Trade Hyperliquid in Ukraine

This page answers one question for Ukraine: how a resident actually gets HYPE exposure, and what the rules say.

Is Hyperliquid trading legal in Ukraine?

Ukraine is the case where the framework exists on paper and has no legal force. Spot is neither banned nor regulated - it sits outside the legal perimeter.

Leveraged derivatives are a separate question with a separate answer. Derivative contracts are capital-market instruments that require an NSSMC licence, and the statutory list of things a derivative may be written on does not include virtual assets, so crypto perpetuals and CFDs cannot be licensed in Ukraine at all; there is no domestic venue for them, and no criminal provision aimed at the retail trader either.

What the contract is

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

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

HYPE-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of HYPE 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.

Individuals are subject to 18% personal income tax plus a 5% military levy on crypto gains and income from virtual asset transactions.

Trading Hyperliquid from Ukraine: not clearly regulated.

From Ukraine, you can fund a Hyperliquid position using Local bank card to a foreign crypto venue, Bank transfer (hryvnia, domestic) and USDT P2P.

16 platforms serve Ukraine for Hyperliquid trading, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

On Canborsa, traders in Ukraine can use up to 10x leverage on Hyperliquid.