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# Chile Crypto & Digital Asset Regulation

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trajectory: not yet assessed in transition overlaps: [Sentinel (AML/CFT)](https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/chile/)

Last updated 2026-10-25 · 9 categories · 19 sourced
findings · 24 sources in the cumulative register

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Evidence re-verified: 2026-10-25 · Position last changed: 2026-10-25 · Record history & provenance ▾ Methodology & record provenance: Module confidence is derived from the underlying claims (source tier and primary excerpt retention), while statutory legal force is tracked independently.

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Lead supervisory authority U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Banco de Chile) Primary statutory & supervisory perimeter

Next milestone (> 2026-10-26) 2026-Q4 BCCh stablecoin consultation expected

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## Jurisdiction lead brief

###### Latest update · 25 October 2026

#### Lead Signal

Chile's crypto-asset regime continues to operate on an activity-dependent licensing perimeter rather than a consolidated VASP framework, and the gap at its centre, the absence of a dedicated stablecoin standard, remains open as of 13 October 2026. The Banco Central de Chile has the statutory power under Ley 21.521, articles 30 and 31, to issue a general rule setting standards for DLT-based representations of value backed by fiat money, but as of that date it has not exercised that power. In the vacuum this leaves, the Comision para el Mercado Financiero's Official Letter 101082, dated 12 June 2026, is doing the operative work: it holds that crypto-assets generally qualify as financial instruments under the Fintech Law, which in turn means that any provider of services involving them, including providers of fiat-referenced tokens, needs CMF registration and authorisation absent a dedicated BCCh standard carving them out. This is a jurisdiction where the regulator-of-first-resort (CMF) has filled the space the specialist regulator (BCCh) has not yet occupied, and that allocation is itself provisional until BCCh acts.

#### Other Developments

The licensing perimeter beneath that stablecoin question has itself been under incremental clarification. CMF General Rule 502, in force since 12 January 2024, requires registration in the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros and, for intermediation and custody of crypto-assets specifically, prior CMF authorisation before an entity may operate. On 9 February 2026, CMF's General Rule 559 introduced a prior-notice, or aviso previo, mechanism for entities already supervised by CMF under another regulatory regime that wish to begin providing Fintech Law services, sparing them a fresh full authorisation process where they are already under CMF's supervisory umbrella. A further element of General Rule 502, Chapter XII, imposes a capital surcharge tied to risk management; this has been enacted but is not yet effective, with an entry-into-force date of 1 July 2027, so it should be read as a known future obligation rather than a present one. Together these developments describe a regime being built out activity by activity, under the Fintech Law and CMF's rule-making power, rather than through a single consolidated crypto-asset statute.

#### Cross-Monitor Connections

The BCCh stablecoin rule-making gap identified here is the same fact that the World Payments Monitor is tracking under its own stablecoin and digital-money module for this jurisdiction: the absence of the Ley 21.521 general rule leaves fiat-referenced tokens without a dedicated payments-system standard, which is a payments-infrastructure question as much as a crypto-regulatory one. Readers following correspondent or payment-system treatment of stablecoins in Chile should treat that monitor's module as the complementary view of the same underlying regulatory gap, rather than as an independent finding.

#### Outlook

The central unresolved question for Chile's crypto regime remains when, or whether, the BCCh will exercise its Ley 21.521 article 30-31 power to issue a dedicated general rule for fiat-backed DLT value representations. No published target date for that rule was located. Until it is issued, CMF's financial-instrument classification under Official Letter 101082 will remain the operative legal test for any fiat-referenced token activity in Chile, and the 1 July 2027 capital-surcharge date under General Rule 502 Chapter XII stands as the next scheduled, dated change to the licensing perimeter regardless of what the BCCh does on stablecoins specifically.

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###### Standing brief · as of 11 October 2026

Written before the update above. Where they differ, the update is the more recent position.

