How to Trade Zcash (ZEC) in Cambodia

From Cambodia, exposure to Zcash runs through a USDC-settled perpetual.

Is Zcash trading legal in Cambodia?

Cambodia moved from prohibition to a licensing regime on 26 December 2024, and the licence it created cannot yet be obtained. The National Bank of Cambodia's Prakas No.

B7-024-735 on Transaction Related to Cryptoassets recognises cryptoassets as a category, sorts them into Group 1 (tokenized traditional assets and fully backed stablecoins meeting a redemption-risk test) and Group 2 (everything else, expressly including unbacked cryptoassets such as Bitcoin), and creates a class of cryptoasset service provider. Article 20 sets out exhaustively what a CASP may do: exchange cryptoassets against fiat in either direction, transfer them, and hold or administer them in custody.

Article 19 then says any entity wishing to operate as a CASP must obtain a licence from the NBC and that the criteria and conditions for that licence are provided in a separate Prakas.

What the contract is

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

Pick ZEC in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 10x .

ZEC-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of ZEC 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.

Capital gains from cryptocurrency sales are taxed at a flat rate of 20%.

Trading Zcash from Cambodia: regulated.

Cambodia residents can trade Zcash on 19 platforms, including Aevo, ApeX and Aster.

Canborsa offers up to 10x leverage on Zcash for traders based in Cambodia.

On Canborsa, Zcash trading from Cambodia costs 0.07% per side.