by Nayab Fatima
A new legislative proposal in Brazil works to establish rules on paying part of employee salaries through digital assets especially Bitcoin. According to Federal Deputy Luiz Philippe de Orleans e Bragança, Bill PL 957/2025 from March 12 stipulates voluntary cryptocurrency salary payments under conditions that demand at least 50% of worker pay needs to remain Brazilian real money.
The law lets the Central Bank of Brazil and the government control how expatriate and foreign workers may get their paychecks in cryptocurrency. Under the Section 17 of the Payroll Bill, independent contractors can receive their full payment in digital assets if both parties agreed to it before starting the service.
Brazil’s Blockchain Financial Integration
The Central Bank of Brazil’s approved organizations set the exchange rates when employers pay employees with cryptocurrency. The federal deputy Orleans-Bragança from São Paulo who leads a royal descendant family hopes that letting employees get their full salary payments in cryptocurrency will boost Brazil’s financial technologies and draw crypto investors.
This measure gives employees and employers more choice to shape their work relationships within their basic employment protections according to the bill text. The new law tracks worldwide practices that other nations embraced including Switzerland and Japan. Turkey and Russia continue to prohibit people from using cryptocurrencies for money transactions.
El Salvador started letting people make Bitcoin payments to taxes and the government but had to change this service when it agreed with the IMF in 2021. Brazil continues exploring ways to bring blockchain and cryptocurrency into its financial structure along with its salary proposal.
Future Of Crypto Salary Payments
According to Valor International news on March 12 the Brazilian government has launched a plan to improve crypto and blockchain technology within the BRICS economic bloc. Orleans-Bragança maintains that the legislation combines financial advancements with proper control procedures. The legal requirement to use the Brazilian real for half of salary payments shields workers from crypto market instability yet lets them keep their digital asset preference.
The bill wants to make clear how payments made with crypto currencies should be taxed and regulated. The new system requires organizations to use approved financial institution exchange rates when paying employees through Bitcoin and digital currencies. The new rule exists to shield taxpayers from fraud and improve the visibility of digital transactions.
When this law takes effect it will make Brazil the global leader in managing crypto salary payments through financial systems. The legislative body will now examine the suggestion and accepting it could help cryptocurrency become more accepted throughout Brazil’s work market.
The introduction of the bill matches up with growing usage of cryptocurrencies across multiple nations. Increased numbers of businesses and people now choose to pay in crypto instead of bank channels because a global move toward new payment methods is underway. The proposed bill helps Brazil move between digital finance systems and traditional employment standards.
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