Team public accountability surface

Lombard Finance's assessment for RD-F-112 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Jacob Phillips has ≥4 verifiable public trails: LinkedIn employment history (Polychain Capital, Perennial Labs, Lombard), IQ.wiki biography, Blockworks speaker profile, Consensus HK 2025 speaker listing, Fintech.tv keynote interview, multiple podcast appearances (Blockcast, Stonks Go Moon, Blockspace Media, Kiln RDV, Index Podcast, DOX RADIO). Institutional investor Polychain Capital conducted VC due diligence before leading $17M seed round. Tracxn confirms 16 employees as of March 2026.

Sources #

URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Hwnkrwf60retrieved 2026-05-05
URL
https://blockworks.co/speaker/jacob-phillipsretrieved 2026-05-05
URL
https://www.theblock.co/post/367548/bitcoin-lombard-bard-token-sale-450-million-valuation-buidlpadretrieved 2026-05-05

Methodology #

Count the number of verifiable public trails per team member (LinkedIn with employment history, conference talks, prior employer records, GitHub with aged contribution history).

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol lombard factor RD-F-112 score green collected_at 2026-05-05 12:03:08