#### Lead Signal

Chile's crypto-asset regulatory architecture under Ley N21.521 (Ley Fintec) is operating but has not yet fully absorbed its largest domestic exchanges. As of 6 October 2026, Buda.com and CryptoMKT, the country's most prominent local crypto-asset platforms, remained in registration process before the Comision para el Mercado Financiero, described in reporting as "en proceso de incorporacion" or "en tramite," rather than holding full authorisation as proveedores de servicios sobre activos virtuales (PSAV). This reflects a supervisory-completion lag rather than a gap in the legal perimeter itself: Ley Fintec requires registration in the CMF's Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros and per-service prior authorisation, with a statutory maximum authorisation period of six months, for any entity commercialising enumerated financial services including crypto-asset intermediation and custody.

#### Other Developments

BCCh signals a gradual stablecoin framework. The Banco Central de Chile confirmed it plans to submit a first regulatory proposal on the issuance and payment-functioning of locally-issued stablecoins to public consultation towards the end of 2026, with definitive regulation projected for 2027. This is a deliberately gradual, risk-differentiated approach: the central bank's own signalling suggests Chile will likely adopt a tiered framework distinguishing stablecoin models by systemic risk rather than a single, MiCA-style framework applied uniformly. No substantive stablecoin regulatory text exists yet; the statutory power to regulate exists and is in force, but the content of that regulation remains to be defined through the forthcoming consultation.

Open Finance go-live postponed. CMF Norma de Caracter General N569 postponed the go-live date for the Sistema de Finanzas Abiertas (Open Finance regime) from July 2026 to July 2027, a development with indirect relevance to crypto-asset providers that may eventually sit within an open-finance data-sharing perimeter.

#### Cross-Monitor Connections

The registration-completion gap at Buda.com and CryptoMKT is a direct point of overlap with financial-integrity monitoring: a VASP that is legally obliged to meet AML/KYC standards but has not completed full CMF authorisation sits in a supervisory grey zone that correspondent banks and payment processors should treat distinctly from either a fully authorised or an unregistered platform. The BCCh's stablecoin consultation timeline also connects to broader payments-market developments, since the central bank is pursuing its stablecoin and instant-payments consultation tracks concurrently as part of a gradualist approach to payments-system modernisation.

#### Outlook

The immediate marker to watch is whether CMF completes authorisation for Buda.com, CryptoMKT, or other domestic platforms still in the registration queue, since their current status leaves a defined population of users and counterparties operating with an incompletely supervised intermediary. The BCCh's end-2026 stablecoin consultation is the second marker, and its content will show for the first time how the central bank intends to operationalise a risk-tiered approach to stablecoin regulation in practice.

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Key regulatory facts for Chile Regulatory Dimension Chile Standing Position

Jurisdiction Chile (CL)

Regulatory Scope Crypto & Digital Asset Regulation (9 modules, 19 sourced findings)

Crypto Licensing Chile has no crypto-specific licensing statute.

Token Classification Chile has not enacted a bespoke statutory taxonomy for crypto-assets (no equivalent to MiCA's ART/EMT/utility-token distinctions).

On-Chain Activity Regime No Chile-specific regulatory treatment of on-chain activities (staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node/validator operation, tokenization) was located in this research pass.

Stablecoin Regime No Chile-specific stablecoin authorization, reserve, redemption, disclosure, or systemic-designation regime (analogous to MiCA Titles III/IV) was identified.

Primary Instruments Cited U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Banco de Chile), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Republic of Chile), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Republic of Chile), Ley N°21.521 (Ley Fintec), CMF NCG 559

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### Chile: C1 Crypto LicensingAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Chile has no crypto-specific licensing statute. Instead, the general Fintech Law (Ley N° 21.521, enacted January 2023) created a CMF-administered 'Financial Services Providers Registry' covering an enumerated list of fintech activities (crowdfunding platforms, alternative transaction systems, credit/investment advisory, custody of financial instruments, order routers/financial-instrument intermediaries). CMF General Rule No. 502 (Norma de Carácter General N° 502), effective 3 February 2024, operationalises registration and authorization for these enumerated categories. Crypto-asset exchanges and virtual-asset service providers (VASPs) as such are not an explicitly named category; a crypto business only falls inside the CMF perimeter if its activity matches one of the enumerated services and the underlying token qualifies as a regulated financial instrument. This creates a coverage gap for pure crypto-to-crypto or crypto-to-fiat exchange/custody services that do not intermediate CMF-recognised financial instruments.

