Trade Monero in Sweden

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

Is Monero trading legal in Sweden?

Spot crypto is legal and the service side is supervised under MiCAR, which FI describes as replacing national regulation of crypto-assets where such existed and as directly applicable in every EU member state, including Sweden; a Swedish complementary act, the kompletteringslag to the MiCA Regulation, fills in the national detail. Buying, holding and selling crypto-assets as a retail investor is unrestricted. Leveraged derivatives sit in a different regime and FI says so explicitly: instruments that track the value of bitcoin or other crypto-assets are not regulated by MiCAR but by MiFID and MiFIR.

What the contract is

A perpetual on XMR 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 XMR-PERP

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

XMR-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of XMR 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.

30% on the whole gain, taxed as income from capital; losses are deductible at 70%. Skatteverket treats a crypto-to-crypto exchange as a disposal that must be declared, which is the opposite of the Austrian rule, and the same applies to paying for goods or services with crypto, lending crypto out and using it as a gambling stake.

Trading XMR from Sweden: legal.

Identity is established with BankID, Sweden's bank-issued electronic identification.

Sweden traders can fund Monero positions using Swish, BankID-authenticated bank transfer (SEK) and SEPA bank transfer (EUR).

Sweden residents can trade Monero on 17 platforms, including Aevo, Aster and Avantis.