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Binance's prohibited countries in one listCountries not on the list where futures are still closedWhat "restricted" actually means for an existing accountThe same countries on other exchangesHow to check your own country before you sign up
Binance's prohibited countries in one list
Binance publishes one document that decides this: the List of Prohibited Countries, last updated 5 January 2026. The United States is the strictest case. If you live there, if you are a US citizen living anywhere else, or if your business operates from there, Binance will not open an account for you. For everywhere else on the list — Canada, the Netherlands, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Crimea and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics — the rule is simpler: residents cannot hold an account.
- United States — residents and US citizens anywhere in the world
- Canada — residents
- Netherlands — residents
- Cuba — residents
- Iran — residents
- North Korea — residents
- Crimea — residents
- The so-called Donetsk People's Republic — residents
- The so-called Luhansk People's Republic — residents
That is the whole list. Syria is not on it, even though blog articles and copied listicles from 2019–2023 still show it, and some of them also add countries Binance has never named. If a page gives you a long list of twenty banned countries with no date and no link to the document, treat it as noise.
The table below shows the same statuses as our country research file, with the document each one comes from. Read it as a yes/no on account access first, then look at the derivatives column — the two are not the same thing.
| Country or region | What the document says |
|---|---|
| United States | Residents and US citizens anywhere |
| Canada | Residents |
| Netherlands | Residents |
| Cuba | Not available |
| North Korea | Not available |
| Iran | Not available |
| Crimea | Not available |
| So-called Donetsk People’s Republic | Not available |
| So-called Luhansk People’s Republic | Not available |
The Terms of Use (effective 21 Jul 2026) add that services may be wholly or partly restricted in other countries too, and that using a VPN to get around a restriction is not allowed. Separate notices closed futures in Hong Kong, Australia, Germany and Italy (2021) and moved Japan to Binance Japan (2023).
statuses checked 25 Oct 2026 in the exchanges’ own documents, List of Prohibited Countries (5 Jan 2026).
Countries not on the list where futures are still closed
A country can be perfectly fine for a Binance account and still have no futures. Binance closes futures in a country with a separate announcement, not through the prohibited list. That is why blog pages so often disagree: they read one document and miss the other.
If you live in Hong Kong or Australia, your account may open fine but the futures section will not. Binance closed futures, options, margin and leveraged tokens to Hong Kong users in August 2021, and stopped opening new Australian futures accounts in July 2021, with derivatives restricted more broadly that August. A separate notice from July 2021 did the same for Germany, Italy and the Netherlands — that page still carries its 2021 date and no newer official notice replaces it, so treat it as the last published word rather than a guarantee of today's position. Derivatives are also not offered to users in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea and New Zealand.
Japan works differently. From 1 December 2023 Japanese residents were moved off the global platform to Binance Japan, a separate company with its own product list. Kazakhstan works the other way: since March 2025 Binance Kazakhstan has offered eligible local users a full futures line-up, including copying other traders' trades. A local entity can mean fewer products than the global site, or sometimes different ones — the only way to know is to look at the app you are actually signed in to.
One list, two questions. "Can I open an account?" and "can I trade futures?" have different answers in Hong Kong, Australia, the UK, Brazil, South Korea, New Zealand, Germany and Italy. Check both before you deposit, not after.
What "restricted" actually means for an existing account
When Binance has closed a country before, it published dates in advance. In the Netherlands it stopped taking new Dutch users on 16 June 2023, and from 17 July 2023 the people already there could only withdraw. That is one example, not a promise of how it would go next time — if a notice ever appears for your country, read the dates in it and move your money before they pass. In Hong Kong the August 2021 notice covered the derivatives products only — futures, options, margin and leveraged tokens — not the whole account.
The Terms of Use effective 21 July 2026 add two things worth reading before you sign up. Services "may be wholly or partially restricted" in countries beyond the published list, and Binance can set extra eligibility rules for a single service or a single jurisdiction. You also agree, when you sign up, not to get around restrictions, including by using a virtual private network. If the exchange later sees that you signed up from a blocked country, or with documents that are not yours, your account can be closed and getting your money out becomes the exchange's decision, not yours. That is not a risk worth taking with your own deposit.
If your country is on the list, the honest answer is that Binance is not for you, and there is no clever way around it. Our country guides walk through what is left where you live, including whether local law allows leveraged crypto at all.
