Jacob Phillips
@JacobPPhillips
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CoFounder @Lombard_Finance prev: Polychain, Perennial
NYC
Joined July 2019
Hey everyone, few updates: 1. I'm now building @Lombard_Finance, alongside @lukejdpearson @polychain and a killer team. 2. We raised a Seed Round & will be launching soon. 3. I officially moved to NYC! 4. I'll be at ETH CC, helping spread the Lombard gospel.
Lombard is excited to announce our $16M seed round to kick-start the Bitcoin restaking ecosystem led by @polychain! With additional participation from @babylon_chain, @daofive, @FTI_Global, @ForesightVen, @mirana, @0xMantleEco Fund, @NomadCapital_io, @OKX_Ventures, and
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🎥 “Factory floor workers should be able to put their money where they believe it is best.” —Rep. Rudy Yakym. Expanding access to private capital empowers Hoosiers to invest in their future.
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Crazy time to look back on: - Terra was still a payments project - Multi-collateral Dai (now @SkyEcosystem) was just launching - Game of Zones (@cosmos) launching incentivized IBC testnet - @avax stirring up controversy by launching one of the first EVM sidechains
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Questions of the time: - Will Institutions ever care? - Do any of these tokens have value? - Will PoS become a big thing? (still in the "pioneer[ing]" stage) - Will users ever care?
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Some other pics, looking through the camera role: (plasma) Remember this. Good times. (zk Rollout) @_prestwich already deep in iterations on rollups. (About me) @ilblackdragon at a NEAR community event (pre-launch), still needing to introduce himself. (VC Panel) Casual
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At WeCheck AI we got our first clients the old-school way… cold calling! Emails weren’t landing, so we picked up the phone. Curious how other founders got their first few clients and what B2B sales approaches worked best for you? -startup founder
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Blast from the Past: SF Blockchain Week 2019 (My first crypto conference) (Scribbles) This was @Zac_Aztec explaining PLONK to @gakonst. The non-technical folks won't understand, but it's all clear to me. (Iconic @solana Office) Went to a breakfast there (few attendees). Guy
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Feels like just a few years ago, the narrative was the @coinbase was slow & unwilling to take risk (a necessary input to doing anything interesting). Now, they're routinely making big moves — exactly what you'd expect from a leading fintech. Quite the turnaround.
Coinbase has acquired @echodotxyz. Onchain capital formation is a vital and unique part of the crypto ecosystem. Excited to be adding Echo and Sonar to Coinbase to give our customers new token access opportunities.
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Jacob Phillips joins the Staking Summit Buenos Aires as a speaker! @JacobPPhillips is Co-Founder of @Lombard_Finance , the leading platform accelerating Bitcoin capital markets & unlocking the full potential of the most important asset of our generation. Catch him on Nov 15-16
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The backdrop: ETH development --> slow, devs leaving/underpaid. L2s on ETH --> struggling to attract devs Solana (run like a business) --> getting many wins Perp dexs --> building own chains Stablecoins --> building own chains There should be urgency. Value is leaving.
Yes, the goal of @paradigm and many other VCs is to suck as much value as possible from the Ethereum and broader ecosystem, while also adding value to the ecosystem in the service of maximizing their own gains. Paradigm is particular good at this. Subgoals include progressing the
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Once upon a time, @cosmos had some of the best & brightest builders & researchers in the land. Then, all that talent left to go start/join ecosystem projects (@anoma @sommfinance @osmosiszone) Great for the individuals & ecosystem, but the end for $ATOM. Lessons in there.
I am excited to announce that I will be joining Tempo. This last year has been a turning point for crypto, where we have finally seen the outlines of our vision being materialized. While payments used to be front and center in the early days of crypto, I see a special opportunity
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From first principles: Ownership is a privilege, not a right. Do I/you deserve ownership in @monad (or any other) network? Probably not. The level of "entitlement" towards airdrops is the exact thing Kain is talking about. Crypto twitter has gone a bit overboard in defining
kain (infinex founder) is complaining about the predatory economics of airdrops airdrops levelled the playing field between founders/vcs and retail. before airdrop, retail got completely milked by founders/vcs who bought in at very low cost and then non-stop dumped their tokens
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Two of the most obvious 5-10 year bets in crypto. 1. Bitcoin 2. Onchain Finance BTC DeFi — Easily one of the best categories to be building in.
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A typical @monad engineer — muscles bursting from his monad-branded polo — unable to even enjoy an ice cream cone without proper engineering. This mainnet will be so beautiful, we cannot even imagine.
we've never been closer to Monad Mainnet
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Gold's market cap doubled in the past 24 months. That's another $13 Trillion flowing into assets unexposed to endless money printing from central banks. And this is just the start. $ trillions flowing in BTC's direction.
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$ZEC is the key to privacy onchain, even if no one ends up using ZEC…
ZECs recent run up has me thinking about this: “[The third-party allocation of the Zcash dev fund] has the potential to become the world’s largest open reserve for zero-knowledge research, software development, advocacy, and adoption.” - @cburniske
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To be clear, I go to marquee every night, so I am aware of the size of the line.
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Token 2024: Movement/Berachain were everywhere, huge lines at marquee every night, everyone going to F1. Token 2025: Hyperliquid/Plasma, conference attendance down 70%, focus on institutional finance, lots skipping F1. Massive difference in vibe, just 12 months apart.
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AI won’t just change what we discover in pharma, it’ll change how we make it. Biomanufacturing remains one of the most under-optimized layers of the pharma value chain: ⚙️ Tech transfer takes 12+ months 💸 Batch failures cost millions 🏠$120B+ spent annually on biologics
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Trading activity is the engine of the onchain economy. It spins the flywheel: onboarding -> utility -> yield -> Repeat BTC DeFi has so much momentum but NEEDS trading onchain to product a real economy. This almost never comes up when the "BTCfi experts" are on stage.
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