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[Vision Wallet @VisionWallet]

Everyone has opinions. Only the market has conviction.

Vision Wallet, the first European partner of Polymarket.

Finance. Politics. Culture. Sports.

Monetise your insight.

The chart next to every headline, in your pocket.

https://t.co/Z7eoyRGs3G

[One Trading @OneTradingEU]

The stock market was designed before the internet.
The closing bell, settlement delays, and overnight gaps aren’t features.
They’re bugs that were never fixed.
Crypto showed what markets look like without them.
We’re bringing that to equities.

[Vision @vsntoken]

Kinda digging this AP x Swatch collab...

[catworks @Catworks123]

@VisionWallet $VSN

[Vision Wallet @VisionWallet]

Engage Season 2 is in full swing – live until June 1.

Together with @acmilan, we’re raising the stakes.

Everyone above 500 XP will once again receive a VSN airdrop (amount revealed later this season).

But that’s just the start.

🏆 The Season 2 champion wins a VIP flyaway for two: flights, hotel, and VIP tickets to AC Milan at San Siro.

🏅 The top 25 (including the champion) also receive an exclusive AC Milan x Vision jersey on top of their airdrops.

🧢 # 26 to 50 walk away with THE official Vision Cap.

Terms apply: https://t.co/YusLNDISI8

Ready to engage your way to San Siro?

[Vision @vsntoken]

Ecosystem Blog #6 - Vision Chain momentum, Optimism partnership, Wallet rebranding & more.

https://t.co/2dwlgwFFT6

[catworks @Catworks123]

@FkleinwieGross #VSN $VSN
#VISION

[Vision @vsntoken]

We are opening the gates for Europe’s biggest institutions to join the global onchain economy.

Together with @Bitpanda_global and @Optimism, we are building Vision Chain on the OP Stack to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the global onchain economy.

By merging Ethereum-level openness with a framework built for Europe’s regulatory reality, we are giving institutions a public blockchain they can actually use.

Official Press Release: https://t.co/wIUmZ0Rnfj

[Vision @vsntoken]

Vision Chain will be the infrastructure behind Bitpanda Enterprise Tokenize.

Together, we will bring scalable, compliance-ready tokenisation to institutions in Europe and beyond, built for regulated finance from day one.

With Bitpanda Enterprise as our partner, Vision Chain moves directly into the hands of banks, corporates and asset issuers, becoming the infrastructure layer for regulated digital assets.

Learn more: https://t.co/jCmCp58AE8

[Flo | Bitpanda Web3 @FkleinwieGross]

Thanks for the questions, here come my answers ;)

The Essential Role of $VSN for Bitpanda

This is a fair and important question.

The short answer is: VSN is not a marketing layer or a side experiment. It’s the mechanism that connects usage across products into one shared system.

Bitpanda operates multiple business lines: brokerage, custody, B2B solutions, wallet infrastructure. What VSN does is create a native layer that can align incentives across those verticals, especially as more activity moves onchain.

Could Bitpanda operate without a token? Yes, technically. But the moment you build open infrastructure, serve external builders, and create programmable value flows, a token becomes more than optional. It becomes the coordination layer. It enables fee capture, governance logic, incentive design, and ecosystem alignment in a way that centralised reward systems simply cannot.

In that sense, VSN is not interchangeable. It’s the economic glue for an open Web3 stack that sits alongside a regulated fintech company.

On leadership visibility: I understand the desire for stronger, more visible signals. Bridging the perception gap between Vision and the broader Bitpanda brand is something we’re aware of. You’ll likely see more integration in communication over time. Whether that takes the form of a joint launch event or another format is secondary. What matters more is that alignment is visible through action, not just announcements.

Strategic Leverage & Asset Focus

If you zoom out, the most sustainable volume will come from assets that generate recurring activity, not one-off hype cycles.

Tokenised traditional financial products and RWAs are strategically important because they bring structured volume, institutional participation, and regulatory clarity. That type of flow is far more stable than purely speculative assets.

That said, early validation of the fee model does not need to wait for full-scale RWA adoption. There are shorter-term use cases that can drive meaningful activity: structured yield products, onchain settlement flows, integrations with Bitpanda’s existing user base and tools for builders who want regulation-ready infrastructure.

The real objective is not to pick one asset class, but to create an environment where different asset types generate complementary activity. The stronger the overlap between user, institutional, and builder activity, the healthier the fee model becomes.

Buybacks, if and when they are driven by ecosystem profits, are the byproduct of that activity. The focus is therefore volume with substance, not volume with volatility.

Technological Architecture & Compliance Integration

MiCA is not something we work around. It’s something we design for.

The chain infrastructure is being built with regulatory requirements in mind from the start. That includes identity layers, compliance tooling, and the ability to separate permissioned from open environments where necessary.

The challenge is balance. If you over-optimise for compliance, you lose developer interest. If you ignore compliance, you lose institutional adoption. The goal is to create a layered architecture where institutions can operate in a compliance-ready environment while independent builders still have space to innovate.

