{"/blog/alternative-data-availability-(da)-for-approllups":{"version":1,"title":"Alternative Data Availability (DA) for AppRollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why do we need DA?","Introducing Alternative DA","Our Celestia Integration","Get Started Now","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Alternative Data Availability (DA) for AppRollups","Published on","Oct 25, 2023","We're proud to announce that Caldera chains can now opt in to use alternative data availability (DA) solutions in place of standard Ethereum DA!","Well, in order to make sure that any invalid transactions can be caught and reverted on a rollup, users need a way to make sure that the rollup's block data is actually published.","How is that solved for at the moment? Right now, the vast majority of Ethereum rollups solve this by simply posting all of the rollup blocks onto Ethereum and relying on it for data availability.","But, there's a downside: Ethereum DA is expensive!This standard approach can lead to extremely high and volatile costs, as rollups are forced to compete for limited blockspace with all other dApps and users transacting on Ethereum.","As a result, over 95% of the cost of a rollup transaction today comes from posting data to Ethereum. For reference, both Arbitrum and Optimism have spent over $10m on data availability costs on Ethereum this year!","So, how do we improve upon Ethereum DA? Well, it's worth noting that rollups inherently only use traditional blockchains (eg. Ethereum) as a DA layer to dump transactions, but all of the actual transaction processing and computation happens on the rollup itself.This highlights an exciting realization: a blockchain doesn’t actually need to handle any computation on its own, it only needs to order transactions into blocks, and guarantee the data availability of transactions.Enter stage: Alternative DA.","Alternative DA systems take advantage of this insight to separate out DA from settlement through various innovative approaches, dramatically lowering data costs and increasing throughput to significantly improve rollups' long-term scalability.","At the moment, we're proud to offer Celestia as our first Alt-DA solution for all Caldera chains, leveraging their Data Availability Sampling (DAS) and Namespaced Merkle Trees (NMTs) to save significant costs for the chains in our ecosystem.","While a normal OP stack rollup might create up to $50k/month in DA costs, our Alt-DA OP stack integration is able to save around 75% of the total costs for running that rollup! We accomplish this by modifying the OP-batcher such that the first byte (either 0 or 1) of batch data submitted indicates where rollup data has been posted:","0 for Ethereum","1 for Celestia","From there, type 0 submits batches as normal Ethereum calldata, while type 1 submits data to Celestia and posts a pointer on chain, which includes the block height and transaction commitment.","The OP-node then checks the blob data on Celestia against the commitment posted on-chain and drops the batch if the commitment doesn't match.","To preserve uptime and security, our implementation allows an OP stack integration to fall back to Ethereum DA in case data can't be submitted to Celestia (which might happen if Celestia becomes more expensive or congested).","In addition to this OP Stack implementation, we're excited to support Alt-DA Arbitrum Orbit with Celestia as well, in light of their recent integration!","Testnets for both Manta Pacific and Celestia Bubs already use this Alt-DA OP Stack implementation, which is extendible and can support arbitrary DA layers!","We're incredibly proud to be on the front lines of the modular future, and plan to offer more leading Alt-DA solutions to our customers in the coming months.If you're interested in launching a production-grade rollup with Alt-DA, don't hesitate to contact us!","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/alternative-data-availability-(da)-for-approllups"},"/blog/the-dapp-noisy-neighbor-problem":{"version":1,"title":"The Dapp Noisy Neighbor Problem - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Dapps are Noisy Neighbors","Enter Dedicated Rollups","Caldera: the dedicated rollup platform","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Dapp Noisy Neighbor Problem","Published on","Jun 30, 2023","If you're a software engineer, you might have heard the term \"noisy neighbor effect\". This describes a common problem in computing where one application or process can impact the performance of others running on the same system. It's like having a loud neighbor who keeps everyone on the block up all night with their partying, harming people's performance at work the next day.","This term is most often used to describe multi-tenant services, where several applications are running on the same infrastructure.","To illustrate, imagine you run a cloud service, and you want to allow developers to rent servers to host their applications. If you try to rent remote access to actual, physical servers directly, you'll run into a problem: typical servers in datacenters are super beefy, but most developers don't need as many resources to run their applications.","So you devise a solution: you'll break up each server into multiple \"virtual\" servers. Each virtual server will have its own set of resources, and each developer can rent out a virtual server to run their application. This way, you can make efficient use of your physical servers and offer your service to a wider range of customers with varying resource needs.","Everything works if you share fair...","But there's a catch: what if one developer's application starts hogging up resources, and uses more than their \"fair share\"? Suddenly, the other virtual servers on the same box will have fewer resources to split among themselves -- their performance will be degraded.","...but if someone hogs resources, everyone else gets screwed","Crucially, this drop in performance is purely due to the other users who were \"randomly\" colocated on the same physical server as you by your cloud provider. You have no say in the matter.","Thankfully, in 2023 cloud providers have taken measures to mitigate the noisy neighbor effect. For example, they may provide more advanced virtualization techniques that place hard limits on the resources available to any one customer.","But there's one category of cases where the noisy neighbor problem is alive and well: blockchain apps.","There are multiple ways to conceive of a blockchain. In one sense, a blockchain is a distributed network of many servers, all working together to maintain a shared ledger of transactions.","But from the perspective of a developer, the virtual machine running on top of the blockchain is a single-threaded computer, with limited resources that are shared among all the applications running on it.","That's right: blockchains are the ultimate \"multi-tenant\" infrastructure.","On a single blockchain, you can have hundreds of thousands of applications (smart contracts) competing for limited resources. And, because these resources are allocated via a market, more competition directly leads to higher costs.","Commonly, how \"fast\" and \"cheap\" transactions are is considered to be an intrinsic property of the underlying blockchain. But this is wrong: these properties are also determined by the usage of the chain -- and can change quickly as usage changes.","That means if, say, a memecoin happens to take off at the wrong moment, you (and your users!) can suddently find yourselves paying massively increased gas fees.","This example is not just an issue with Ethereum! All popular chains eventually run into this issue -- it's a testament to how successful the chain is in creating demand for blockspace. This is an issue of monolithic blockchains in general. Noisy neighbors can always ruin your day, leading to degraded UX and high costs.","The only long-term solution to the noisy neighbor problem is to avoid a \"multi-tenant\" architecture to begin with. Enter dedicated rollups: a new technology that promises to solve the noisy neighbor problem once and for all for blockchain applications.","With a dedicated rollup, projects get a layer-2 scaling solution that functions as its own separate blockchain. The layer-two chain posts transaction data to an underlying layer-one, but offloads computation and storage offchain. This means significantly reduced resource contention between apps. It's like moving from a shared hosting plan to a dedicated server.","Even better: dedicated rollups can be customized to each applications specific needs. Want to minimize transaction costs? You can choose to settle on a less expensive chain. Need tons of compute power? Launch the rollup on a beefier server, and bump up the gas limit. Or maybe you need to dip below the EVM and add new lower-level primitives, like BLS curve operations, ZK-friendly hash functions, or more efficient utilities for memory management.","Caldera is the easiest way for projects to launch customizable dedicated rollups. Committed to empowering developers, Caldera provides the necessary infrastructure to build a dedicated blockchain for any ecosystem or application.","Developers like zkHoldem, Syndr and Curio are already using Caldera to launch fast, secure blockchains and applications, without compromising on performance or features.","If you’re a builder, reach out to us! We’d love to talk about why a dedicated blockchain might make sense for your app.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-dapp-noisy-neighbor-problem"},"/blog/unveiling-our-first-set-of-arbitrum-orbit-chains":{"version":1,"title":"Unveiling our first set of Arbitrum Orbit Chains - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is Arbitrum Orbit?","Our First Batch","Where does Caldera come in?","Getting Started?","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Unveiling our first set of Arbitrum Orbit Chains","Published on","Sep 4, 2023","After months of work behind the scenes, we’re excited to unveil and introduce our first set of Arbitrum Orbit chains! In total, we have 3 partners planning to launch production-grade mainnet Orbit chains through Caldera in the coming weeks: Syndr, Sanko GameCorp, and Volatilis Technology.","Arbitrum Orbit is a framework that allows developer teams to create their own dedicated chain that settles to one of Arbitrum's Layer 2 (L2) chains: Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, or Arbitrum Goerli. You can think of Orbit chains as deployable, configurable forks of Arbitrum's L2 Nitro technology stack that are tightly coupled to Arbitrum's L2 chains. You can also think of them as tailored chains - chains tailored precisely to your exact use-case and business needs. This gives you another way to progressively decentralize your applications and incrementally adopt the properties and security assumptions of Ethereum's base layer.","With Orbit chains, teams can offer gas price reliability to their end-users thanks to the dedicated throughput and traffic isolation, permission access to control who can read the chain's data and who can deploy smart contracts, all while collecting fees using any custom token of your choice to rapidly iterate on domain-specific mechanism designs and value capture opportunities.","Our first batch of Arbitrum Orbit Chains features a diverse set of use cases that highlight  the unique versatility of these AppRollups.","Syndr is the world's 1st cross-margined decentralized derivatives exchange that enables users to trade options, perpetuals & futures on.","Sanko GameCorp is an on-chain game studio that plans to release the “Dream Machine”, a game console and arcade built natively on Arbitrum, for NFT and token-based gaming.","Volatilis Technology is focused on building a dedicated environment focused on growing and enhancing open money-markets in Defi through Meliora, a user-centric Arbitrum Orbit L3.","As detailed above, Arbitrum Orbit provides an incredibly powerful framework for building and scaling an ecosystem. But, deploying a chain with this framework and maximizing value-capture for a given unique use-case requires both highly-specific knowledge on the modular stack, and significant infrastructure engineering work.","Caldera is here to fix that.","What would otherwise take a team of engineers dozens of hours can now be accomplished in a single click through our rollup deployment service and with guidance from our experienced team of crypto-native engineers. As Kevin Zhang, co-founder of Curio put it:","“Working with Caldera has saved us the equivalent of two full-time engineers who would otherwise be solely focused on blockchain infrastructure.”","We’re incredibly excited to continue supporting the expansion of the Arbitrum Orbit ecosystem. If you’re interested in launching a dedicated Arbitrum Orbit chain with us, don’t hesitate to contact us!We’d love to chat and help you brainstorm the best infrastructure decision for your use case.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/unveiling-our-first-set-of-arbitrum-orbit-chains"},"/blog/caldera-integrates-with-layerzero-to-bring-omnichain-support-to-approllups":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera integrates with LayerZero to bring omnichain support to AppRollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why this matters","Caldera and LayerZero","Getting Started","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Caldera integrates with LayerZero to bring omnichain support to AppRollups","Published on","Nov 28, 2023","We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with LayerZero to enable omnichain interoperability between Caldera rollups and any of the 40+ other LayerZero-supported networks!","As adoption among appchains continues to grow, the lack of interoperability between different blockchain networks has become more and more apparent, with each new blockchain adding to an increasingly disjoint ecosystem of user funds and activity. This trend has made it more important than ever for users to be able to freely move funds and data between various blockchains in a frictionless way.","That’s where LayerZero comes in.","LayerZero is the first trustless omnichain interoperability protocol that provides a powerful, low-level communication foundation for building various cross-chain applications, allowing direct transactions across all chains in a secure and trustworthy manner.","This is accomplished through LayerZero Endpoints — immutable smart contracts deployed individually on various chains that are able to facilitate omnichain interoperability for Caldera rollups and all the other LayerZero-supported networks. These Endpoints manage the transmission, validation, and receipt of payload messages, enabling seamless communication among smart contracts across different blockchain environments!","At Caldera, our goal remains to help developer teams design and deploy custom, production-grade rollups. For each of these rollups, LayerZero now provides a scalable solution for cross-chain communication across all relevant networks.","Through this partnership, users can now collect in-game assets received from one rollup to use in DeFi applications on another rollup. Developers that have built applications on existing networks can now seamlessly expand those apps to a dedicated Caldera rollup. And teams can take control of their security stack by configuring oracle-relayer pairs and the number of block confirmations before sending messages.","LayerZero already supports our partners at Loot Chain and Manta Network, and through this partnership, they’ll continue to support other teams building on Caldera rollups.","Interested in launching an interoperable rollup equipped with LayerZero? Don’t hesitate to contact us!","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-integrates-with-layerzero-to-bring-omnichain-support-to-approllups"},"/blog/why-we-started-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Why We Started Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Building Blocks of A Useful Blockchain","Introducing Caldera","Beyond","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","Why We Started Caldera","Published on","Apr 16, 2023","We first started thinking about Caldera (dubbed Constellation at the time) when we saw that the web3 world was in a catch-22.","Blockchain developers — branching across various verticals like NFTs, DeFi, gaming — want to build complex applications. Yet, they’re plagued by the limitation of everyone building on a handful of overcrowded blockchains.","Starting out, we wanted to create rollups to enable expansive, truly scalable web3 games. But we quickly realized that the problem wasn’t isolated to just gaming — most dApps are built on L1’s.","Nowhere is this more apparent than with Ethereum, boasting a whopping 0.19 million instructions per second.","To put this in perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the Altair 8800, a computer from 1974. Half a century later, compute speed has exploded exponentially. The blockchain is the world’s slowest cloud computing platform.","The lack of processing speed combined with high developer interest has led to extreme competition for computation and storage. For the end user, that means high gas fees and slower transactions.","Both issues are cramping the quality and user adoption of on-chain applications.","The modern computer was built atop thousands of smaller innovations. From the transistor to the silicon chip, to the disk operating system, each level of abstraction added new functionality and brought computing to new verticals.","And similar to the early days of the computer and video game programming, we’re still in the early days of the blockchain. Developers are designing applications around the blockchain’s limitations, much in the same way that we used to when we were bottle-necked by speed and memory.","For example, we’re seeing developers “gas golf” — spending weeks optimizing their smart contract code to minimize the number of computations and gas fees. In the process, not only do the developers waste engineering time, gas golfing is often accomplished by cutting corners and unknowingly sacrificing security. These manual optimizations of code are painful and ultimately don’t improve the user experience.","There’s also a tradeoff between finality period and security. A shorter finality period means quicker transaction execution and more complete information for all participants. On the other hand, when we consider disputes or security, a longer finality period allows for more flexible operations. It doesn’t make sense to apply a one-size-fits-all finality period for applications with different purposes and operations.","These limitations haven’t completely stopped the development of innovative applications. But dApps have been hamstrung because they needed to work on an L1 such as Ethereum or Gnosis. Blockchains have already come a long way, but more infrastructure is needed to truly reach web-scale.","Caldera’s mission is to empower developers to create new and exciting dApps and help web3 hit mass adoption.","Caldera is a rollup-as-a-service, making it incredibly easy to launch performant blockchain rollups. Developers are already using Caldera to launch lightweight, highly customizable blockchains that inherit the security we know and love from other blockchains like Ethereum or Polygon.","We see parallelizing transactions as the most pragmatic way forward out of our current predicament. Just as it makes sense for web applications to run on dedicated servers, web3 applications need their own chain to secure the necessary throughput and features.","We’ve recently partnered with Curio, an on-chain gaming studio pioneering innovative web3 game mechanics like treaties - smart contracts that create smart diplomacy rules within the game. For example, players can create a non-aggression treaty that prevents attacks upon payment of ERC20 tokens to a shared guild smart contract.","Yes - much of this was impossible before rollups. But, sticking to our previous example, Curio consumes around 300 million gas per second. It would take maxed-out Ethereum blocks 120 seconds to process an equivalent amount of gas — so it’s safe to say that building Curio on a general-purpose L1 would have been impossible.","With Caldera, Curio has built a dedicated layer-2 transaction layer and brought latency to less than one second. There’s ample room for scaling, and just as importantly, protection against gas price spikes.","We’re already enabling blockchain developers to build the apps that they want, without compromising on performance or features.","We’re making it possible to create the same functionality and scale we use on the web today — on the blockchain. We’re excited to have you join us as we develop the next level of infra to take web3 to the scale, usability, and distribution of web2 — and eventually, hopefully, surpass web2 entirely.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-we-started-caldera"},"/blog/arbitrum-stylus-why-we-re-excited":{"version":1,"title":"Arbitrum Stylus: Why We're Excited - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The basics: write smart contracts in Rust, C++, C, and more","And Stylus is faster. Much, much, MUCH faster","Stylus brings other blockchain ecosystems into the fold","How does this fit in with Caldera?","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Wait, but hasn't alt-VM been tried before?","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Arbitrum Stylus: Why We're Excited","Published on","Oct 4, 2023","Two weeks ago, Arbitrum Stylus was announced. In short, Stylus provides support for native WASM execution on Arbitrum Chains, which means that smart contracts can be written in any language that compiles to WASM, including Rust, C++, and C.","The space has been positively buzzing with excitement about Arbitrum Stylus since its announcement. The ability to write smart contracts in any language that compiles to WASM is a game-changer, and opens up a world of possibilities. That being said, I've been finding that few people understand the concrete ramifications of a technology like Stylus. Others still are (rightfully) skeptical of any technology that might be seen as obviating Solidity.","But here at Caldera, we're very excited about the potential of Arbitrum Stylus and its impact on the smart contract landscape. As a rollups-as-a-service provider, we talk to the most novel, boundary-pushing teams in the blockchain space, building protocols across gaming, DeFi, zk, social, and more. For applications like these, the potential that Stylus represents is massive. And since Caldera is the top provider of Arbitrum Orbit chains, we're excited to offer Stylus to our users in the future.","We wanted to share more about why we're excited about Stylus, and how we see Stylus impacting App-rollup developers in the near future.","You're right! The blockchain space is littered with the graves of blockchain projects that have used general-purpose languages for smart contracts. Projects such as Neo, Agoric, and EOS offer support for popular languages (Java, Javascript, and C++, respectively), to limited success.","So what's different with Stylus? Stylus does not replace the EVM with WASM, but adds WASM alongside the EVM. It's an \"EVM-plus\" approach, not an \"anti-EVM\" approach.","Stylus chains still benefit from all of the power and network effects of Solidity and its related infrastructure and tooling, but also unlock a new power for developers who want to dip into a lower level language for some -- or all -- of their application logic.","Firstly, it's important to understand the significance of being able to write smart contracts in languages other than Solidity. While Solidity is an incredibly powerful language that has been used to develop many successful smart contracts, it does have its limitations. Solidity's syntax can be challenging for developers who are unfamiliar with it, and Solidity has several quirks that make it a difficult language for developers to work with (such as the lack of floating-point ie \"decimal numbers\")","Stylus will make it easier for non-crypto-native developers to write smart contracts in the language of their choice. Right now, Stylus supports Rust, C++, and C, though since WASM is a popular compilation target for many languages many more can be supported (including other smart-contract languages like Move!). This will be especially important for companies that already have teams skilled in these languages, like gaming or fintech.","Furthermore, this allows developers to use the vast array of performant, audited libraries written in C or Rust for certain cryptographic functions. For example, Rust Crypto maintains battle-tested libraries for a litany of cryptographic algorithms, many of which have been externally audited.","https://github.com/RustCrypto","A common mantra in the startup world is that products must be \"10x better\" than the incumbent in order to be truly disruptive.","Well, when it comes to speed and performance, Stylus is 50-100x better. Regular stylus operations consume a comically small amount of gas compared to their Ethereum counterparts. Take for example the relative gas costs of an \"add\" operation:","Source: https://docs.arbitrum.io/stylus/reference/opcode-hostio-pricing","Not only will this decrease gas usage and increase TPS for existing workflows, it'll enable entirely new categories of applications to be run fully on chain, like high-frequency trading, fully-on-chain generative NFTs, and real-time, on-chain gaming.","Stylus also massive decreases memory consumption. This'll be important for applications that will need to allocate lots of \"RAM\" for calculations, like some games and generative NFTs.","The biggest alternative VMs in the crypto space are based on Rust: Cosmwasm, Substrate, and the Solana VM.","Applications from these ecosystems that want to build in Ethereum previously needed to re-architect their app from scratch in solidity. Now, we're hopeful that those applications can port their existing code via Stylus.","Caldera is the #1 provider of Arbitrum Orbit chains. We're helping projects including Volatilis, Syndr, and Sanko GameCorp build their dedicated L3s.","We view stylus as the missing piece for many novel applications to be built on-chain. Stylus and App-Rollups are a natural fit: both are purpose-built for blockchain developers who strive to push the boundaries of what's possible.","Internally, we'll continue to hack on Stylus projects, and we can't wait to share what we've been brewing.","If you're interested in launching an Arbitrum Orbit chain, get in touch!","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/arbitrum-stylus-why-we-re-excited"},"/blog/caldera-brings-rari-chain-arbitrum-l3-to-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera brings RARI Chain to Mainnet - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Introducing RARI Mainnet","How Caldera supports RARI Chain","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Powerful Developer Tools","Low Costs, Lightning Fast","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Caldera brings RARI Chain to Mainnet","Published on","Jan 24, 2024","We're thrilled to announce that RARI Chain — a dedicated creator-first Arbitrum Orbit L3 built with Caldera — is now live on mainnet! With this deployment, NFT creators will finally have access to a performant infrastructure layer that truly prioritizes creator compensation by bringing royalties into the foundation of every project launched on it.","RARI Chain is an EVM equivalent blockchain powered by Arbitrum Orbit that offers low costs, fast transaction times, and a node-level embedded royalty structure that prevents common smart-contract overrides and allows creators to freely set unique royalty rates on their NFT. This structure protects creators from transactions that might attempt to circumvent royalty payments, and ensures that they benefit from their work!","RARI Mainnet comes equipped with thirdweb's full web3 developer stack, offering comprehensive tooling across wallets, contracts, payments, and infrastructure for every developer building on RARI Chain.We're proud to share that starting today, the thirdweb toolset will be available across every Caldera chain, providing unparalleled DevEx and industry-leading tooling to the next thousand EVM rollups launched in our ecosystem.","In addition to its creators and developers, RARI Mainnet is also very much built with collectors in mind.","Thanks to an integration with Arbitrum Anytrust, any and all transaction fees on RARI Chain cost less than 1 cent, enabling users to mint, buy, and trade NFTs with virtually-zero associated gas costs . On top of that, RARI Chain allows users to make purchases in ETH, UDSC, or USD via credit card for maximum ease of use.","RARI Chain is also lightning fast. With blocks confirmed every 250 milliseconds, it's able to process between 200-500 transactions per second, ensuring that you don't have to wait around for your purchase to finalize while maintaining the same security as an Ethereum transaction!","At Caldera, our goal has always been to help innovative teams like the RARI Foundation bring their ambitious goals to life. RARI Chain is another testament to that commitment.","We're incredibly proud to have supported RARI Chain from idea, to testnet, and now to mainnet. We're excited to continue working closely with the team to ensure their chain is supported and well-positioned to succeed.","Get started with their mainnet chain today: https://rarichain.org/","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-brings-rari-chain-arbitrum-l3-to-mainnet"},"/blog/the-case-for-community-chains":{"version":1,"title":"The Case for Community Chains - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Case for Community Chains","Published on","Jan 15, 2024","Smart contract blockchains have come a long way since Ethereum was first launched in 2015. Ethereum is still the most popular platform, but there are now a number of competing chains, almost all of whom have positioned themselves as more performant when compared to Ethereum. These include Polygon, Fantom, and Avalanche. In 2024, application developers are faced with a glut of choices when it comes to selecting the right blockchain for their project. Cheap gas fees and fast transaction execution, once major differentiators, are now merely table stakes.","The truth is: developers do not choose which blockchain to build on based solely on its technical features. While there are nominal differences between the fast EVM smart contract chains (sure, but can you tell me the difference between Avalanche Consensus, Fantom's Lachesis, and Tendermint?), the biggest factor in determining which platform developers choose is increasingly the wider developer ecosystem and community around a project. While these chains were built with a tech-first approach, they are no longer a purely technical play.","As it becomes easier to create scalable, performant blockchains, technological differentiation will be decreasingly important. It'll be taken for granted that new blockchains will be able to process thousands of transactions per second, more throughput than most will ever need in practice. At the same time, it will become harder for these general-purpose blockchains to compete for builders, as an increasingly larger set of blockchains compete for quality projects.","Thus, the next generation of upstart blockchains will not be technology-first, but community-first. The blockchain that builds a passionate, dedicated community that attracts top talent and devoted users will win; the blockchain that cannot will lose. Creating a community-first blockchain requires different skills than creating a technology-first blockchain, and the teams that build the next big winners will look different than the teams that built the big blockchains of today.","Community-first chains will not be carbon copies of popular blockchains, but will instead focus on creating unique value propositions at the level of product and community, rather than the core protocol.","We're already seeing this happen: Manta Pacific, a recently launched blockchain project, has quickly gained traction by fostering a strong and engaged community, rocketing up the ranks to #4 on L2Beat's leaderboard. Manta's chain does involve some technology-first elements (it's the first production rollup to use Celestia for data availability - no small feat!), but its success can largely be attributed to its focus on community building and engagement, and the Manta team's novel, creative approach to go-to-market and business development.","Other chains are deciding to target specific niches and build communities around them, recognizing the power of a dedicated user base that share a common interest in driving adoption and growth. Ronin – Axie Infinity's gaming-focused chain, was perhaps the pioneer in this strategy, successfully leveraging their game community's passion and enthusiasm to propel its adoption and growth. But now we're seeing a similar playbook across verticals. Frame and RARI Chain are two examples of projects that have embraced this approach, targeting the NFT and collectibles community respectively with royalty enforcement mechanisms. Kinto – a compliant blockchain platform focused on RWAs – aims to build a community of traditional finance institutions by offering a secure and compliant environment for tokenizing real-world assets.","Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly has proposed a model of Blockchains as Cities. We agree. And just as there are tens of thousands of cities across the world of different sizes, with different communities, interests and cultures, so too will there be tens of thousands of blockchain communities, each with their own unique characteristics and purposes.","We're building Caldera to accelerate this future. With Caldera, projects can launch their own dedicated blockchain in minutes rather than months using top rollup stacks, enabling them to quickly build and nurture their own specialized communities.","Interested? Get in touch.