Bitpanda and Société Générale Bridge DeFi and Banks

Bitpanda is stepping into new territory and it’s bringing one of Europe’s biggest banks along for the ride.

In a move that feels like a quiet revolution, Bitpanda and Société Générale’s blockchain arm, SG-FORGE, have expanded their partnership to open the doors of DeFi to fully regulated euro and dollar stablecoins.

Here’s what that means in practice: Bitpanda users can now access SG-FORGE’s EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) and USD CoinVertible (USDCV) directly through the platform and its DeFi wallet. These stablecoins aren’t just tokens, they’re bridges.

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Fully compliant with Europe’s MiCA framework and pegged 1:1 to the euro and the dollar, they can be used for on-chain lending, borrowing, and liquidity provision across protocols like Morpho and Uniswap.

It’s one of those moves that reminds me why crypto isn’t just about speculation. It’s about connection between old systems and new ideas. The fact that these assets live on multiple blockchains (Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, XRP Ledger) only makes the story more compelling. It’s not about building walls around finance anymore. It’s about tearing them down.

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With more than seven million Bitpanda users now able to earn yield on regulated stablecoins, Europe is finally giving shape to something that once felt out of reach, a DeFi ecosystem that doesn’t sit in legal limbo.

What stands out most here isn’t just the partnership, but the direction it points to. The collaboration even hints at integration with Bitpanda’s Vision token and Vision Chain.

It’s like the start of a slow but inevitable merge between traditional finance and blockchain-based systems — the kind that could make crypto feel a little more “normal,” without losing its edge.

Because the future of DeFi might not be about replacing banks. It might be about teaching them to speak blockchain.