Bitcoin News Today: Lombard Finance Unveils Roadmap to Make Bitcoin Ubiquitous Across Major Ecosystems

Lombard Finance, a Bitcoin liquid staking platform, has unveiled an ambitious roadmap aimed at making Bitcoin a ubiquitous asset across all major ecosystems. The roadmap includes the development of a suite of tools designed to accelerate the growth of Bitcoin Capital Markets onchain. This suite will feature a natively cross-chain Bitcoin wrapper, enabling BTC trading onchain, a software development kit (SDK) for native BTC deposits to any app on any chain, and several BTC yield products to onboard BTC.

The roadmap also introduces a suite of ‘Bitcoin Middleware’ that will connect Bitcoin liquidity with any platform, chain, or application. This middleware will include a new Bitcoin primitive and the Lombard SDK. Additionally, Lombard Finance plans to launch tokenized and structured products this year, including a basis trade vault and a tokenized options vault. The roadmap introduces a cross-chain, wrapped BTC, fully backed 1:1 with BTC, which will be an ecosystem-neutral public good with permissionless minting and no mint and redeem fees.

Further, the roadmap includes 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, and 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 Finance 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 protocol currently has $1.731 billion in total value locked (TVL), and it has onboarded over $2 billion in net-new BTC liquidity. This has helped lead a movement where, for the first time ever, top protocols including Aave, Pendle, Morpho, and EigenLayer prioritized BTC integrations.

Lombard Finance's latest moves follow the unprecedented success of LBTC, which reached $1 billion total value locked (TVL) in 92 days. The protocol aims to be the driving force for Bitcoin onchain, similar to how Tether and Circle are for stablecoins. With the infrastructure in place, Lombard is convinced that the Bitcoin community will become a leader in onchain innovation. In July 2024, Lombard raised $16 million in a funding round led by Polychain Capital. The protocol announced its production-ready toolkit LBTC SDK in April 2025, enabling partners to offer one-click Bitcoin staking and direct deployment of LBTC into DeFi yield strategies. Crypto exchanges Bybit and Binance had already integrated the LBTC SDK by that point, with more in the pipeline.

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. The protocol aims to be the driving force for Bitcoin onchain, similar to how Tether and Circle are for stablecoins. With the infrastructure in place, Lombard is convinced that the Bitcoin community will become a leader in onchain innovation. 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.