Open gap — crypto-int-3 on_chain_activity_regime, tax_treatment and commercial_activity modules were not researched this cycle due to shared search budget constraints. tax_treatment and cross_border_transfer structurally thin for this jurisdiction.

#### Crypto Licensing

Chiles crypto-licensing regime operates under Ley N21.521 (Ley Fintec), which establishes the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros (RPSF) as the entry point for regulated financial-service providers, including crypto-asset platforms. Article 7 of the law establishes the authorisation requirement itself, while Article 13 imposes a twelve-month deadline running from an entitys registration in the RPSF to completion of separate authorisation and compliance with CMF Norma de Caracter General N502 (NCG 502). Failure to meet that deadline permits the CMF to cancel the entitys transitory habilitation to operate. This two-stage structure, registration followed by a time-bound authorisation requirement, is the architectural feature that produced this cycles principal enforcement event.

On 25 June 2026, the CMF exercised exactly this cancellation power under Resolucion Exenta N6825, terminating the RPSF registration of Inversiones Plusservice SpA, operating as Plusspay, and ordering the return of client funds to affected customers. The same action cancelled or rejected approximately twenty other registrations or applications, indicating this was a systematic compliance sweep rather than an isolated case targeting Plusspay alone. The materiality of the Plusspay matter specifically is substantial: prosecutors have linked the platform to a Tren de Aragua money-laundering network alleged to have moved more than USD 84 million through stablecoins, meaning the entity whose registration lapsed under the Article 13 deadline mechanism was simultaneously, on prosecutorial allegation, functioning as a large-scale laundering conduit.

The CMF has separately and publicly acknowledged a structural limit on its own authority: it cannot exercise ongoing supervisory or sanctioning power over platforms that were never registered or authorised under the RPSF framework in the first place. Its available response to such platforms is limited to public alert and referral to prosecutors, a materially weaker toolkit than the cancellation-and-fund-return remedy available against registered entities that default on their Article 13 authorisation obligations. This asymmetry, strong recourse against registered defaulters, weak recourse against never-registered operators, is the single most important structural feature of Chiles crypto-licensing perimeter as it stands.

The practical consequence is a regime that is, in traffic-light terms set by the interpreter, functioning but incompletely closed: a licensing perimeter exists and is actively enforced against entities that cross into it, but the perimeter itself is porous to entities that simply decline to register at all, and the twelve-month Article 13 clock only begins running once an entity has already registered, offering no mechanism to compel registration in the first instance beyond the general requirement to do so.

#### Outlook

The near-term trajectory is one of continued enforcement activity against registered entities that default on their Article 13 authorisation obligations, consistent with the systematic character of the June 2026 cancellation action. Whether the CMF seeks expanded statutory authority to address platforms that never register at all is the open structural question; no source reaching this cycles research indicates such a proposal is under consideration. Future cycles should watch for any amendment to Ley N21.521 addressing this specific gap, and for any further detail on the scale, destination, or current legal status of the stablecoin flows prosecutors have attributed to the Plusspay-linked network.

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#### Crypto Licensing

Chile's crypto-asset licensing perimeter runs through the Fintech Law and the Comision para el Mercado Financiero's implementing general rules rather than through a bespoke VASP statute. CMF General Rule 502, in force since 12 January 2024, is the consolidated instrument: it requires registration in the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros for Fintech Law service providers generally, and, specifically for those engaged in intermediation and custody of crypto-assets, prior CMF authorisation before they may begin operating. This is a two-tier structure: registration as a baseline requirement, and authorisation as an additional, activity-specific gate for the higher-risk custody and intermediation functions.

