Lombard today announced a significant strategic partnership with MegaETH, becoming the primary Bitcoin partner for the first live blockchain. This collaboration combines Bitcoin's $2.3 trillion capital base with MegaETH's execution environment, bringing the purest expression of Bitcoin to on-chain financial markets and ushering in a new era of live Bitcoin trading and capital markets.

Bitcoin, the cornerstone of cryptocurrency, has a massive $2.3 trillion supply that remains largely unused. Lombard is committed to making Bitcoin liquid, yield-generating, and programmable, serving as the financial foundation for on-chain markets. MegaETH, the first live blockchain, boasts sub-10 millisecond block times and over 1 Gbit/s of processing power, providing the necessary performance for large-scale financial applications while maintaining its permissionless and non-custodial nature.

Bitcoin on MegaETH will take on a whole new look, achieving three core features: Nativeness - permissionless BTC, fully collateralized, never an IOU; Permissionless - anyone, anywhere can mint or redeem it; Fully Embeddable - through the Lombard SDK, developers can frictionlessly integrate BTC directly into their applications, relying on the trusted underlying infrastructure that has been adopted by leading wallets, exchanges and protocols.

Lombard's strategic consideration in bringing Bitcoin to MegaETH is that real-world financial applications require a seamless user experience—instant finality, low latency, and user-transparent throughput. For Bitcoin to truly be on-chain, it requires an execution environment that can keep pace.

This collaboration brings significant value to users, developers, and the entire ecosystem. Users will enjoy an experience similar to using BTC on centralized exchanges, but completely permissionless and transparent. Developers can abstract infrastructure complexity through SDK integration, allowing any MegaETH application to seamlessly embed BTC. The entire ecosystem will embed the hardest currency as the primary financial layer on the fastest blockchain ever.

The combination of MegaETH and Lombard also creates entirely new possibilities: real-time Bitcoin transactions and on-chain finance. Bitcoin can be used as collateral for high-performance trading, stablecoin lending, and structured products; developers can build Web 2-quality financial applications on a completely permissionless technology stack; and institutions can access the hardest currency with the fastest cryptocurrency user experience.

With the MegaETH mainnet ready for launch, Lombard will become its primary Bitcoin partner from day one, jointly deploying Lombard's permissionless Bitcoin as the primary Bitcoin asset within the ecosystem. This is more than just a product integration; it's a blueprint for Bitcoin to ultimately become a first-class asset in on-chain finance.

As both parties emphasized, this marks the beginning of the MegaETH × BTC era of "the hardest currency, the fastest chain." Lombard is focused on Bitcoin and committed to building a capital market that can unleash Bitcoin's full potential as the foundation of on-chain finance, while MegaETH provides the fastest execution environment to support this vision.