Trade NEAR Protocol in Austria

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

Is NEAR Protocol trading legal in Austria?

Spot crypto is legal and the service side is supervised: MiCAR applies directly, and the Austrian accompanying act, the MiCA-Verordnung-Vollzugsgesetz (MiCA-VVG), was passed by the National Council on 3 July 2024 and entered into force on 20 July 2024, naming the FMA as the competent authority. Buying, holding and selling crypto-assets as a retail investor is unrestricted, and market abuse in crypto-assets is prosecuted as an administrative offence under sections 13 and following of the MiCA-VVG, with fines up to EUR 5 million for individuals and EUR 15 million or 15 percent of annual turnover for legal persons.

What the contract is

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

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

NEAR-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of NEAR 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.

27.5% special tax rate (besonderer Steuersatz) on income from cryptocurrencies. Section 27(1) EStG counts income from cryptocurrencies among income from capital assets; section 27b defines that income as current income plus income from realised increases in value; section 27a(1) no. 2 sets the special rate at 27.5% for everything other than bank deposits and unsecuritised bank claims, which take 25%.

Trading NEAR from Austria: legal.

For Austria residents trading NEAR Protocol: 27.5% special tax rate (besonderer Steuersatz) on income from cryptocurrencies.

From Austria, you can fund a NEAR Protocol position using SEPA bank transfer (EUR).

Canborsa offers up to 20x leverage on NEAR Protocol for traders based in Austria.