Trade Stellar in Switzerland

Stellar (XLM) is tradable as a perpetual from Switzerland: the legal status, working funding rails and the practical route are below.

Is Stellar trading legal in Switzerland?

Spot crypto is legal in Switzerland and the service side around it is licensed: FINMA publishes a standing list of the crypto services it supervises - custody, DLT payment systems, staking, stablecoins, crypto funds and ETPs, DLT securities trading - and treats each as a supervisory-law question. Accepting client crypto is a licensable activity: FINMA authorisation is required once the number of clients whose deposits or crypto-based assets you accept passes twenty, and operating a venue for DLT securities trading needs a DLT trading facility licence.

Holding, buying and selling crypto as a private individual is unrestricted, and the Federal Tax Administration confirms the point from the other side by taxing crypto holdings as ordinary movable assets. What leveraged crypto derivatives a Swiss retail client may be offered is a separate question.

What the contract is

A perpetual on XLM 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 XLM-PERP

Pick XLM in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 5x .

XLM-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of XLM 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.

No capital gains tax for a private investor: the FTA treats buying and selling payment tokens like transactions in conventional currencies, so gains in private assets are in principle tax-free and losses non-deductible. Two things are taxed instead.

Trading XLM from Switzerland: legal.

Regulator for Stellar trading in Switzerland: Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority).

No capital gains tax for a private investor: the FTA treats buying and selling payment tokens like transactions in conventional currencies, so gains in private assets are in principle tax-free and losses non-deductible.

For Stellar traders in Switzerland: Remote identity verification is the norm and is expressly regulated: FINMA lists digital client onboarding among the crypto-adjacent services it supervises and points to Circular 2016/7 on video and online identification, updated in 2021, as the governing text.

Switzerland residents can trade Stellar on 13 platforms, including ApeX, Aster and dYdX.