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title: Regulatory Sandbox
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description: "A regulatory sandbox is a supervised testing space: the regulator lets you launch an innovative financial product with real customers but within tight limits, watching everything."
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# Regulatory Sandbox

GLOSSARY · BLOCKCHAIN & WEB3

What a regulatory sandbox is: the controlled space to test innovative financial products under supervision, and which ones exist in Spain and Latin America.

WHAT IS IT? · FOR DUMMIES

A **regulatory sandbox** is a supervised testing space: the regulator lets you launch an innovative financial product with real customers but within tight limits, watching everything. Neither a free-for-all nor a ban — learning together before regulating.

WHAT IS IT? · PRO

The typical format: application with a testing protocol, limits on volume and customers, supervisor monitoring and an orderly exit (full authorisation, adjustment or closure). In Spain the sandbox of Law 7/2020 runs in periodic cohorts — tokenization projects have gone through it, as we tell in our analysis of the [CNMV sandbox](/en/articulos/sandbox-cnmv-tokenizacion). In Latin America, the sandboxes of Mexico's CNBV or Argentina's under the CNV tokenization regime (see [tokenization in Argentina](/en/articulos/asset-tokenization-in-argentina)) play the same role with their own designs.

For an issuer, the sandbox is a tool, not a destination: it is useful if the product genuinely does not fit the current framework — if it fits, the ordinary route is usually faster than waiting for a cohort.

## 01 / Key points

- Testing space with real customers, limits and supervision
- Cycle: application, protocol, monitoring, orderly exit
- Spain: Law 7/2020; LATAM: CNBV (MX), CNV regime (AR), among others
- A tool for products that do not fit the current framework

## 02 / Advantages

- Direct dialogue with the supervisor
- Testing with real customers without full authorisation
- Signal of seriousness to investors

## 03 / Disadvantages

- Cohort timelines and considerable paperwork
- Strict scale limits during the test
- Leaving the sandbox does not guarantee authorisation

This entry is informative. It is not legal, tax or investment advice. The rules cited change: check the current version on [BOE](https://www.boe.es) and [EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu).