The secretary of finance and planning commented on the city’s plans to put a percentage of the treasury into bitcoin. Brazil has tax breaks for bitcoin miners.
B3, the Brazilian stock exchange, will begin trading bitcoin futures contracts within the next three to six months and hopes to offer crypto-based services.
XP is the largest broker by market value in Brazil and they intend to launch bitcoin trading by the end of June this year, in partnership with Nasdaq and BitGo.