On 9 February 2026, CMF issued General Rule 559, which introduced a prior-notice, or aviso previo, mechanism. This applies to entities that are already supervised by CMF under a different regulatory regime, such as an existing banking or securities licence, and that wish to extend into Fintech Law services. Rather than requiring those entities to go through a fresh full authorisation process, NCG 559 lets them proceed on the basis of prior notice to CMF, recognising that CMF already has supervisory visibility over them through their existing licence. This is a meaningful simplification for incumbent regulated financial institutions looking to add crypto-asset services, though it does not change the underlying registration-plus-authorisation structure for new entrants without an existing CMF relationship.

A further element of General Rule 502, found in Chapter XII, imposes a capital surcharge tied to risk management. This has been enacted but is not yet in force: its effective date is 1 July 2027. Firms already operating or planning to operate crypto-asset intermediation or custody services in Chile should treat this as a known, dated future compliance obligation rather than a present one, and should plan their capital structure with that mid-2027 date in view.

#### Outlook

The licensing perimeter is being built out activity by activity rather than through a single consolidated statute, and the clearest forward marker is the 1 July 2027 effective date for the General Rule 502 Chapter XII capital surcharge. No further consolidation of the registration-and-authorisation structure into a single VASP license type has been identified; the regime should be expected to continue evolving through further CMF general rules rather than primary legislation in the near term.

2 earlier distinct update(s) Periodic update · new data 2026-10-18

#### Crypto Licensing

Chile's crypto-asset licensing perimeter runs through the Fintech Law and the Comision para el Mercado Financiero's implementing general rules rather than through a bespoke VASP statute. CMF General Rule 502, in force since 12 January 2024, is the consolidated instrument: it requires registration in the Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros for Fintech Law service providers generally, and, specifically for those engaged in intermediation and custody of crypto-assets, prior CMF authorisation before they may begin operating. This is a two-tier structure: registration as a baseline requirement, and authorisation as an additional, activity-specific gate for the higher-risk custody and intermediation functions.

On 9 February 2026, CMF issued General Rule 559, which introduced a prior-notice, or aviso previo, mechanism. This applies to entities that are already supervised by CMF under a different regulatory regime, such as an existing banking or securities licence, and that wish to extend into Fintech Law services. Rather than requiring those entities to go through a fresh full authorisation process, NCG 559 lets them proceed on the basis of prior notice to CMF, recognising that CMF already has supervisory visibility over them through their existing licence. This is a meaningful simplification for incumbent regulated financial institutions looking to add crypto-asset services, though it does not change the underlying registration-plus-authorisation structure for new entrants without an existing CMF relationship.

A further element of General Rule 502, found in Chapter XII, imposes a capital surcharge tied to risk management. This has been enacted but is not yet in force: its effective date is 1 July 2027. Firms already operating or planning to operate crypto-asset intermediation or custody services in Chile should treat this as a known, dated future compliance obligation rather than a present one, and should plan their capital structure with that mid-2027 date in view.

#### Outlook

The licensing perimeter is being built out activity by activity rather than through a single consolidated statute, and the clearest forward marker is the 1 July 2027 effective date for the General Rule 502 Chapter XII capital surcharge. No further consolidation of the registration-and-authorisation structure into a single VASP license type has been identified this cycle; the regime should be expected to continue evolving through further CMF general rules rather than primary legislation in the near term.

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-11

#### Crypto Licensing

Ley N21.521 (Ley Fintec) establishes Chile's core crypto-asset licensing framework. It requires registration in the CMF's Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros (RPSF) and per-service prior authorisation, with a statutory maximum authorisation period of six months, for entities commercialising enumerated financial services including crypto-asset intermediation and custody. This registration and authorisation obligation has been in force since 3 February 2024 and constitutes the binding legal perimeter for any crypto-asset provider operating in Chile.

The practical operation of this perimeter, however, lags its legal scope. As of 6 October 2026, Buda.com and CryptoMKT, Chile's most prominent domestic crypto-asset exchanges, remained described as "en proceso de incorporacion" or "en tramite" before the CMF, rather than holding full authorisation as proveedores de servicios sobre activos virtuales. This indicates a supervisory-completion lag: the obligation to register and meet applicable standards attaches under the statute regardless of where a given platform sits in the authorisation queue, but the CMF's actual completion of authorisation for the largest local platforms has not yet caught up with the legal requirement.

