$BARD FAQ

$BARD is Lombard’s governance and utility token. It enables:

• Governance, Vote on protocol decisions, validator sets, fees, and roadmap
• Security, Staked $BARD helped secure early LBTC cross-chain transfers. That program closed on September 17, 2026
• Protocol access, Priority access and preferred terms for Lombard products

Both are core to Lombard but serve different purposes. LBTC is backed by BTC; $BARD is not.

1,000,000,000 $BARD (1 billion). Fixed supply at TGE, no inflation.

22.5% at launch, with the remainder unlocking over 48 months.

Season 1 allocated 4% of total supply to users who:

• Held LBTC
• Used LBTC in DeFi protocols
• Earned Lux points through the Luminary Program

Season 2 allocated 1.5% of total supply (15,000,000 BARD) based on Lux earned during the six-month period from September 18, 2025 to March 18, 2026. That claim window opened March 30, 2026 at 09:00 ET and closed June 30, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Season 3’s first claim event covers Lux earned from March 18, 2026 up to the snapshot on July 20, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. Referral Lux is included; wallets below 5,000 Lux, sanctioned addresses, and smart contracts received no allocation.

Allocations were based on Lux points earned relative to the community total. The rate was the same for all participants.

Ensure you are:

1. Connected to the correct wallet
2. On the correct network
3. Actually qualified through eligible activities
4. Above the 5,000 Lux eligibility threshold

Wallets holding fewer than 5,000 Lux at the snapshot, worth roughly 15 BARD, received no Season 3 allocation. If you are trying to claim Season 1 or Season 2, those windows have closed.

Allocations are based on on-chain activity and Lux points, not Kaito or Buidlpad allocations. Addresses appearing on sanctions or compliance screening lists were excluded, and smart contract addresses received no allocation.

No. The checker is read-only. Tokens do not exist in your wallet until you claim them. There is nothing to transfer or sell before claiming.

Open claim event:

Season 3: Claims opened July 27, 2026 at claim.lombard.finance and close October 29, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. Allocations are based on Season 3 Lux held at a snapshot taken July 20, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. Referral Lux is included. Addresses below the minimum threshold of 5,000 Lux did not receive an allocation. Check your allocation on the Rewards page.

Closed: The Season 1 Phase 2 and Season 2 claim windows have ended. Unclaimed tokens were returned to the Ecosystem Fund and cannot be recovered.

Important: Unclaimed tokens from any claim window are returned to the Ecosystem Fund when the window closes and cannot be recovered. Kaito Yapper rewards are claimed separately at kaito.ai/airdrops, not through claim.lombard.finance.

1. Go to claim.lombard.finance
2. Connect the wallet you used for Lombard activity
3. Agree to the terms and conditions
4. Sign the claim transaction
5. Tokens are sent to your connected wallet

The claim destination cannot be changed after submission.

Connect both that wallet and an Ethereum wallet. Your allocation is delivered on Ethereum, since $BARD only exists on Ethereum mainnet.

Kaito Yappers rewards are distributed through Kaito directly, not through the Lombard claim portal: kaito.ai/airdrops

No. BARD staking closed on September 17, 2026, one year after launch. New staking is no longer available and the Stake function has been removed from the Lombard app.

Unstaking remains available to existing stakers, handled directly through Mellow’s interface. No staking rewards are paid after October 1, 2026.

Your stBARD stays redeemable for the $BARD it represents. Everything you staked and everything compounded to date is yours.

Rewards stop after October 1, 2026, so a position held past that date no longer grows. To exit, withdraw through Mellow’s interface. The 21-day withdrawal period is unchanged.

Unstaking is handled through Mellow’s interface, not the Lombard app:

1. Connect your wallet at app.mellow.finance
2. Initiate the withdrawal
3. Claim once the 21-day period completes

If your stBARD sits in a DeFi position elsewhere, withdraw it back to your wallet first.

Lombard will never ask you to migrate, claim, or verify anything, and never contacts you first by DM. The only address for withdrawals is the Mellow vault linked above.

21 days, unchanged by the retirement. The period comes from Symbiotic’s epoch design, which kept staked collateral slash-eligible until the epoch closed.

They are already yours. Staking rewards auto-compounded into stBARD rather than being paid out separately, so everything earned up to October 1, 2026 is reflected in the amount of $BARD your stBARD redeems for. There is nothing separate to claim.

BARD staking was built to help secure early cross-chain transfers of LBTC and BTC.b, with staked BARD acting as slashable collateral monitored by Symbiotic and validated through Chainlink CCIP.

Lombard has consolidated LBTC and BTC.b onto a hub-and-spoke model anchored on Ethereum and adopted Chainlink’s CCIP v2. Both reduce the number of bridge paths and integration surfaces that require securing, and strengthen native security guarantees on the paths that remain. That combination is what BARD staking’s supplementary security layer existed to backstop during the network’s earlier phase.

See the Chain Support Update for details on the chain consolidation.

When you staked $BARD:

1. Tokens were deposited into a Mellow vault
2. You received stBARD (vault share)
3. stBARD increased in redeemable $BARD over time
4. No claiming was needed, rewards auto-compounded

No. BARD retains its governance rights, priority access to new products, and role in ecosystem grant direction. None of these are staking-dependent. Season 3 claims are unaffected and remain open until October 29, 2026.

The $BARD Staker badge applied in Season 2. It was not active in Season 3.

Season 3 of the Luminary Program began immediately after Season 2 ended on March 18, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Season 3 introduces a fundamental change: Lux is now earned exclusively through active DeFi deployment of LBTC or BTC.b into eligible protocols. Passive holding of either asset does not generate Lux. BTC.b enters the Lux ecosystem for the first time.

Season 3 has three multiplier tiers:

• DEX Liquidity and Others at 1x (Uniswap, Curve, Fluid, Aerodrome, Meteora, Etherfi)
• Lending Collateral at 3x (Aave v3/4, Morpho, Spark, Fluid, Euler, Juplend, Kamino)
• Lombard Strategies at 6x

Eligible chains: Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, MegaETH, and Base. Additional protocols and chains are expected during the season.

Badges, daily tap-ins, and special events have been discontinued. The referral program continues unchanged at 20%/10%.

Lombard Strategies earn Lux at the 6x multiplier. Bitcoin Earn no longer earns Lux, its rewards are now paid in BARD through Merkl and can be claimed every 8 hours, liquid from day one. See the Bitcoin Earn page for details.

See the Lux Rewards page for full Season 3 rules.

Ethereum mainnet only. The token contract exists exclusively on Ethereum.

stBARD is the liquid staking token issued when $BARD was staked. It follows the ERC-4626 vault standard:

• Represents your share of the staking vault
• Increased in redeemable $BARD as rewards accrued, until rewards ended on October 1, 2026
• Compatible with DeFi protocols that support ERC-4626

stBARD remains redeemable for the $BARD it represents through Mellow’s interface.

Symbiotic provided the restaking layer for the BARD staking program. Staked $BARD was used as collateral backing LBTC cross-chain transfers, and Symbiotic’s design kept funds slash-eligible over a defined window. That window is why the 21-day withdrawal period still applies.

• BARD vault, 20M $BARD
• LINK vault, $100M of LINK

These caps applied to the vaults backing the Symbiotic monitoring network. The BARD vault was part of the staking program that closed on September 17, 2026.