.

That wording reaches beyond spot: an instrument whose return tracks a crypto price is exactly a perpetual or a CFD, so an Argentine bank cannot route or facilitate that exposure for a customer. It does not, on its own, settle what a non-bank venue may offer Argentine retail clients, and the CNV's rule on leveraged crypto derivatives for retail clients is an open question.

What the contract is

A perpetual on GRAM 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 GRAM-PERP

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

GRAM-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of GRAM 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 tax is 5% for peso-denominated transactions and 15% for foreign-currency transactions.

Trading Gram from Argentina: legal.

Regulator for Gram trading in Argentina: Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV) and Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA).

12 platforms serve Argentina for Gram trading, among them ApeX, Aster and dYdX.

Canborsa offers up to 10x leverage on Gram for traders based in Argentina.

On Canborsa, Gram trading from Argentina costs 0.07% per side.