That’s not easy, but it’s also the opportunity. Europe is unlikely to win by copying unregulated DeFi models. It can win by building infrastructure where compliance and openness coexist.

If we get that balance right, Vision does not just become another chain. It becomes a bridge between regulated finance and open Web3.

At the core of all three questions is the same theme: long-term alignment.

The strategy is not to create short-term excitement. It’s to build infrastructure where usage, compliance, and token economics reinforce each other. If that works, the rest follows.

[wale.moca 🐳 @waleswoosh]

Very interesting video by my partners at Vision.

Recommend watching in full, but two things stand out to me:

First, how Vision enables European financial institutions to actually use blockchain, tokenizing real estate, credit, debt etc in a compliance-ready way. This is what can actually power adoption.

Second, how retail users can access European DeFi opportunities with minimal friction via Bitpanda, the dominant crypto platform in Europe.

Access to ICOs, borrowing/lending, and other DeFi products, all Euro-denominated and built with EU regulations in mind, but open enough to actually bring opportunities to users.

Worth paying attention to

[catworks @Catworks123]

@vsntoken

[catworks @Catworks123]

@Bitpanda_global #VSN $VSN

[catworks @Catworks123]

@Bitpanda_global #VSN $VSN

[Flo | Bitpanda Web3 @FkleinwieGross]

Pleasure visiting @jack_gk in his makeshift hotel room studio to chat about life, crypto and of course Vision.

[Bitpanda @Bitpanda_global]

This week, the Bitpanda team was on the ground at @consensus_hk 🇭🇰

Connecting with builders, meeting industry leaders, and diving into the trends shaping the future of crypto & Web3.

We’re here to build the regulated, secure bridge between traditional finance and digital assets. and conversations like these push us forward.

[Flo | Bitpanda Web3 @FkleinwieGross]

Thank you, @DerDom_Bo. It's really enjoyable to get questions on our approach, rather than just dates and numbers.

Market-independent utility
Yes, this is very much on our radar. The focus is deliberately on use cases where demand comes from activity, not from market sentiment. RWAs, yields on stable coins, and institutional use cases are interesting to us precisely because they are driven by volume, compliance needs, and operational efficiency, not by BTC price action.

The important part is not just having “real-world” use cases, but making sure that activity around them actually feeds into the ecosystem economics. That means fees, recurring usage, and clear value capture mechanisms that flow back into the system. If utility exists but doesn’t translate into measurable activity and revenue, it won’t have a lasting price impact.

The goal is to make Vision useful even in flat or down markets, so that market sentiment becomes a multiplier, not the sole driver.

Infrastructure vs. token
It’s a fair comparison. Projects like Base were able to focus purely on infrastructure first because they didn’t have a token or an external holder base from day one.

Having VSN does add complexity, and yes, it does add stress, but it also brings real advantages. Token holders are not passive observers. They are some of the most engaged users we have. They test the wallet early, stress features in ways internal teams never could, and give direct, unfiltered feedback that helps us spot issues and opportunities much faster.

The community also plays a big role in amplifying what we build. Features, ideas, and narratives don’t stay inside the team, they get discussed, challenged, and spread. That level of engagement simply wouldn’t exist without a token. It creates accountability, but it also creates momentum.

From a product perspective, this doesn’t slow us down, it sharpens focus. Feedback loops are tighter, assumptions get tested earlier, and decisions are grounded in real user behaviour rather than theory. In that sense, the token community acts less like a burden and more like a force multiplier for both product quality and communication.

The key is managing expectations honestly. That includes being clear about what Vision is building now, rather than carrying forward expectations from earlier, very different setups. When that clarity exists, the token and its community become a strength, not a trade-off.

The “invisible build” question
There’s no plan to sit on finished work and wait for the “right” sentiment. That approach usually backfires because markets are unpredictable and momentum can’t be manufactured on demand.

Our principle is to build and ship when things are ready, even if the environment isn’t perfect. That doesn’t mean timing is ignored entirely, but it does mean we won’t compromise product decisions just to fit a perceived market window. Instead, we focus on a broad roadmap that works across market conditions, and adjust priorities based on what creates value in any environment.

Quality doesn’t automatically create a bull market, but it also doesn’t disappear in a bear market. The idea is that when sentiment turns, the infrastructure is already there, proven, and in use. At that point, releases don’t need hype to land because they already have real traction behind them.

[catworks @Catworks123]

@VSN_Unofficial

[catworks @Catworks123]

@BitpandaWallet 7

[𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 @Definews_Info]

🌐 @vsntoken powers Europe’s RWA tokenization, bridging RWAs and Web3 onchain with @Bitpanda backing. $VSN enables staking, governance and asset access across Bitpanda DeFi wallet and Vision Protocol, blending DeFi compliance, amplified by @waleswoosh & @Xeer partnerships!

[catworks @Catworks123]

@vsntoken Nice 👏