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-case-for-community-chains"},"/blog/injective-collaborates-with-caldera-to-launch-the-inevm-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"Injective collaborates with Caldera to launch the inEVM mainnet - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Leveraging the Modular Stack with Caldera","The Future of inEVM","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Injective collaborates with Caldera to launch the inEVM mainnet","Published on","Mar 7, 2024","Today, we’re incredibly proud to announce the launch of inEVM on mainnet, the first-ever Ethereum Virtual Machine capable of achieving true composability across Cosmos and Solana, along with our friends at Injective.","Built using Caldera’s rollup infrastructure platform, inEVM grants Ethereum developers unprecedented access to Injective’s global network and user base, offering a new realm of opportunities to expand the reach of their protocols. Those developers can now harness Injective’s unrivaled transaction times, low costs, and connection to the IBC network all in Solidity, while opening their dApps simultaneously across both Ethereum and Solana.","Caldera is a Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform dedicated to helping teams build, launch, and scale performant EVM rollups, currently securing over $2B in mainnet TVL across several mainnet chains, and offering integrations with 50+ industry-leading protocols across the modular stack.","By leveraging Caldera to build out key functions, integrations, and tooling, inEVM is able to provide a concurrent EVM environment that levels up performance and composability. The inEVM environment sits on top of the Injective L1 chain with Celestia underneath handling data availability, a major contributor to the network's ultra-low costs. In addition, LayerZero, which drives the most bridge value today in the EVM world, powers interoperability and data transfers, while Hyperlane, one of the foremost solutions for connecting inEVM to non-EVM chains, manages bridging and asset transfers.","\"Caldera has built a robust infrastructure stack for rapidly deploying state of the art rollups. The tooling and support provided by Caldera is second to none, and we could not have asked for a better rollup infrastructure provider\" said Injective Labs co-founder and CEO Eric Chen.","Injective’s overarching mission is to democratize the financial future by fostering decentralization across the blockchain landscape. The rise of more viable execution layers requires multiple different networks to work together smoothly, and inEVM is here to fill that gap. By simplifying user interaction with Web3 and enabling developers to rapidly deploy their applications on multiple VM environments, inEVM is here to create a cohesive, user centric Web3 environment, where collaboration and community prevail over competition.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/injective-collaborates-with-caldera-to-launch-the-inevm-mainnet"},"/blog/caldera-partners-with-hytopia-to-launch-hychain-on-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera partners with Hytopia to launch HYCHAIN on mainnet - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Optimized for Player Experience","Creating a unified gaming ecosystem","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Caldera partners with Hytopia to launch HYCHAIN on mainnet","Published on","Apr 17, 2024","We’re thrilled to officially announce our partnership with Hytopia, and share our exciting work on HYCHAIN and its innovative Guardian Node system.","Built with Caldera’s Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution atop the Arbitrum Nitro stack, HYCHAIN is an L2 rollup designed to empower gamers and game-developers in Web3 by eliminating friction associated with onboarding and development on-chain, enabling games on the network to achieve massive scale.","By leveraging Caldera to build out key functions and tooling, Hychain offers an infrastructure layer designed and optimized for player experience, boasting ultra-high throughput and lightning fast block times through Anytrust DA, along with completely gasless transactions, and a custom native token in $TOPIA to create a seamless, connected experience for its users.","Through custom work from the Caldera team, HYCHAIN also employs a Guardian Node system as an additional component in maintaining the network's robustness and accuracy. These Guardian Nodes play a pivotal role in overseeing the network's operations, acting as “guardians” that constantly monitor and verify that the network performs as expected, thereby contributing significantly to the overall health and stability of the network.","While HYCHAIN is able to process thousands of transactions per second, there still may be a need for more scalable long-term solutions as more games join the HYCHAIN ecosystem and usage among them continues to grow.","To address this potential future, HYCHAIN will offer an option for large-scale games to create and manage their own L3 blockchains atop HYCHAIN's L2. These game-specific chains will be designed to support the demands of tens of millions of players, providing tailored scalability and unparalleled performance, while still utilizing $TOPIA as their network token to ensure interoperability, cohesion, and scalability for years to come.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-partners-with-hytopia-to-launch-hychain-on-mainnet"},"/blog/caldera-brings-pyth-price-feeds-to-its-rollup-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera brings Pyth Price Feeds to its Rollup Ecosystem - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is Pyth?","Caldera and Pyth","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Caldera brings Pyth Price Feeds to its Rollup Ecosystem","Published on","Mar 26, 2024","We're thrilled to announce that Pyth's real-time oracle data is now available to all Caldera chains thanks to our latest integration!","Pyth Network is a first-party financial data oracle network that delivers low-latency price data to blockchains quickly and securely.","Pyth incentivizes some of the world’s largest exchanges, market makers, and trading firms to contribute their proprietary data to the network, while aggregating their price data on-chain for smart contracts to use seamlessly. As such, decentralized applications can request or pull Pyth price updates on-chain on-command whenever needed.","In less than a year, the network has secured more than $2.0B in total value, and supports over 450 real-time data feeds across crypto, equities, ETF’s, FX pairs, and commodities, while facilitating more than $120B in total trading volume across over 50 blockchain ecosystems.","For more information about Pyth, please visit their website or read their documentation!","Pyth Price Feeds joins more than 50 integrations in Caldera's toolkit that are available right out-of-the-box to teams building with our RaaS platform. Pyth’s catalogue of low-latency price data, which spans across cryptocurrencies, commodities, foreign exchange pairs, and even equities, will make it easier than ever for developers in our rollup ecosystem to deploy quality, up-to-date applications.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-brings-pyth-price-feeds-to-its-rollup-ecosystem"},"/blog/treasure-partners-with-caldera-to-launch-treasure-chain":{"version":1,"title":"Treasure partners with Caldera to launch Treasure Chain - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Leveraging Caldera’s Rich Feature-Set","The Infinity Chain Vision","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Treasure partners with Caldera to launch Treasure Chain","Published on","Apr 24, 2024","In partnership with Treasure, we’re incredibly excited to announce the official launch of the Treasure Ruby Testnet built with Arbitrum Orbit and EigenDA! Through this L2 chain, Treasure will become the decentralized game console and home base for all games within its ecosystem, and will eventually serve as the settlement layer for an ecosystem of app-specific Infinity Chains.","Built with Caldera’s rollup infrastructure platform, Treasure Chain will provide an optimal settlement layer for both gamers and developers through lightning-quick blocktimes, near-instant finality, and sponsored transactions. The chain will utilize MAGIC as the fee-paying token and boast built-in self-custodial accounts with a unique, global identity system to offer streamlined onboarding across games. In practice, playing games on Treasure will be as seamless and fun as playing traditional games in web2.","By leveraging Caldera’s rich set of features, tooling, and broad partnerships, Treasure Chain offers a vibrant, fully equipped on-chain experience for users and developers alike. In addition to high performance, ultra-low fees, and frictionless onboarding, the Treasure Chain enshrines royalty enforcement on all NFT sales through its native Marketplace, while offering a new gaming-centric AMM with universal token compatibility, a granular access control list (ACL) based permission model for contract deployments, complete Arbitrum Stylus compatibility, and a custom native token in MAGIC.","To achieve industry-leading throughput and unprecedented performance, Treasure Chain will utilize EigenDA for data availability, enabling future-proof scalability and cost flexibility for the ecosystem. Further integrations with the EigenLayer ecosystem are planned for Treasure as it expands its offering of community-owned gaming infrastructure and actively validated game services.","Through Caldera’s custom native token feature, users on all games across Treasure Chain will be able to pay for gas directly in MAGIC. Over time, the role of MAGIC will continue to deepen and evolve as Treasure moves towards sequencer decentralization and shared sequencing to provide seamless cross-chain interoperability across all Infinity Chains.","Through this joint partnership, Treasure is able to focus on their broader mission: To develop a network of gaming chains that can one day be interoperable across game worlds, blockchains, and ecosystems.","Treasure co-founder, Karel Vuong, stated: “By working with Caldera for L2 developer operations and infrastructure support, Treasure will be able to focus on supporting game builders launching new titles and game-specific L3s sitting atop the Treasure Chain, as well as novel cross-chain infrastructure to support continued scaling of the Treasure platform.”","So what are Infinity Chains anyway?","The emergence of app-specific rollups (supported by platforms like Caldera) has fundamentally altered the blockchain gaming landscape. Games with growing user bases will increasingly look to create their own chains to avoid congestion, optimize performance, and create the perfect foundation for their unique communities. As a result, these games will look to join platforms that connect their products with a larger gaming ecosystem to drive liquidity and distribution to their chain.","That’s where Treasure comes in.","Treasure’s vision is to become the decentralized game console, aiming to provide a platform experience for players and communities across a growing number of disparate chains by cultivating a network of dedicated game-specific rollups, or Infinity Chains, that all settle onto the Treasure L2 chain, with MAGIC acting as the primary fee-paying token across these technology layers.","Ultimately, Treasure enables game developers to make custom design choices while still remaining connected to an infinitely scalable shared platform. The Infinity Chain network will eventually unlock the potential for much more complex interactions between games, empowering gamers to glide through game worlds seamlessly and truly experience the magic of play.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/treasure-partners-with-caldera-to-launch-treasure-chain"},"/blog/caldera-partners-with-apecoin-and-horizen-labs-to-launch-apechain":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera partners with ApeCoin and Horizen Labs to launch ApeChain - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is ApeChain?","Leveraging Caldera","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Caldera partners with ApeCoin and Horizen Labs to launch ApeChain","Published on","Apr 26, 2024","We're thrilled to join forces with ApeCoin and Horizen Labs as their official Rollups-as-as-Service partner to launch ApeChain as an Arbitrum Orbit L3, and welcome the ApeCoin community to the Caldera ecosystem.","ApeChain is a gaming-focused L3 designed to serve as a home base and cornerstone for the Ape community, offering high performance, ultra-low fees, and a dedicated infrastructure layer for upcoming games in the ApeCoin ecosystem.","Through Caldera and Arbitrum's custom native token feature, ApeChain will utilize $APE as its native gas token, providing significant utility to the token while enabling a rich native economy powered by $APE.","In addition to cutting edge performance, ultra-low gas fees, and a custom native token, Caldera will equip ApeChain with a suite of complementary tools right out of the box, including a Bridge Interface, Block Explorer, and On/Off ramp for a seamless onboarding process.","To achieve industry-leading throughput and unprecedented performance, ApeChain will utilize Arbitrum Anytrust for data availability, leveraging a trust-minimized Data Availability Committee to securely scale.","The Ape community is no stranger to the spotlight, and we're incredibly excited to join them in their journey to continue leading the way and breaking new ground in Web3 gaming & consumer.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-partners-with-apecoin-and-horizen-labs-to-launch-apechain"},"/blog/caldera-launches-support-for-zksync":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera launches support for zkSync - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is the ZK Stack?","Caldera and zkSync","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Caldera launches support for zkSync","Published on","Apr 30, 2024","We’re excited to share that Caldera has launched support for ZK Stack, built on zkSync, in our Rollup-as-a-Service solution, enabling users to deploy custom ZK hyperchains with their cutting-edge framework.","The ZK Stack is a modular, open-source framework designed to build custom ZK-powered hyperchains leveraging zkSync infrastructure..","At its core, the ZK Stack offers two key features: sovereignty and seamless connectivity. Each hyperchain will operate completely independently, relying solely on Ethereum L1 for their liveness and security, while supporting a shared bridge to facilitate the interconnection of every hyperchain, thereby enabling trustless, fast (within minutes), and inexpensive (cost of a single transaction) interoperability.","Hyperchains are fractal-like instances of zkEVM running in parallel and with common settlement on the L1 mainnet.","Support for the ZK Stack will mark Caldera’s first full end-to-end support for a ZK-powered rollup stack. In addition, Caldera already provides support for Arbitrum Orbit and Optimism’s OP Stack optimistic rollup framework, making this latest integration yet another testament to our focus on providing users with all the best infrastructure the industry has to offer.","With us, you can now deploy your own ZK Stack rollup in a matter of minutes, and leverage our suite of 50+ integration partners across the modular stack to create the best experience for both your developers and end-users. To get started with your hyperchain today, contact us!","Vassilis Tziokas, Head of Enterprise BD at Matter Labs, commented, “Zero-knowledge powered hyperchains are going to drive the next wave of mass adoption of blockchain technology. With a high degree of customizability, sub-cent transaction fees, and limitless scale, hyperchains open the doors for a variety of applications and use cases to come on-chain. RaaS providers such as Caldera are a critical piece of the puzzle as they abstract away the complexity of deploying and launching on-chain so that enterprises, institutions, and builders can focus on what matters most: their applications and customers.”","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-launches-support-for-zksync"},"/blog/caldera-supports-plume-to-launch-dedicated-rwa-l2":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera supports Plume to launch dedicated RWA-focused L2 - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is Plume?","Built with Caldera","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Caldera supports Plume to launch dedicated RWA-focused L2","Published on","May 2, 2024","We’re thrilled to launch Plume Network, the first modular L2 blockchain dedicated to bringing real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain.","Plume Network is focused on simplifying the convoluted processes of RWA project deployment, offering investors a seamless blockchain ecosystem to cross-pollinate and invest in various RWAs. Plume enables RWA composability through a thriving ecosystem of DeFi applications, while providing access to high-quality buyers to increase liquidity for all tokenized RWAs.","As mentioned, Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain designed for real-world assets (RWAs), integrating asset tokenization and compliance providers directly into the chain. Their mission is to:","Create a cost-efficient & secure ecosystem that streamlines the building process for all RWA projects","Enable RWA composability to foster a new thriving sector of potential DeFi applications","Provide investors with a destination to invest and cross-pollinate in every type of RWA seamlessly and access to high-quality buyers to increase liquidity for all tokenized real-world assets","By leveraging Caldera's rollup infrastructure and the Arbitrum Orbit stack, Plume Network boasts blazing fast throughput, near-instant settlement, and low fees.","In addition to this cutting edge performance, Caldera will equip Plume with a suite of complementary tools right out of the box, including a Bridge Interface, Block Explorer, and Testnet faucet for a smooth onboarding process and developer experience.","The integration of traditional financial concepts with modern blockchain technology offered by Plume Network marks a significant step towards overcoming the current challenges in the RWA category, paving the way for a new era in asset management and investment.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-supports-plume-to-launch-dedicated-rwa-l2"},"/blog/caldera-launches-guardian-nodes":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera launches Guardian Nodes, creating a new path for teams to raise funds and decentralize their network - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Background","Decentralizing Rollups","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Caldera launches Guardian Nodes, creating a new path for teams to raise funds and decentralize their network","Published on","May 24, 2024","Today, Caldera powers over fifty EVM rollups (including Manta, Injective inEVM, Kinto, Hychain, Treasure, and ApeChain) that secure ~$1B in total value locked.","Along with our core rollup infrastructure, we offer a catalog of over 50 integrations across the modular stack and an assortment of other custom user-facing tools for chains to leverage.","Guardian Nodes are the latest addition to that list.","Today, the majority of L1 blockchains operate using a proof-of-stake model, where a chain’s participants are incentivized via network rewards to lend their stake and validate the chain.","This incentive structure fosters decentralization by encouraging individual stakers to operate honest validators, while punishing those who don't, making for an extremely high cost to attack a network and compromise its security.","EVM rollups have all but solved the scalability problem, with L2s and L3s on Ethereum enabling virtually infinite scale. But, there's still no incentive for honest network participants to monitor these rollups.","Our Guardian Nodes allow teams to decentralize their rollups by enabling users to verify blocks and secure the network in exchange for rewards. Under the hood, this is accomplished by introducing a novel “light verifier'' to Arbitrum rollups that allows Guardian Node operators to verify Nitro batches on everyday hardware without needing to run a full node.","Teams can launch Guardian Nodes to their users through a “Node Sale”, which distributes “keys” that authenticate a node's eligibility to submit claims and earn rewards, granting purchasers the ability to operate a Guardian Node on a given rollup.","HYCHAIN, the first team to leverage this system, raised over $8m across 16,000+ node keys in just 2 weeks, completely supercharging their community while generating significant revenue for their project – and that's not the only benefit.","By enabling more parties to watch over a rollup and identify malicious behavior, the network’s security grows more robust— a crucial step to establishing trust in the chain’s correctness. This in turn generates more demand for a rollup’s native token, which is required for users to participate in validation and helps provide practical cryptoeconomic security for the network.","Guardians Nodes are another notch in the belt of our infrastructure solution, and another testament to our commitment to innovation. With the success of Hychain’s launch, we expect more teams building rollups to leverage this product in the coming months!To get started with your own high performance rollup, visit our website here.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-launches-guardian-nodes"},"/blog/caldera-partners-with-eigenlayer-to-support-eigenda-for-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera partners with Eigenlayer to support EigenDA for Rollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["What is EigenDA?","Put into Practice","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Caldera partners with Eigenlayer to support EigenDA for Rollups","Published on","May 30, 2024","We’re thrilled to share our partnership with EigenLayer to support EigenDA, an AVS on EigenLayer providing low-cost, hyperscale data availability to rollups, on our RaaS platform.","EigenDA is an alternative data availability solution made by EigenLabs and built on top of EigenLayer, which stores rollup transactions until their computed state is finalized on the rollup bridge.","The core insight of EigenDA is that the problem of data availability (DA) does not require independent consensus to solve. Ethereum DA, the previous status quo, creates high costs and low throughput, as each node on the network is forced to store redundant data.","With EigenDA, by leveraging a decentralized transient data store for Ethereum rollups, Ethereum can handle coordination, while EigenDA operators take care of data storage directly.","This approach gives EigenDA the ability to scale linearly, making it:","Scalable: EigenDA write throughput scales linearly with number of operators. At launch EigenDA provided 10 MB/s of write throughput.","Secure: EigenDA is decentralized, and made up of hundreds of operators registered in EigenLayer whose delegated stake imposes an economic cost to misbehavior. To do so, EigenDA offers a dual quorum staking utility which features ETH as the first quorum and EIGEN as the second quorum. This means that EIGEN holders (in addition to ETH holders) are able to stake to EigenDA operators, adding more security to the network. Custom quorums that enable EigenDA rollups to stake their own custom tokens to secure blobs are also coming soon.","Decentralized: EigenDA's design is inspired by Danksharding, which promises to scale Ethereum-native DA beyond EIP-4844. EigenDA blob writes are registered with contracts on Ethereum, which natively subject operators to certain slashing risks. Ethereum L2s using EigenDA avoid any trust assumption on another chain's light client, which can be fooled by dishonest validator sets.","In practice, EigenDA makes it possible to build blazing-fast applications. Since integrating with their technology, three of our partners have already chosen to build with EigenDA:Treasure: Treasure Chain is the decentralized game console and home base for all games within its ecosystem, and will eventually serve as the settlement layer for a sprawling ecosystem of app-specific Infinity Chain L3s.Edgeless: Edgeless is the first ever crypto ecosystem without application layer fees, built as an L2 powered by Arbitrum Nitro with EigenDA underneath.Olive: Olive is the go-to chain for gasless transactions, with native staking and re-staking yield, offering a variety of leveraged yield farming and lending products.","By leveraging EigenDA along with Caldera’s rollup infrastructure, these teams are setting a new standard for user experience – a true testament to its quality as a DA solution.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-partners-with-eigenlayer-to-support-eigenda-for-rollups"},"/blog/caldera-partners-with-genso-meta-to-launch-mv-chain":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera partners with Genso Meta to launch MV Chain - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Building with Caldera","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Caldera partners with Genso Meta to launch MV Chain","Published on","Jun 10, 2024","We’re thrilled to partner with Genso Meta to launch the MV Chain, an Arbitrum Orbit L3 designed to optimize user experience and expand possibilities across the GensoKishi gaming ecosystem.","GensoKishi Online is a Web3 remake of \"Elemental Knights Online”, a popular game originating in Taiwan that boasts over 8 million downloads today. By building on chain, Genso has introduced a rich digital economy to the fantasy world, along with a novel UGC-to-earn model that incentivizes content creation, while providing innovative experiences, events, and rewards both in-game and in real life.","Through MV Chain, Genso aims to create a seamless avenue for retail merchants, major brands, and institutions to access the GensoKishi Metaverse, while providing a fast and performant experience for their players.","By leveraging Caldera's rollup infrastructure and the Arbitrum Orbit stack, the MV chain will offer blazing fast throughput, near-instant settlement, and low, predictable fees for its users. Players are also able to utilize $MV as a fee-paying token across all games on the MV Chain thanks to Caldera’s custom native token feature.For developers, MV Chain will leverage Arbitrum Stylus, which allows merchants, partners, and game developers to deploy smart contracts written in Rust, C, or C++, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for application development on the chain.","On top of these features, Caldera will equip Genso with a suite of additional complementary tools right out of the box, including a Bridge Interface, Block Explorer, and Testnet faucet to ensure a smooth onboarding process for users and developers alike.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-partners-with-genso-meta-to-launch-mv-chain"},"/blog/huddle01-joins-caldera-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Huddle01 joins the Caldera ecosystem by launching its Layer 3 Network on Arbitrum - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why Arbitrum?","Powering the dRTC Network","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Huddle01 joins the Caldera ecosystem by launching its Layer 3 Network on Arbitrum","Published on","Jul 16, 2024","At Caldera, we're excited to announce our partnership with Huddle01 as they unveil their revolutionary dRTC Network on Arbitrum, powered by our industry leading rollup deployment platform.","The Huddle01 dRTC Network represents a significant shift in real-time communication, and we are proud to play a crucial role in bringing this DePIN to market.","Given Huddle01’s commitment to Ethereum alignment, Arbitrum was a no brainer choice for its dRTC Network due to the framework’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, enhanced scalability, and lower transaction fees.","Arbitrum Orbit’s flexibility and high degree of customizability allowed us to deliver a bespoke solution for the Huddle01 team that fits their network's evolving needs. Orbit’s compatibility with various Data Availability options was another contributing factor.","As is the case with most Caldera chains, our developer-friendly rollup deployment platform allowed the Huddle01 team to focus on their novel node design and tokenomics while letting us take care of the development, testing, launch and scaling of their dRTC network. Caldera’s suite of integrations will allow Huddle01 to monitor its performance, usage, and rollup health, ensuring an unparalleled user experience for its network participants.","”Huddle01 is set to disrupt a multibillion dollar RTC market by bringing it onchain. Our focus at Caldera is to ensure that both the team behind Huddle01 and their users have the right infrastructure to accomplish their mission,” said Matt Katz, CEO at Caldera.