Trade Chainlink in Côte d'Ivoire

Chainlink (LINK) is tradable as a perpetual from Côte d'Ivoire: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Chainlink trading legal in Côte d'Ivoire?

Côte d'Ivoire has no crypto law, and the region is still deciding. Monetary and prudential authority sits with the BCEAO, the central bank shared by the eight UEMOA states, and its own inventory of the texts governing financial stability in the Union runs through monetary policy, banking, payment systems, microfinance, external financial relations, anti-money-laundering, electronic money and payment services without a single instrument on crypto-assets.

What the contract is

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

Pick LINK in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 20x .

LINK-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of LINK 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.

Côte d'Ivoire applies no tax on cryptocurrency gains, so no capital gains rate applies to crypto disposals.

Trading LINK from Côte d'Ivoire: not clearly regulated.

For Côte d'Ivoire residents trading Chainlink: Côte d'Ivoire applies no tax on cryptocurrency gains, so no capital gains rate applies to crypto disposals.

Under the UMOA's 2023 anti-money-laundering law, virtual asset service providers in Côte d'Ivoire must obtain prior approval and comply with due diligence, reporting, and document retention obligations.

Canborsa charges 0.07% per side (0.14% round trip) on Chainlink.