Bitcoin liquid staking platform Lombard Finance has revealed its roadmap to build the full stack of Bitcoin infrastructure it needs to bring Bitcoin Capital Markets onchain.
According to the press release shared with Cryptonews, the team will introduce a suite of tools that will hasten the development of Bitcoin Capital Markets. This, they say, includes a natively cross-chain Bitcoin wrapper that will enable BTC trading onchain.
Additionally, it’ll include a software development kit (SDK) for native BTC deposits to “any app on any chain,” as well as several BTC yield products to onboard BTC.
Lombard FinanceThe announcement names a suite of ‘Bitcoin Middleware’ as a core part of this roadmap. This suite will connect Bitcoin liquidity with “any platform, chain, or application that can put it to work.” It will comprise a new Bitcoin primitive and the Lombard SDK.
Moreover, Lombard Finance will launch tokenized and structured products this year. This will include a basis trade vault and a tokenized options vault.
Overall, the roadmap introduces a cross-chain, wrapped BTC, fully backed 1:1 with BTC. It will be “an ecosystem-neutral public good with permissionless minting and no mint and redeem fees.”
Further, it introduces a variety of tokenized and institutional products; Lombard Ledger as a Bitcoin Bridge; a BTC yield marketplace that covers DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi strategies; and the LBTC SDK toolkit. LBTC is the protocol’s liquid staking token. This toolkit will enable “any chain, protocol, or wallet to embed native BTC deposits and yield directly into their applications.”
The team argues that, by developing the assets, infrastructure, and onboarding tools to bring Bitcoin onchain, $500 billion can be created from onboarding BTC and $6 trillion in exponential value with developers innovating further.
“Lombard aims to make Bitcoin ubiquitous throughout all major ecosystems, enabling developers to build the next generation of Bitcoin trading, lending, and payments applications with the simplicity users expect,” the announcement says.
‘DeFi Protocols Prioritizing BTC Integrations for the First Time’
Lombard Finance states that their latest moves follow “the unprecedented success of LBTC.” The coin reached $1 billion total value locked (TVL) in 92 days.
The protocol currently has $1.731 billion in TVL, per DeFiLlama.
Moreover, Lombard onboarded over $2 billion in net-new BTC liquidity, it claims. DeFi uses 82% of this amount. This “helped lead a movement where, for the first time ever, top protocols including Aave, Pendle, Morpho, and EigenLayer prioritized BTC integrations.”
The team recently said that they would launch yield-bearing LBTC on 22 July.
“Bitcoin barely participates in the on-chain revolution it sparked,” says co-founder Jacob Phillips. Lombard is now launching “a comprehensive stack for developers to innovate with Bitcoin on any chain, alongside powerful onboarding tools to empower and ignite the entire ecosystem.”
Phillips continues. The protocol aims to be “the driving force” for Bitcoin onchain as Tether and Circle are for stablecoins. “With the infrastructure in place, we’re convinced the Bitcoin community will become a leader in onchain innovation,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, in July 2024, Lombard said it had raised $16 million in a funding round led by Polychain Capital.
Lombard announced its production-ready toolkit LBTC SDK in April 2025. It enabled partners to offer one-click Bitcoin staking and direct deployment of LBTC into DeFi yield strategies, and it created revenue streams from staking activities. Crypto exchanges Bybit and Binance had already integrated the LBTC SDK by that point, with more in the pipeline.
Also, in February this year, Lombard announced its Security Consortium, a collective of fourteen digital asset institutions. These include OKX, Galaxy, DCG, Wintermute, Amber Group, Figment, Nansen, and P2P, among others.
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