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/huddle01-joins-caldera-ecosystem"},"/blog/the-rollup-struggle-is-real":{"version":1,"title":"The Rollup Struggle is Real - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Every Rollup Adds Systemic Risk.","Every Rollup is an island.","Every Rollup Means More Work for Builders","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Rollup Struggle is Real","Published on","Aug 7, 2024","It’s 2035. There are millions of EVM rollup chains across a few powerful rollup frameworks, and there still isn’t a neutral and seamless way to connect them.","Each framework is like a giant city-state, with its own labyrinthine rules and regulations.","On a good day, hundreds of millions of dollars are hacked in bridge attacks, so people tend to keep to their ecosystems and not venture out unless there’s a really good reason. Power continues to consolidate in these monopolized rollup frameworks, and there’s no incentive for them to play nice.","In this future, the promise of blockchain technology looks quite different from its potential reality.","Today, Ethereum stands at a similar juncture as the internet in the early 2000s. Back then, each network operated using different protocols, standards, and technologies, making it extremely difficult to achieve seamless communication and interoperability. Almost every aspect of the web that we take for granted was once a fragmented mess, from email to file sharing.","We’re living in the same moment for rollups on Ethereum. They have allowed the network to scale, but they have also created fragmentation between all the different rollup frameworks.","And in a future with potentially millions of EVM rollup chains across dozens of rollup frameworks, there still isn’t a neutral and seamless way to connect them all.","But first, we need to address what’s broken, so we can begin to fix it.","Currently, each new rollup introduces its own security model, which can have compounding negative effects as more chains interact across rollup frameworks. As more bridges are introduced to connect these rollups, they also introduce more risk because there are more interdependencies and potential attack vectors.","This is because there is no single “source of truth” across rollup frameworks and bridging them makes it nearly impossible to discern which transactions on a rollup can be considered part of its canonical history. It’s risky business with cross-rollup transactions, and it’s only getting worse as more rollup frameworks and chains are created.","Right now, rollup ecosystems are siloed, and those silos are growing farther apart. Developers are building on isolated rollup frameworks that each have their vision for interoperability — as long as it stays within the walled gardens of their tech stack.","There are no scalable, neutral solutions out there that connect rollups across all major rollup frameworks.","Meanwhile, the user experience across rollup frameworks is virtually nonexistent, except when users roll the dice and bridge their funds.","Sending value across these frameworks should be seamless, without the attack vectors, costs, and delays that occur when using bridges. And users should be able to easily validate multiple chains across frameworks.","Today, it’s nearly impossible to build dApps, protocol and infrastructure that effectively tap into multiple rollup frameworks simultaneously. If developers want to create omnichain infrastructure that can be used across ecosystems, they have to build and deploy those solutions one-by-one for each rollup framework, expending immense resources and time.","Ideally, there would be a single destination for developers who want to integrate multiple rollups and rollup frameworks into their projects. And from this platform, developers would be able to launch infrastructure and applications across rollup frameworks, all in a unified platform.","Creating a connectivity layer between rollup frameworks is essential, if we want composability and interoperability to be realized at scale on Ethereum. Otherwise, each rollup framework will continue to develop as an island, with a fragmented community, value and liquidity capture, and redundant applications built for each stack.","If we want to build a world where rollups can communicate and transact seamlessly across multiple frameworks and applications, we must build it ourselves.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-rollup-struggle-is-real"},"/blog/the-vending-machine-era-of-blockchains-has-arrived":{"version":1,"title":"The Vending Machine Era of Blockchains has Arrived - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Vending Machine Era of Blockchains has Arrived","Published on","Sep 17, 2024","The way people build on Ethereum has changed.","Over the past two years, the Ethereum community has adopted a rollup-centric roadmap. Layer-2 blockchains have been embraced as the solution to scale Ethereum to a billion users. This development, along with an increasing openness to modularity on Layer 2s, has unlocked a unique path for developers to customize the components that make the most sense for their project. RaaS (rollup-as-a-service) providers like Caldera have bridged the gap by making blockchain development as simple as choosing snacks from a vending machine.","When developers come to us, they tell us exactly what they’re looking for in a blockchain: the transaction speeds, block times, level of decentralization, and even the Ethereum camp they feel most aligned with culturally. Then, we help them build and launch a chain that’s tailored to their use case.","Before the vending machine era, if you wanted your own chain, you needed to build it from scratch with a significant amount of capital investment and developer overhead. Now, any team with a great idea can deploy their own custom chain in minutes.","Ultimately, the point of modularity is choice. You get to choose the best execution layer, DA layer, sequencer, native fee token, and various integrations for your needs. Building out that vending machine for users is a challenge, but our goal has always been to abstract away the infrastructure, so that it just works when you click the button.","We see the modular blockchain ecosystem growing even faster in the coming months — especially as efforts in chain abstraction make progress in improving the user and developer experience for multichain applications. As more and more apps decide to launch their own rollups, they will require more customization for their app-specific chain, while also wanting to be aligned with one of the big rollup clusters on Ethereum like Arbitrum and Optimism.","On one hand, the crypto community is likely reaching a point of saturation when it comes to the tired playbook of announcing a new L2, running a points campaign to attract yield farmers, and then launching with an FDV in the billions. At this point, the market has caught on to this well-worn approach.","However, there is still an obvious and growing need for L2s, and fierce competition in the L2 landscape is going to force teams to innovate more — as we are witnessing with the projects building truly novel applications on Caldera. These days, we’re seeing a lot more app-specific rollups that have a real need for customization, as well as general-purpose “vertical” L2s from teams that have good reason to be bullish on themselves and their communities. The technology is ready for those who need it.","The beauty of modularity is that more advanced and capable layers can be introduced to the stack, and a modular architecture can easily accommodate them. Data availability, sequencing, and execution are just the start. The modular vending machine can keep adding more and more customization options over time — from provers and decentralized proof verification layers to chain abstraction solutions.","Caldera allows web3 teams to develop highly customizable rollups, while still staying Ethereum aligned. From an ecosystem perspective, we’re in a unique position with the amazing diversity of applications and communities building with us, as well as the technical diversity of the various rollup clusters in our ecosystem. We’re not tied to any one standard or any one tech stack. That means we can grow across a vast number of stacks and modular components, while also serving all of these communities.","No matter the scale, the modular vending machine enables projects to deploy custom blockchains that make the most sense for them. Whether it’s a global enterprise in need of an optimized chain that can handle complex logistics, or a crypto-native team of two college students with a new idea for an onchain social app, it’s all possible within the modular framework.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-vending-machine-era-of-blockchains-has-arrived"},"/blog/caldera-announces-series-a-to-build-the-metalayer":{"version":1,"title":"Announcing our $15M Series A to build the Metalayer, a unified rollup ecosystem - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Meet the Metalayer.","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Announcing our $15M Series A to build the Metalayer, a unified rollup ecosystem","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Announcing our $15M Series A to build the Metalayer, a unified rollup ecosystem","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Fundraise","Announcing our $15M Series A to build the Metalayer, a unified rollup ecosystem","Published on","Jul 24, 2024","TL;DR","We raised a $15 million Series A (led by Founders Fund) to build the Metalayer — a unified rollup ecosystem for Ethereum.","The Metalayer will serve as the omnichain, all-purpose abstraction layer for Ethereum rollups, unifying disparate ecosystems and streamlining the developer experience by enabling unparalleled rollup connectivity and novel cross-rollup applications.","Mint your first NFT on the Metalayer and experience how user experience on web3 is about to change forever.","It all started with a challenge. We were enthralled by blockchain technology and its potential to change everything on the internet, but saw that it was hampered by terrible performance. We recognized pretty early on that just attempting to make a single faster blockchain wasn’t the best solution. To truly reach web-scale on Ethereum, we would need to scale horizontally.","So in 2022, we launched Caldera. With our platform, projects could deploy a rollup with a single click, without an engineering team. We took care of deployment, customization, ongoing maintenance, and security, so projects could focus on building their vision.","Today, Caldera is one of the fastest growing rollup ecosystems in the world. We’ve empowered web3 teams to customize and launch over 60 high-performance rollups across a number of app categories, and projects have free reign to launch their rollup on Optimism, Arbitrum, ZKsync, and Polygon stacks.","At present, the Caldera ecosystem comprises 1.7 million unique wallets holding over $800 million in TVL, with more than 60 million completed transactions. Some notable chains in our ecosystem include Manta Pacific, inEVM by Injective, ApeChain, Treasure, Plume Network, Towns, Kinto, RARI Chain, and Zero Network by Zerion.","But even though these rollups are helping to scale Ethereum, the rollup frameworks they are built on are still fragmented, with isolated liquidity and disparate communities. It’s clear that there is a massive opportunity to bridge these siloed ecosystems and create a unified layer for rollups across different frameworks.","We’re thrilled to share that we raised a $15 million Series A to build a truly unified rollup ecosystem for Ethereum. Led by Founders Fund, with participation from Dragonfly, Sequoia Capital, Arkstream Capital, Lattice, and others, this latest round brings Caldera’s total capital raised to $25 million.","We are on a mission to unify the Ethereum ecosystem by providing seamless connectivity between various rollup frameworks, so that they all benefit from the network effects and enjoy greater efficiency, security, and scalability.","In the early 2000s, the internet faced its own challenge: a lack of connectivity between networks, systems, and protocols. This fragmentation threatened to limit the internet's growth and potential.","Today, Ethereum stands at a similar juncture. Moving funds between rollups via the Ethereum L1 is expensive and slow. Infrastructure like bridges and oracles are still forced to treat each chain as an island. And users that want to meaningfully participate as network operators or validators find it challenging to do so across multiple ecosystems.","The Metalayer will serve as the omnichain, all-purpose abstraction layer for Ethereum rollups, aiming to unify these disparate ecosystems by enabling unparalleled rollup connectivity and streamlining the developer experience. With a unified rollup ecosystem, developers will be empowered to build multi-rollup applications, unlocking the design space for novel network and token designs  across all rollup stacks — both ZK and optimistic.","To provide a sneak peek into what the user experience of web3 dApps built on the Metalayer may look like, our team has put together an NFT mint. Visit metalayer.caldera.xyz to mint your first NFT on the Caldera Metalayer.","Caldera's platform enables the launch of infinite rollups, enabling Ethereum to reach web-scale. The Metalayer is the final step in powering a world of millions of unified rollups. We’re committed to this mission, and we are thankful to have the support of leading investors from across the web3 landscape.","We’ll be sharing more information about the Metalayer in the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, you can stay up-to-date with Caldera by following us on X.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-announces-series-a-to-build-the-metalayer"},"/blog/launch-your-zk-rollup-with-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Launch your ZK Rollup with Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Join the growing Elastic Chain Ecosystem","What is the Elastic Chain?","What are ZK Chains?","What is the ZK Stack?","Caldera and ZKsync","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Launch your ZK Rollup with Caldera","Published on","Oct 8, 2024","Caldera’s public devnet powered by ZKSync’s ZK Stack is now live! This testing environment allows interested builders to explore a ZK future for their EVM dApps and protocols.","RPC: <https://zk-devnet.rpc.caldera.xyz/http>Bridge: <https://zk-devnet.bridge.caldera.xyz/bridge>Explorer: <https://zk-devnet.explorer.caldera.xyz>Chain ID: 8153","Top teams like Zero Network by Zerion, Creator by ZTX Foundation, Zayn Network, and XY Finance already have testnets built on the ZK Stack in development using the Caldera rollups-as-a-service platform.","These rollups will be joining an esteemed group of chains like Lens Protocol, Sophon and ZKSync Era as part of the Elastic Chain ecosystem.","ZKsync’s 3.0 upgrade — aka the Elastic Chain — is a scalable network of interoperable ZK Chains. The Elastic Chain’s architecture is designed to expand its capacity to match the network’s usage needs.","ZK Chains are independent, ZK-powered Layer 2 blockchains that plug into the Elastic Chain at the protocol level. Built using the ZK Stack framework, these chains are fully customizable using Caldera’s rollups-as-a-service solution.","The ZK Stack is a modular, open-source developer framework for building custom ZK Chains.","With Caldera, you can now deploy your own ZK Chain in a matter of minutes, and leverage our suite of 100+ integrations across the modular stack to create the best experience for both your developers and end-users. This marks our first full end-to-end support for a ZK-powered rollup stack.","Start building a ZK rollup on Caldera’s one-click rollup deployment platform today.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/launch-your-zk-rollup-with-caldera"},"/blog/ethereum-needs-a-neutral-connectivity-layer":{"version":1,"title":"Ethereum Needs a Neutral Connectivity Layer - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["We Need to Get Back to Switzerland","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","Ethereum Needs a Neutral Connectivity Layer","Published on","Aug 29, 2024","When the founding Ethereum team was looking for a place to base its operations, it ultimately settled on Switzerland.","In many ways, the Ethereum Foundation’s ethos of decentralization, censorship resistance, and openness is like Switzerland in code. The world needs neutral states like Switzerland that can foster and enable coordination across communities where there is no trust or past history of collaboration. And in the digital world, we need neutral and open technologies that fulfill the same role.","Today, rollups are at a similar crossroads as Ethereum in 2014. Rollups were designed to help scale Ethereum, but in their current form, they are fragmenting the community into isolated rollup clusters with their own unique tech implementations, community values, and governance structures. Some of these clusters are more decentralized and open, while others are less so.","In recent months, multiple rollup frameworks have released their own interoperability roadmaps, which is a welcome development, because each cluster needs a solution that makes it easier for rollups within the cluster to communicate. Even Vitalik recognizes this!","However, the fact remains that different rollup frameworks and their unavoidable incentives carry too much risk of ecosystem fragmentation, and subsequently centralization. Rollup clusters are great for improving interoperability among their member rollups, but they have little incentive to enable unrestricted connectivity beyond their own cluster. It is not the ideal foundation for long-term neutrality.","Something similar played out among banks before the SWIFT network was finally adopted in 1977. In the late 1960s, banks were developing their own private solutions to connect financial institutions within their respective countries. At the time, it was extremely challenging to add new members from other countries to any of these payment systems because of incompatible technology.","Today, the non-profit organization SWIFT connects thousands of banks in more than 200 countries and territories. It worked because it brought banks together under a cooperative framework where incentives were aligned.","SWIFT itself was not designed by a single bank, or even a single country’s banking system. It is in fact a collective of banks from all over the world, designed from the ground up to be adaptable and easy-to-use for all banking systems. There is a lesson there for us.","So what would a truly neutral connectivity layer look like for the Ethereum community? To start, it would enable assets and data to flow freely across all rollup ecosystems, no matter what framework they belong to. No need to go back and forth between Ethereum L1 and the L2s. All rollups would be on a level playing field.","For builders, it would allow infrastructure to be deployed across all rollups at the same time. This would drastically speed up development, enable more competition, and the best infra would be available to all. No more building new software for each chain.","And for users, it would mean being able to enjoy cross-rollup applications, participate in rollup validation across multiple chains, and mint NFTs on any chain in one click. The user experience would be seamless, without any fear of bridge attacks and lost funds. To cross the chasm and bring a billion users (and their funds) onchain, this level of trust and cross-rollup stability is essential.","It’s clear that we need a neutral connectivity layer to unite Ethereum and prevent the continued fragmentation of rollup frameworks. That means an open and collaborative organization where all rollup ecosystems are able to thrive, no matter what tech stack they’re built on. Ethereum’s original vision can’t get sidetracked with rollup power struggles.","Back in 2014, Ethereum’s founding team needed a welcoming, innovative environment that understood that Ethereum was quite different from a traditional technology company. Switzerland was the perfect place — a neutral, business-friendly, and technologically open-minded country that allowed Ethereum to grow without fear of a crackdown.","Switzerland is the oldest neutral country in the world. Without neutral states like Switzerland, we don’t have international mediators that we can depend on. We also don’t have dependable safe havens for financial innovation and wealth management. In the case of Ethereum, when you’re building a decentralized “world computer” that could potentially last for thousands of years, you need to base it in a location that is most likely to be stable in the long term.","Now, we need to get back to those roots and realize the promise of Ethereum at scale. Together, developers building rollups and rollup solutions can focus their efforts on a neutral connectivity layer that brings every ecosystem into the fold, so that Ethereum can reach its full potential.","We need our Switzerland for rollups. That’s why we’re building the Metalayer.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/ethereum-needs-a-neutral-connectivity-layer"},"/blog/deploy-eigenda-for-your-rollup-in-1-click":{"version":1,"title":"Deploy EigenDA for your rollup in 1-click - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is EigenDA?","What is EigenLayer?","Caldera and EigenDA","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Deploy EigenDA for your rollup in 1-click","Published on","Oct 3, 2024","Rollup builders can now deploy EigenDA on Caldera’s rollup-as-a-service platform with just one click!","Just select the “New Rollup” button in your self-service Caldera dashboard, choose a network and a preferred native token for your rollup, and choose “Eigenlayer” as the data availability solution. Then, you’re all set!","EigenDA is an alternative data availability layer designed for high-throughput applications and secured using the EigenLayer restaking primitive. Built by EigenLabs, it is the first Actively Validated Service (AVS) to launch on EigenLayer, which allows restakers to delegate their stake to node operators in exchange for rewards. Rollups can post data to EigenDA and enjoy shared security that scales horizontally with the number of restakers and operators.","EigenDA's high throughput and low fees enable new on-chain use cases in gaming, social media, video streaming, and beyond.","EigenLayer is an Ethereum protocol that enables restaking, so that users can secure multiple applications on the network simultaneously. Operators perform validation tasks for Actively Validated Services (AVSs) like EigenDA to contribute to the security of the network.","Caldera is setting a new standard for Ethereum rollups by expanding the options available to web3 teams for their rollup stack. By leveraging EigenDA on Caldera’s rollup-as-a-service platform, web3 teams can offer their end users a more performant, cost-effective, and secure experience without building their own custom solutions or infrastructure.","Two of our rollup partners have already chosen to build with EigenDA:","Edgeless: Edgeless is the first crypto ecosystem without application layer fees. It is an L2 on Arbitrum Nitro with EigenDA underneath.","Rivalz Network: Rivalz is creating the AI Intel layer for the Agentic future, built as an L2 on Arbitrum Nitro with EigenDA underneath.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/deploy-eigenda-for-your-rollup-in-1-click"},"/blog/integrate-zk-proofs-on-op-stack-chains-with-succinct":{"version":1,"title":"Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why integrate OP Succinct?","Integrate Succinct with your OP Stack Rollup in one-click","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Published on","Oct 9, 2024","Caldera makes it easy to integrate zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs into your OP Stack chain through our partnership with Succinct, the creators of SP1—a high-performance, general-purpose zkVM that allows developers to generate fast and cheap ZK proofs by writing code in Rust. We expect this integration to unlock powerful new use cases and experiences, enabling Caldera rollups on the OP Stack to offer fast withdrawals (~1 hour or less) instead of the usual seven-day waiting period.","Interested in exploring ZK Proofs for your OP Stack rollup? Get in touch with us.","Succinct’s mission is to make zero-knowledge proofs accessible to any developer, and OP Succinct is their premier product offering for OP Stack rollups.","100% EVM Equivalence: Integrating with OP Succinct transforms your OP Stack rollup into a Type-1 zkEVM, guaranteeing 100% EVM equivalence on day 1 with full bytecode compatibility. This means all your existing tooling and smart contracts will work seamlessly.","Easy Integration and Deployment: Succinct’s SP1 is the first high-performance, general-purpose, production-ready zkVM that allows developers to generate fast and cheap ZK proofs by writing code in Rust. Integrating with OP Succinct is simple, requiring only deployment of one smart contract and a docker container.","Fast Finality: Users can remain stress free when depositing funds into a Caldera-powered OP Stack rollup integrated with Succinct because of its ability to offer fast withdrawals (~1 hour or less) instead of the usual seven-day waiting period.","With Caldera, builders can deploy their own OP Stack rollup in a matter of minutes, and leverage our suite of 100+ integration partners across the modular stack to create the best experience for both developers and end-users. If you’ve already deployed an OP Stack rollup, Caldera + Succinct can quickly convert your rollup to OP Succinct and integrate ZK proofs into your stack.","Get in touch if you’d like OP Succinct for your rollup.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Dec 18, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/integrate-zk-proofs-on-op-stack-chains-with-succinct"},"/blog/the-era-of-the-ape-apechain-live-on-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"The Era of the Ape: ApeChain Live on Mainnet - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is ApeChain?","What’s Unique about ApeChain?","Building with Caldera","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","The Era of the Ape: ApeChain Live on Mainnet","Published on","Oct 19, 2024","ApeChain, powered by Caldera, is now officially live on Mainnet. ApeCoin holders can enjoy effortless yield rewards and seamless cross-chain transfers with LayerZero OFTs.","ApeChain is an Arbitrum Orbit L3 designed to serve as a home base and dedicated infrastructure layer for the ApeCoin ecosystem. It offers high-speed transactions, ultra-low fees, and full EVM equivalence.","Through Caldera’s custom native token feature, ApeChain utilizes $APE as its native gas token, fostering a robust and dynamic economy driven by $APE and bolstered by a novel Native Yield feature powered by a unique collaboration with LayerZero.","Truly Ape. Truly Ethereum.Using Caldera’s rollups-as-a-service platform, ApeChain benefits from Arbitrum’s security and production-grade infrastructure. As Ethereum secures Arbitrum One, ApeChain can offer ultra-fast transaction times and low fees while benefiting from Ethereum’s security and deep liquidity.","The First Rollup with Effortless Native Yield Earning","ApeChain users will also benefit from native yield on stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI), ETH, WETH, and the APE token. Our team at Caldera worked closely with our friends at LayerZero, Decent, Offchain Labs and ApeCoin to bring this innovative concept to life.","With native yield, ApeChain users will see their assets on ApeChain automatically grow without requiring manual intervention, enabling exciting new developer and consumer experiences. To learn more about native yield on ApeChain, click here.","The First Rollup with a LayerZero OFT as the Native Token","ApeChain is focused on fostering a robust and dynamic economy driven by $APE and positioning itself as a premier platform for all web3 developers and users. To this end, the team at ApeCoin has upgraded its smart contracts with LayerZero’s OFT standard, making $APE truly interoperable with multiple chains. Our team at Caldera helped ApeChain take this one step further and enabled the use of omnichain $APE as the native gas fee token for the rollup. This novel implementation of the OFT standard enables seamless, fully collateralized $APE transfers across other chains, ensuring ApeChain is deeply connected with other ecosystems while also allowing for $APE to be used as the native gas token - greatly enhancing the $APE utility.","We’re thrilled to be the official rollups-as-a-service partner of the ApeCoin DAO, joining forces with all its key stakeholders. The mainnet launch of ApeChain has truly been a decentralized effort involving many teams like LayerZero, Horizen Labs, Offchain Labs, and Decent, spanning several months. In addition to cutting-edge performance, ultra-low gas fees, and $APE as the native gas fee token, we helped ApeChain with a suite of complementary tools right out of the box, including a bridge interface, block explorer, and on/off ramp for a seamless onboarding experience.","To learn more about ApeChain, visit their developer docs here.","If you’re interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera, contact us.