Canada-based blockchain infrastructure provider Figment has launched a $16 million  investment fund, Figment Capital, to support decentralized protocols and applications such as Cosmos, Terra and Livepeer. 

• In an announcement Tuesday, Figment said the new venture fund will be an investment arm of the Figment stack, and capital will be used to “supercharge” its support for blockchain protocols and early-stage projects.
• Figment provides infrastructure and tools for networks such as Cosmos, Polkadot, Celo, and Skale.
• The team is “bullish on privacy” and the fund is dedicated to supporting projects with Figment’s validator or developer infrastructure, said Clayton Menzel, head of marketing at Figment.
• “We are dedicated to the Cosmos ecosystem so [we’re funding] anything running on Tendermint Cosmos-SDK because we are super familiar with the ecosystem,” Menzel told CoinDesk.
• Cosmos is a decentralized network made up of independent blockchains which utilize byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanisms, including Tendermint BFT.
• So far, $1 million from the fund has been allocated to a couple of unnamed projects which Menzel said the team is not ready to make public yet. 
• Figment CEO Lorien Gabel said for three years the firm has supported numerous blockchains and onboarded thousands of developers into the Web 3 ecosystem.
• “With Figment Capital, we will now be able to fully support the launch of new Web 3 protocols and applications from testnet to mainnet and beyond as an active infrastructure provider, partner and investor.” said Gabel.

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