"The hardest currency meets the fastest chain": Lombard and MegaETH announce the official strategic cooperation.

Lombard today officially announced a significant strategic partnership with MegaETH, becoming the main Bitcoin partner of this first real-time blockchain. This collaboration combines the $2.3 trillion capital foundation of Bitcoin with the execution environment of MegaETH, introducing the purest form of Bitcoin expression to the on-chain financial market and ushering in a new era of real-time Bitcoin trading and capital markets.

Bitcoin, as the cornerstone of cryptocurrency, has a massive supply of $2.3 trillion, most of which remains idle. Lombard is committed to making Bitcoin liquid, yield-generating, and programmable, becoming the financial foundation layer of the on-chain market. MegaETH, as the first real-time blockchain, can achieve block times of less than 10 milliseconds and processing capabilities of over 1 Gbit/s, providing the necessary performance support for large-scale financial applications while maintaining permissionless and non-custodial characteristics.

Bitcoin on MegaETH will present a brand new look with three core features: Native - permissionless BTC, fully collateralized, definitely not an IOU; Permissionless - anyone, anywhere can mint or redeem; Fully Embedded - through Lombard SDK, developers can seamlessly integrate BTC directly into applications, relying on trusted underlying infrastructure already adopted by leading wallets, exchanges, and protocols.

Lombard's strategic consideration to introduce Bitcoin into MegaETH lies in the fact that real-world financial applications require a seamless user experience—instant finality, low latency, and transparent throughput for users. For Bitcoin to truly achieve on-chain status, it requires an execution environment that can keep pace with it.

This collaboration brings significant value to users, developers, and the entire ecosystem. Users will experience a BTC-like experience without any permissions and with full transparency; developers can integrate the abstracted complexity of the infrastructure through the SDK, allowing any MegaETH application to seamlessly embed BTC; the entire ecosystem will embed the hardest currency as the main financial layer into the fastest chain ever.

The combination of MegaETH and Lombard has also created new possibilities: real-time Bitcoin trading and on-chain finance. Bitcoin can serve as collateral for high-performance trading, stablecoin lending, and structured products; developers can build Web2-quality financial applications on a completely permissionless tech stack; institutions can access the hardest currency with the fastest cryptocurrency user experience.

With the MegaETH mainnet ready, Lombard will become its main Bitcoin partner from day one, jointly deploying Lombard's permissionless BTC as the primary BTC asset in the ecosystem. This is not just about product integration; it is a blueprint for Bitcoin to ultimately become an on-chain financial first-class asset.

As both parties emphasized, this marks the beginning of the "hardest currency, fastest chain" era of MegaETH × BTC. Lombard focuses on Bitcoin, dedicated to building a Capital Market that can unleash the full potential of Bitcoin as an on-chain financial foundation, while MegaETH provides the fastest execution environment to support this vision.