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted rollups-as-a-service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-era-of-the-ape-apechain-live-on-mainnet"},"/blog/what-is-a-rollups-as-a-service-raas":{"version":1,"title":"What is a Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS)? - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["How does a RaaS work?","Why does my project need a dedicated rollup?","What are the use cases for a RaaS?","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","What is a Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS)?","Published on","Oct 15, 2024","TL;DR","Rollups are Layer-2 scaling solutions that process transactions off-chain, bundling them for validation on the main blockchain. This boosts efficiency by lowering costs and increasing transaction speed.","Rollups are essential to the Ethereum ecosystem. They help scale Ethereum by allowing apps to create their own blockspace and do not let network congestion caused by other applications affect their users’ experience.","Rollups-as-a-Service (Raas) allows builders to build and launch their own rollups quickly. RaaS providers deliver end-to-end solutions like customizations in the underlying tech stack to no-code management and one-click custom integrations with core infrastructure.","With RaaS providers like Caldera, builders can expect industry-leading, reliable service and access to cutting-edge technology from the leading rollup frameworks, including Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, Polygon CDK and ZKSync’s ZK Stack.","Rollups-as-a-service, or RaaS for short, are blockchain platforms that support builders in building and launching their dedicated rollups.","RaaS providers like Caldera abstract away the complexity of building blockchains, turning a process that would take multiple engineers dozens of hours into a one-click, no-code deployment process.","Interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera? Get in touch with us.","RaaS providers help builders build customized rollups on top of existing generalized Layer-2 stacks/frameworks. For example, Caldera supports all leading rollup stacks, such as Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, ZK Stack, and Polygon CDK.","Building rollups on your own using rollup stacks is an intensive engineering process because builders need to understand how their chosen rollup stack works, what other layers in their modular tech stack are compatible with their stack, and finally, how to connect them all. Building a rollup also requires particular advanced expertise in cloud infrastructure, which is often too expensive or too technically complex for web3 teams to gather and distracting to their primary goal. RaaS providers make this process as easy as choosing snacks from a vending machine - pick your preferred rollup stack, choose a data availability layer and select a native gas token for your rollup. Click Deploy.","No engineering team required.","RaaS providers like Caldera can even help you narrow your selection when customizing your rollup so that the modular tech stack best suits your project’s needs. We’ll hold your hand and guide you through the process.","Over the past decade, we’ve seen how peak congestion periods have been disastrous for Ethereum’s mainchain (aka Layer 1). At the peak of the CryptoKitties craze in 2017, more than 50 thousand CryptoKitties transactions were happening per day, which took up around 25% of Ethereum’s traffic and led to gas fees spiking over $400. We also saw something similar happen at peak times during the 2021 NFT boom.","Demand for blockspace on Layer 1 (L1) can grow rapidly if an app or NFT collection takes off in popularity. When many projects share L1 blockspace, it can become a huge problem if a few projects are hogging it all. Gas fees can skyrocket for everyone when usage goes up on the L1.","This isn’t scalable or sustainable, which is why Ethereum transitioned to a rollup-centric roadmap. We’ve started seeing Layer-2 (L2) blockchains like Arbitrum and Optimism move much of that transaction volume onto rollups. With RaaS providers like Caldera, projects can quickly spin up their own dedicated L2 rollup that functions as a separate blockchain. It’s like moving from a shared hosting plan to a dedicated server.","There are many other advantages to deploying a rollup using a RaaS, including:","Faster Block Times: Caldera rollups can process transactions in as little as ten milliseconds instead of 10 seconds on Ethereum L1.","Lower Fees: Gas fees are $0.001 on average when deploying rollups on Caldera.","Full Customization: Choose the execution layer, data availability layer, sequencing, native gas fee token, and over 100 integrations that fit your project’s needs.","Security: Deploying rollups on Caldera can give you greater security guarantees than building a standalone blockchain because transactions settle to Ethereum, the substrate of choice for top web3 builders.","Industry-leading Tech Support: Caldera is a builder’s ally through building, launching and maintaining your rollup. Our round the clock engineering team help builders manage their infrastructure and automatically upgrade your rollup as new framework updates roll out so that everything runs smoothly.","The Metalayer: Caldera’s RaaS platform enables rollups to opt into the Metalayer — a unified ecosystem of Ethereum rollups who enjoy seamless inter-rollup connectivity, shared security and scalability. This makes it easy for developers to deploy apps across all Caldera rollups simultaneously and for rollups to share infrastructure and resources seamlessly.","Any project needing a custom blockchain and not wanting to compete for limited resources can benefit from a RaaS. Whether you’re a new DeFi protocol, an established NFT community building an appchain (an application-specific blockchain), or a web2 business looking for a seamless way to bring your industry onchain, RaaS providers like Caldera have brought the world into the vending machine era of blockchains. Now, it’s as easy to deploy one as tapping a button.","Get in touch if you’d like to deploy your rollup with Caldera!","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-rollups-as-a-service-raas"},"/blog/enabling-fast-withdrawals-on-arbitrum-orbit-chains":{"version":1,"title":"Enabling Fast Withdrawals on Arbitrum Orbit Chains - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["How do Fast Withdrawals work?","Fast Withdrawals on Caldera","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Enabling Fast Withdrawals on Arbitrum Orbit Chains","Published on","Oct 29, 2024","Fast Withdrawals are now live and fully supported for Caldera chains built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack. This new feature represents a major upgrade to cross-chain user experience, reducing user withdrawal times to just 15 minutes rather than the traditional seven-day period.","Interested in learning more about Fast Withdrawals for your Arbitrum Orbit rollup? Get in touch with us.","Optimistic rollups today are slowed by a mandatory multi-day challenge window, designed to give validators time to catch and flag fraudulent transactions via fraud proofs. While essential to rollup security, this process extends the time it takes for users and dApps to reach finality, resulting in today’s lengthy, status quo seven-day waiting period.","Arbitrum’s Fast Withdrawal feature addresses these delays by introducing a new transaction finality mechanism for Orbit chains. Here, transactions are verified by a validator committee, and all transactions that reach consensus among the members of the committee are confirmed immediately, bypassing the traditional challenge period and enabling rapid finality. This novel approach enables:","Configurable withdrawal intervals, allowing for periods as short as 15 minutes.","Quicker confirmation of withdrawals on the parent chain, with intervals as short as 15 minutes.","Faster access to finalized states for cross-chain dApps, aligned with the chosen withdrawal frequency.","Fast Withdrawals represent a significant advancement in the performance and usability of Orbit chains, addressing and improving upon one of the few drawbacks of the Optimistic rollup architecture: delayed transaction finality. By reducing wait times for withdrawals and enhancing the speed of cross-chain communications, Fast Withdrawals unlock significantly greater efficiency for both users and developers, allowing for smoother cross-chain interactions, quicker access to user funds, and a more streamlined experience across the Ethereum ecosystem. We’re thrilled to unveil this feature along with our friends at Sanko, Layer of Cheese, and Blessnet, who make up the first set of Caldera chains to adopt Fast Withdrawals.","Get in touch if you’d like to deploy an Arbitrum Orbit chain with Fast Withdrawals!","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/enabling-fast-withdrawals-on-arbitrum-orbit-chains"},"/blog/introducing-zero-network":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing ZERϴ Network: The First Zero-Gas ZK Stack Rollup Powered by Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is ZERϴ Network?","Why Zero Gas Fees?","Caldera's Role in Powering ZERϴ Network","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Introducing ZERϴ Network: The First Zero-Gas ZK Stack Rollup Powered by Caldera","Published on","Nov 12, 2024","We’re excited to announce the launch of ZERϴ Network, Caldera's first production-ready ZK Stack rollup on mainnet that offers a true zero-gas experience for users.","ZERϴ Network is the first EVM-compatible rollup of its kind, by the team behind Zerion, the leading smart, social crypto wallet in Web3.","Interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera? Get in touch with us.","ZERϴ Network is an EVM-compatible rollup built with ZKSync's ZK Stack. Designed to empower a new era of onchain applications, ZERϴ Network sets itself apart by offering ultra-fast transactions, zero gas fees via native account abstraction, and industry-leading security.","Gas fees have long been a barrier to user adoption and developer innovation in Web3. ZERϴ Network removes this obstacle, creating the first fee-free environment that opens doors for novel dApp experiences—bringing Web3 closer to the ease and fluidity of the web as we know it.","When developers build decentralized applications (dApps) on ZERϴ, they can create transactions just like they would on any standard blockchain. However, when users access these dApps through the Zerion Wallet, the ZERϴ paymaster automatically covers the gas fees, making transactions free for the end-user.","This zero-gas experience not only removes a significant barrier to adoption but also requires no additional configuration for developers using Zerion Wallet or the ZERϴ paymaster. This plug-and-play setup transforms the user experience without adding complexity to the development process.","At Caldera, we’re driven to help visionary teams like Zerion build seamless Web3 experiences with our battle-tested infrastructure services. By supporting the ZK Stack, we’re thrilled to be the first Rollups-as-a-Service provider to bring this powerful rollup framework to market. Through our RaaS platform, ZERϴ Network benefits from industry-leading speed and security, with Ethereum as the secure L1 chain underneath.","With our comprehensive tooling services, ZERϴ Network is launching today with everything developers need to build and grow their applications, from a user-friendly block explorer to a bridge interface and testnet faucet. These features are designed to enable smooth user interactions and robust developer experiences right from day one.","If you’re interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera, contact us.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-zero-network"},"/blog/what-is-data-availability-(da)":{"version":1,"title":"What is Data Availability (DA)? - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why does data availability matter?","Should I consider an alternative DA solution for my rollup?","Comparison of Alternative Data Availability Solutions","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","What is Data Availability (DA)?","Published on","Oct 23, 2024","Data availability (DA) is the mechanism through which every node on a blockchain network verifies that transaction data is correctly included in produced blocks. This process is critical because it ensures all participants can independently validate the blockchain’s history and state, maintaining accuracy and transparency. Without DA, nodes wouldn’t be able to verify transactions, leaving the network vulnerable to manipulation or fraud.","“Data availability refers to the confidence a user can have that the data required to verify a block is really available to all network participants,” according to Ethereum.org.","The primary question that DA solutions aim to answer is whether data has actually been published and made accessible for verification.","Data availability plays a central role in the scalability and efficiency of blockchain networks. Until recently, DA alone has accounted for over 95% of the operational costs for rollups, acting as a significant bottleneck to scaling on-chain applications. For developers looking to bring high-throughput applications such as games, social networks, or financial systems to the blockchain, the cost of ensuring data availability has been prohibitive.","Alternative modular DA solutions have changed the landscape by decoupling DA from the rest of the execution layer. With these solutions, rollup developers can drastically reduce DA costs while ensuring the integrity and verifiability of their data. Essentially, DA allows nodes to download the relevant data for a period of time, giving them a “roll the tape” moment to verify transactions. While DA doesn’t serve as long-term storage, it provides the crucial function of verifying that data immediately following a transaction, which is indispensable when billions of dollars in value are processed.","This makes DA not just a technical concern, but a financial one. By lowering DA costs, rollups and dApps can scale more efficiently and offer users lower fees.","Many Ethereum rollups today post their data directly onto Ethereum mainnet for DA. While this provides security, it also comes with extremely high and often volatile costs, especially when Ethereum is congested with other transactions.","Source: L2Beat","Alternative DA solutions have emerged to address this cost issue, offering rollup builders more control over their tech stack. Projects like Celestia, EigenDA, Avail, NearDA, and Arbitrum AnyTrust are at the forefront of this movement, offering different approaches to DA based on a rollup’s needs and user base.","When considering alternative DA solutions, the decision boils down to a few key factors:","Cost: How much are you willing to pay for DA, and how critical is cost efficiency to your rollup’s success?","Throughput requirements: Do you require high throughput for real-time applications, or are your needs more moderate?","Trust assumptions: Are you comfortable relying on a trusted Data Availability Committee (DAC) to verify data, or do you need a trust-minimized solution like Data Availability Sampling (DAS)?","Latency: Does your rollup need fast DA finality, or can it tolerate slower verification times?","Each solution has its unique trade-offs. Rollup builders must weigh the costs and benefits according to their specific application needs.","Data availability is at the heart of blockchain scalability. For rollup builders, choosing the right DA solution can unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation by dramatically lowering costs and increasing throughput. Whether it’s leveraging the modular stack offered by Celestia or relying on trusted committees with EigenDA or Arbitrum AnyTrust, the future of DA is flexible and full of choices.","When deciding which DA solution is best for your rollup, consider the balance between cost, trust, throughput, and the user experience you want to provide. With the right DA strategy, your rollup can scale seamlessly while maintaining the integrity and transparency blockchains depend on.","Interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera? Get in touch with us.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-data-availability-(da)"},"/blog/caldera-policy-engine":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Caldera Policy Engine, Developed in Collaboration with Predicate - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is Predicate?","Why this matters: Empowering Specialization","Use Cases: Endless Possibilities","Build the Future","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Introducing Caldera Policy Engine, Developed in Collaboration with Predicate","Published on","Nov 19, 2024","We’re proud to unveil the Caldera Policy Engine, developed in partnership with Predicate. This powerful tool allows Caldera chains to manage their behavior and flexibly establish transaction prerequisites for their rollup.","Predicate is a network for simplifying transaction prerequisites. Through Predicate, users, developers, and communities define rules for onchain interactions, integrating expressive pre-transaction logic into decentralized applications. These rules, like legos, can be stacked to form policies, which are enforced by the Predicate Network.","As part of our commitment to modularity, a guiding principle for us at Caldera is empowering specialization over generalization and flexibility over rigidity. On monolithic blockchains, dozens of flourishing applications with legitimate usage have fallen victim to exploits, hacks, and other attacks by a few bad actors over the years. We’re here to fix that.","By leveraging Predicate to power our Policy Engine, we enable every ecosystem and application building on Caldera to thrive because of their infrastructure—not despite it. The Predicate Network enforces transaction prerequisites directly at the smart contract level. Once a policy is implemented, Predicate validates that the inbound transaction meets the policy’s criteria. To ensure that policy enforcement is trust-minimized, Predicate leverages EigenLayer for a distributed network of economically incentivized operators. These operators reference the policy and issue signatures for each transaction. Signature issuance is deterministic, and transactions without a valid Predicate signature are automatically rejected.","Our Policy Engine equips Caldera rollups with the ability to customize and fully own their network’s behavior using both onchain and offchain data, such as historical flow of funds, blockchain analytics, verifiable credentials, dynamic allowlists, etc., based on the policy requirements. This gives teams the tools to build for their unique user base while ensuring the security and integrity of their ecosystem. Crucially, the rollup maintains control over the policy rather than their service providers.","We’ve already built some unique use-cases with our Policy Engine.","For instance, the team at RARI Foundation sought to build a creator-first blockchain that reduced complexity and costs for users while empowering NFT creators to benefit from their work. As such, in addition to minimizing throughput and gas fees through Arbitrum Anytrust DA, we implemented a node-level royalty-enforcement system for RARI Chain using the Policy Engine to prevent bad actors from circumventing royalty payments and ensure that creators across the RARI chain ecosystem are rewarded for their NFT sales.","For another chain, we implemented OFAC compliance enforcement by preventing sanctioned addresses and IP addresses from sanctioned countries from transacting. Using a similar approach, we could also integrate KYC providers, anomaly detection, rate limiting, and more.","Put simply, the possibilities are endless.","We believe developers should have the power to build without compromise and tailor their chains to their desired use cases. We're building Caldera to ensure this is the case, and with Predicate’s technology, this Policy Engine is another step in the right direction.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, ApeChain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain, and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-policy-engine"},"/blog/the-multi-vm-era-of-rollups-deploy-svm-rollups-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Architecture of Next-Gen Rollups","The SVM Advantage","Coming Up: SVM Devnet, powered by Caldera","About SOON","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Published on","Dec 18, 2024","We're joining forces with SOON, the most efficient Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) powered rollup stack, to bring the lightning-fast world of Solana to Ethereum rollups.","Enabling support for SVM marks a significant milestone: Caldera becomes the first multi-VM Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, adding support for SVM alongside Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).","Our partnership with SOON emerged from our team's deep fascination with their decoupled SVM architecture—an innovative approach that separates Solana's powerful virtual machine from its consensus layer. This breakthrough transforms SVM into a standalone execution layer that can be deployed across other Layer 1s, bringing its renowned performance benefits to new blockchain environments.","Rollup builders on Caldera’s 1-click rollup deployment platform will now be able to utilize SOON's rollup stack, empowering them to deploy high-performance SVM rollups with ultra-fast throughput and efficiency.","Over the past two years, SVM has become the leading alternative virtual machine to Ethereum. Its exceptional speed and cost-efficiency have attracted millions of users, enabling innovative decentralized applications that were previously impossible due to performance constraints.","The SOON x Caldera partnership brings several groundbreaking benefits to rollups:","Enhanced Performance: Developers can now harness SVM's superior transaction processing capabilities while also benefitting from Ethereum's security.","Multi-VM Support: Projects can choose from EVM or SVM environments based on their specific needs.","Ethereum Security: All SVM-based rollups deployed through Caldera will be secured by Ethereum's native fraud proof system.","Simplified Deployment: Teams can launch production-ready SVM rollups without deep technical expertise in rollup architecture.","In the coming weeks, our teams will unveil the first SVM devnet utilizing the SOON stack, built on Caldera’s battle-tested 1-click rollup deployment platform. We are excited to see builders’ experience deploying dApps and contracts on the devnet.","Our partnership with SOON represents more than just a technical integration - it's a step toward a new era of purpose-built blockchains. We’re approaching an era where deploying a modular, ultra-fast, app-specific blockchain will be as easy as deploying a token or executing an on-chain transaction. Caldera is proud to be at the forefront of this movement to democratize access to blockspace and bring the world on-chain.The future of multi-VM rollups is here, and it's more accessible than ever.","For developers interested in deploying their own SVM rollups or learning more about this integration, visit https://soo.network/","SOON stack is the most efficient Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) rollup delivering high performance on any L1 ecosystem. The execution layer uses a Decoupled SVM instead of the forked SVM framework most SVM projects use. SOON’s mission is to create the highest throughput rollup stack using the SVM, accelerate SVM adoption, reduce costs by 10x, and unlock use cases across ecosystems.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, ApeChain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain, and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Jan 29, 2026","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-multi-vm-era-of-rollups-deploy-svm-rollups-on-caldera"},"/blog/the-feature-set-of-next-gen-rollups-lessons-from-apechain":{"version":1,"title":"The Feature Set of Next-Gen Rollups: Lessons from ApeChain - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Native Interoperability with LayerZero OFTs","Native Yield","Why does this matter for rollup builders?","About Decent","About LayerZero","About Arbitrum","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Examples: Blast and Edgeless","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Feature Set of Next-Gen Rollups: Lessons from ApeChain","Published on","Nov 25, 2024","The ApeCoin community recently made headlines with the launch of ApeChain, a highly anticipated Arbitrum Orbit L3. In less than a month, the rollup has attracted over $90M in TVL and is growing rapidly. Many experiments are already underway on the chain, from memecoins to NFT drops and DeFi. More than just a massive validation of the rollup-centric vision for Ethereum, this launch was captivating for those of us deep in the Ethereum scalability/rollup trenches. The unique feature set underneath ApeChain combines several ‘industry firsts’ that make the network differentiated and compelling to both builders and users. In this blog, we want to give an insider look into what makes the ApeChain stack and its feature set stand out and how it may offer a roadmap for other rollup builders.","Like all Arbitrum Orbit rollups, ApeChain's underlying infrastructure was designed from the ground up to deliver high throughput and low fees. In true web3 fashion, a genuine collaboration between teams at Arbitrum, LayerZero, Caldera, Decent and Yuga Labs resulted in a one-of-a-kind feature set that will pave the way for the next generation of rollups. ApeChain introduces two industry firsts:","Day 1 interoperability with all LayerZero-supported chains","Automatically rebasing native yield on primary assets","Interoperability is crucial for all rollup networks, especially a new one. Without it, chains can feel like isolated islands, forcing users to rely on complex and costly bridging mechanisms to reach them. With ApeChain, we didn't want to let the lack or cost of bridging dissuade a user from participating in the vibrant ApeCoin ecosystem. We selected LayerZero, a leading interoperability protocol, to enable seamless token transfers and messaging between ApeChain and a set of their 100 supported blockchains. By upgrading ApeCoin (an ERC-20 token) with LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard, ApeCoin can now natively exist across all LayerZero-supported blockchains, ensuring smooth, low-cost cross-chain transfers and eliminating liquidity constraints from day one.","LayerZero’s integration with Arbitrum Orbit allowed us to take this one step further by enabling ApeCoin (now an OFT) to function as the native gas fee currency for ApeChain.","To implement this, our engineering team built an OFT adaptor to wrap ApeCoin and deposit it into ApeStake whenever the OFT version is minted on any supported chain. This approach avoids liquidity requirements, which are often the biggest bottleneck in scaling interoperability solutions for a rollup. In addition, we pre-minted the OFT token to ensure full collateralization of the native bridge on ApeChain and the base chain, providing a secure and reliable bridge experience for users.","Liquidity flows wherever it can earn the highest yield. The ApeCoin team recognizes this and was determined to provide users with a clear incentive to bridge to ApeChain from day one. Alongside Decent, our team at Caldera added native yield on bridged assets to achieve this. With native yield, ApeChain users can earn passive income on their assets — including ApeCoin, ETH, and stablecoins like USDC, USDT, and DAI — without lifting a finger.","Users who bridge their assets into ApeChain automatically earn yield on those assets through a rebasing mechanism. Every so often, users will notice their wallet balances growing as the yield accumulates. There’s no need for users to interact with complex DeFi protocols or manually stake their assets; native yield happens seamlessly in the background.","To implement this, the Decent engineering team built an extension of the LayerZero OFT to implement out-of-the-box native yield on stablecoins (APE-USD) and ETH (APE-ETH). These tokens are tied to vaults earning yield from sources like Lido for ETH and Sky Savings Rate for stablecoins. As these tokens automatically rebase, users see their token balances increase over time without manual intervention.","Caldera’s implementation focused on extending APE’s functionality to generate yield. By modifying Go-Ethereum (Geth), we added additional fields to the state account object to track the yield generated per account. Additionally, we created a hook that automatically distributes yield to all accounts each time a new block is mined.","This feature isn’t just a perk for users; it also benefits rollup builders. By offering built-in yield on day one, rollup chains can attract more liquidity and incentivize users to stay within their ecosystem. Additionally, DAOs like the ApeCoin DAO can use this feature to generate revenue by collecting a portion of the yield from bridged assets.","Other chains like Blast and Edgeless have already implemented variations of the native yield concept with great success. For instance, Blast offers a fixed APR on ETH and stablecoins, with a rebasing mechanism that adjusts token balances to reflect earned yield. Edgeless, on the other hand, uses a lottery system to redistribute yield back to users and protocol developers.","These examples demonstrate the versatility of the native yield feature and show how rollup builders can tailor it to meet their specific goals, whether it’s user retention or funding ecosystem development.","The combination of Arbitrum Orbit’s stack, LayerZero’s OFT standard, and Caldera and Decent’s native yield feature represents a powerful toolkit for rollup builders. By integrating these features into their rollups, builders can:","Ensure native interoperability from day one, attracting liquidity and users without the typical friction of cross-chain transfers.","Offer users passive yield on their assets, creating a strong incentive to deposit and hold funds on their chain.","Tailor the yield mechanism to fit the specific needs of their chain, whether through automatic rebasing, a community pool model, or other distribution methods.","As more rollups seek to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive space, offering interoperability and native yield on day one is a massive advantage. By following in the footsteps of ApeChain, rollup builders can create feature-rich ecosystems that are attractive to users and developers alike.","Rollup builders looking to stand out in a crowded market should consider ApeChain’s underlying tech stack and innovative feature set. By combining these powerful tools, they can build the next generation of scalable, user-friendly blockchains that offer unparalleled utility at launch.","Interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera? Get in touch with us.","Decent connects your rollup to every other chain. It provides chains with out-of-the-box bridge interfaces to onboard users, and equips developers in your ecosystem with a comprehensive set of APIs and components to offer chain abstracted transactions in their apps.","LayerZero is an interoperability protocol that connects blockchains (90+ and counting), allowing developers to build seamless omnichain applications, tokens, and experiences. The protocol relies on immutable onchain endpoints, a configurable security stack, and a permissionless set of executors to transfer censorship-resistant messages between chains.","Arbitrum is a technology suite designed to scale Ethereum. Arbitrum chains can be used to do all things that are done on Ethereum - use Web3 apps, deploy smart contracts, etc., but the transactions will be cheaper and faster. Their flagship product - Arbitrum Rollup - is an optimistic rollup protocol that inherits Ethereum-level security.