Trade Samsung Electronics in Austria

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

Is Samsung Electronics 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

A perpetual on SMSN 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 SMSN-PERP

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

SMSN-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of SMSN 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 SMSN from Austria: legal.

Austria traders can fund Samsung Electronics positions using SEPA bank transfer (EUR).

10 platforms serve Austria for Samsung Electronics trading, among them Aevo, ApeX and Extended.

Canborsa offers up to 20x leverage on Samsung Electronics for traders based in Austria.

On Canborsa, Samsung Electronics trading from Austria costs 0.07% per side.