Jacob Phillips (@jacobpphillips) 's Twitter Profile
Jacob Phillips

@jacobpphillips

CoFounder @Lombard_Finance
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The 'hierarchy of moneyness’ is important for valuing cryptoassets. Top Money: Stablecoins: Unit of account (basis for transacting) BTC: Non-sovereign Store of Value (basis for value) Everything else can have monetary properties, but will be FAR lower on the hierarchy.

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The appeal of racing to new ecosystems has dwindled considerably. Builders just want to be the masters of their own destiny at this point. They're sick of the underlying chain/infra determining whether or not their product succeeds. Base, the epitome of stability, has been a

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The new & improved Lombard is live. We're all in on Bitcoin. We're building the full stack of infra for BTC onchain. We will lead the BTC DeFi movement. Lombard will do for BTC what Tether/Circle did for stablecoins.

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Excited to speak at KBW! Will be spending close to 3 weeks in Korea in September, so keen to talk about Bitcoin yield/utility/infrastructure onchain with anyone in the area.

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Anyone who's anyone is bringing their finance onchain. Tether Chain x 2 Stripe Chain Goldman Sachs Chain Robinhood Chain Now Circle Chain! Maksym Repa says top signal. I say what a time to be alive.

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Big moment for Lombard, nearly on our 1-year anniversary of LBTC. Liquid Bitcoin Foundation Launch $BARD coming soon $7mn Public Sale starting August 26th Thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far, and surely this is just the beginning. theblock.co/post/367548/bi…

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If you saw any concerns about LBTC Depeg or Redemption Risk, read this: tldr; - Super deep on-chain liq. - Redemption live from day 1 on all chains - Underlying assets are native BTC (safer than EVM wrappers) - Market makers actively arb'ing since day 1

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🚨 $95 MILLION 🚨 Get Ready. BTC DeFi will be a $100bn+ market. Goals for rest of 2025: - Arm every DeFi Dev w/ tools to build w/ native BTC (Lombard SDK) - Bring BTC trading onchain w/ UX on par with CEXs - Intro the biggest Instos to onchain BTC - Take BTC DeFi to new highs

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UX is the biggest BTC DeFi issue, and few talk about it. Lombard x Mega have the winning playbook: BTC on Mega will look & feel like BTC on a CEX. Simple as that. Absolute pleasure to be working with brother bing / 饼兄 Σ: namik // mega-chef Σ: amir Σ: and the rest of the squad.

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BARD token economics are out. A few of the design principles: 1. Linear Airdrop: No games. Rules transparent upfront. Little to no additional twists. 2. Airdrop Vesting: half upfront, half locked for 6 months. Skin in the game is a must for any/all token distributions. The