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, ApeChain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain, and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollups-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-feature-set-of-next-gen-rollups-lessons-from-apechain"},"/blog/why-ethereums-future-runs-on-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"Why Ethereum's Future Runs on Rollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Rise and Fall of Alternative L1s","What Are Rollups?","How Rollups Work","Real-World Metrics","Types of Rollups","Technical Benefits of Rollups","Rollup Platforms","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","Why Ethereum's Future Runs on Rollups","Published on","Feb 10, 2025","Ethereum, the world's biggest smart contract platform, promised a decentralized future, but it faced a critical challenge in each previous market cycle: handling the demands of widespread adoption without becoming slow and prohibitively expensive. The limitations were first dramatically exposed in 2017 by CryptoKitties, a seemingly simple game where users bred and traded digital NFT kittens. This popular application clogged the Ethereum network, demonstrating that even relatively low transaction volumes could cause severe congestion.","This issue resurfaced on a larger scale in 2020 and 2021. Increased activity from Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) pushed gas fees even higher, leading many users to explore less expensive options on other blockchain networks. These instances highlighted that there was a pressing requirement for scaling solutions for Ethereum, and that rollups were the best possible solution.","High fees and slow transaction times on Ethereum led many users to explore alternative Layer 1 blockchains (separate, independent blockchains) such as Solana, Harmony, Terra, and Fantom. While some, like Solana, have achieved significant success by prioritizing speed and low costs, others like Harmony and Terra, initially attracted users with promises of lower costs and faster processing. For a time, this strategy seemed to work, with a considerable portion of Ethereum's user base migrating. Recent information, however, indicates a reversal of this outflow for many of these L1s. Key performance indicators on these alternative L1s, including Total Value Locked (TVL), gas fees, and transaction volume, have dropped considerably from their highest points.","This shift back towards Ethereum reflects the difficulties and potential dangers of moving to newer, less-tested blockchains. The Harmony network, for instance, suffered a major blow when its Horizon Bridge was hacked, causing substantial financial losses and eroding user confidence. This exposed weaknesses in the security of some alternative L1s, especially concerning cross-chain communication. The collapse of the Terra ecosystem, caused by the failure of its UST stablecoin, similarly demonstrated the instability that can be present in newer blockchain projects.","These events served as a reminder of the importance of strong security. Ethereum, on the other hand, has a long history and has proven its security through extensive use and testing. This has made it a trusted and reliable network. Even Solana, despite its success as an L1, is seeing the development of rollup solutions (such as the \"Bullet L2\" project) to further enhance its scalability and potentially address congestion issues for high-throughput use cases.","While Ethereum has struggled with scaling, its commitment to security and decentralization has kept users loyal. This, combined with the development of rollups, has led to renewed interest in the Ethereum ecosystem. Rollups offer a way to scale Ethereum securely, inheriting its established security while providing increased transaction speeds and lower costs. They present a better option than moving to less established L1s. The growing popularity of rollups, seen in rising TVL and developer activity, shows a clear move towards this secure and cost-effective scaling method. It demonstrates that users and developers prefer building on Ethereum's solid foundation, rather than taking chances with less proven alternatives.","While alternative L1s provided temporary relief, they didn't address the fundamental problem. A different approach was needed – one that built upon Ethereum's strengths rather than bypassing them. This is where rollups come in.","Rollups are a way to improve Ethereum's transaction throughput and lower costs. They achieve this by handling transactions outside the main Ethereum network, yet still depend on its security. They function by combining numerous transactions into a single, larger transaction which is then submitted to Ethereum.","Consider Ethereum as a worldwide, shared computer. Every action on this computer must be checked by thousands of other computers globally. This process makes Ethereum secure, but also slow and costly. Rollups take on much of this processing work off of Ethereum, but keep its foundational security.","Rollups make Ethereum more efficient by handling transactions separately, while maintaining its core security features. They gather numerous transactions off the main chain, group them, and compress them. Then, instead of sending every individual transaction to Ethereum, they submit a single, short summary value called a \"state root.\" This state root acts like a cryptographic fingerprint of the entire rollup's state – all the account balances, smart contract data, etc. – after those transactions have been processed. The Ethereum network tracks these state roots, ensuring all rollup changes are verifiable and secure.","Rollups act like independent blockchains that post their actions to another blockchain (in this case, Ethereum). This allows them to benefit from the consensus mechanism and data storage of the main chain.","Data availability refers to the guarantee that the transaction data underlying a rollup is accessible to anyone who needs to verify the rollup's state. This is crucial for security: if the data were unavailable, it would be impossible to check if the rollup operator was acting honestly.","To ensure the accuracy of state transitions, rollups employ either fraud proofs or validity proofs.","Several elements are involved in rollup operation. To ensure data availability, transaction data, although compressed, is posted to Ethereum. This allows the rollup's condition to be checked by everyone, and the full state of the rollup to be reconstructed if needed. A \"sequencer\" component manages incoming user transactions quickly, giving users almost immediate confirmation. The sequencer groups transactions, and these groups are compressed to minimize the data stored on Ethereum. The rollup itself keeps a record of account balances and contract conditions, reconstructable from the data made available. Finally, each transaction group includes proof of correct processing.","Caldera’s dashboard demonstrates the current scope: Manta Pacific processes over 130,000 transactions daily, ApeChain over 120,000, and B3 nearly 220,000. In total, Caldera's rollups have handled over 370 million transactions and serve over 10 million distinct wallets.","The numbers clearly show the increasing adoption and use of rollups. The total value locked in rollups, a Layer 2 scaling solution (built on top of Ethereum to improve transaction processing), has exceeded $35 billion USD, representing one-third of the total value across all networks.","In terms of transaction volumes, rollups currently process 13 times the transaction volume of the main Ethereum network.","There are two primary kinds of rollups: Optimistic rollups and ZK rollups.","Optimistic rollups: These rollups used by projects like Arbitrum and Optimism, assume transactions are valid unless challenged. This simplifies their setup, as verification is only needed if a dispute arises. There's a 7-day period for submitting proof of incorrect transactions. While some third-party services offer quicker withdrawals, they come with added trust considerations.","ZK Rollups: These rollups use advanced cryptography (zero-knowledge proofs)  to prove the validity of every transaction before it's finalized. This eliminates the challenge period, offering immediate finality, but requires more computational power to generate the proofs. Projects like zkSync and StarkNet are examples of ZK rollups.","The main difference between these two types is their security approach. Optimistic rollups use financial incentives and fraud proofs, allowing time for participants to find and dispute questionable actions. ZK rollups rely on mathematics for security; the cryptographic proofs ensure that only correct state changes can happen. This core difference affects how each type manages communication and asset transfers between chains, while keeping the security of the Ethereum network.","For users, rollups translate to a dramatically improved experience. Transaction fees are typically 10-100 times lower compared to transacting directly on Ethereum (e.g., a typical token swap on Ethereum might cost $5-$20 in gas fees, while the same transaction on a rollup could cost $0.05-$0.20). Transactions also confirm much faster – often in seconds, rather than minutes or even hours during peak congestion. This makes blockchain applications significantly more usable and accessible for the end user.","This improved user experience directly benefits developers. The increased transaction capacity and lower costs provided by both Optimistic and ZK rollups enable the creation of applications that would be impractical on Ethereum directly, such as high-frequency trading platforms, complex DeFi protocols, and interactive blockchain-based games.","Developers can also move existing Ethereum applications to rollups with minimal code changes, thanks to their compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This scalability doesn't come at the expense of security. By posting compressed transaction data to Ethereum, rollups inherit the same security guarantees that protect billions of dollars in value on the main network. This means developers can build with confidence that their applications are secure, and users can trust their assets and transactions are protected.","Rollups also offer a fundamentally more sustainable economic model. Unlike many Layer 1 networks that rely on token inflation (the continuous creation of new tokens, which can devalue existing ones and isn't sustainable long-term) to fund security, rollups can operate profitably from transaction fees alone. The largest rollups are already generating substantial revenue, demonstrating the viability of this model.","Rollups represent the most effective path to scaling Ethereum, not just for today, but for the future. They allow applications to achieve the transaction throughput needed to attract a large user base, and position those projects for potential value accrual tied to network activity, all while inheriting the robust security of Ethereum.","Caldera is currently the premier platform for launching and managing high-performance, customizable rollups. Unlike generic solutions, Caldera offers extensive customization, letting developers fine-tune every aspect of their rollup, from transaction fee structures to data availability options. This is all achieved with a streamlined, one-click deployment process.","Importantly, Caldera rollups are designed for interoperability. Consider a scenario where multiple applications – a decentralized exchange, a gaming platform, and a social media app – are all deployed as separate Caldera rollups. Through the Metalayer, these applications can seamlessly interact, allowing users to, for example, transfer assets from the exchange to the game or use their social media reputation within the DeFi protocol. This level of interconnectedness fosters a vibrant ecosystem and reduces operational overhead. If you're building a high-throughput application and aim to take advantage of the expanding Ethereum ecosystem, Caldera provides the tools and infrastructure to launch a dedicated rollup.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-ethereums-future-runs-on-rollups"},"/blog/the-fractured-state-of-rollup-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"The Fractured State of Rollup Interoperability - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why Current Bridging Solutions Fall Short","Who Bears the Cost?","Why This Problem is Hard to Fix","Caldera's Approach","The Path Forward","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Fractured State of Rollup Interoperability","Published on","Feb 20, 2025","Launching a new rollup like ApeChain often reveals a harsh reality: users can't easily access liquidity or applications from existing ecosystems. This challenge faces many new Ethereum L2s today. While established rollups handle thirteen times more transactions than Ethereum mainnet, serving hundreds of millions of wallets with faster speeds and lower costs, new entrants encounter significant obstacles to adoption.","These scaling solutions operate in silos, isolating developers and liquidity, and stopping Ethereum from working as a cohesive ecosystem. This article examines current interoperability shortcomings and their impact on the broader Ethereum ecosystem.","The separation between rollups undermines Ethereum's scaling advantages. Two main problems stand out:","New rollups lack effective bridging options due to technical and economic constraints.","The fragmented ecosystem leaves developers without consistent interoperability standards.","Canonical bridges between rollups and Ethereum prioritize security over speed. Transactions take minutes instead of seconds. Optimistic rollups require seven-day waiting periods for fund withdrawals through native bridges. Users seeking quicker transfers between rollups turn to third-party services that sacrifice security for speed but still operate slowly.","Some bridges create messy connection paths. Moving assets across rollup ecosystems requires multiple steps, adding unnecessary friction.","Token standards present another challenge. Each bridge typically implements its own token format without cross-compatibility. Applications must handle various wrapped tokens, leading to scattered liquidity that harms users and reduces efficiency.","Bridge aggregators offer modest user experience improvements but often require users to leave their applications and visit separate websites. While some tools provide SDK options, these remain scarce across most rollups. Settlements still take minutes rather than seconds, though intent-based solutions could enable near-instant completion by offloading complexity to solvers.","Framework-specific approaches like Optimism's Superchain or zkSync's Elastic Chain support interoperability within their ecosystems. However, connecting across frameworks (like transacting between an OP stack rollup and an Elastic Chain rollup) remains challenging.","Structural limits worsen these constraints. Consider rollups as islands linked by unstable bridges, struggling under the weight of more chains. Shared bridging infrastructure struggles with more than a few chains simultaneously. Cross-chain transaction performance in the Optimism Superchain may suffer as more rollups connect, due to the shared bridge's scalability constraints. ZK proving ensures transaction security but introduces noticeable latency.","While some bridging solutions like LI.FI and Bungee offer in-app widgets for established L2s, comprehensive bridging options become increasingly scarce for smaller or newer rollups. This disparity particularly inhibits developers launching new chains, as they can't easily connect to existing ecosystems.","These interoperability challenges create serious obstacles. New rollups struggle to maintain engagement beyond launch as they work to establish liquidity pools. Without sufficient transaction volume, even promising projects can't sustain the cross-chain liquidity needed for basic financial applications.","Users bear the brunt firsthand. Moving assets requires multiple clicks and application switches instead of seamless transactions, accompanied by high costs, delays, unclear security models, and confusing wrapped token varieties.","New rollups face particularly steep challenges. A developer launching a game-specific appchain, where critical game assets and tokens reside, faces major barriers when trying to connect with established liquidity venues. Users moving assets from a major ecosystem like Manta to a newly launched rollup must navigate tangled bridging processes with delays and extra fees. Likewise, potential liquidity providers supporting a DeFi app on an emerging rollup wrestle with hurdles like incompatible token standards, discouraging participation.","The costs of this fragmentation are hefty:","Users and wallets, who face inconsistent support and must research bridge options chain-by-chain.","New chains seek integration with existing ecosystems, often requesting support from interoperability protocols one at a time.","Tokens are limited to \"first class\" status on just one chain, restricting their ecosystem reach.","Applications diverting resources to recurring interoperability problems instead of core development.","New rollup adoption stalls in a cycle where chains need users for liquidity, but users avoid chains without established pathways. Developers attempt custom onboarding solutions, but cross-chain tools prove either too simple or excessively complex. Teams repeatedly rebuild similar solutions instead of focusing on their core products, contradicting Ethereum's vision of fluid experiences. Caldera's customers, with over 380 million transactions on our rollups, consistently report this problem. They're fed up with clunky bridges.","Interoperability consists of both technical barriers and coordination challenges. New rollups face a circular problem: they need liquidity to attract users, but users avoid chains without existing liquidity. These high barriers limit growth for new networks.","Creating effective bridge infrastructure demands specialized knowledge and substantial resources. Current solutions require extensive setup and expensive custom implementations.","Technical differences between rollups significantly increase complexity. Most bridging approaches adapt poorly to new chains. Canonical bridges remain tied to specific technical systems, while third-party solutions need custom work for each integration, making ecosystem-wide scaling difficult.","Rollup designs vary across key components: sequencer mechanisms, data availability solutions, and proof generation methods. Building a universal solution requires understanding the entire stack: protocol design, sequencing, bridging, and user interface. Most teams focus on just one aspect, resulting in disconnected systems for users.","Risk management slows progress considerably. Every interoperability decision carries major implications for security and efficiency. The loss of user funds from a reorg on the Degen chain shows how technical missteps can cause catastrophic failures. External providers lack both Caldera's insights from operating 30 production mainnets and our detailed view of rollup and sequencer states, making thorough risk assessment harder. Agreement between rollup teams, bridge developers, and system architects becomes harder to achieve.","Faced with these roadblocks, Caldera dug deeper to rethink the entire stack.","Caldera knows rollups inside out from the trenches. We've launched over 100 rollups, supporting millions of wallets and processing billions in bridging volume. Few organizations possess such comprehensive knowledge of both user needs and technical obstacles.","Every Caldera chain runs on thoroughly tested technology, from testing environments to production networks. Our standard bridge interface comes with each rollup, simplifying initial user experiences.","Our rollup architecture expertise gives us key advantages over external solution providers. Our knowledge covers sequencer configurations, data availability systems, and settlement options, enabling superior risk management where others struggle.","We build straightforward developer tools that minimize complexity. Next week, we will introduce an improved approach that allows builders to focus on their core applications without diverting resources to solve recurring interoperability challenges.","By overseeing the complete process from protocol design to user interface, we aim to enable instant transfers between rollups without leaving applications. Our network of compatible chains naturally draws users and liquidity, positioning us to solve the biggest hurdle for new rollups: simple asset movement between chains. After two years focused on this problem, we're close to announcing a comprehensive solution.","Several developments show momentum toward better solutions. Native rollup interoperability features continue advancing, capital efficiency improves steadily across the ecosystem, and open standards such as EIP-7683 gain wider adoption. However, these small wins can’t crack the real knot inherent in the current fractured ecosystem.","After two years building and running over 100 production rollups for millions of users, Caldera has developed a comprehensive answer to these connection challenges. Our solution goes beyond incremental improvements to existing models. It fundamentally rethinks how rollups interconnect while maintaining security guarantees.","The future of Ethereum scalability depends on solving this interoperability challenge. Rollups must function not as isolated chains but as cohesive components of a unified ecosystem where liquidity flows freely, developers build once and deploy everywhere, and users experience seamless interactions regardless of which rollup they're using.","In our next article, we'll show how Caldera's Metalayer creates this reality. It turns the current separated rollup landscape into a connected network of rollups for the future.","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-fractured-state-of-rollup-interoperability"},"/blog/the-metalayer-the-internet-of-rollups-is-here":{"version":1,"title":"The Metalayer: The Internet of Rollups is Here - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["What is the Metalayer?","Universal Availability","Launch Partners","Road to 10,000 rollups","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","The Metalayer: The Internet of Rollups is Here","Published on","Feb 25, 2025","As the team powering over 100 rollups–from Manta Pacific to ApeChain–serving 10+ million users, we've witnessed how poor composability is fracturing Ethereum. Cheap, secure blockspace is not valuable unless people can actually use it. We’re introducing the Metalayer to solve this problem.","Players industry-wide acknowledge this issue, but the solutions on the market today result in a patchwork of walled gardens, features, and security tradeoffs that ultimately ruin the developer and user experience. It costs chains hundreds of thousands in integration fees and weeks of time to integrate these solutions. Once integrated, it's up to chain developers to figure out how to incentivize liquidity.","Enter the Metalayer. Born from two years of tackling these challenges since Caldera’s first mainnet, the Metalayer transforms the way developers onboard liquidity and users onto rollups. The Metalayer allows developers to take advantage of the ongoing innovation in interoperability without being forced to engineer their app or protocol around yesterday’s architecture: Instead of thinking about interop, focus on building amazing products. Developers also benefit from faster transactions, lower costs, and higher security as the Metalayer upgrades, all without changing their app.","Most importantly - the Metalayer is not Yet Another Interop Framework. Instead, it’s focused on bringing the best open standards into chains and apps used by millions around the world. We’re bringing the best teams in interop to Caldera powered chains to bring everything they have to offer.","The Metalayer is an interoperability network that consists of three complementary systems working in concert:","Execution layer – Caldera is today announcing partnerships with Across, Eco, and Relay to enable intent-based bridging from chains across Ethereum to every chain in Caldera’s network. Our intent routing network finds the fastest and cheapest path to fill user requests.","Settlement Layer – Built on the open-source Hyperlane interoperability framework, our settlement layer enables fast message passing between chains with latency measured in seconds, not minutes. The message passing protocol also supports multi-chain reads, allowing cross-chain applications to query and aggregate state from any chain in the network.","Developer Toolkit – We provide chain and app devs easy access to our interoperability toolchain, abstracting away the complexity of message passing. It includes a simple API, SDK, and prebuilt UI components. Best of all, as technical advancements in interoperability come to market, the Metalayer uses them, allowing developers and users to automatically benefit.","The Metalayer is automatically deployed across every Caldera chain. When a new rollup launches, it’s  there from day zero on both testnet and mainnet. We’ve accomplished this via our partnerships - by rolling out a settlement layer which leverages Hyperlane’s permissionless, open architecture and through partnership with intents-based protocols like Eco that can be quickly deployed on every new chain.","The Metalayer is designed to work on any rollup stack. While other solutions create walled gardens, we're building bridges across the entire Ethereum ecosystem. Our architecture abstracts away the complexity of different rollup technologies, sequencers, and bridge protocols.","This means when a user initiates a cross-chain transaction, they're not just accessing a single bridge or protocol. The Metalayer orchestrates a symphony of integrations - aggregating liquidity, computing optimal paths, and executing transfers through the most efficient routes. As new interoperability technologies emerge, from fast withdrawals to shared sequencing layers, every application in our ecosystem instantly benefits. No code changes required.","For blockchain teams, the Metalayer delivers immediate value. Teams gain instant access to liquidity across the Caldera ecosystem, pre-integrated relationships with oracles and indexers, and native cross-chain messaging capabilities — all while maintaining sovereignty over their chain. Developers can deploy apps across the entire network. Users experience seamless asset movement between chains with optimal pricing and zero complexity.","We're launching the Metalayer alongside industry pioneers who share our vision. We developed our messaging and settlement infrastructure in collaboration with Hyperlane, Across, Eco, and Relay, deploying their infrastructure on every Caldera chain.","This is just the beginning. We're inviting bridges, oracles, wallets, and infrastructure providers to help build Ethereum's multi-chain future. By joining the Metalayer, partners gain immediate access to the rollup ecosystem’s largest user and capital base. Developers can start development today by visiting our Docs.","The Metalayer protocol is in audit today, in preparation for our mainnet launch. Within the next 90 days, we’ll release our full mainnet and API libraries across every Caldera chain as well as ZkSync Era, OP mainnet, Base, Arbitrum One, and Ethereum. Later this year, the Metalayer will utilize advances in stack native interop tech from our partner teams at Arbitrum, ZKSync, and Optimism to improve speed and reduce costs for users transacting on the Metalayer.","At Caldera, we’re serious about a world with 10,000 rollups. Nobody else is sufficiently imaginative about crypto’s eventual scale. Major apps will outscale fat, single sequencer shared chains. The best devs won’t compromise by building on the modern equivalent of the mainframe.","The Metalayer enables more apps, bigger apps, horizontal apps, and the next 2 billion users. It’s how we make the vision for crypto actually real.","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-metalayer-the-internet-of-rollups-is-here"},"/blog/kinto-on-caldera-powering-the-world-s-first-modular-exchange":{"version":1,"title":"Case Study - Kinto - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Powering Real-World Assets and Other Traditional CEX services with Kinto","Caldera’s Strengths","Why Ethereum?","Why The Modular Exchange Needed an Appchain","The DeFi Future with Caldera-Powered Modular Exchanges","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Case Study - Kinto","Published on","Mar 27, 2025","What if your financial platform could access the best of decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional financial services without the risks of centralized exchanges (CEXs) or the limitations of decentralized exchanges (DEXs)? Kinto, a Caldera-powered rollup on Ethereum, delivers this vision as the first Modular Exchange (MEX). Built on decentralized technology with non-custodial wallets and fintech-level UI/UX, Kinto offers the best features of CEXs like fiat onramps and account recoverability without becoming a honeypot for users’ private information. Caldera’s Rollup Engine powers this innovation, providing customizable infrastructure for a seamless, secure financial hub. This article explores Kinto’s rise as a MEX, the role of appchains in financial services, the benefits of building on Ethereum, and why Caldera is the ideal platform for modular exchanges.","Kinto is an Ethereum Layer 2 launched in 2024, redefining the exchange landscape as the first Modular Exchange (MEX). Unlike CEXs like Coinbase, which charge high fees and hold user funds, or DEXs like dYdX, which lack compliance features for institutional use, Kinto integrates the best DeFi and financial protocols into a single, secure platform. Built on Arbitrum’s Orbit stack, Kinto settles on Ethereum Mainnet with a fully compatible EVM, modified to revert transactions from non-KYC’d addresses, ensuring compliance and an additional layer of security for a wide range of assets.","Kinto’s MEX architecture comprises several layers, each leveraging leading protocols and supported by Caldera’s infrastructure. It provides fiat-to-crypto onramps for seamless entry. An identity layer enforces KYC/AML while keeping user data private through a user-owned model, ensuring personally identifiable information is not linked to on-chain addresses. A non-custodial smart wallet offers full recovery and insurance, enhancing security. Account abstraction abstracts gas costs and simplifies user experience with password-free onboarding. A chain abstraction layer connects Kinto to Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Hyperliquid, enabling seamless cross-chain swaps. Finally, a custom L2 rollup ensures gasless transactions and compliance.","This modular design allows Kinto to offer a broad spectrum of services without rebuilding them. Users can swap on Uniswap, lend on Aave, stake on Lido, trade perpetuals on Hyperliquid with up to 50x leverage, and access real-world assets (RWAs) through protocols like Dinari, Mountain Protocol, and Paxos—all through a single Kinto wallet. RWAs are traditional financial instruments like stocks, bonds, or real estate, tokenized on the blockchain, enabling 24/7 global market access and use in DeFi protocols, such as collateral in lending or trading in automated market makers (AMMs). Kinto offers tokenized equities such as the S&P 500 Index, Nvidia, Tesla, Coinbase, and MicroStrategy, merging the familiarity of traditional markets with DeFi innovation.","Kinto focuses on security with native wallet insurance, full account recovery, and chain-level KYC, making it significantly more secure than traditional rollups or CEXs. Governance is decentralized, with nine elected Guardians voted on by $K token holders every six months. The $K token, set to list on March 31, 2025, facilitates this experience by enabling governance participation and access to network features.","Kinto’s cross-chain liquidity engine, Musubi, launched in October 2024, has enabled significant activity, such as a KYC’d institution lending 4M USDC on Aave via their