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Einordnung zum Anwaltsschreiben zu BEST, PAN und VSN
In den letzten Tagen wurde viel über ein Aufforderungsschreiben an Bitpanda und Pantos berichtet. Ich habe das Schreiben gelesen und möchte ein paar Fakten einordnen. Das ist keine Antwort auf das Schreiben; diese erfolgt über unsere Anwälte.
1 | Drei Kunden, keine Sammelklage
In den Medien ist von über 10.000 potenziell Betroffenen die Rede. Dies ist eine Schätzung der beauftragten Kanzlei. Das Schreiben - wichtig: keine Klage oder Sammelklage - macht vermeintliche Ansprüche für drei Kunden und einen Verein geltend, beziffert sind sie für zwei.
2 | Der rechtliche Kern
Das Schreiben stützt sich darauf, dass „PAN und BEST ohne Prospekt nach dem Kapitalmarktgesetz“ angeboten worden seien. Daraus wird abgeleitet: „Unsere Mandanten haben deshalb Anspruch auf Rückabwicklung“. Wir sehen das rechtlich anders. An dieser Stelle möchte ich betonen, dass sowohl die Ausgestaltung, Einführung als auch die Zusammenlegung der Token zu VSN in enger Abstimmung mit den zuständigen Aufsichtsbehörden erfolgten.
3 | Woher der kolportierte „Schaden in Millionenhöhe“ kommt
Gefordert wird nicht nur, was tatsächlich investiert wurde, sondern auch, was man theoretisch verdient hätte, wenn man stattdessen Bitcoin gekauft hätte. Laut dem Schreiben selbst ist dieser hypothetische Ertrag höher als die gesamte Forderung. Der überwiegende Teil der behaupteten Schäden beruht also nicht auf tatsächlichen Verlusten, sondern auf entgangenen hypothetischen Gewinnen.
4 | „Zwangsumtausch“?
Das Schreiben spricht von einem „Zwangsumtausch“ und sagt über das Whitepaper: „Es verschweigt den Zwang.“
Die Fakten:
• Das Handelsende wurde vorab in der App und im Blog angekündigt: „BEST und PAN können noch bis zum 16. Juli um 10:00 Uhr (MESZ) getradet werden. Danach wird das Trading dauerhaft gestoppt. Ein- und Auszahlungen sowie die Migration können weiterhin durchgeführt werden – Käufe, Verkäufe und Swaps hingegen nicht mehr.“ (blog.bitpanda.com/de/best-un…)
• Der Umtausch in VSN setzte eine aktive Bestätigung in der App voraus. Eine automatische Umwandlung verbliebener BEST und PAN hat nicht stattgefunden. Wer nicht aktiv getauscht hat, hält seine BEST bzw. PAN weiterhin.
5 | Fazit
Stand heute gibt es keine Klage und keine Sammelklage, sondern ein Schreiben im Auftrag dreier Kunden und eines Vereins. Die kolportierten Millionenverluste der im Schreiben genannten Kunden beruhen im Kern auf hypothetischen Bitcoin-Investitionen.
Selbstverständlich hat jeder das Recht, vermeintliche Ansprüche geltend zu machen. Aus der Geltendmachung solcher Ansprüche folgt jedoch nicht, dass diese berechtigt sind.
Wir teilen die rechtlichen Grundannahmen nicht, nehmen die Vorwürfe aber dennoch sehr ernst.
Danke an euch, unsere Community, für euer Vertrauen und dafür, nicht vorschnell geurteilt zu haben. Und jetzt zurück an die Arbeit: Es gibt einiges, auf das ihr euch freuen dürft.
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
First week at Bitpanda feels like a corporate mullet: corporate in the front, pure startup in the back.
The front:
Ticket systems, enterprise security, barista & canteen, Confluence, a meeting room system that actually works and having to rebuild my AI workflow from scratch without pasting internal data into Claude.
The back:
Onboarding pushed back because we’re moving fast. Thrown straight into meetings and deadlines around Vision Chain in week one. Already a lot of responsibility on my side.
Big contrast to being a founder:
Need to think twice before posting, since we're operating in a strictly regulated environment (which is good!!). Trying to remain authenticity & creativity (challenge accepted).
Learning a lot, team is super smart, I love Vienna and I love delicious food and protein shakes everyday.
Now focused on building out comms for the Vision ecosystem. Stay tuned!
