Blockstream announces that its mobile wallet has completed a major upgrade, allowing users to trustlessly swap between the Lightning Network and Liquid Network via Boltz. This update enables users to pay Lightning invoices directly with Liquid Bitcoin (LBTC) without manually managing channels or maintaining inbound liquidity, further enhancing the smoothness and convenience of cross-layer Bitcoin network usage. According to Blockstream, this integration relies on Hash Time-Locked Contracts (HTLC), ensuring that all swaps are completed atomically: either all succeed or all are rolled back. If a transaction fails, funds will automatically be returned to the original wallet, with the entire process requiring no third-party custody, thereby increasing user fund security. Boltz, as a non-custodial swap service provider, is responsible for executing swaps between Lightning and Liquid, making the entire process efficient and trustless.

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on September 18, 2023: Gate will launch Lombard on September 18, 2025, at 19:00 ( UTC+8, with spot trading for BARD) and the opening of the BARD/USDT trading pair. Lombard is a decentralized finance project that primarily expands the application scenarios of Bitcoin through liquidity-staked Bitcoin tokens ( like LBTC), promoting yield acquisition and DeFi participation. The project's BARD token is deployed on the Ethereum network, with the contract address 0xf0db65d17e30a966c2ae6a21f6bba71cea6e9754.

Gate News Bot news, September 26, according to CoinMarketCap data, BARD (Lombard) is currently priced at $1.15, with a rise of 9.72% in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of $1.52 and a low of $0.89. The current market capitalization is approximately $258 million, an increase of $22.9 million compared to yesterday. Lombard is a full-stack infrastructure project focused on bringing Bitcoin into on-chain capital markets. The project was founded in 2024 and pioneered the integration of Bitcoin in the DeFi space through LBTC, a leading liquid staking token. LBTC is secured by a consortium of top institutions. Lombard is building a complete infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of on-chain BTC by holders, protocols, and platforms. The project is supported by well-known institutions in the digital asset space, including top

According to BlockBeats news on September 18, Bybit Spot has launched BARD/USDT and LBTC/USDT at 11:00 and 11:30 (UTC time) respectively today. Meanwhile, the BARD event of the Bybit Token Splash is still ongoing, with a total prize pool of 700,000 BARD.

Odaily News Bybit announced that on September 18, it will launch Lombard stake Bitcoin (LBTC) spot trading, with the trading pair LBTC/USDT. LBTC, as an institution-level yield Bitcoin product, is secured by a decentralized alliance composed of 14 leading digital asset institutions, fully backed by BTC. Currently, it holds a 60% share of the Bitcoin liquid staking token market, making it the largest project in this field.

Lombard has partnered with Chainlink and Symbiotic to launch a cross-chain bridge solution and introduce the utility of the BARD Token. By integrating re-staking and cross-chain interoperability protocols, it provides economic security for LBTC transfers, allowing users to earn up to 240% APY in the application.

PANews September 15 news, Starknet announced that it has completed the integration upgrade for Bitcoin staking. BTC holders can now participate in Starknet Consensus, with a staking weight of 25% and STRK accounting for 75%. It supports wrapped BTC assets like WBTC, LBTC, tBTC, and SolvBTC. Validators can deploy BTC delegation pools, and the rewards mechanism will launch on September 30. The unstaking period for STRK and BTC stakers is unified to 7 days.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet announced that it has begun the integration upgrade for BTC staking. The staking protocol will be paused for several hours to complete this significant update. This upgrade will allow Bitcoin holders to participate in Starknet consensus, with specific parameters including: BTC staking weight set at 0.25, meaning Bitcoin accounts for 25% of the consensus weight, while the remaining 75% is borne by STRK; initial support for WBTC, LBTC, tBTC, and SolvBTC, with other BTC derivatives to be added through governance; the staking unbinding period has been shortened from 21 days to 7 days, applicable to BTC and STRK stakers. Previously reported, Starknet: The BTC staking function will be launched on the Mainnet on September 30.

Foresight News reports that Starknet has announced that SNIP-31 has officially been approved, and Starknet is about to launch Bitcoin staking features, with the following parameters: BTC staking computing power weight is set to 0.25, giving BTC the highest 25% influence in consensus computing power, with the remaining portion allocated to STRK; WBTC, LBTC, tBTC, and SolvBTC are approved for staking on Starknet; governance rules for the approval of the new BTC wrapper have been established. The official release will take place in the coming weeks.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the official announcement of Ionic, the Mode-based Ionic platform was attacked by a Hacker, who used unofficial fake LBTC (Lombard BTC) as Collateral for the Ionic platform. The team is investigating, and Odaily reminds users not to interact with it. Original link attached official LBTC

BlockBeats reported that on January 1st, Ether.Fi, a staking protocol on Ethereum, announced the launch of Berachain, an incentive-based pre-deposit vault, which supports deposits of weETH, WETH, stETH, eBTC, wBTC, cbBTC, and LBTC. After the Berachain Mainnet is launched, deposits will be held for 90.

ChainCatcher news, Sui has announced a partnership with Babylon and Lombard to provide on-chain LBTC minting services for users. Sui lending protocol NAVI has also expressed plans to collaborate with Lombard and support LBTC on this protocol.

Decentralized Finance platform Pendle launches LBTC deposit pool, offering up to 45% variable yield and 10% fixed yield. It has attracted over 13 million USD in deposits since its launch and will expire on December 26th. Pendle aims to replicate the success of ETH fixed yield in BTC by dividing Decentralized Finance investment into Principal Token (PT) and Yield Token (YT) to achieve high returns.

Odaily Star Daily News Lombard announced that since last week's restart with LBTC, the total Lock-up Position value (TVL) of eBTC on ether.fi has risen from $38 million to $61 million, an increase of over 60%. In order to maximize the stake benefits on platforms such as EigenLayer, Symbiotic, and Karak Network, starting from September 11th (Wednesday), all wBTC will be converted to

Lombard launches LBTC, a Cross-Chain InteractionBTCToken designed specifically for Decentralized Finance. LBTC integrates major Decentralized Finance protocols, allowing users to stake BTC and use various protocols. The future of prediction market is promising.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the increasing number of BTC assets, the demand for WBTC as the underlying asset is increasing. The Compound community has launched a new proposal to add a WBTC market on Mainnet. The proposal allows the following assets to be used as collateral for WBTC: uniBTC (Bedrock), FBTC (FireBTC), swBTC (Swell), LBTC (Lomboard), pumpBTC.