The same countries on other exchanges
Being blocked on Binance does not mean being blocked everywhere, and the reverse is also true — OKX restricts India and Japan, which Binance does not name, while Gate's restricted-locations list is far longer than Binance's. The matrix below puts the five venues we cover side by side for the countries readers ask about most. Find your row, then read across: an empty or unconfirmed cell means the exchange's own documents do not name your country, and the app decides after identity verification.
| Country | Binance | Bybit | OKX | Hyperliquid | Binance Wallet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Bangladesh | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Canada | Not available | Not available | Not available | Restricted | Not available |
| Egypt | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| France | Not confirmed | Via a local company | Via a local company | Not on its banned list | Not confirmed |
| Germany | Restricted | Via a local company | Via a local company | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Hong Kong | Restricted | Not available | Not available | Not on its banned list | Not confirmed |
| India | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not available | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Indonesia | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Japan | Via a local company | Not available | Not available | Not on its banned list | Not confirmed |
| Kazakhstan | Via a local company | Restricted | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Malaysia | Restricted | Restricted | Not available | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Nepal | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not available | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Netherlands | Not available | Via a local company | Via a local company | Not on its banned list | Not available |
| Pakistan | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Singapore | Restricted | Not available | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Not confirmed |
| Sri Lanka | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Thailand | Not on its banned list | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| Turkey | Not on its banned list | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
| United Kingdom | Not confirmed | Not available | Restricted | Not on its banned list | Not available |
| United States | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Vietnam | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list | Not on its banned list |
Status for residents, from the exchange’s own documents and the local regulator’s actions. “Not on its banned list” does not mean trading is legal where you live: check the local law above, and the app gives the final answer after KYC.
statuses checked 25 Oct 2026 in the exchanges’ own documents, Binance, Bybit, OKX, Hyperliquid, Binance Wallet (Aster).
For the detail behind each column there are separate pages on Bybit's restricted countries, OKX's list and what Hyperliquid's Terms say. If you simply want to know which venue tends to work where you live, start from which futures exchanges are available in my country.
How to check your own country before you sign up
Lists change without notice and local law changes faster than any exchange page. Four checks take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.
Read the list at the source
Open binance.com/en/legal/list-of-prohibited-countries and look at the "Updated" date at the top. If your country appears there, stop — nothing else on this page helps.
Check your own law, not just the exchange
An exchange not naming your country never means leverage is legal where you live. Turkey, Singapore, Japan and Indonesia all have local rules on leverage that apply no matter what Binance publishes — in Japan, for example, leverage for individuals is capped at 2x. Our country pages cover the main ones.
Start the sign-up and finish verification
The app asks for your country of residence and your documents. Eligibility is applied at that point, and anything blocked for you simply will not appear in the menu.
Look for the futures section itself
Once verified, open the derivatives area. If futures are closed in your country you will see it there, before you have deposited anything.
If your country is clear on all four, you can open a Binance account and see the real product list for yourself rather than guessing from an article. What Binance offers once you are in — contracts, fees, leverage tiers — is covered in our Binance futures overview.
Is Binance banned in my country?
Only if your country appears on the List of Prohibited Countries, last updated 5 January 2026: the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Crimea and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Anywhere else, Binance's documents do not ban you, though individual services can still be limited and your local law may have its own rules.
Which countries does Binance support?
Binance does not publish a "supported countries" list, which is why you will never find a reliable one. It publishes the prohibited list and separate notices for specific products. The practical test is to verify your identity and see which sections open in your account.
Can I get around a Binance country restriction?
No, and you agree not to try when you sign up: the Terms of Use effective 21 July 2026 say users must not circumvent restrictions, including by using a virtual private network. If the exchange later finds out, your account can be closed and getting your money back becomes its decision rather than yours. If your country is on the list, look instead at what is legal and available where you live.
Why do blog lists of Binance banned countries all differ?
Most of them copy an old restricted-countries help article from around 2019 that Binance no longer maintains. That is how Syria keeps appearing even though the current document does not name it. Check the date on the official PDF — if a page cannot show you one, ignore it.
Binance accepts my country but I see no futures. Why?
Futures were closed by separate announcements in Hong Kong and Australia, and derivatives are not offered to users in the UK, Brazil, South Korea and New Zealand. A 2021 notice — still the newest one Binance has published on this — covered Germany and Italy, so check in the app whether that is still the case. Some countries are also served by a local Binance company with its own product list. Account access and futures access are two different switches.
What happens to my money if Binance restricts my country later?
In the Netherlands, new sign-ups stopped first, then trading and deposits, while withdrawals stayed open and the dates were published ahead of time. That was one case, not a rule. If a notice ever appears for your country, read the dates in it and move your money out before they pass rather than assuming the same sequence.
