Bitpanda, Europe’s leading cryptocurrency and other digital asset platform, announced the launch of Vision Chain, aimed at addressing the long-standing infrastructure bottlenecks in the European financial sector. Vision Chain is a dedicated blockchain layer designed to transition tokenized assets from isolated pilot projects to the mainstream economy. The network is co-developed by Vision Web3 Foundation and built on the Optimism technology stack, providing a standardized environment for institutions 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), while incorporating technological resilience principles compliant with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

This launch fills a critical infrastructure gap. For a long time, European institutions have been confined to closed proprietary networks with a lack of liquidity and interoperability. Vision Chain offers a regulated infrastructure that connects regulated finance with the global on-chain economy. With Vision Chain, Bitpanda eliminates the operational complexities 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 MiCA as the settlement currency for all network and transaction fees, thus removing the currency volatility risks commonly associated with public blockchain fees.

The commercial engine for this infrastructure is the Vision Token (VSN), a cryptocurrency issued by the Vision Web3 Foundation. A portion of the network’s revenue is used to buy back and burn tokens to support the stability of the ecosystem, creating a positive correlation between network activity and network value. For the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, this architecture provides a compliance-aligned ecosystem, allowing developers to build complex products using high-quality assets issued by banks and fintech companies, while providing over seven million Bitpanda users with investment opportunities that were previously only available to professional market participants.

Bitpanda CEO Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad stated: "Today we are still discussing digital assets, but in the future, all assets may become digital. Tokenization is expected to redefine 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 centered on European regulatory standards, combining the openness of public networks with the reliability required by institutions. This will lay the foundation for Europe’s digital capital market."

Vision Web3 Foundation Chairman Fabian Reinisch stated: "The establishment of the Vision Foundation aims to build an open and sustainable infrastructure for on-chain finance. Vision Chain is an important milestone in this mission. By combining public blockchain technology with institutional needs and long-term ecological incentives, we are laying the groundwork for the next generation of European financial applications based on transparent and interoperable networks."

Optimism CEO Jing Wang added: "Vision Chain represents the growing demand in the market for blockchain infrastructure that meets institutional standards without sacrificing the openness of Ethereum. Through OP Enterprise, we provide a fully managed deployment model that supports chain operations, infrastructure management, and continuous upgrades, enabling partners to focus on product development and real-world application scenarios. We are honored to collaborate with Bitpanda and Vision Foundation to bring regulated financial institutions onto Ethereum and strengthen Europe’s position in the global on-chain economy."