
Brazil's CVM aims to deliver draft rules for tokenized securities within 60 days via a new working group, as $740M in tokenization volumes loom by 2025.
Brazil's securities regulator is moving to put tokenized assets under a formal rulebook. The CVM announced Friday it has created a working group tasked with designing an experimental regulatory regime for securities tokenization, with a first draft due in 60 days.
The group brings together 14 commission staff plus outside participants. Its mandate covers registration, deposit, custody, trading, and settlement of onchain securities. The CVM said the group will study sandbox results, run comparative analyses, and assess how decentralized technologies affect capital market structure.
CVM President Otto Lobo called tokenization "a structural transformation of the capital market" that demands fresh regulation. The working group will deliver a proposal for the experimental regime within the first 60 days and a final report with regulatory recommendations after 120 days, with a possible 30-day extension.
The push comes as tokenized issuance gains traction in Brazil. Crowdfunding rules already allow issuances of up to $2.78 million with a 180-day duration. The CVM estimates tokenization volumes will surpass $740 million in 2025, driven largely by those rules.
Separately, the CVM has begun sending letters to tokenization companies asking about the nature of their operations, several firms said. That fact-gathering effort is running parallel to the working group's work.
The experimental regime aims to test rules before they become permanent. Lobo said the group will "assess opportunities, face challenges, and build, in a coordinated manner, the foundations for a modern, secure regulatory environment aligned with the evolution of the Brazilian capital market."
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