Kinto wallet. This transaction allowed the institution to execute a fully legally compliant lending operation on another chain through Kinto, showcasing its ability to bridge compliant financial activity across networks.","Kinto Network Transaction:https://explorer.kinto.xyz/tx/0x582314c52b9cec7a972f22ef540d5f0520b70a36ba26eec271eca7fa23522241","Ethereum Mainnet Transaction:https://etherscan.io/tx/0x3a01bc8385f3ad38c41aa83d04c01656c4ed634b4cbfdb68cbe0ad24c46f76c8","As of March 26, 2025, Kinto’s TVL stands at over $34M USD, with 3,300+ transactions recorded that day. Since launch, Kinto has processed over 1.5M total transactions and attracted over 150,000 unique wallet addresses. The platform has grown rapidly, with a 180% increase in verified users, from 40,000 to over 75,000 during January 2025, and a fivefold increase in transactions during the last quarter of 2024.","Caldera powers over 100 rollups, having processed over 410M transactions and accessed by almost 12 million unique wallets as of March 26, 2025. Our customizable Layer 2 infrastructure offers high throughput, low costs, and interoperability through the Metalayer. Caldera enables Kinto’s MEX vision by making its modular infrastructure possible. The custom L2 rollup ensures gasless transactions and compliance for financial services.","The Metalayer provides two key benefits for Kinto. First, it allows Kinto to access liquidity from other Caldera chains, beyond just Arbitrum Nitro chains or Ethereum Mainnet, expanding its ecosystem with deeper liquidity across more rollup networks, a critical advantage for a DeFi hub. Second, the Metalayer facilitates other rollups requiring KYC by prompting Kinto to verify users on their behalf, positioning Kinto as the KYC verifier for multiple rollups in the Caldera ecosystem. Caldera also reduces development overhead, allowing Kinto to focus on integrating leading protocols like Hyperliquid, which allowed Kinto to recently enable perpetuals trading.","“Caldera has been the perfect partner, since day one they have shared their expertise allowing us to iterate quickly - we see them as part of the Kinto team. Now the partnership is about to enter another level as we intend to be in the first generation of rollups connected to the Metalayer providing Kinto’s value to others in the Caldera ecosystem.” - Victor Sanchez, CTO & Co-Founder of Kinto","Ethereum provides unmatched security, liquidity, and regulatory familiarity for financial services. Its robust consensus mechanism ensures the integrity of high-value transactions, critical for tokenized assets. Ethereum’s $100B+ DeFi ecosystem offers deep liquidity, enabling Kinto to integrate with protocols like Aave, Curve, and Lido. Regulators are familiar with Ethereum’s framework, reducing compliance friction for institutional adoption. Kinto leverages these strengths, settling on Mainnet to align with the need for trust and stability, while Caldera’s infrastructure ensures scalability and cost efficiency.","General-purpose Layer 1s and Layer 2s like Ethereum or Arbitrum lack native KYC and compliance mechanisms, posing risks for institutional financial services, such as exposure to sanctioned funds. Bridging inefficiencies and high costs also hinder asset integration, with delays and fees disrupting user experience. Appchains address these issues. Kinto’s chain-level KYC, supported by Caldera, ensures Sybil resistance and compliance, allowing secure handling of tokenized ETFs or corporate debt. Custom rollups support specific needs, such as real-time AML monitoring. Unlike CEXs, Kinto offers non-custodial support; unlike DEXs, it provides AML compliance; and unlike traditional wallets, it integrates trading and onramps. With over 1.5M total transactions and over 150,000 unique addresses, Kinto demonstrates how appchains overcome general-purpose chain limitations for financial services.","Kinto’s vision as a Modular Exchange aims to enable composability between DeFi and traditional financial products, such as tokenized ETFs providing liquidity in AMMs or banks issuing mortgages using on-chain collateral. On March 27, 2025, Kinto achieved a significant milestone by becoming a Stage 1 AppChain, as recognized by L2BEAT, marking its commitment to transparency, decentralization, and security. This status, achieved through a robust proof system, five independent validators, a publicly disclosed Security Council, and user exit mechanisms, positions Kinto as a leader in secure, compliant rollups. Kinto plans to advance further, targeting Stage 2 by implementing fully decentralized fault proofs in a future hard fork, enhancing its decentralization and trustlessness.","As traditional institutions like BlackRock tokenize assets, a DeFi boom looms on the horizon. Caldera positions future modular rollups for success by offering rapid deployment, as seen with Kinto’s growth to over 1.5M total transactions and over 150,000 unique wallet addresses. Supporting 83 unique tokens, Kinto demonstrates its ability to handle a diverse range of assets, from DeFi to traditional finance. Caldera’s infrastructure ensures cost efficiency, with Kinto spending just 0.052 ETH in transaction fees over 24 hours, alongside compliance support critical for KYC and AML needs.","The Metalayer enhances liquidity and interoperability by connecting rollups to DeFi ecosystems. While CEXs like Coinbase require 3,600 employees for a $72 billion valuation, Kinto’s lean model achieved 75,000 verified users with just $7 million raised, showcasing Caldera’s ability to reduce overhead. Caldera’s Ethereum integration drives a unified financial superchain, making it the ideal choice for projects aiming to become Modular Exchanges. What could your financial platform achieve with the seamless connectivity and compliance of a Caldera-powered Modular Exchange? Teams can visit Caldera’s deployment page and explore the Metalayer preview to start building today.","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/kinto-on-caldera-powering-the-world-s-first-modular-exchange"},"/blog/the-rollup-engine-powering-the-next-generation-of-chains-and-apps":{"version":1,"title":"The Rollup Engine: Powering the Next Generation of Chains and Apps - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["What is the Rollup Engine?","Dynamic Infrastructure Management and Features","Why It Matters","Developer Experience","The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","The Rollup Engine: Powering the Next Generation of Chains and Apps","Published on","Mar 5, 2025","Last week, we unveiled the Metalayer, our interoperability network designed to connect rollups and scale Ethereum to 10,000 chains and beyond. Today, we’re excited to present the next evolution of our Rollup Platform that brings this vision to life: the Rollup Engine.","Caldera has always been a Rollup company. But as the ecosystem has evolved, so have the needs of developers building on our platform. Whether they’re developing a new general-purpose chain or deploying an app-specific rollup, they need more than just blockspace—they need a flexible, programmable foundation that can scale with their applications. The Rollup Engine is our answer to this challenge.","The Rollup Engine is a complete reimagining of how rollups are deployed and managed on Caldera. It transforms rollups from static chains into dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can adapt to your application's needs. Think of it as the AWS for rollups—a platform that lets you provision and customize blockchain infrastructure in a few clicks, or even via API calls.","The Rollup Engine provides unprecedented control over your rollup infrastructure. You can upgrade node software versions to enable new features like Arbitrum's BoLD protocol or ZKSync native interop, and scale computational resources on demand. Our automated deployment system is built with robust retry logic and validation, ensuring reliable operation even for complex configurations.","The Rollup Engine also makes it easier for technology partners to offer their solutions through Caldera. Whether it's Espresso's confirmation layer or alternative DA providers, partners can now deploy their technology across our network of chains. The Engine can now handle complex protocol deployments, including those with off-chain components, through our new system with sophisticated retry mechanisms and post-deployment validation.","The Rollup Engine, combined with the Metalayer, enables a new architecture for blockchain applications. Instead of being confined to a single chain, applications can now scale horizontally across multiple rollups. Need more throughput? Spin up additional rollups via API. Want to optimize for different user segments? Deploy purpose-built chains with specific configurations.","This architecture is particularly powerful for several types of applications. High-scale applications can expand beyond single-sequencer limitations. DeFi protocols can create specialized environments for different trading pairs. Gaming applications can deploy dedicated chains for specific game worlds. Social platforms can scale to tens of millions of users without compromising on performance.","Just as the Metalayer is our solution that makes it easy for rollups to connect with each other, the Rollup Engine makes it simple to create and operate the rollups themselves.","We've designed the Rollup Engine to make complex operations simple. Adding infrastructure components like oracles, indexers, and bridges is as straightforward as enabling a service in your cloud provider today.","The combination of the Rollup Engine and Metalayer creates something entirely new: programmable, composable blockspace that can scale with your application. When you deploy a rollup through the Engine, it's automatically connected to the Metalayer's interoperability network. This means every new chain benefits from existing liquidity, messaging capabilities, and infrastructure from day one.","This is how we'll get to 10,000 rollups—not through manually deployed chains, but through programmatic creation of purpose-built rollups that work together seamlessly. We're moving from the era of monolithic chains to an age of specialized, interconnected blockspace.","Together with the Metalayer, the Rollup Engine forms the foundation of our vision for blockchain infrastructure. It's not just about creating more rollups: it's about making them more useful, more connected, and more powerful for developers and users alike.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, ApeChain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain, and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup Engine to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-rollup-engine-powering-the-next-generation-of-chains-and-apps"},"/blog/b3-on-caldera-powering-a-new-golden-era-of-gaming-with-custom-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"Case Study - B3 - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Powering a new Golden Era of Gaming","Caldera’s Strengths","Why Gaming Platforms Need an Appchain","The Open Gaming Vision and Why Rollups Should Deploy on Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Case Study - B3","Published on","Mar 18, 2025","Can gaming break free from the constraints of traditional platforms and early onchain networks? The practical advantages of crypto gaming provide the answer: Open financial systems, player-driven economies, and aligned communities are redefining the industry.","B3, a Caldera-powered L3 built on Base, shows this future in action. Its success, fueled by Caldera’s rollup platform, reveals how custom appchains can create new earning opportunities for game developers, lower costs, improve shared liquidity through the Metalayer, and encourage interoperability with other rollups. By relying on transparent decentralized infrastructure, studios can work without costly corporate intermediaries, while players earn rewards through gameplay, building ownership that connects them to the game’s success.","B3’s growth, with over 260 million transactions and 6.6 million wallet addresses since its August 2024 launch, proves the scalability of this model, setting a path for larger studios to follow. Inspired by decades of gaming passion, B3’s founders draw from personal memories, like grinding in titles like Diablo II, to create a world where players and developers flourish together.","B3 is an L3 blockchain built and settled on Base, launched by NPC Labs and the Player1 Foundation in August 2024. The platform emerged as a direct response to challenges faced by game developers on Base, specifically high transaction costs and insufficient publisher support.","Founded by ex-Coinbase and ex-Base team members including CEO Daryl Xu, co-founder Viktoriya Hying, and CTO Sean Geng, B3 operates with a lean team of approximately 20 people. This agile structure mirrors the approach used to launch Base, focusing on solving practical problems for developers rather than building unnecessary infrastructure.","B3 was designed as a gaming-first ecosystem after recognizing that Base's blockspace competition was driving gaming transaction costs too high. The platform inherits Base's cost and throughput advantages while providing specialized support for gaming applications. In February 2025, B3 launched its native $B3 token, marking a significant milestone in its vision to build a gaming superchain serving 3 billion players worldwide.","B3 addresses industry gatekeeping and fragmentation by fostering an open gaming ecosystem where GameChains integrate seamlessly. This approach, detailed in the B3 Whitepaper, encourages cooperation through shared incentives. B3's user frontend, bsmnt.fun, serves as a discoverability hub that has attracted 300,000 active users engaging with games ranging from nostalgic titles like Pong to modern offerings such as Sol Arena.","B3's key metrics (as of March 17, 2025) demonstrate its success:","261,997,200 total transactions processed","6,640,971 unique addresses supported since launch","Daily active wallets peaked at over 200,000 in November 2024","Transaction volume reached approximately 2 million per day at peak periods","1.5 million users have engaged with games on the platform to become eligible for rewards","The platform has launched specialized GameChains like Parallel’s PRIME, which hosts titles such as Sanctuary, a third-person shooter. B3 has also established strategic collaborations with studios like InfiniGods to expand the blockchain gaming ecosystem. The platform's economic model redistributes 30% of onchain revenue to developers who share users, ensuring mutual growth and alignment of incentives.","As NPC Labs (core contributor to B3), Daryl states, “Caldera delivers the speed, reliability, and scalability that B3 Open Gaming needs to onboard millions of players and developers. Their infrastructure is the key to making open gaming a reality.”","Caldera provides a rollup platform with one click deployment, supporting over 100 production rollups and processing over 400 million cumulative transactions. Its customizable L3 infrastructure offers high throughput, low costs, and interoperability solutions like the Metalayer. Integration with Base provides Ethereum security, Optimism’s OP stack infrastructure, and Coinbase’s onramp, easing web2 to web3 transitions.","Caldera supports B3 by reducing development effort, allowing creators to concentrate on game design, as outlined in the Whitepaper. With Caldera’s rollup engine, B3 launched easily and scaled quickly, driving transaction volume from near zero to over 260 million in seven months, with daily active wallets reaching 200,000. This growth highlights Caldera’s scalability impact. In the future, gaming platforms might choose ephemeral rollups for short-lived events like tournaments, all enabled by Caldera’s flexible infrastructure.","The global gaming market was valued at $240 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach $583 billion by 2030. Roblox alone generated $2.2 billion in revenue from digital asset sales in 2022. With a 13% annual growth rate across industries, the gaming industry is ready to embrace the onchain shift. Caldera is ready to absorb this inflow, offering significantly lower costs to deploy a rollup compared to launching a standalone L1.","Additionally, Caldera’s Metalayer protocol will allow users to withdraw funds from B3 instantly, bypassing the typical seven-day bridging delay required for Optimistic rollups. Lastly, the Metalayer will enable interoperability between B3 gamechains like PRIME and InfiniGods so players easily move funds between the two ecosystems as if they were changing game cartridges.","General-purpose L2s like Base attract a wide audience but fall short for gaming needs. They aren’t optimized for real-time mechanics or smooth user experiences. Base’s popularity creates challenges:","Blockspace competition cuts app earnings and leads to unpredictable gas costs.","Rising demand drives up transaction fees for gaming.","Bridging issues, such as seven-day delays and wrapped tokens, make the user experience more difficult.","Appchains address these problems effectively. They allow B3 to control blockspace and fees, redirect MEV, and focus on gaming priorities. Custom L3s support a wide range of gameplay, from MMOs to casual titles, by using Caldera’s horizontal scaling to avoid L2 congestion. B3 creates a shared open gaming ecosystem, reducing fragmentation as outlined in its Whitepaper, with support from the Metalayer vision. The PRIME launch overcame L2 limits, setting a standard for gaming projects. Since August 2024, B3 has reached a peak of 30 transactions per second and kept a near-100% success rate, proving the scalability and reliability of appchains.","Crypto gaming shifts the industry from studios selling endless in-game items to player-led economies where studios gain royalties from active marketplaces. Built on open infrastructure, this approach welcomes diverse developers, ensures clear asset tracking, and reduces dependence on corporate intermediaries and their high fees. B3’s open gaming method aligns with Caldera’s goal of opening opportunities through shared incentives like the referral system and $B3 token pool, while Sprinter simplifies access. As a discovery platform, B3 welcomes games from any chain, building strong communities with cross-chain connections. With 1.5 million unique users joining to earn rewards through gameplay, B3 draws web2 gamers, creating dedicated supporters whose interests match the game’s success, much like Ethereum’s community.","Picture a gaming rollup flourishing with top performance, smooth experiences, and communities growing through shared incentives. Caldera’s Rollup Platform makes this real, offering solutions designed for gaming that ensure low latency for real-time play and micro-transactions to keep players involved. Caldera supports short-lived events like tournaments, providing flexible infrastructure for future needs. The Metalayer connects B3 ecosystems like PRIME and InfiniGods to a wider network, enabling seamless player experiences across chains. With transaction costs as low as a fraction of a cent, creators can focus on designing immersive worlds that captivate global audiences.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, handling 400 million transactions to date, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, adaptable appchains. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use Caldera’s trusted Rollup Platform to enjoy unified connections across all leading frameworks.","Caldera’s rollup platform, boosting B3 with scalability, cost savings, and interoperability, builds a thriving future for players and developers. We invite gaming creators to deploy on Caldera, building on B3’s success. Visit Caldera’s deployment page and explore the Metalayer preview to start creating today.","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/b3-on-caldera-powering-a-new-golden-era-of-gaming-with-custom-rollups"},"/blog/clearpool-builds-ozean-on-caldera-the-dedicated-home-for-rwa-yield-on-the-optimism-superchain":{"version":1,"title":"Case Study - Clearpool's Ozean - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Ozean: Developing the Primary RWA Yield Ecosystem","Why Ozean Needed an Appchain","Caldera’s Role: The Engine Powering Ozean","Ozean and Caldera: Powering the Future of RWA Yield","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Case Study - Clearpool's Ozean","Published on","Apr 15, 2025","Imagine Real World Assets (RWA) like private credit, real estate, and treasuries joining DeFi with ease, freeing trillions in value locked within TradFi’s slow, illiquid, and siloed systems. Traditional finance holds vast wealth, yet its inefficiencies and restricted access stifle opportunity. RWA tokenization offers a way forward by turning physical and financial assets into digital tokens onchain, promising more transparent processes, openness, and wider reach. Experts estimate tokenized assets could grow to $50 billion by the end of 2025, with a potential $16 trillion market by 2030. Still, onboarding RWAs into DeFi today faces obstacles, including yield sharing, user onboarding, regulatory hurdles, and asset fluidity.","Clearpool, a key player in institutional DeFi credit, spotted these issues and created Ozean, a Layer 2 blockchain built on the OP Stack within the Optimism Superchain. Ozean serves as the \"Home for RWA Yield,\" directly addressing the barriers to RWA adoption. With Caldera’s Rollup Engine as its foundation, Ozean goes beyond a single chain to form a full ecosystem, linking TradFi and DeFi. This case study shows how Clearpool used Caldera’s adaptable tools to launch Ozean, setting the stage for RWAs to thrive onchain.","Clearpool, already a leader in the institutional DeFi credit space, identified the limitations preventing RWAs from reaching their full potential onchain. While the promise of bringing assets like private credit, real estate, and treasuries into DeFi is considerable, users and institutions still face significant hurdles. End users often miss out on the underlying yield generated by RWAs backing stablecoins or other tokens.","Complex onboarding, wallet management, and navigating disparate protocols deter mainstream and institutional adoption. Integrating necessary KYC/AML checks without compromising DeFi's permissionless nature or creating isolated systems remains difficult. Additionally, RWA specific issues like illiquidity, long lock up periods, restricted access primarily for accredited investors, concentration risk in single asset products, and opaque risk assessment affect existing RWA DeFi solutions.","Ozean was developed as the direct answer to these problems - a dedicated L2 designed from the ground up as the \"Home for RWAs,\" bridging the gap between traditional finance and DeFi. Its architecture and growing ecosystem provide the essential infrastructure for bringing the TradFi world fully onchain. Ozean introduces several main features to achieve this vision.","At its core, Ozean features USDX, its native stablecoin issued by the licensed custodian Hex Trust and fully backed 1:1 by reserves like short term T Bills held at Tier 1 institutions. Users can lock USDX to receive ozUSD, a yield bearing stablecoin that automatically rebases in their wallet, directly distributing the underlying risk free rate yield to holders. This mechanism bypasses the complexity of external yield farming protocols, offering a simple, transparent way to earn native yield. Ozean also addresses UX friction through its native wallet infrastructure featuring account abstraction. This allows for a \"Web2 like\" experience, masking blockchain complexities and streamlining user interactions for easier adoption.","Recognizing the needs of institutions, Ozean incorporates an optional unified compliance layer. This allows protocols built on Ozean to set their own KYC/AML requirements, represented via decentralized IDs, while enabling permissioned and permissionless activities to coexist and interoperate on the same chain. This feature is important for institutional comfort and broad participation.","Beyond foundational chain features, Ozean is building a developing ecosystem, Ozean Port, the first RWA Exchange Traded Pool. This onchain vault infrastructure functions like an ETF, pooling diverse RWAs such as private credit and securities backed tokens via partner Dinari, with liquid yield bearing assets like T bills and SyrupUSDC via partner Maple Finance. Port directly addresses RWA illiquidity, offers permissionless access to previously restricted assets, improves diversification, and provides transparent risk assessment through partners like Synnax and Credora Network. Governance of Port rests with $CPOOL token holders, ensuring community alignment. Supporting this is the Oxygen (O2) Liquidity Layer, a native function providing a unified basket of assets for swaps, lending, and collateral, improving on chain liquidity and composability.","Ozean's ecosystem growth is further supported by its WaveMaker accelerator program and strategic collaborations. Partnerships with First Digital (providing access to FDUSD stablecoin and custody), Tiamonds (bringing tokenized diamonds), and Maple Finance (integrating institutional yield via SyrupUSDC into Port) show significant momentum in attracting diverse assets and institutional players. Clearpool's native token, $CPOOL, governs the Ozean chain and the Clearpool protocol, with stakers set to benefit from network activity and yield mechanisms, connecting the community with the ecosystem's success.","With its Poseidon Testnet live, Ozean is rapidly progressing towards its mainnet launch, built upon the solid foundation and institutional trust established by Clearpool.","While general purpose Layer 1s and Layer 2s offer broad functionality, they often lack the specialization needed for applications like Ozean. Building Ozean required deep customization that wouldn't be feasible or efficient on a shared, general purpose network. Implementing unique, chain native mechanisms like the ozUSD auto rebasing yield system or the specific opt-in compliance layer demands control over the core protocol. Supporting complex, governance driven DeFi applications like Port, with its specific asset pooling and risk management logic, also benefits greatly from a dedicated environment.","Choosing the appchain model through Caldera provided Clearpool with several advantages. It allowed for the deep customization essential for Ozean's unique features and RWA focus. It created an optimized environment tailored to the individual characteristics of financial assets and instruments. This dedicated network enables superior UX control through tightly integrated native wallets and account abstraction features. Ozean gained sovereignty over its ruleset and economics, including directing potential future network revenue to $CPOOL stakers. This model also fostered a focused ecosystem, making it easier to build integrated programs like WaveMaker and attract specific RWA partners like Tiamonds, Maple Finance, and First Digital.","Launching a customized, high performance Layer 2 like Ozean requires specialized infrastructure and operational expertise. Clearpool selected Caldera's platform, applying our flexible Rollup Engine to provide the technology and support needed to realize Ozean's specific design. Caldera focuses on simplifying the deployment and management of dedicated rollups.","A primary benefit Caldera offers is the ease of deploying fully customizable rollups in one click, while applications have full control over all the chain’s parameters. This flexibility extends across major frameworks, allowing teams like Clearpool to build on their preferred stack, such as Optimism's OP Stack for Ozean, or alternatively choose Arbitrum Nitro or ZKsync Era ecosystems. Beyond deployment, Caldera ensures high reliability and provides dedicated white glove support for any infrastructure needs, reducing operational burden and allowing the Clearpool team to concentrate on core product development and ecosystem growth. Jakob Kronbichler, CEO & Co-founder of Clearpool, shared, “Caldera provides the flexibility, speed, and steady foundation Ozean needs to bring RWAs onchain at scale. Their tools and team support have been vital to shaping a home for real-world yield.”","Lastly, Ozean will benefit significantly from Caldera's Metalayer, an interoperability network connecting all rollups deployed via Caldera. This provides seamless, two-way interoperability not just within the Optimism Superchain, but also with Caldera chains built on Arbitrum or ZKsync stacks. For Ozean, this means its RWA ecosystem and the liquidity within products like Port can easily connect to a wider range of DeFi applications and users across different frameworks.","Caldera’s Metalayer allows other current and future chains deployed on Caldera to quickly access the deep RWA liquidity and unique assets offered by Ozean, creating a network effect that benefits the entire Caldera ecosystem.","As RWA tokenization accelerates, Ozean stands poised to bridge TradFi and DeFi, not just by onboarding assets but by redefining how yield and liquidity flow across both worlds. With Caldera’s robust infrastructure and Metalayer connectivity, Clearpool isn’t building an isolated chain, it’s laying the groundwork for a unified RWA economy where institutions, retail users, and developers converge. The success of Port and partnerships with pioneers like Maple Finance and Dinari signals a shift: RWAs are no longer a niche experiment but a cornerstone of DeFi’s next wave. For teams ready to shape this future, Caldera’s Rollup Engine & Metalayer offer the tools to join Ozean in unlocking trillions in value today.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup Engine to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks via the Metalayer.