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Fulgur Ventures backs Infinite Fleet

19 Sep 2023

Fulgur Ventures

3 min read

Fulgur Ventures is backing Infinite Fleet, a sci-fi MMO from Pixelmatic where in-game and investor economies run natively on Bitcoin's Liquid Network, pioneering hard-money game design at internet scale.

Fulgur Ventures is proud to back Infinite Fleet, the sci-fi MMO strategy game from Pixelmatic where humanity unites against an alien threat and where the underlying economy is wired directly into Bitcoin. Led by longtime Bitcoin builder Samson Mow, the team is shipping a AAA-quality space combat experience with player-versus-environment cooperation at its core, while also redefining what it means for a game's value layer to live on hard money rather than a publisher's ledger.

What makes Infinite Fleet specifically aligned with our thesis is its early adoption of the Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain, for both the in-game token and a security token representing equity-like exposure to the project. This is one of the most ambitious real-world deployments of Bitcoin-native asset issuance in gaming, sidestepping the speculative excess of generic crypto games and proving that Bitcoin rails can carry production-grade entertainment economies.

The MMO market is enormous and structurally underserved by truly player-aligned economic design. Items, currencies, and ownership in legacy titles are revocable database entries; on Bitcoin and Liquid, they become bearer assets. That shift unlocks legitimate secondary markets, cross-game composability, and a new contract between developers and players, especially as Lightning matures into a microtransaction layer suitable for live, fast-twitch gameplay.

We invest in teams that take Bitcoin seriously as infrastructure rather than a marketing label, and Pixelmatic has been quietly doing exactly that for years. Infinite Fleet is the kind of long-horizon bet that fits Fulgur: a category-defining product, an unusually credible founder, and an architecture that only becomes more valuable as Bitcoin's adjacent layers harden. We are excited to support the fleet on its journey.