Trade Hedera in India

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

Is Hedera trading legal in India?

Spot crypto and holding crypto are lawful in India — the state taxes gains on virtual digital assets and licenses nothing, so the activity is permitted but sits outside any prudential regulator. Crypto is not legal tender.

Leveraged derivatives are the separate and harder question: no Indian exchange lists crypto perpetuals or CFDs, no regulator supervises them, and the Ministry of Finance says plainly that crypto products are unregulated and may leave no recourse; several of the offshore venues FIU-IND moved against in October 2025 were perp or margin exchanges, cited for missing AML registration. Retail foreign-exchange margin trading through overseas internet portals is separately prohibited under FEMA.

What the contract is

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

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

HBAR-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of HBAR 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 income from the transfer of a virtual digital asset, with no deduction other than cost of acquisition and no set-off or carry-forward of losses, plus 1% TDS under section 194S on payment for a transfer to a resident.

Trading Hedera from India: regulated.

Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) administers AML registration; the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governs payments and foreign exchange; the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) governs securities and derivatives.

For India residents trading Hedera: 30% on income from the transfer of a virtual digital asset, with no deduction other than cost of acquisition and no set-off or carry-forward of losses, plus 1% TDS under section 194S on payment for a transfer to a resident.

From India, you can fund a Hedera position using UPI, IMPS/NEFT/RTGS bank transfer and USDT P2P.

India residents can trade Hedera on 12 platforms, including ApeX, Aster and dYdX.