Rules & regulation 4 guides
What you can and cannot do here, and where the boundary sits. This group is the precondition for everything else — know the edges before you worry about the mechanics.
- Buying and selling crypto in Kazakhstan: what an individual can actually do — 19 min read
- Where unlicensed P2P crosses the line, starting from a real case — 11 min read
- Checking the AFSA licence register yourself — 9 min read
- Crypto tax in Kazakhstan: what actually matters — 10 min read
Accounts & onboarding 4 guides
From opening an account to keeping it safe: which platform, getting through verification, what to do when it fails, and when to take assets into your own hands.
- Opening a Binance account from Kazakhstan, start to finish — 16 min read
- Binance Kazakhstan and the global platform: which one to use — 10 min read
- Verification rejected? Work through it by symptom — 8 min read
- Holding your own crypto: seed phrases, hardware wallets, and how coins are actually lost — 11 min read
Getting money in and out 3 guides
How money gets in and out, and why this is where most of the trouble is. Local bank rails, peer-to-peer and crypto cards each have their own cost.
- Buying USDT with Kaspi, and why bank cards get frozen — 11 min read
- Cashing out to tenge: back to your Kazakh bank card — 9 min read
- Crypto cards in Kazakhstan: what they do and do not solve — 9 min read
Risk & self-protection 3 guides
What to know before something goes wrong, and what to do after. Cross-border receipts leg by leg, the order of operations on a frozen card, and the real layers of stablecoin risk.
- Taking trade payments in USDT: which leg is the risky one — 12 min read
- Your card is frozen: the first 72 hours — 9 min read
- What USDT actually is, and why Central Asia leans on it — 12 min read
And five tools
Alongside the guides there are five small tools you can use directly: Tenge / USDT / yuan cross rates, Personal use, or an unlicensed business, Licence verification checklist, P2P risk self-check, Crypto terms in three languages. All of them on the tools page.