Crypto & Digital Assets - El Salvador

RegulatedDigital Assets Issuance Law (Ley de Emisión de Activos Digitales, Legislative Decree No. 643 of 2023), administered by the National Commission of Digital Assets (Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales / CNAD)

El Salvador regulates virtual-asset service providers under the Digital Assets Issuance Law (LEAD/DAIL), in force since 1 February 2023, which created the CNAD as the dedicated regulator and a registration regime for Digital Asset Service Providers (PSAD/DASP). DASPs must register with CNAD, maintain a local entity and AML/CFT framework, and are subject to market-integrity, disclosure and ongoing reporting duties; the separate Bitcoin Law track (BSP licensing via the central bank, BCR) covers Bitcoin-specific services. Licensed digital-asset activity benefits from broad tax exemptions, and CNAD operates short statutory approval timelines but has intensified post-licensing scrutiny.

Machine-assisted translation · verified 5/23/2026 · orientation, not legal advice. English version →