Bitpanda, Europe's leading cryptocurrency and digital asset platform, has announced the launch of Vision Chain, aimed at addressing long-standing infrastructure bottlenecks in the European financial sector. Vision Chain is a dedicated blockchain layer designed to move tokenized assets from isolated pilot projects to the mainstream economy. The network, developed in collaboration with the Vision Web3 Foundation, is built on the Optimism technology stack, providing institutions with a standardized environment to issue and settle tokenized assets in accordance with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), and incorporating technology resilience principles compliant with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
This release fills a critical infrastructure gap. European institutions have long been confined to closed proprietary networks lacking liquidity and interoperability. Vision Chain offers a managed infrastructure that connects regulated finance to the global on-chain economy. Through Vision Chain, Bitpanda eliminates the operational complexity and costs of building private blockchain systems, allowing partners to smoothly transition from pilot projects to production-level deployments. To ensure institutional stability, the network uses a Euro stablecoin compliant with the MiCA regulations as the settlement currency for all network and transaction fees, mitigating the currency fluctuation risk common in public blockchain fee structures.
The commercial engine of this infrastructure is the Vision Token (VSN), a cryptographic asset issued by the Vision Web3 Foundation. Part of the network's revenue is used for token buybacks and burns to support ecosystem stability, forming a benign model where network activity and network value are positively correlated. For the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, this architecture provides a compliance-aligned ecosystem where developers can leverage high-quality assets issued by banks and fintech companies to build sophisticated products, while providing Bitpanda's over seven million users with investment opportunities previously only available to professional market participants.
Bitpanda CEO Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad said, "While we are still talking about digital assets today, in the future all assets could be digitized. Tokenization is expected to redefine the capital markets. European financial institutions have been preparing for this transformation for years, but the infrastructure has always been lacking. With Vision Chain, we are building a public blockchain core to European regulatory standards, combining the openness of public networks with the reliability required by institutions. This will lay the foundation for the European digital capital market."
Vision Web3 Foundation Board Chairman Fabian Reinisch said: "The establishment of Vision Foundation aims to build open and sustainable infrastructure for on-chain finance. Vision Chain is a key milestone in this mission. By combining public blockchain technology with institutional requirements and long-term ecological incentives, we are laying the foundation for the next generation of European financial applications based on a transparent, interoperable network."
Optimism CEO Jing Wang added: "Vision Chain reflects the growing market demand for blockchain infrastructure that can meet institutional standards without sacrificing the openness of Ethereum. Through OP Enterprise, we provide a fully hosted deployment model that supports chain operation, infrastructure management, and continuous upgrades, allowing partners to focus on product development and real-world use cases. We are honored to collaborate with Bitpanda and Vision Foundation to onboard regulated financial institutions to Ethereum and strengthen Europe's position in the global on-chain economy."
