How to Trade Stellar (XLM) in Georgia

From Georgia, exposure to Stellar runs through a USDC-settled perpetual.

Is Stellar trading legal in Georgia?

Georgia treats owning and trading crypto as lawful and puts its regulation on the businesses. Since the National Bank of Georgia took the sector under supervision, anyone providing a virtual asset service in the country must be registered with it: exchange between crypto and fiat (explicitly including via kiosks), transfers, custody, portfolio management, running a trading platform, lending and initial coin offerings all count as virtual asset services. The National Bank stated on 7 October 2025 that under the Organic Law on the National Bank of Georgia it is strictly prohibited for anyone not registered as a VASP, and not otherwise an authorised financial sector entity, to provide virtual asset services — and it extended that explicitly to the Free Industrial Zones, which had been used as a workaround.

What the contract is

The contract itself does not change by geography: a XLM 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 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.

Trading Stellar from Georgia: legal.

საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი (National Bank of Georgia, NBG) registers and supervises Virtual Asset Service Providers and licenses capital-market intermediaries.

From Georgia, you can fund a Stellar position using Cash at a crypto kiosk / exchange office and GEL bank transfer.

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