Around-the-clock settlement
Pix settles individually and instantly, around the clock — there is no daily operating window to open or close. Two adjacent surfaces are windowed against their own reference periods: Pix Automático scheduling (agendamento) carries settlement windows for each scheduled instruction, and Conta PI reports are windowed to a balance or extract reference period.
Certificate rotation
The Pix signing certificate is managed by its lifecycle. You upload the public
.cer and deactivate a certificate you are retiring; an uploaded private key is rejected, fail-closed. Only SHA-256 fingerprints and public metadata are stored, so no key material is ever exposed in a response. Certificate warnings surface before expiry becomes a problem.
Contingency and recovery
When a payment gets stuck, the rail exposes only the actions it can actually perform:
- A stuck-operations view lists items that need attention.
- Recovery-eligibility evaluation decides whether an operation can be recovered.
- A recovery action or manual resolution clears an eligible operation.
- A manual-authorization approvals workflow gates operations that require an explicit sign-off before they proceed.
- Evidence-export jobs package the record of an operation for audit or dispute.
Reconciliation
Reconciliation runs at several grains so the rail’s state never drifts from BACEN’s:
- DICT reconciliation runs, both full and driven by BACEN’s event list, keep the key directory in step.
- Orphaned-key cleanup removes keys left behind by an interrupted flow.
- Claim-deadline processing advances or closes claims against their BACEN windows.
- Per-settlement reconcile aligns each payment’s settlement state with the ledger.
Settlement invariants
Two invariants hold throughout:
- A submit is dispatch, not confirmation. An accepted submit means dispatch was accepted. Only the inbound
pacs.002status reply yieldssettledorrejected, with BACEN’s fields projected verbatim. - The rail is money-neutral. It forwards declared amounts exactly and computes no position or balance — every accounting position lives in Midaz.