A separate open question concerns PSAV-specific prudential capital requirements. CMF NCG N502 is understood to specify capital or own-funds requirements for certain financial-services providers, but no PSAV-specific capital figure could be located this cycle; only secondary commentary describing a 500 UF routing guarantee applicable to order-routing services with more than 100 clients was found, which is not confirmed to be PSAV-specific. This gap in sourced detail is recorded rather than filled by inference.

Separately, CMF Norma de Caracter General N569 postponed the go-live date for the Sistema de Finanzas Abiertas (Open Finance regime) from July 2026 to July 2027, a development of indirect relevance to crypto-asset providers who may eventually fall within an open-finance data-sharing scope.

#### Outlook

The item to watch most closely is whether CMF completes authorisation for Buda.com, CryptoMKT, and any other platforms currently in the registration queue, since this would close the gap between Ley Fintec's legal perimeter and its practical supervisory completion. Separately, confirmation of PSAV-specific capital requirements under NCG 502, if and when sourced, would resolve an open gap in the current compliance picture for intermediation and custody providers.

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- T3[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Banco de Chile)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1161125/000121390024036675/ea0200971-20f_banco.htm) — Law No. 21,521 (the Fintech Law), enacted in January 2023, establishes a general framework for financial services provided through technological means, aiming to protect financial customers and data privacy while preserving financial stability and strengthening anti-money-laundering controls.
- T3[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Republic of Chile)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19957/000110465924104194/tm2424310d1_ex99-d.htm) — CMF General Rule No. 502, issued 12 January 2024 and effective 3 February 2024, regulates the registration and authorization process for companies providing enumerated fintech services (crowdfunding platforms, alternative transaction systems, credit and investment advice, custody of financial instruments, order routers and financial instrument intermediaries) via a Financial Services Providers Registry administered by the CMF, with a 12-month transition window for existing entities.
- T3[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR filing by Republic of Chile)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19957/000119312519140526/d743195dex99d.htm) — In April 2019 the Chilean government referenced a forthcoming bill 'regulating cryptocurrencies and fintech' intended to ensure regulatory symmetry between traditional financial services and technology-based industries; this early legislative initiative preceded and informed the eventual Fintech Law (Ley 21.521) but did not itself enact crypto-specific rules.
- T1[Ley N°21.521 (Ley Fintec)](https://www.bcn.cl/leychile) — registration in CMF's Registro de Prestadores de Servicios Financieros and prior CMF authorisation for crypto-asset intermediation and custody services
- T3[CMF NCG 559](https://compliancelatam.legal/chile-cmf-establece-deber-de-comunicacion-previa-para-entidades-tradicionales-que-presten-servicios-bajo-la-ley-fintec/) — CMF-supervised traditional entities exempt from RPSF registration must give CMF prior notice via the Supervisa platform before starting a Ley Fintec-regulated service; banks remain barred from art. 5(2)(7) services until CMF issues specific bank rules

### Chile: C2 Token ClassificationAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Chile has not enacted a bespoke statutory taxonomy for crypto-assets (no equivalent to MiCA's ART/EMT/utility-token distinctions). The general Securities Market Law (Ley N° 18,045) governs whether an instrument constitutes a 'valor' (security) subject to CMF disclosure, insider-trading and market-manipulation rules; classification of any given token as a security is understood to be assessed case-by-case under this general law rather than under crypto-specific criteria. Confirmation of CMF's current case-by-case classification practice requires primary-source follow-up.

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### Chile: C3 On-Chain Activity RegimeAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

No Chile-specific regulatory treatment of on-chain activities (staking, DeFi lending, DEX operation, mining, node/validator operation, tokenization) was located in this research pass. Absence of evidence is not evidence of a formal exemption; this is recorded as an open research gap rather than a confirmed unregulated status.

