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Societe Generale-FORGE and Bitpanda Expand Partnership to Bring Regulated Stablecoins to DeFi
The chasm between the staid, columned edifices of traditional finance and the frenetic, code-driven world of decentralized finance is narrowing at a breathtaking pace, and a new partnership between Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE) and Austrian crypto exchange Bitpanda is laying another crucial steel girder across that divide. In a move that signals a maturing of the entire digital asset ecosystem, Bitpanda is now offering SG-FORGE’s regulated stablecoins, the EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) and USD CoinVertible (USDCV), directly to its retail user base across Europe, effectively funneling bank-grade, compliant liquidity into the very heart of the DeFi machine.This isn't just another listing; it’s a profound shift in accessibility, making Bitpanda the first retail broker on the continent to allow everyday customers to not just hold these assets but to actively deploy them to generate yield. Imagine the average European saver, accustomed to negligible interest rates from their high-street bank, now being able to seamlessly lend their EURCV or borrow against it within sophisticated on-chain protocols like Morpho and Uniswap—this is the practical, tangible utility that has long been promised by the Web3 evangelists.Jean-Marc Stenger, the CEO of SG-FORGE, rightly calls this a 'decisive step forward,' and he’s not exaggerating. For years, DeFi has been the wild west, operating largely on the backbone of unregulated stablecoins that, while innovative, carried a latent systemic risk that kept institutional capital on the sidelines.The CoinVertible tokens are different; they are engineered from the ground up to be compliant with the European Union’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, providing a level of regulatory certainty and bank-grade stability that acts as a beacon for more cautious capital. This is the 'bridging' narrative in its most potent form.For Bitpanda, this deepened collaboration is a strategic masterstroke, solidifying its position not just as a simple exchange but as a comprehensive gateway where TradFi reliability meets Web3 opportunity. As Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad, Bitpanda's Co-CEO, pointed out, this integration 'creates real ways people can benefit from Web3,' a statement that hints at a much larger architectural play involving their Vision token and the anticipated Vision Chain.The partnership, which has been building momentum since 2024, is a clear bet that the future of finance isn't a binary choice between the old and the new, but a hybrid model where regulated, real-world assets can be composable and productive within decentralized protocols. The implications are staggering: we are potentially witnessing the early blueprint for a new financial system where the trust and oversight of a global bank like Societe Generale can be programmatically embedded into the permissionless, transparent, and globally accessible rails of DeFi, unlocking trillions in currently inert capital and finally delivering on the original promise of blockchain technology to democratize finance beyond the walled gardens of the traditional elite.
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Jamie Lawson123k2 days ago
but what if all this 'bridging' just means the banks end up owning defi too tbh feels like we're just rebuilding the same walls with different bricks
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Jamie Lawson123k2 days ago
saving this to read properly later, this is huge for making defi less sketchy tbh finally some real world use cases
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