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/clearpool-builds-ozean-on-caldera-the-dedicated-home-for-rwa-yield-on-the-optimism-superchain"},"/blog/beyond-the-l1-how-xpla-is-scaling-gaming-content-with-zkxpla-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Beyond the L1 - How XPLA is Scaling Gaming & Content with zkXPLA on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Inescapable Economics of Blockchains","XPLA: The Universal Content Powerhouse","Escaping The L1 Tax","Beyond Walled Gardens","Aligning with Ethereum’s Ecosystem","The Future is a Constellation of Rollups","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","Beyond the L1 - How XPLA is Scaling Gaming & Content with zkXPLA on Caldera","Published on","Apr 30, 2025","Imagine trying to bootstrap sustained network effects on a Layer 1 (L1) blockchain. You have an initial token allocation for incentives, but funding long-term growth and R&D becomes a constant struggle when the protocol itself generates limited recurring revenue for the core foundation. This isn't a hypothetical, it's the harsh economic reality driving a significant trend: established L1s, some previously vocal critics of Ethereum's limitations and its rollup-centric roadmap, are now strategically embracing that very vision by deploying rollup solutions on Ethereum. Why the change of heart? As the crypto market matures and is forced to compete on sustainable economic models, the gravity is pulling the industry towards efficiency.","Ethereum, as the first major smart contract platform to reach widespread adoption, confronted scaling years ago. Out of necessity, it embarked on a path focused on preserving decentralization and security, deliberately avoiding simpler fixes like infinite block sizes. This foresight led to the rollup-centric roadmap, a strategy designed not only for scaling but also for flexibility, allowing each rollup to customize its environment for specific user needs (like gasless gaming transactions or KYC-enabled finance for institutions).","Meanwhile, some alternative L1s prioritized raw speed or novel consensus mechanisms over proven security. This approach led to challenges: some faced catastrophic security events like the Terra collapse (driven partly by flawed economic incentives), while others struggled to generate sustainable economic activity, resulting in lower token demand and weakened economic security. Now, the trend is reversing, with projects strategically choosing to leverage Ethereum's robust economic security, and its carefully considered scaling approach via rollups.","This strategic shift is exemplified by projects like XPLA. Originally a successful Tendermint/Cosmos-based L1 focused on gaming and digital content, XPLA recognized the compelling advantages of the rollup model. Partnering with Caldera, they are launching zkXPLA, a high-performance rollup built using zkSync's ZK Stack, expanding their ecosystem capabilities, while continuing to support their vibrant L1.","Whether an L1 project is considering a full migration or a strategic expansion, deploying a rollup on Ethereum with Caldera offers a powerful trifecta of benefits:","Economic Efficiency: Dramatically optimizing operational costs and unlocking sustainable revenue models for reinvestment.","Network Growth: Overcoming isolation through interoperability and enabling specialized chain configurations.","Ecosystem Alignment: Tapping into Ethereum's unparalleled network effects, community, and market reach.","Caldera, as the leading rollup deployment platform, is ready to facilitate the growing number of transitions. Our platform powers over 100 rollups, which have collectively processed over 410 million transactions and served nearly 12 million unique wallets (as of April 2025). This proven infrastructure, including The Rollup Engine and The Metalayer, is designed to amplify the benefits for projects making the strategic shift from standalone L1s.","XPLA stands out as a prime example of an established L1 embracing the rollup future. Built on Tendermint and leveraging the Cosmos SDK for interoperability within its native ecosystem, XPLA carved out a niche as a hub for digital media content, particularly focused on gaming. Guided by \"Play to Own\" principles, XPLA aimed to build a sustainable blockchain gaming ecosystem, attracting notable titles like The Walking Dead: All-Stars, Summoners War: Chronicles, and Ace Fishing: Crew. Their L1 provided game-specific SDKs and EVM compatibility to help developers bridge Web2 games into the Web3 space.","Recognizing the need for enhanced scalability, cost-efficiency, and deeper integration with the broader Ethereum landscape, XPLA made the strategic decision to expand its offerings by launching zkXPLA. This initiative involves deploying a high-performance, sovereign rollup using zkSync's cutting-edge ZK Stack technology, facilitated by Caldera's Rollup Engine. This move allows XPLA to offer developers application-specific rollups with L1-grade security inherited from Ethereum, while maintaining interoperability through shared bridging infrastructure like The Metalayer.","This expansion highlights XPLA's commitment to providing a \"universal content powerhouse.\" By adding a ZK-rollup capability alongside their existing Tendermint chain, they can offer diverse environments tailored to different needs within their ecosystem. Their established L1 presence is further bolstered by strong industry partnerships; notably, global gaming giant Ubisoft serves as a validator for the XPLA L1 network. This collaboration not only enhances network security but also signals strong confidence in XPLA's vision for the future of Web3 gaming and content, blending the stability of their L1 with the scaling potential of Ethereum rollups.","Switching to a rollup fundamentally reworks an L1’s balance sheet. Running an L1 involves significant responsibilities, analogous to managing a mainframe in the early internet era. It requires overseeing consensus, nurturing a validator set, and funding token incentives—a resource-intensive undertaking with security costs potentially running into the tens of millions each year (Celo reportedly spent 4-6% of annual token emissions, approximately $15M-$25M USD). These costs represent significant operational overhead, often referred to as the \"L1 tax.\"","Another important economic challenge facing standalone L1s is capturing enough value to fund ecosystem growth. In typical Proof-of-Stake L1s, both network transaction fees and newly minted tokens (inflationary rewards) flow directly to stakers and validators as compensation for securing the network. This unfortunately leaves limited revenue for the protocol’s foundation to pay the team’s salaries, fund new R&D, ecosystem grants, or other long-term growth initiatives from protocol operations alone. L1s are valuable platforms with multi-billion dollar valuations, yet the economic incentives can hinder sustainable funding for long-term evolution.","In contrast, adopting a rollup strategy introduces significantly more economic flexibility, akin to shifting from a dedicated mainframe to efficient hosted servers. Rollups inherit Ethereum's robust security at a significantly lower marginal cost, primarily consisting of state commitment and data availability fees (optimizable via compression or alternative DA layers). This transition unlocks significant economic efficiency. Projects can optimize infrastructure overhead and operational complexity by leveraging Ethereum's security for their rollup, effectively shedding the \"L1 tax\" associated with maintaining independent consensus.","This enhanced efficiency allows projects to:","Capture and Reinvest Revenue: Rollups can often retain revenue from sequencer fees and MEV. This revenue can be directly reinvested into innovation, developer grants, and user incentives, fostering a sustainable growth cycle (mirroring models like Optimism's Retroactive Public Goods Funding).","Optimize Focus & Resources: Free up capital and engineering talent previously focused on L1 consensus, security, and full-stack infrastructure management. This allows teams to concentrate resources on core product development, application-layer innovation, and driving ecosystem adoption, rather than managing complex infrastructure.","Reduce Reliance on Inflation: The combination of lower operational costs (shedding the \"L1 tax\") and potential direct revenue capture (sequencer fees, MEV) means projects may need to rely less on high token inflation to incentivize network participation and bootstrap growth compared to the traditional L1 model. This leads to more sustainable tokenomics.","Caldera’s Rollup Engine facilitates this efficient deployment, while The Metalayer directly addresses the network growth challenges posed by interoperability hurdles, connecting rollups seamlessly.","Historically, both standalone L1s and early rollups have suffered from ecosystem isolation. Just as new rollups struggled to bootstrap network effects without seamless connectivity, many L1s operate as digital islands, finding it difficult to attract and retain liquidity, users, and developers from other ecosystems. This \"fractured state\" of blockchain interoperability stems from slow, cumbersome, or insecure bridging solutions, incompatible wrapped token standards that fragment liquidity, and complex user experiences requiring multiple hops across platforms. This isolation hinders growth and prevents the realization of a truly interconnected blockchain network.","Deploying a rollup on Ethereum through Caldera offers a multi-layered solution to this challenge. Firstly, by building on a specific framework like Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, or ZK Stack, a Caldera-deployed rollup instantly becomes part of that framework's native ecosystem (e.g., Arbitrum Orbit, Optimism Superchain, or zkSync's Elastic). This provides baseline interoperability and access to users and assets within that specific \"walled garden.\"","However, Caldera goes a step further with The Metalayer. Automatically integrated with every Caldera chain from day zero, The Metalayer acts as a universal interoperability network on top of the framework-specific solutions. It bridges the gaps between these walled gardens, connecting rollups across different stacks (e.g., enabling seamless interaction between an OP Stack rollup and a ZK Stack rollup). The Metalayer achieves this through:","Intent-based bridging: Using partnerships (Across, Eco, Relay) to find optimal paths for user requests.","Fast message passing: Utilizing protocols like Hyperlane for settlement, enabling near-instant communication.","Multi-chain reads: Allowing cross-chain dApps to query state across the network.","A unified developer toolkit: Simplifying interop for builders.","This combined approach, leveraging both native stack interoperability and Caldera's Metalayer, provides the most comprehensive solution to the cold start problem. As more chains join, liquidity deepens across the entire network, asset movement becomes frictionless, and developers can build applications that tap into a much broader ecosystem. Caldera also manages bridging upgrades and integrates new technologies, ensuring projects remain at the forefront of connectivity without technical overhead.","Beyond interoperability, rollups unlock specialization. General-purpose L1s must cater to broad needs. Rollups, however, can be purpose-built for a single application in mind using Caldera's Rollup Engine for deep customization. Consider these examples:","Gaming Chains (like B3): Can be configured to be gasless, or with custom gas tokens (like $XPLA on zkXPLA) for frictionless onboarding and high throughput.","RWA Chains (like Clearpool’s Ozean): Can implement unique chain-native mechanisms, such as their ozUSD stablecoin’s auto-rebasing yield.","DeFi Chains (like Kinto): Can integrate chain-level KYC or features optimized for trading.","This layered design allows projects to benefit from Ethereum’s security for the rollup while tailoring the environment. For XPLA, this meant choosing zkSync's ZK Stack for its performance and sovereignty features, suitable for gaming and content. The Rollup Engine enables these specialized rollups, while The Metalayer prevents siloing, fostering a dynamic network.","Choosing to deploy a rollup on Ethereum also implies a strategic alignment with the industry's largest ecosystem. Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap is materializing: rollups handle 13x mainnet transaction volume, secure $35B+ in TVL, and tap into Ethereum's $100B+ DeFi economy.","This alignment provides more than just technical and liquidity advantages:","Vast Community: Access to Ethereum's massive and mature developer, user, and researcher base.","Marketing Reach: Amplified visibility, credibility, and media attention within the Ethereum ecosystem.","Talent & Partnerships: Easier access to skilled builders and strategic collaborations.","Regulatory Familiarity: Leveraging Ethereum's established presence with institutions and policymakers.","Caldera facilitates this alignment by enabling deployment across major ecosystems settling on Ethereum (Arbitrum One, Base, OP Mainnet, ZKsync Era). By launching zkXPLA through Caldera, XPLA strategically positioned their rollup expansion within this thriving ecosystem, bootstrapping network effects and marketing reach, complementing their strong, established foundation on Cosmos.","The strategic shift towards Ethereum rollups offers L1 projects a clear path forward, driven by compelling economics, enhanced connectivity, and alignment with the industry's largest ecosystem. As exemplified by XPLA's successful launch of zkXPLA, Caldera provides the essential infrastructure to navigate this evolution.","Our experience deploying over 100 rollups for diverse applications including NFTs (Rari), AI (BluWhale’s Oceanum), and DePIN (Huddle01) demonstrates our capability to support projects seeking efficiency and growth. With the Rollup Engine for customizable deployment and The Metalayer for seamless interoperability, Caldera is committed to enabling a future of 10,000 interconnected, specialized rollups scaling Ethereum for the next billion users.","Whether your L1 project is planning a full migration or a strategic expansion, Caldera offers the tools and expertise to launch a high-performance rollup tailored to your individual blockchain’s needs. Visit our deployment page today to explore the benefits and join us in building the future of the decentralized internet.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/beyond-the-l1-how-xpla-is-scaling-gaming-content-with-zkxpla-on-caldera"},"/blog/space-and-time-integrates-with-microsoft-fabric":{"version":1,"title":"Space and Time Integrates with Microsoft Fabric - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Why Enterprises Need Trusted Blockchain Data","Making Blockchain Data Simple and Trustworthy","How Space and Time Works with Microsoft Fabric","What This Means for Real World Businesses","Trusted Data for a Connected World","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Space and Time Integrates with Microsoft Fabric","Published on","Jun 23, 2025","Large corporate enterprises are increasingly considering blockchain tech for its promise of transparency, immutability, and novel datasets. However, these businesses face a challenge in accessing, integrating, and, most importantly, trusting this on-chain data for mission-critical analytics and applications. The solution might lie in a new collaboration, announced at Microsoft Build on May 20, 2025, that sees Space and Time's verifiable compute layer integrated with Microsoft Fabric. This strategic integration embeds Space and Time’s ZK-proven blockchain data, initially from Bitcoin, Sui, and Ethereum, directly within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, meaning enterprises and developers can build next-generation data-driven applications and derive trusted insights from on-chain activity with unprecedented ease and cryptographic assurance.","Corporations are increasingly excited about blockchain technology because it offers transparent, immutable data that can help businesses discover unique insights from the ever growing on-chain economy. However, accessing the data and ensuring its trustworthiness is tough: blockchain networks are often siloed, and the datasets are vast, making both access to the data and processing the data quite challenging. The biggest issue for businesses remains in trusting that the data has not been tampered with, especially when it’s being used to create critical financial models or compliance reports.","Integrating blockchain data to existing, reputable databases like Microsoft Fabric that are used by large corporations to run advanced analytics is no small feat. Developers and data scientists need a simple, trustworthy way to use the data without worrying about its accuracy so businesses don’t risk making bad decisions, training flawed AI models, or failing to meet regulations.","Source: X/Twitter","Space and Time is more than just a data provider, they’re introducing a new solution for how large enterprises can access blockchain data. The network is engineered to address the core issues of trust, complexity, and scale, offering a comprehensive platform for both enterprises and developers.","At its core, Space and Time’s network provides a powerful data warehouse that handles two jobs at once: fast, real-time queries and heavy-duty analytics to crunch huge datasets. The network is designed to manage massive amounts of data (think tens of terabytes) by thousands of users simultaneously, all while running smoothly, thanks to advanced tech like Kubernetes.","Space and Time also automatically indexes blockchain data from Bitcoin, Sui, and Ethereum, with plans to expand to additional networks over time. This means businesses get instant access to historical blockchain data, or specific insights like smart contract activity, all integrated into Microsoft’s ubiquitous corporate software offerings. Developers can even select a smart contract, and Space and Time will create custom data tables for it, perfect for building tailored apps.","The real magic is found in Space and Time’s Proof of SQL™ technology, a tool that uses zero-knowledge proofs to ensure that query results are accurate and untampered with. Unlike some privacy-focused tools, Space and Time’s offering is about publicly verifying the data, not hiding it. This lets businesses trust the results without relying on Space and Time themselves. Everything runs on the SxT Chain, their own blockchain designed specifically for verified data. Additionally, Space and Time has deployed a zkSync rollup using Caldera's Rollup Engine to support network settlement for SXT Chain. Together, these tools by Space and Time make it easy for enterprises to access, process, and trust blockchain data, whether it’s paired with other datasets or used on its own.","Microsoft Fabric is a one-stop shop for analytics, combining data storage, engineering, real-time insights, and business intelligence. Now, with Space and Time’s integration, Fabric users can tap into verified blockchain data from Bitcoin, Sui, and Ethereum networks without changing their usual workflows and having to access an external application.","This setup makes life easier for developers and data professionals at large enterprises. They can pull in trustworthy blockchain data and use Fabric’s tools to analyze it, building smarter apps or digging into on-chain trends. As Space and Time put it, this “streamlines blockchain data access” so enterprises can “leverage insights around on-chain activity” right in their apps.","This integration builds on a strong history between the two brands, in fact Microsoft’s M12 fund backed Space and Time in 2022 and joined their $20 million Series A in 2024. Nate Holiday, Space and Time’s co-founder, said, “We’re excited to team up with Microsoft to bring verifiable blockchain data to businesses and developers on Fabric. This opens up new possibilities for finance, Web3 apps, and AI.” A quick guide on how to access the data in Microsoft Fabric was recently published on X/Twitter.","Source: X / Twitter","This integration changes the game for how companies use blockchain data. It’s not just a small upgrade, it lets businesses move past experiments and build real, scalable apps backed by data they can trust. Here’s how it’s making a difference:","Finance: Banks and financial firms can create reliable models, compliance tools, and risk dashboards using verified transaction data from Bitcoin, Ethereum, or DeFi platforms on Sui. This means transparent, auditable analytics they can count on.","Web3 Apps: Developers building decentralized apps can use Fabric to analyze verified user activity, token trends, or market data, making their apps more functional and trustworthy.","AI and Machine Learning: Companies can train AI models in Azure AI (part of Fabric) with high-quality, verified blockchain and related data, leading to smarter, more reliable predictions.","Cross-Chain Insights: Businesses can compare user behavior, asset flows, or app performance across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Sui, all in one place, thanks to Space and Time’s consistent data.","The payoff? Trusted data lowers risks, faster workflows speed up development, and new tools spark innovation, all through familiar Microsoft platforms.","The integration of Space and Time in Microsoft Fabric marks a major leap toward making blockchain data a trusted part of enterprise analytics. With Caldera’s Rollup Engine powering the ZK chain that works alongside SxT Chain, Space and Time is able to deliver scalable, secure, and verifiable data that enterprises can comfortably rely on. Tools like Proof of SQL™ ensure trust, letting businesses confidently use blockchain data for automated decisions and smart systems.","Caldera’s expertise in deploying high-performance rollups is key to the integration, enabling fast, cost-effective data processing that unlocks new possibilities for enterprises. This is a glimpse into a future where secure data, verified computations, and scalable blockchain solutions drive innovation together.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/space-and-time-integrates-with-microsoft-fabric"},"/blog/intent-based-bridging-the-metalayer-s-solver-driven-architecture":{"version":1,"title":"Intent-Based Bridging & The Metalayer's Solver-Driven Architecture - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["The Metalayer Architecture: The Intent Orchestration Engine","Configurable Security: The Metalayer's Approach to Trust","Use Cases in Action: What The Metalayer Unlocks Today","The Caldera Advantage: Native Interoperability for Rollups","The Future: Intents as the Engine for the \"Internet of Chains\"","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["1. The Execution Layer (The \"Brain\")","2. The Solver Ecosystem (The \"Muscle\")","3. The Settlement Layer (The \"Backbone\")","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Intent-Based Bridging & The Metalayer's Solver-Driven Architecture","Published on","Jun 10, 2025","The promise of a modular, multi-rollup future on Ethereum is here, but its potential has been constrained by a heavily fractured user and developer experience. Traditional bridging solutions present a complex web of unreliable transfer speeds, security models, and confusing wrapped assets. For developers, this translates into significant engineering overhead, forcing them to integrate multiple point solutions and build bespoke infrastructure rather than focusing on their core applications. The result is a landscape of siloed ecosystems that undermines the vision of a seamlessly interconnected network of blockchains.","This challenge requires a fundamental change in how we approach interoperability. The solution lies in shifting from an imperative model, where users and dApps must specify every step of a cross-chain transaction, to a declarative model powered by intents. An intent is a cryptographically signed message where a user simply declares their desired outcome (e.g., \"I want 100 USDC on Arbitrum, and I will provide 0.05 ETH on Base to cover it\"), leaving the complex execution path to a network of specialized solvers.","With the launch of The Metalayer Mainnet Preview, Caldera is introducing a robust, shared interoperability solution engineered to orchestrate intent-based cross-chain interactions for the entire rollup ecosystem. The Metalayer's sophisticated solver ecosystem and secure messaging layer are leveraged to deliver reliable, efficient, and secure cross-rollup interoperability.","Drawing from Caldera’s unique vantage point of powering over 25% of all Ethereum rollups, The Metalayer is not just another interoperability protocol. It's a comprehensive, vertically integrated framework designed to abstract away complexity at every level. It achieves this by intelligently orchestrating best-in-class, off-the-shelf solutions from partners like Across, Relay, and Eco for execution, while leveraging a sovereign deployment of Hyperlane’s battle-tested technology for secure settlement messaging.","The architecture is composed of three core components:","The Execution Layer is The Metalayer's brain. When a user or dApp expresses an intent via The Metalayer SDK or the white-label bridge UI, the Intent Routing Network gets to work.","Quote Aggregation & Optimal Path Selection: For each intent, The Metalayer queries all integrated solver networks (like Across, Relay, and Eco) in real-time to receive quotes for fulfilling the user's request. It then aggregates these quotes and presents all available routes to the user, with a suggested default. In the Mainnet Preview, the default route is optimized for speed. In the future, this will evolve to a \"best\" route, representing an optimal balance of speed and cost efficiency. Users always retain the ability to select any of the available routes presented.","Ready-to-Sign Transactions: A key feature of The Metalayer's Developer Toolkit is that once a quote is accepted, our SDK provides the developer with the full, formatted calldata (the low-level instructions for the transaction) required to initiate the intent on-chain. This abstracts away all underlying partner-specific protocol complexities; the dApp developer only needs to pass this data directly to the user's wallet for a signature. All subsequent status polling is handled internally by the SDK, providing real-time updates to the dApp's frontend without additional developer effort.","The Metalayer collaborates with and directs intents to a variety of fulfillment networks, including both leading external partners and Metalayer-specific solvers.","Defining Solvers/Fillers: These are specialized entities participating in partner networks (Across, Relay, Eco) or the Metalayer's own network that monitor for intents and compete to fulfill them.","Mechanism of Fulfillment: Typically, a solver will \"fast-fill\" an intent by using their own capital on the destination chain to instantly deliver the desired assets to the user. The user receives their funds in seconds, while the solver temporarily takes on the risk associated with the cross-chain settlement lag. This solver-driven model enables high-speed transfers. While any intent system relies on a healthy, decentralized network of solvers to prevent centralization risks, The Metalayer is designed to aggregate multiple, distinct solver networks, enhancing resilience.","After a solver fulfills an intent, a secure mechanism is needed to ensure they are correctly reimbursed from the user's escrowed funds on the origin chain. To orchestrate this complex process, The Metalayer's Settlement Layer is built on top of a sovereign deployment of Hyperlane’s battle-tested messaging technology. This provides a secure and reliable cross-chain messaging backbone, operated with our own independent network of validators and relayers, tailored specifically for The Metalayer ecosystem. For developers, this means it is critical to interact exclusively with The Metalayer's router contract and addresses to ensure messages are correctly routed and settled within our network, rather than referencing any public Hyperlane contracts that may also exist on-chain.","The Flow: When a solver fulfills an intent on the destination chain, The Metalayer's Inbox contract logs this action. The MetaProver component (service for verifying fulfillment) on the destination chain then constructs a \"proof of fulfillment\" message and dispatches it via the network's on-chain Mailbox.","Secure Delivery: A Hyperlane Relayer transports this message to the source chain, where it is securely processed by the source chain's Hyperlane Mailbox.","Standardized Proof, Diverse Settlement: This Hyperlane message acts as a standardized \"proof of Metalayer-facilitated fulfillment.\" The IntentSource contract (the on-chain registry for user intents) on the source chain receives this verified proof and marks the intent as completed. This action then enables the original solver to claim their reimbursement from the user's funds held in the Vault, reconciling the transaction. This orchestration works seamlessly whether the fulfillment was by Across (which uses UMA for its internal settlement), Relay (which uses direct rebalancing), or Eco (which utilizes The Metalayer's MetaProver as a valid prover within its system), because The Metalayer standardizes the proof of fulfillment messaging layer.","Security is the foundational principle of The Metalayer. The architecture has completed rigorous security audits by Halborn, and it's designed to be robust and reliable.","A key aspect of The Metalayer's security model is configurable finality, which leverages Hyperlane's Interchain Security Modules (ISMs) (customizable on-chain rulebooks for verifying messages) under the hood. Instead of requiring developers to understand and implement arbitrary ISMs, a complex task, The Metalayer abstracts this into a simple, powerful choice between pre-configured security levels for messages:","Fast Finality (Default): This option considers a message settled as soon as the source transaction is included in a block (effectively first confirmation on most rollups). This offers the lowest latency and is ideal for the vast majority of applications.","Finalized: This option waits for the source transaction's block to be fully finalized on its L2, protecting against reorgs. This provides higher security guarantees for high-value transfers or security-critical applications at the cost of increased latency.","This approach gives developers a direct and meaningful choice, allowing them to explicitly manage the trade-off between latency and security guarantees. As an orchestration layer, The Metalayer's overall resilience is also a function of the underlying solver and messaging networks. We actively monitor the health of our integrated partners and design the routing logic to favor reliability, while the sovereign messaging layer prevents single points of failure.","As the underlying infrastructure evolves (e.g., to include ZK proofs or restaking-based security), Caldera can upgrade these security modules, and applications using The Metalayer will automatically benefit without requiring code changes on their end. This is a core tenet of the \"future-proofing\" guarantee.","Instant Bridging: The core use case for fast, efficient asset transfers, powered by our aggregation of leading solver networks.","Composable Actions (Bridge + Call): The Metalayer's Mainnet Preview already supports a limited scope of composable intents. If an underlying solver partner like Relay or Eco supports executing arbitrary calldata (e.g., bridge AND mint NFT), The Metalayer's IntentSource and Inbox contracts are equipped to pass these instructions through. The primary focus at launch is on perfecting these flows through deep, custom integrations. Over time, we will expand these capabilities to allow developers to more generally propose and execute sophisticated multi-step execution plans through The Metalayer's SDK.","Day-Zero Connectivity: Every Caldera-launched rollup comes with The Metalayer automatically deployed, solving the \"cold-start\" problem of liquidity and user access from the moment of launch.","Future-Proofing: Caldera manages the interop stack. As better solvers or messaging technologies emerge, Caldera integrates them into The Metalayer, and all connected rollups benefit without needing to re-integrate or migrate. This protects developers from being locked into a single solution that may become obsolete.","Designed for Rollups: While general-purpose protocols like Hyperlane are designed for maximum extensibility, The Metalayer is opinionated and specifically optimized for the needs of rollup ecosystems, providing secure, out-of-the-box configurations that work from day one.","The launch of The Metalayer Mainnet Preview marks a significant milestone in our journey towards a future of 10,000 seamlessly interconnected rollups. By abstracting complexity and orchestrating a competitive ecosystem of solvers, The Metalayer provides the foundational infrastructure needed to make this \"Internet of Chains\" a tangible reality.","This isn't just Caldera's solution; it's a collaborative effort with our partners and the community to build a more unified, efficient, and powerful blockchain ecosystem for all participants.","We invite you to explore our documentation, experiment with our SDK, and begin building the next generation of truly cross-chain applications.","Integrate The Metalayer: Access our Mainnet Developer Documentation at docs.caldera.xyz.","Launch Your Interconnected Rollup: Learn more about deploying a high-performance rollup on the Caldera platform for instant Metalayer connectivity here.","Get Support: Join our dedicated developer channels on Discord for technical support.","The interconnected future of rollups is being built today. Join us.