New Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation and former Managing Director of IOSG Ventures Established Lantern Capital, an Early-stage Venture Capital Fund

PANews reported on May 7 that according to official news, Lantern Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund co-led by Gökhan Er (former managing director of IOSG Ventures) and Tomasz Stańczak (co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation and founder of Nethermind). Through exclusive strategic cooperation with Nethermind, Lantern Capital's R&D team has reached 200 people, focusing on cutting-edge technology fields such as zero-knowledge proof (ZK), Ethereum Layer 2 (L2), security audits and underlying protocol engineering. The Nethermind team is Lantern Capital's legal general partner (GP) and the core technical support for the fund.

Lantern Capital is committed to investing in forward-looking founders who view blockchain as the economic, verification, governance and identity infrastructure in the coming AI era. The fund focuses on investing in high-potential early-stage projects in the Ethereum ecosystem and other multi-chain compatible projects, strategically capturing investment opportunities in the early primary and secondary markets. Lantern Capital will provide entrepreneurs with the most powerful support from the initial stage to the mainnet expansion.