Bitcoin re-staking protocol Lombard announced that it will launch a public beta on September 5, and the project also launched DeFi Vault, operated by Veda, designed to provide one-click access to DeFi revenue. Lombard completed a $16 million seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, Mirana Ventures, BabylonChain, Inc., dao5, Mantle EcoFund and Nomad Capital.