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
I finally get to make one of these announcements: I have a job.
With tokenisation emerging as a massive focus across Europe in the coming years, translating its technical complexity into tangible growth is key.
As Ecosystem Lead at Bitpanda, I’ll be focusing on uncovering these opportunities and sharing them effectively across our network of banks, institutions, and existing community members.
Explaining why I made this decision would take a few posts. So here’s the tl;dr:
For the past 5+ years, I’ve worked as a founder in crypto. I fell in love with the technology. I wanted to see how it’s being used at scale.
Since January I am not operationally involved anymore.
I took 10 months to figure out my next logical step. I traveled, made more video content (and no, that’s not over, just on a smaller scale :)), and yeah I enjoyed life to the fullest.
But (attention, cliche phrase incoming) somehow I was missing a purpose.
I didn't feel like starting my own company again. I wanted to do something I’d never done before.
Believe it or not, I’ve never had a “real” job. Hospitality, studying, working student, a bit of freelancing, then straight into founding.
So I don’t know yet what it means to work at a company this big, with this much weight in Europe.
The one thing I know: I am super motivated to find it out.
Community, communication and creative strategy, turning ideas into a story, have always been my favorite part of the work. So whatever came next, I’d keep bringing my creativity + my personal brand.
I’ve worked with Bitpanda many times over the past years, and I’ve known Florian Klein, who I’m taking over from, and a big part of the team for years.
And it’s a bit of a full circle moment: Bitpanda is where I bought my very first Bitcoin. I know how smooth getting into crypto felt for me back then, and that’s exactly what Bitpanda set out to do for everyone.
That’s why this feels like such a match.
Flo, it's been a real privilege building Vision side by side with you. Sad to see you go, but so grateful for everything you've given this team and community. Enjoy the break!
A warm welcome to @VicktoriaKlich, such an experienced and great addition. Exciting times ahead!
A personal update from me: after more than five years at Bitpanda, I'll be leaving at the end of October.
There's no big mystery behind the decision. Five years is a long time, I'm ready for my next adventure, and this also feels like the right moment for Vision. We've built a strong team and ecosystem, and with Vision Chain ahead of us, the project is about to enter a new chapter.
I'm also very happy to welcome @VicktoriaKlich as our new Ecosystem Lead.
Vicky will take over many of my public-facing responsibilities across Vision, including communications, community and parts of our ecosystem marketing. She's a great catch for the team and someone I'm very happy to hand these responsibilities to.
The rest of my role won't move to one person. Product, commercial strategy and other responsibilities will be distributed across the existing team as well as new roles in the growing Web3 organisation.
And because I know the question will come up: I'm not leaving because I've lost confidence in Vision. Quite the opposite. I remain fully convinced by what we're building and I'm particularly excited about what's ahead with Vision Chain.
I'll be around for the rest of October, working closely with Vicky and the team on the handover.
After that, I'm going to take some time off, travel, properly disconnect and then figure out what the next adventure looks like.
I'll also remain part of the Bitpanda and Vision community. For once, I'll just get to watch what's being built from the other side.
🤝
proud of the team. i dont support conference tourism and vibes-only meetings. they had a clear strategy and meetings lined up with goals defined by @schoisistar before boarding the plane
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Marco Schoisinger retweeted
Big conferences always showcase in which direction the market is moving towards and what people are excited about.
At @token2049 Singapore, that direction couldn't have been clearer: RWAs will be the biggest narrative moving forward.
Between hosting our booth at the main event and running our RWA Liquidity Brunch alongside @ArrakisFinance , this trip was full confirmation that our approach is the right one and we need to keep moving in this direction.
We reconnected and met with partners across the board:
- Stablecoin issuers & cross-chain liquidity providers
- Perpetuals, derivatives venues & Decentralized Exchange routing hubs
- Centralized Exchanges and their ecosystems
- Onchain infrastructure, security & liquidity management partners
- Launchpad partners
The common thread?
Everyone is looking forward to tokenisation scaling in Europe.
This is the fun part of our API and MCP 🤖
Savings plans, portfolios, bots. Build them yourself, or tell an AI to build them.
