How the Sale Works

Lombard and Its Core Token LBTC

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Investor Backing and the Role of $BARD

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Why Buidlpad?

Positioning in the Bitcoin DeFi Landscape

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Takeaway

Lombard Staked BTC

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Bitcoin

Lombard

3D Lombard logo on a soft gradient background

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Lombard is launching its token sale on Buidlpad, raising $6.75M at a $450M FDV. With no vesting, a strong investor base, and integrations across DeFi, this sale could be one of the year’s most closely watched.

Polychain Capital

Franklin Templeton

Bybit

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Nomad Capital

Lombard $BARD Sale on Buidlpad

United States of America

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Primitive Ventures is an international venture investment firm that invests on blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.

Primitive Ventures

Scott Moore

Will Price

Cristian Manea

dao5

United Kingdom

Mustafa Al-Bassam

Builder Capital

Symbolic Capital is a crypto-native fund founded by web3 founders.

Symbolic Capital

coinflipcanada

Anurag Arjun

dingaling

Jason Yanowitz

chainyoda.eth

Public Works

Charles Lu

Alpen Capital (Prev. Comfy Capital)

The Rollup Ventures

Fluent

WAGMI Ventures

echo

Native Crypto

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

Sfermion

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

Singapore

The Spartan Group primarily focuses on investments in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain-related projects. They actively manage a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as other tokens and blockchain assets.

The Spartan Group

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Superscrypt

Oshi

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Bankless

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

GTS Ventures is a venture capital that invests in crypto startups.

GTS Ventures

Zonff Partners

Quantstamp

CoinSummer

Cayman Islands

Youbi Capital is a PE/VC fund: backing leading Web3 digital projects.

Youbi Capital

Skyland Ventures is a venture capital fund that mainly invests in seed startups.

Skyland Ventures

Arcane Crypto

Bonfire Union

Unity Ventures

StakeStone

Animoca Brands is a global digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publishing of mobile games, blockchain-based games, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are known for creating and publishing a wide range of popular games, including licensed intellectual properties such as Formula 1, Doraemon, and MotoGP. Animoca Brands is also heavily involved in the blockchain gaming space, leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and NFTs to create unique gaming experiences.

Animoca Brands

BingX Labs

IOSG Venture is an early-stage fund for decentralized protocols and companies. Early-stage algorithm-based ventures.

IOSG Ventures

Brevis Network

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

South Korea

Empowering mass adoption of the decentralized future 
through network building of the protocol economy.

Hashed

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Robot Ventures primarily invests in projects and companies related to decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and the broader Web 3.0 ecosystem. They seek to identify promising early-stage projects that are building innovative solutions in these areas.

Robot Ventures

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

Presto Labs

tangent

INFINIT

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

Foresight Ventures

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

Evan Cheng

Alumni Ventures

Lily Liu is the co-founder and CFO at Earn.com. He is a former partner at Multi family office and CFO at Chinaco Healthcare Corporation. Lily holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.

Lily Liu

Dispersion Capital

Blockchain Builders Fund

dcbuilder.eth

Ben Fisch

PIN AI

BitScale Capital invests in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world through cutting-edge technology.

BitScale Capital

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Race Capital

Mexico

Lvna Capital is an investment fund specialized in blockchain-based digital assets.

Lvna Capital

Wormhole

Road Capital

Finality Capital Partners

ABCDE Capital

Solayer

India

Sandeep Nailwal

DCF GOD

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Joe Lallouz

Xinshu Dong

0xRooter

Alan Curtis

Richard Wu

Stanford Liu

WSB Mod

Cindy Leow

Mike Ippolito

Manifold Trading is a early-stage web3 fund that takes a data-driven, systematic approach to making high-conviction investments.

Manifold Trading

Origin Protocol

LTP | LiquidityTech

Orderly

Pantera Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2013 by Dan Morehead, who is a former Wall Street executive and chief financial officer (CFO) at Tiger Management. Pantera Capital is known for being one of the earliest institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space and has been actively involved in supporting the growth and development of blockchain technology and digital assets.

Pantera Capital

China

Hongshan, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments across various stages, from seed and mid-stage to late-stage and growth, with a particular focus on the fintech sector.

HongShan (ex-Sequoia China)

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

Crypto.com is a payment and cryptocurrency platform that empowers users to buy, sell, and pay with crypto.

Crypto.com

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Puzzle Ventures is dedicated to helping early-stage blockchain startups grow and reshaping the future of crypto.

Puzzle Ventures

Taiwan

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic digital asset investment firm.

LedgerPrime

D1 supports the future of the crypto economy through organic market building, global market intelligence and insights, strategic advisory, and the power of memetics.

D1 Ventures

AscendEX is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions

AscendEX

Three Arrows Capital

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets.

Alameda Research

Seychelles

Founded in 2018, MEXC Global is a centralized exchange that employs a high-performance mega-transaction matching technology. The CEX platform is run by a team of professionals with extensive financial industries and blockchain technology experience.

			Stage	Investors
Fluent	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Funding Round	+18	Layer-2	Feb 19, 2025
Oshi	$12.50 M	~$125.00 M	Funding Round	+5	Social	Jan 17, 2025
STO StakeStone	$22.00 M	~$220.00 M	Funding Round	+16	Liquid Staking Protocols	Nov 11, 2024
Brevis Network	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+3	Zero Knowledge	Nov 11, 2024
IN INFINIT	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Funding Round	+6	DeFi	Sep 12, 2024
PIN AI	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Pre-seed	+11	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Sep 9, 2024
LAYER Solayer	$12.00 M	$80.00 M	Seed Round	+11	Liquid Staking Protocols	Aug 27, 2024
ORDER Orderly	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Strategic Round	+3	Perpetual	Aug 15, 2024
SAHARA Sahara AI	$37.00 M	$400.00 M	Funding Round	+14	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Aug 14, 2024
Hyperbolic	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Seed Round	+16	Blockchain Service	Jul 30, 2024
ZRC Zircuit	--	--	Funding Round	+3	Layer-2	Jul 22, 2024
BARD Lombard	$16.00 M	~$160.00 M	Seed Round	+7	DeFi	Jul 2, 2024
RANGO Rango Exchange	--	--	Strategic Round		DeFi	Jun 19, 2024
Nubit	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Seed Round	+6	Infrastructure	Jun 5, 2024
AVAIL Avail	$43.00 M	~$430.00 M	Series A Round	+15	Blockchain	Jun 4, 2024
DORA Dora Factory	--	--	Strategic Round	+4	Infrastructure	May 23, 2024
Hemera	$2.60 M	~$26.00 M	Funding Round	+2	Infrastructure	May 7, 2024
MOVE Movement	$38.00 M	~$380.00 M	Series A	+26	Infrastructure	Apr 25, 2024
ALIGN Aligned Layer	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A Round	+7	Zero Knowledge	Apr 25, 2024
Sending Network	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Extended Seed Round	+4	Blockchain Service	Apr 16, 2024

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