Spot crypto is legal to hold, buy and sell: MiCA is an EU regulation that applies directly in Romania, it institutes uniform EU market rules for crypto-assets, and it covers exactly those crypto-assets and services that other EU financial-services law does not reach. A Romanian resident is served in practice by a crypto-asset service provider passported in from elsewhere in the EEA: Kraken, for example, serves Romania under an Irish MiCA CASP authorisation (Payward Europe Solutions Limited, CBI reg. C468360) passported to all EEA states, and Romania appears in that venue's EEA list while appearing nowhere in its prohibited-regions list.
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.
10 venues open Gram perps to traders in Romania.
ApeX
Aster
gTrade
Helix
Hyperliquid
Lighter
Paradex
ReyaFour steps from sign-up to an open position.
16% personal income tax on the gain from the transfer of virtual currency, self-assessed by the taxpayer on the Single Return (Declarația unică). The gain is the positive difference between sale price and acquisition price including direct transaction costs, so it is computed per transaction.
Trading Gram from Romania: legal.
Regulator for Gram trading in Romania: Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară (ASF) and Banca Națională a României (BNR), the central bank, which maintains its own crypto-assets and MiCA section.
For Gram traders in Romania: Crypto-asset businesses in Romania operate under the EU's MiCA regulation, the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation, and anti-money-laundering legislation, alongside Romania's national payment services regime.
Romania residents can trade Gram on 12 platforms, including ApeX, Aster and dYdX.