🧐 Lombard x Buidlpad $BARD Community Public Offering｜Let Bitcoin Truly Flow——

The Lombard Buidlpad public offering has begun, full of opportunities——

Finally, the wait is over!

Because I paid attention to the Bitcoin ecosystem and participated in staking relatively early, I joined the Lombard @Lombard_Finance army quite some time ago.

In Kaito's first vote, I also unhesitatingly supported Lombard;

For the past decade, Bitcoin has been regarded as "digital gold," with people locking it away in cold wallets and hardware wallets, guarding it like a cultural relic.

But this means: the world's most important asset has almost no capital efficiency.

Lombard is focused on changing all of this:

In just 92 days, the TVL of LBTC surpassed 1 billion USD, faster than Lido, EtherFi, and Ethena.

This speed itself indicates that the market is eager for a way to make dormant Bitcoin liquid.

1️⃣ Why Lombard?

Because it is not just a derivative token of BTC, but is laying the groundwork for Bitcoin Capital Markets on-chain ——

A complete set of financial infrastructure surrounding Bitcoin.

After staking myself, receiving LBTC is quite a comfortable thing, because this is just the first step; it turns BTC into a liquid, income-generating asset. What can I do:

1) Up to 5% annualized, distributed daily

2) Can be used as collateral

3) Zero fees, transparent and verifiable;

In other words, for the first time, Bitcoin can truly participate in the financial market "like the dollar"; compared to other projects, the biggest differences of LBTC are: safety + liquidity + practicality.

It does not trap BTC in a certain protocol but opens a path for BTC to flow throughout the market like USDT.

So LBTC is not "another Bitcoin derivative," but a second lifeline for Bitcoin.

This is the greatest utility of LBTC!

2️⃣ Team & Background——

I paid attention to it before mainly because of the strong team:

This team is not made up of parachute players but is incubated by Polychain, with members from top DeFi/financial institutions like Coinbase, Ripple, Babylon, Maple, and Argent, who understand both the BTC narrative and DeFi expansion.

In July 2024, Lombard completed a 16 million USD seed round financing, with investors including Babylon, dao5, Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, and Mirana.

This means: crypto OGs + traditional giants are betting on Lombard as the infrastructure for the BTC capital market.

3️⃣ Why is it worth paying attention to?——

Three points are very important:

1) Bitcoin fundamentalists: LBTC does not alter BTC; it is essentially staking + 1:1 backing, safe, transparent, and redeemable at any time.

2) DeFi players: LBTC has been accepted as collateral by blue-chip protocols like Aave, Maple, and Spark.

3) Institutional capital: 40% of the Babylon staking market share, with Galaxy, Figment, Kiln, and P2P all participating.

In a nutshell, Lombard turns cold, hard BTC into globally liquid productive capital.

4️⃣ Latest Developments: $BARD & Liquid Bitcoin Foundation

I noticed that Lombard has taken the next step in the past few days:

Establishing the Liquid Bitcoin Foundation — an independent, long-term governance and ecological foundation to support the sustainable development of the Lombard protocol.

They also launched $BARD — the native token of the Lombard protocol, which means that my long-staked $BTC has finally welcomed the Lombard moment, and I can finally receive the long-awaited returns!

I believe these two actions elevate Lombard from a single product (LBTC) to a complete ecosystem —

The foundation will be responsible for promoting education, research, and funding developers, safeguarding Lombard's long-term development.

The birth of $BARD means that the community and users can truly become co-participants in the Bitcoin capital market.

According to the announcement, $BARD will soon launch a community public offering on Buidlpad (August 26 - September 4).

This community sale allocates 1.5% of the total supply, with an FDV of approximately 450 million USD.

For ordinary users, this is a rare opportunity to directly participate in a BTC infrastructure project at an early stage.

This reminds me of an interesting comparison:

In the past decade, USDT/USDC brought the dollar on-chain, creating a stablecoin capital market; today, Lombard aims to do the same, but with Bitcoin as the target.

$BARD is like the "ticket" to this transformation, so let’s get the community public offering on Buidlpad started!

5️⃣ Personal Feelings——

When I first saw Lombard, my immediate reaction was: isn't this just the Bitcoin version of Lido?

But as I looked deeper, I found that it resembles what Tether/Circle did for the dollar back in the day:

USDT/USDC turned the dollar into on-chain liquidity

LBTC turns Bitcoin into on-chain capital

And the launch of $BARD feels more like handing this path over to the community to build together.

If LBTC allows Bitcoin to "generate interest," then $BARD enables this system to "self-govern."

6️⃣ Conclusion——

In the future, looking back, the launch of Lombard may be seen as the beginning of the "BTC financial market era."

92 days with TVL breaking 1 billion, 40% Babylon staking share; Polychain incubation + top capital backing;

Now there’s also a foundation + $BARD community governance;

If Bitcoin is the most important asset of this generation, Lombard may be the switch that truly unleashes its financial potential.

And the Buidlpad $BARD community public offering on August 26 may be another key moment for us to witness the realization of the "BTC financial market."

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