Bitpanda to Launch Vision Chain as the First Fully Managed OP Enterprise Chain
Purpose-built blockchain infrastructure for European institutional finance. OP Succinct ZK proofs for same-day L1 withdrawals. 200ms blocks. Fully managed through OP Enterprise.
Bitpanda, founded in 2014 with 7 million users across Europe, is launching Vision Chain. A blockchain built specifically for European financial institutions — to issue tokenized assets on public infrastructure rather than relying on the permissioned systems that have defined enterprise blockchains for over a decade. Vision Chain is being developed on the OP Stack, fully managed through OP Enterprise, giving Bitpanda's institutional partners a direct path to production without building private blockchain infrastructure from scratch.
Why this matters for institutional finance
Banks want to issue tokenized deposits. Asset managers want to distribute tokenized funds on-chain. Payment providers want faster, more capital-efficient settlement rails. For European financial institutions operating under MiCA and DORA, getting there on public infrastructure has required infrastructure that didn’t exist until now.
For EU financial institutions, existing options forced a difficult choice: permissioned ledgers with no interoperability and limited liquidity, or public chains without the specific operational and regulatory architecture that European institutions required. Bitpanda needed infrastructure purpose-built for European institutional finance — high-performance, institutionally accountable, and fully managed so their team could focus on product rather than protocol maintenance.
Vision Chain is built on the OP Stack, fully managed through OP Enterprise, and designed from the ground up to serve European financial institutions at scale. Bitpanda Enterprise already serves major European banks and fintechs. Vision Chain gives them public infrastructure to match.
Built to institutional standards
Vision Chain will deliver the technical architecture that institutional capital requires:
Institutional grade capital efficiency. Vision Chain will integrate OP Succinct’s zero-knowledge technology, targeting same-day withdrawals to L1 — giving institutions the capital efficiency and settlement finality that serious financial operations require.
Near-instant transaction confirmation. Vision Chain will launch with 200ms block times, providing consumers the experience they’ve come to expect with web2.
Euro stablecoin gas payments. European institutions operate in Euros. Vision Chain will support Bitpanda's upcoming MiCA-compliant Euro stablecoins as a gas tokens, next to the native VSN, eliminating unnecessary FX friction.
Ethereum level security. As a layer 2, Vision Chain will be secured by Ethereum — when you’re building infrastructure for regulated finance, you don’t trade security guarantees for cost optimization.
The rollout
Vision Chain is targeting mainnet later this year.
The rollout begins with Institutional asset issuance, including RWAs and Euro stablecoin deployment. Then expanding into ecosystem development with Euro-denominated lending vaults and curated protocol deployments. Finally, retail distribution through Bitpanda's brokerage app.
For developers, this creates access to millions of users who have never touched a non-custodial wallet, alongside high-quality capital and a user base that traditional DeFi has struggled to reach.
The commercial model reinforces this. A portion of Vision Chain’s network revenue will be used to purchase and remove Vision Tokens (VSN) from circulation — creating a direct link between chain activity and ecosystem value. More usage means more demand. Developers building here aren't just accessing users, they're building into an economic structure designed to grow with the network.
What this proves
Bitpanda chose a fully managed deployment for a reason. They want to own their blockchain economics without building and maintaining an infrastructure team from scratch.
OP Enterprise handles the chain operations: hosting, sequencer management, ongoing infrastructure. That includes proactive system monitoring with dedicated OP engineers responding to alerts, security patching and upgrades managed end-to-end, and bridge security monitoring so Bitpanda doesn't need to stand up their own incident response stack. This support allows Bitpanda to focus on what they do best: building products for their users.
This is the model working in production — a regulated European financial institution, live on the OP Stack, focused entirely on their product roadmap instead of their infrastructure.
Their blockchain. Their revenue. OP Enterprise guarantees.
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