Very nice use cases! 🚀
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teapawt.net/Golgoin/status/2107083…
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
🚨 REMINDER! MORGEN ist Marco @schoisistar auf Reddit für euch da. Ab 16:30 Uhr:
reddit.com/r/bitpanda/s/clNl…
📢 DEMNÄCHST: Krypto-AMA auf Reddit 📢
mit Marco, @schoisistar , unserem General Manager of Crypto in unserem SubReddit ⬇️
🔗 reddit.com/r/bitpanda/
🗓️ Do., 01.10.
⏰ 16:30 Uhr (MEZ)
⏳ ~ 2h
Seid dabei, wenn Marco live eure Fragen beantwortet!
Was würdet ihr Marco zum Thema Krypto fragen? 💬👇
ALT Marco, General Manager of Crypto bei Bitpanda, sitzt auf der linken Seite des Bildes. Auf der linken Seite ist die Überschrift „ASK ME ANYTHING auf Reddit” zu sehen, gefolgt von seinem Namen und seiner Position. Darunter steht in einer Bubble das Datum und die Uhrzeit: Do., 01.10., 16:30 Uhr.
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
Raiffeisen Bank International will offer its customers access to crypto investments via a partnership with brokerage Bitpanda bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Founder mode on 🚀
👋
📢 DEMNÄCHST: Krypto-AMA auf Reddit 📢
mit Marco, @schoisistar , unserem General Manager of Crypto in unserem SubReddit ⬇️
🔗 reddit.com/r/bitpanda/
🗓️ Do., 01.10.
⏰ 16:30 Uhr (MEZ)
⏳ ~ 2h
Seid dabei, wenn Marco live eure Fragen beantwortet!
Was würdet ihr Marco zum Thema Krypto fragen? 💬👇
ALT Marco, General Manager of Crypto bei Bitpanda, sitzt auf der linken Seite des Bildes. Auf der linken Seite ist die Überschrift „ASK ME ANYTHING auf Reddit” zu sehen, gefolgt von seinem Namen und seiner Position. Darunter steht in einer Bubble das Datum und die Uhrzeit: Do., 01.10., 16:30 Uhr.
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
Engage Season 4 is here.
Four weeks, a new prize setup, and €10,000 in EURCV up for grabs.
The €10,000 EURCV prize pool will be distributed among the top 100 on the XP leaderboard.
And there’s more. Five participants will each win two VIP tickets to an FC Bayern home game during the 2026/27 season:
1st place: Guaranteed
2nd–3rd: 1x prize, raffled
4th–8th: 1x prize, raffled
9th–18th: 1x prize, raffled
19th–50th: 1x prize, raffled
Terms apply: blog.vision.now/terms-condit…
Don't forget: The more ethereum:0x699ccf919c1dfdfa4c374292f42cadc9899bf753 you stake in your Vision Wallet, the more XP you collect from every single mission!
Four weeks to climb the leaderboard. Every mission counts.
Step by step by step
It’s time to get the flywheel spinning.
The VISION web3 Foundation hereby announces our first-ever token buyback. We will conduct a buyback of €2,000,000 between September 1st, 2026 and December 31st, 2026.
For more details regarding this disclosure of insider information, please check out: blog.vision.now/the-vision-w…, as well as our dedicated blog article: blog.vision.now/the-first-vs…
You can now connect your AI agent to Bitpanda! 🚀
Check out how our co-founders portfolio is getting roasted 🙂
Today we’re launching @Bitpanda MCP.
I connected my AI agent to analyse my portfolio and trading behaviour. Turns out, it had more to say about my investment decisions than expected and ended up roasting my portfolio. 😅
Agentic finance in Europe starts now. 🐼 More info: bitpanda.com/en/ai-investing…
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
Happy Birthday, Vision. 🎂
To celebrate, we're launching the Vision Anniversary Competition.
🏆 €50,000 in EURCV rewards
🥇 €10,000 for first place
🎁 More prizes available across the leaderboard,
with chances to win up to the Top 100.
Buy Vision.
Stake Vision.
Climb the leaderboard.
More details below. 👇
Bitpanda Fusion API trading is live 🤖
Automate your trading and build whatever you want!
Find out more here: bitpanda.com/en/fusion/api
Marco Schoisinger retweeted
Every day, the market moves. Now, you control the volume. 🎛️
Margin Trading is officially LIVE on Bitpanda.
⚡ Up to 20x leverage on 875+ Stocks, ETFs & ETCs
⚡ Boost exposure in a single tap
⚡ Start small: trades from just €1
Ready to fast-track your stock trading? For more: blog.bitpanda.com/en/bitpand…