Getting paid in stablecoins used to be a contractor thing. Deel just changed that.
The global payroll and compliance platform has integrated Polygon to enable stablecoin salary payouts for full-time employees in the Eurozone and the United States. That’s a meaningful distinction: contractors have had access to crypto payment rails for a while now, but extending the same option to salaried employees, with all the tax withholding and compliance overhead that entails, is a different beast entirely.
From contractors to full-time staff
Deel already processes stablecoin payments for over 10,000 contractors spread across 100 countries. The Polygon integration takes that infrastructure and applies it to the far more regulated world of full-time employment.
Employers can now fund payroll directly in stablecoins, and employees receive those payments within Deel’s compliant ecosystem. No separate crypto payroll system required.
