Jacob Phillips is Co-Founder of Lombard Finance, creator of LBTC — the fastest Bitcoin liquid staking protocol to reach $1 billion TVL, doing so in 92 days. Jacob has led strategic partnerships with Chainlink, Symbiotic, and MegaETH to establish cryptoeconomic security standards for cross-chain Bitcoin. Prior to Lombard, he served as COO at Perennial Labs and Partner at Polychain Capital. He holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.