Jacob Phillips is Co-Founder of Lombard Finance, the company building the full stack of Bitcoin infrastructure needed to bring Bitcoin Capital Markets on-chain and pioneer behind LBTC - the fastest staking protocol to reach $2B TVL. Jacob previously served as Partner at Polychain Capital leading venture investments and governance, and in Product & Strategy at Perennial Labs. Graduated from Case Western Reserve University with degrees in Economics and Computer Science.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NYC is the crypto capital of the world
- Working at Polychain Capital
- BTC ecosystem and markets
- Lombard history and LBTC accomplishments
- Bitcoin Capital Markets introduction
- Lombard roadmap to accelerating Bitcoin Capital Markets adoption
- Connecting Bitcoin liquidity to external ecosystems and markets
- How Lombard securitizes your BTC
- Integrating BTC tooling onchain

Lombard Finance
Website: www.lombard.finance
X: @Lombard_Finance
Discord: discord.gg/2HG7G69twc

Jacob Phillips
X: @JacobPPhillips
LinkedIn: Jacob Phillips

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