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### Chile: C4 Stablecoin RegimeAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

No Chile-specific stablecoin authorization, reserve, redemption, disclosure, or systemic-designation regime (analogous to MiCA Titles III/IV) was identified. Stablecoins appear to be treated, if at all, under general securities/payment-system law rather than a dedicated stablecoin framework.

Horizon · 2026-Q4 (± six months) BCCh stablecoin consultation expected Proposed · Tier 1 source

Horizon · 2026-Q4 (± six months) BCCh stablecoin regulatory proposal public consultation expected Consultation · Tier 3 source

Periodic update · new data 2026-10-18

#### Stablecoin Regime

Chile does not yet have a dedicated stablecoin regulatory framework. Ley 21.521, articles 30 and 31, gives the Banco Central de Chile the statutory authority to issue a general rule setting standards specifically for DLT-based representations of value backed by fiat money, which would be the natural home for a dedicated stablecoin regime. As of 13 October 2026, the BCCh has not issued that general rule, and no published target date for doing so has been located.

In the absence of that BCCh standard, the operative legal treatment of fiat-referenced tokens in Chile comes from the Comision para el Mercado Financiero's Official Letter 101082 of 12 June 2026, which holds that crypto-assets generally, including fiat-referenced tokens, qualify as financial instruments under the Fintech Law. This means stablecoin issuers and service providers face CMF registration and authorisation requirements under the general crypto-asset framework rather than under any bespoke, lighter-touch stablecoin-specific regime. CMF's classification is, in effect, standing in for the specialist regulator's unexercised rule-making power.

#### Outlook

The single development to watch for Chile's stablecoin regime is whether and when the BCCh exercises its Ley 21.521 articles 30-31 power to issue a dedicated general rule. Until it does, CMF's financial-instrument classification under Official Letter 101082 will continue to be the operative test, and stablecoin issuers should expect no differentiated treatment from other crypto-assets under Chilean law.

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### Chile: C5 Consumer ProtectionRedEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

No Chile-specific crypto consumer-protection rules (marketing restrictions, custody segregation, complaint-handling, suitability) were located. General Securities Market Law protections (disclosure, minority-investor safeguards) apply only to instruments classified as regulated financial products, leaving retail purchasers of unclassified crypto assets without a clearly identified tailored protection regime.

Open gap — crypto-int-2 Custody-segregation, prudential-capital-by-service-class and market-abuse rule detail was not located for Chile this cycle; unclear whether this is a genuine regime gap or a research gap. no under-indexing note recorded

#### Consumer Protection

Chiles consumer-protection posture toward crypto-assets this cycle is characterised by active regulatory warning practice operating in the absence of a codified crypto-specific consumer-protection rule. On 6 September 2026 the CMF issued a public alert naming SUXXESS FX LTD and a platform impersonating the Bakkt brand as unregistered and unauthorised to provide regulated financial services in Chile, advising members of the public to verify any platforms status directly through the RPSF lookup tool before engaging with it. This alert follows, and continues the pattern established by, the June 2026 cancellation of Plusspays registration, a case in which a once-registered platform is alleged to have facilitated large-scale laundering activity before its registration lapsed.

The consumer-protection mechanism operating here is disclosure-based rather than rule-based: the CMF warns the public about specific named platforms as it becomes aware of them, and directs consumers to a lookup tool to verify registration status themselves, but no dedicated custody-segregation, suitability-assessment, or market-abuse rule specific to crypto-assets was identified in this cycles research. This places Chilean crypto consumers in a position where the primary available protection is self-directed verification prompted by reactive regulatory alerts, rather than ex-ante custodial or suitability safeguards built into the licensing framework itself for the platforms that are registered.

The Bakkt-impersonation element of the September alert is itself a notable consumer-protection detail: it indicates that at least one of the flagged platforms was attempting to borrow the credibility of an established, differently-regulated international brand, a tactic that disclosure-based warning is reasonably well suited to counter once detected, but which depends on the CMF identifying and naming the impersonation before material consumer harm accumulates, as the twenty-registration June sweep and the alleged USD 84 million Plusspay-linked flow suggest can be substantial by the time enforcement catches up.

#### Outlook

The consumer-protection trajectory is stable in regulatory design, active alert issuance continues, but exposed in substance: the absence of a codified custody, suitability, or market-abuse rule specific to crypto-assets means consumer protection in this space currently rests on the CMFs capacity to detect and publicise unauthorised activity after the fact rather than on structural safeguards applying to platforms before harm occurs. Future cycles should watch for whether the CMF or UAF proposes any codified crypto-specific consumer-protection rule to supplement the current alert-based practice, and for the frequency and scale of further platform-specific alerts as a proxy for how large the unregulated segment of Chiles crypto market remains.

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- T4[Comision para el Mercado Financiero (CMF)](https://chocale.cl/2026/09/ojo-con-estas-dos-plataformas-que-no-estan-registradas-ni-autorizadas-para-operar-en-chile/) — Public alert (2026-09-06) naming SUXXESS FX LTD and a Bakkt-impersonating platform as unregistered and unauthorised, advising public verification via RPSF lookup

### Chile: C6 Tax TreatmentAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

No Chile-specific crypto tax circular or ruling (e.g., a Servicio de Impuestos Internos administrative interpretation on crypto capital gains, income characterization, VAT/IVA, or reporting obligations) was located in this research pass. Absent confirmation, general Chilean income-tax rules would presumptively apply to crypto-asset disposals, but this has not been verified against a primary SII source this session.

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### Chile: C7 Cross-Border TransferAmberEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

No crypto-specific cross-border transfer, outbound-restriction, or reporting-threshold rule was located. Chile's general foreign-exchange reporting framework (administered by the Banco Central de Chile) may apply to large cross-border transfers generally, but its specific application to crypto-asset transfers has not been confirmed in this research pass.

C7 · Cross-Border & Travel Rule — Full Module Record 0 sub-modules · 180 words · 2 traced claims · Re-verified 2026-10-25

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### Chile: C8 AML/CFT RegimeGreenEnacted in forceModule confidence: Probable▾

Crypto AML/CFT content is owned by the fleet's FIM aml_ctf module; no aml_cft_regime claims are produced within this crypto baseline. For disambiguation only: Chile's AML/CFT system is coordinated by the Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), with the CMF and the Superintendencies of Gambling Casinos and Pensions holding sector-specific regulatory/supervisory roles, per GAFILAT's 2021 Mutual Evaluation Report of Chile.

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### Chile: C9 Commercial Activity unpopulated ▾

## Commercial Activity

No funding round, acquisition, or market-exit event specific to a Chile-headquartered crypto-asset company was located this cycle. The principal commercial-activity signal is regulatory-status rather than transactional: Buda.com and CryptoMKT, Chile's leading domestic crypto-asset exchanges, remained in CMF registration process as of 6 October 2026, described as "en proceso de incorporacion" or "en tramite" rather than fully authorised proveedores de servicios sobre activos virtuales under Ley Fintec. This is a pending-regulatory market-entry status rather than a disclosed commercial transaction, and it is reported here because it bears directly on the operating status of the two most prominent platforms in the local market.

No amount or valuation is applicable to this development, since it describes a regulatory authorisation process rather than a funding, acquisition or divestment event. The absence of a disclosed commercial transaction this cycle should be read as thin coverage for Chile-specific crypto commercial activity generally, rather than as evidence of an absence of activity in the broader market. — Outlook: The item to watch is whether Buda.com or CryptoMKT completes CMF authorisation, which would convert the current pending-regulatory status into a confirmed operating status and would itself constitute a reportable commercial-activity development in a future cycle.

No periodic updates recorded in this cycle

Sources and findings (1)
- T3[Buda.com and CryptoMKT](https://criptoinforme.com/tutoriales/mejores-exchanges-chile/) — 'en proceso de incorporacion'/'en tramite' before CMF under Ley Fintec as of 6 October 2026, not yet fully authorised PSAV