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup Engine to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks via the Metalayer.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/intent-based-bridging-the-metalayer-s-solver-driven-architecture"},"/blog/the-infofi-flywheel-for-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"The InfoFi Flywheel for Rollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Reframing InfoFi - From Incentives to Information Markets","A Case Study in Quality - The Caldera x Kaito Dashboard","From Attention to Action - Closing the Loop","The Future is an Empowered Information Economy","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The InfoFi Flywheel for Rollups","Published on","Jun 18, 2025","Attention. Distribution. Product. Value.","For any founder in Web3, these four words represent the pillars of a successful protocol. A common observation, popularized by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, is that \"first-time founders are obsessed with product. Second-time founders are obsessed with distribution.\" While a superior product is a necessary foundation, the most experienced builders understand a crucial truth: in this hyper-connected world, attention is a currency, and distribution is king.","At Caldera, we've lived this evolution. Our journey started with an intense focus on building the most robust, scalable, and developer-friendly platform for deploying application-specific rollups. We were fortunate to find a strong product-market fit early, allowing us to build a powerful infrastructure layer that now powers a diverse ecosystem.","But great infrastructure, by its nature, can often be invisible. We realized that to truly empower the next generation of builders on our platform and showcase innovations like The Metalayer, a new focus was required. We needed to master the attention flywheel: the virtuous cycle where a valuable product captures attention, that attention drives distribution and adoption, and this adoption creates exponential value for our partners, our community, and the Caldera ecosystem as a whole.","The term \"InfoFi\" has sometimes been met with skepticism, often viewed as a mechanism for \"paid shilling.\" This perspective, however, misses the fundamental market dynamic at play.","The goal of a well-designed InfoFi ecosystem is not to incentivize noise, but to create a transparent market that surfaces and rewards high-quality information. It provides a flywheel of education and awareness, allowing builders with genuinely valuable products to cut through the noise and reach the limelight. As Kaito founder Yu Hu stated, the relationship between attention and value in legitimate projects is indirect but powerful:","Attention → User Adoption & Investor Education → Stronger Fundamentals → Value","In crypto, this effect is amplified. A protocol’s users are often their largest token holders, meaning a single piece of insightful content can simultaneously drive product adoption and educate potential investors. InfoFi provides the tools to measure and bootstrap this powerful flywheel.","To navigate this new economy with precision, Caldera recently partnered with pioneers like Kaito, a Web3 search and intelligence platform. Rather than relying on abstract theory, we have worked with Kaito to provide a tangible solution for our ecosystem: the official Caldera Yapper Leaderboard, which we have integrated directly into our own Catalyst app site.","This partnership provides a sophisticated toolkit for our ecosystem to identify and cultivate a genuine community, moving far beyond simple engagement metrics. The system is engineered to favor signal over noise.","A key innovation is Kaito's use of AI-analyzed tags. Instead of just counting likes or retweets, the platform analyzes the substance of a user's contributions, categorizing them along several vectors: Casual vs. Hardcore, Shitposter vs. Curator, and Creative vs. Copy Pasta. This allows projects to precisely identify and reward their most valuable community members - the hardcore, creative curators who provide real educational value, not just high volume.","Furthermore, an interactive social graph (see image below) allows projects to visualize their community's structure and see how information flows between key contributors. This transforms community building from guesswork into a data-driven strategy, focused on fostering a truly interconnected and well-informed participant ecosystem.","Capturing attention is only the first step. For the flywheel to turn, that attention must convert into tangible action. This is where InfoFi moves beyond a simple leaderboard and becomes a full-funnel conversion engine.","Kaito's ecosystem is designed to bridge this gap, converting attention into user and capital formation. A recent collaboration with Newton, a digital asset platform, provides a clear example. Kaito's \"Earn\" campaign helped Newton activate nearly 34,000 agents to deploy capital for recurring buys of assets like BTC and ETH.","This is the flywheel in its most powerful form. Attention generated through quality information directly led to significant, measurable on-chain activity and fee generation for an application. It proves that when harnessed correctly, InfoFi is a powerful distribution channel that helps appchains acquire real, engaged users.","The world is only moving in one direction - platforms that command screen time will command distribution, and individuals that command attention will command monetization. Rather than fighting this trend, Web3 gives us the tools to build fairer networks that empower everyone.","Our vision at Caldera is not just to provide world-class infrastructure. It is to foster the vibrant, educated, and engaged communities that will build the future on top of it. By embracing InfoFi and attention, we can help our ecosystem partners get their products into the hands of users, connect with aligned capital, and build lasting value. We are committed to pushing these boundaries, ensuring the most innovative projects have the tools they need to capture the attention they rightfully deserve.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-infofi-flywheel-for-rollups"},"/blog/case-study-solo":{"version":1,"title":"Case Study - Solo - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Reinventing Incentives with Transaction and DePIN Mining","Why SoloChain Needed a Custom Appchain","Caldera’s Role: The Engine for Economic Innovation","Building the Future of Sustainable Onchain Economies","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Case Study - Solo","Published on","Jun 19, 2025","At the heart of SoloChain's design is a powerful alternative to conventional token distribution: Transaction Mining.","The original vision of Web3 is rooted in creating more fair and transparent financial systems. As the industry matures, there is a continuous pursuit for improved token launch and distribution models that promote long-term ecosystem growth and user alignment. While existing methods like airdrops and private sales have served their purpose, the industry is actively seeking new ways to solve the challenges of equitable access and sustainable end-user participation. This leaves builders with a very important question - how can a network bootstrap a healthy economy driven by genuine contribution rather than short-term speculative incentives?","SoloChain, an innovative Layer 2 built on the OP Stack and launched with Caldera’s Rollup Engine, is pioneering an answer. By building a custom rollup focused on a new economic model, SoloChain is creating an ecosystem where rewards are tied directly to user contribution. It serves as a powerful case study in how dedicated appchains can be used to engineer entirely new economic incentive structures, moving beyond the limitations of general-purpose networks.","The concept of Transaction Mining is a throwback to the original ethos of Bitcoin, where work equals reward, but it has been democratized for any user. Instead of requiring powerful hardware, SoloChain rewards participants with its native utility token simply for submitting on-chain transactions. This approach directly incentivizes network activity, ensuring that the platform’s growth is driven by the users who are actively engaging with it.","This model provides the foundation for mining.fun, SoloChain’s platform for equitable project launches. Unlike speculative launchpads that can foster a casino-like environment, mining.fun allows new projects to distribute tokens through transparent mining curves. For projects across the Caldera ecosystem, this presents a compelling alternative for building committed communities from day one. Builders are invited to explore this new launch model, which is currently live and accessible on the SoloChain testnet.","This innovation arrives as the DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) sector transforms from a niche experiment into one of crypto's fastest-growing verticals. As highlighted in Messari’s 2024 State of DePIN report, the sector already commands a market cap of over $50 billion across more than 350 projects, with upwards of $500 million in annualized revenue. SoloChain is built to capitalize on this momentum, providing the specialized infrastructure for this new generation of tokenized real-world assets to thrive.","SoloChain layers its transaction mining with a sophisticated DePIN Mining framework. Users can stake both the native Solo token and tokenized DePIN assets, such as representations of physical GPU or CPU power, to help verify the network and earn boosted rewards. This approach reframes the conversation around Real World Assets (RWAs). While traditional RWAs like real estate or bonds rely on institutional intermediaries, DePIN assets represent a new, more crypto-native class of RWAs - permissionless, programmable, and already integrated into blockchain ecosystems today.","SoloChain’s vision extends to AI Agent Orchestration, where intelligent, autonomous agents will eventually manage and optimize mining activities for users and allocate DePIN resources across the network. This forward-thinking approach aims to reduce complexity and maximize efficiency, creating a self-regulating and adaptive network.","SoloChain’s ambitious model, with its unique economic primitives, could not have been built on a general-purpose L2. A shared network environment comes with inherent constraints that would have compromised its core functionality:","Deep Protocol Customization: Implementing transaction mining as a native, chain-level feature requires deep control over the execution environment. A dedicated appchain allowed the SoloChain team to embed this logic directly into the protocol, something impossible on a network where they do not control the core code.","Economic Sovereignty: A custom rollup gives SoloChain full sovereignty over its economic model. It can fine-tune its fee structure and incentive mechanisms to support the transaction mining system and ensure the long-term sustainability of the network, capturing value to fund future development like its AI orchestration layer.","An Optimized, Uncongested Environment: By operating on its own dedicated chain, SoloChain ensures that its resource-intensive processes, especially the future AI-driven resource allocation, will not have to compete for blockspace with unrelated DeFi or NFT activity. This guarantees the performance and reliability needed for its core functions.","To bring its vision to life, SoloChain required an infrastructure partner that could provide the flexibility of a custom rollup without the immense overhead of building from scratch. Caldera’s platform delivered the ideal solution.","Thortilla, Head of Ecosystem at SoloChain, shared, “One thing I’m sure of is that the future is modular, and we chose Caldera because their infrastructure and tooling are well ahead of the curve for Ethereum rollups. Their modular stack and hands-on support made them the clear choice as we build SoloChain into the home for Transaction and Agentic DePIN mining.\"","Caldera empowered SoloChain in several key ways:","Turnkey Rollup Deployment: Caldera’s Rollup Engine provided a fully managed, production-ready OP Stack rollup. This handled the underlying complexities of running a sequencer, batching transactions, and settling to Ethereum, freeing the SoloChain team to focus entirely on developing its groundbreaking mining and AI models.","Seamless Superchain Integration: By choosing to launch an OP Stack chain with Caldera, SoloChain was instantly integrated into the growing Optimism Superchain ecosystem, benefiting from its shared standards and vision for interoperability.","Future-Proofed with The Metalayer: While SoloChain benefits from native Superchain connectivity, Caldera’s Metalayer offers the next evolution in its growth. The Metalayer will provide seamless, intent-based interoperability with the entire network of Caldera-launched rollups, including those built on different frameworks like Arbitrum Orbit and ZK Stack. This means tokenized DePIN assets on SoloChain can achieve liquidity and utility across a much broader ecosystem, creating a powerful network effect.","SoloChain demonstrates a shift in how Web3 networks can be bootstrapped and sustained. By successfully deploying their complex economic model on a Caldera-powered testnet, it has created a blueprint for a future where value is distributed based on meaningful contribution, not speculation. This approach fosters stronger, more aligned communities and enables the sustainable growth of decentralized ecosystems.","As more projects seek to build novel onchain systems, the need for specialized, performant, and customizable infrastructure will only grow. Caldera provides the foundational platform for these pioneers to build the future. To launch your own dedicated rollup and join the interconnected internet of chains, visit our deployment page and explore what’s possible with Caldera.","Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Dozens of leading EVM chains, including Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion, use our trusted Rollup-as-a-Service platform to enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/case-study-solo"},"/blog/how-caldera-unlocks-onchain-capital-markets-for-digital-asset-treasuries":{"version":1,"title":"How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Any Asset Can Be Productive Onchain","How a Treasury Can Ignite an Ecosystem","Access Fragmented Yield with The Metalayer","Building the Future of Onchain Capital Markets","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Published on","Aug 15, 2025","Public companies are now building entire businesses around accumulating digital assets, creating a completely new category of company known as Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs). These are firms that explicitly pursue a strategy of accumulating digital assets as the core function of their business. Following the model pioneered by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy in 2020, hundreds of new firms have since adopted the playbook, cementing DATs as a central narrative in both equity and crypto markets.","Ethereum treasuries, now holding almost $15 billion in ETH across key global public companies and protocols, are moving beyond a simple store-of-value thesis. They are becoming active, yield-generating businesses, fueled by a powerful, symbiotic relationship with Ethereum’s rollup ecosystem. The most sophisticated treasuries are now becoming active capital allocators, seeking to generate yield and shape the very markets they operate in.","However, the strategy is more nuanced than simply deploying assets for yield. It involves an important choice: should a treasury partner exclusively with an existing rollup’s onchain ecosystem, or should it focus on accessing the best risk-adjusted yields across a fragmented, multi-chain landscape?","This post explains the new treasury playbook, how DATs are bootstrapping entire ecosystems, and how Caldera provides the critical infrastructure for accessing onchain capital markets.","The core of the new treasury playbook is productivity. Any digital asset, from ETH and wrapped BTC to RWAs and even memecoins, can be deployed in DeFi to generate yield. Traditional DATs engage almost entirely in PIPE financing, where they issue new shares in exchange for capital to buy more assets for their balance sheet. As long as the percentage dilution of shares remains less than the percentage increase of assets on the balance sheet in each subsequent PIPE deal, the assets held per share increases in perpetuity. However, this is very difficult to maintain at scale as you require an ever increasing number of shareholders to counterbalance the new float. It is simply unsustainable. Decentralized Finance flips this model on its head allowing DATs to grow their treasury through non-dilutive returns.","The yields can be significant. Leading DeFi protocols like Ether.fi currently offer yields exceeding 6% APY on ETH deposits, AAVE typically offers 4% on wrapped ETH lending, and more exotic strategies on lesser known protocols can amplify returns further. The challenge is not if yield is available, but where to find the best risk-adjusted return and how to access it efficiently. This requires a strategic approach to navigating the world of chains, whether by concentrating on a single ecosystem, or accessing opportunities across many.","One of the most powerful strategies for a DAT is to partner with an existing rollup and use its substantial TVL to bootstrap an entire ecosystem of new DeFi protocols from scratch. This creates a powerful flywheel, as seen in the partnership between SharpLink and Linea. Here’s how it works:","DAT Injects Massive TVL: The treasury brings a large, committed, and ever increasing pool of capital to a nascent onchain ecosystem.","Liquidity Lowers Borrowing Rates: This surplus of liquidity on the new chain lowers borrowing rates compared to more established rollups, where capital is more utilized.","Low Rates Attract Users: Yield farmers and large traders are incentivized to bridge over to take advantage of cheaper borrowing rates and new opportunities.","Activity Generates Revenue: This influx of users drives transaction volume, generating fee revenue for the rollup and the protocols built on it.","The DAT Benefits Directly: As a foundational partner, the DAT often receives preferential treatment, including ecosystem tokens, and incentives from the new protocols it helped bootstrap.","This playbook transforms the DAT from a passive participant into an ecosystem kingmaker, creating a vibrant new capital market where it holds a privileged position.","The reality of DeFi is that the best yields are often fragmented across dozens of different blockchains. For a treasury focused purely on maximizing its risk-adjusted return, partnering with a single chain as an exclusive relationship may be limiting. An alternative strategy is to access many markets from a single, secure hub. This is where The Metalayer, Caldera’s intent-based interoperability protocol, becomes an integral tool. The Metalayer allows a treasury to:","Establish a Home Base: A DAT can choose a specialized rollup from the Caldera ecosystem as its primary hub. For example, it could use Kinto for its KYC-gated compliance for access to RWA markets or Manta Pacific to tap into deep onchain liquidity. Additionally, it could launch on Ethereum Mainnet or one of the large general L2s – like Arbitrum or Base.","Deploy Capital Across Chains: From its home base, the treasury can use The Metalayer to seamlessly move capital to any other connected blockchain to capture fleeting yield opportunities. If a new protocol on Manta Pacific offers superior returns for a week, the treasury can deploy capital there instantly. While today this means near-instant bridging, the future vision is to support even more time-sensitive strategies, such as using flash loans to execute complex cross-chain arbitrage. The Metalayer aims to eventually put the entirety of Web3 at a DAT’s fingertips.","Access an Ever-Expanding Market: The Metalayer is constantly growing through new integrations. With recent partnerships with major ecosystems like BNB Chain and Base, yield opportunities on those networks’ robust ecosystems become instantly accessible. As more chains are added, treasuries will eventually have access to the entirety of onchain capital markets at their finger tips.","Unify Capital Markets: The Metalayer transforms a collection of siloed chains into a single, interconnected capital market. It allows a treasury to think like a global macro fund, moving assets to wherever they can be most productive, all orchestrated through a simple, intent-based bridging protocol.","The relationship between Digital Asset Treasuries and rollups is evolving beyond simple symbiosis. As more real-world assets like real estate and private credit become tokenized, we are moving toward a future where any asset can be used as onchain collateral to generate yield. This shift will expand the scope of DATs significantly, creating nearly endless opportunities for capital allocation. The winning treasuries might not be those confined to a single ecosystem, but those that can dynamically allocate capital across a universe of chains. To do so, the underlying infrastructure they use must be flexible, secure, and above all, interoperable.","Caldera provides this foundational layer. As more institutions deploy their corporate treasuries onchain to access DeFi yields, our platform offers the tools to move beyond passive holding and become active architects of the future of finance. To explore how your treasury can access the interconnected Internet of Chains, connect with our team and learn what’s possible with Caldera.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 19, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-caldera-unlocks-onchain-capital-markets-for-digital-asset-treasuries"},"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-bridge-preview":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing the Caldera Bridge Preview - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["A New Way to Bridge","Key Features","Join the Waitlist","How to Sign Up","Frequently Asked Questions","The Vision Behind the Bridge","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Find the Optimal Route, Automatically","Tap Into Unified Liquidity","Powered by Partners like Eco","Bridge with Confidence","Connect to a Universal Network","Join The Waitlist Here","Connect Your Wallet","Enter Your Details","Confirm Your Spot","What makes the Caldera Bridge Preview different?","Is it secure?","When will I get access from the waitlist?","What is The Metalayer?","How does this tie into Caldera's Rollup Engine?","Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Introducing the Caldera Bridge Preview","Published on","Jul 21, 2025","Caldera’s product suite is expanding. We’re excited to announce the Caldera Bridge Preview. This is the first consumer product built by Caldera leveraging the Metalayer, powered by its native token, $ERA. The Preview introduces our bridge aggregator that simplifies cross-chain transactions across Caldera’s ecosystem. In addition to bringing fast bridging support to every Caldera chain on launch, the Caldera Bridge connects all major liquidity hubs within Ethereum and beyond.","Join the waitlist today to get early access to the future of interoperability.","The Caldera Bridge Preview is a user-friendly interface leveraging the Metalayer’s bridge aggregator protocol. It allows users to move assets across chains effortlessly, without being limited to a single, slow native bridge. Instead of manually searching for the best option, the bridge automatically finds the optimal route for speed and cost-effectiveness.","This preview is a stepping stone toward our full bridge product, designed to unify fragmented blockchain ecosystems into a seamless network. It’s currently rolling out in a phased launch, with access granted through a waitlist to prioritize feedback from power users.","The built-in quote aggregator queries multiple bridges in real-time, recommending the fastest and most cost-effective path for every transfer. This solver-driven model provides a nearly instant experience, often delivering funds in seconds while abstracting away complexities like destination-chain gas payments.","Access a network-wide pool of liquidity from a single interface, ensuring competitive rates without having to switch between different applications.","Through integration with cross-chain stablecoin infrastructure protocols like Eco, a stablecoin liquidity layer, the Bridge Preview offers specialized routes for near-instant, low-cost stablecoin transfers to emerging and long-tail chains often missed by traditional bridges.","All routes are secured by the Metalayer's decentralized validator network, powered by $ERA-staked validators, inheriting the robust security of the underlying protocol.","Starting with Ethereum and L2/L3 rollups, the bridge is designed to expand to additional EVM-compatible and non-EVM networks coming soon, making bridging truly universal.","The Caldera Bridge Preview is launching in waves to ensure a secure and stable rollout that is feature-rich. The waitlist prioritizes active bridge users who can provide valuable feedback, with preference given to those in the Caldera ecosystem on a first-come, first-served basis. By prioritizing active users, the project aims to build a community of testers who can provide real-world feedback before its full general availability launch.","Visit https://bridge.caldera.xyz/.","Connect your wallet. This gas-free action verifies your address securely.","Provide your email or Telegram handle for updates on your waitlist status and access notifications.","Submit your information to secure your place in the queue.","The Bridge Preview is powered by Caldera’s Metalayer intent-based architecture, where a network of solvers competes to find the fastest and cheapest route for every transfer, so users don’t have to.","Yes. The security of all transactions is guaranteed by the underlying Metalayer protocol and its decentralized network of validators staking $ERA.","Access will be granted in waves starting soon. Participants will be notified via email or Telegram when it is their turn.","The Metalayer is Caldera's interoperability protocol that connects blockchains into a unified network. It enables shared liquidity and secure bridging, all powered by the $ERA token. See protocol docs here.","Developers use the Rollup Engine to launch custom, high-performance rollups. A standout feature is that every chain launched with Caldera’s Rollup Engine is automatically integrated into the Metalayer from day one.","This means new projects get access to a great bridge for their users immediately, without needing to negotiate separate deals or pay high integration costs. For their communities, this solves a major pain point by providing a fast and secure way to transfer funds, removing the need to rely on slow, 7-day native withdrawal periods and building trust in the new ecosystem.","The Caldera Bridge Preview is the first user-friendly interface that exposes this native interoperability to everyone.","The growth of Ethereum’s rollup ecosystem and other networks has created a fragmented user experience. The Caldera Bridge Preview, built on the Metalayer, solves this by offering a unified, intent-based bridging experience. This is the first step toward Caldera’s vision of an Internet of Chains, where liquidity flows freely and users interact with any blockchain effortlessly. The community's feedback on this initial phase will be essential in shaping what comes next.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-bridge-preview"},"/blog/intuition-network-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Intuition Network Now Live On Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["Intuition, The Protocol for Verifiable Knowledge","Why a Custom Appchain Was Essential","Caldera as the Engine for Information Finance","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Omnichain Tokens","Building the Future of Sustainable Onchain Economies","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Intuition Network Now Live On Caldera","Published on","Aug 29, 2025","Web3 is built on verifiable data; however, the tools for establishing trust and reputation remain fragmented and siloed. While blockchains have been validated as the go-to solution for securing financial assets, they have yet to unlock a native \"Web of Trust\" where information itself becomes a first-class, programmable asset. This gap prevents the emergence of truly decentralized identity, robust reputation systems, and more intelligent AI applications.","Intuition, an innovative protocol building a token-curated knowledge graph, is creating the answer. To realize their vision of Information Finance, they are launching the Intuition Network, a dedicated appchain built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack, using Caldera’s Rollup Engine.","Intuition is also one of the first protocols to leverage Caldera’s Metatoken protocol, a new protocol for creating omnichain wrapped tokens. This allows their native $TRUST token to achieve universal reach from day one.","At its core, Intuition is a decentralized knowledge repository. It functions as the first token-curated graph where users can contribute and curate flexibly structured, semantic data. The goal is to give both humans and machines better \"intuition\" by providing the data they need, from the sources they trust, right at the moment they need it.","The protocol allows any user to make verifiable claims, or \"attestations,\" about anything, from a smart contract’s trustworthiness to a user's reputation. This crowdsourced information bootstraps a decentralized knowledge graph, creating a composable \"Web of Trust.\" This system moves beyond simple data storage; it creates dynamic information markets where users can stake on claims, turning knowledge into a tradable asset.","To solve the \"cold start\" problem of data collection, Intuition developed the beta Intuition Launchpad, a series of guided experiences, including a Questions App, designed to onboard users by allowing them to share their preferences, opinions, and identity. In return for these contributions, users gain access to personalized AI informed by the Intuition Knowledge Graph, and earn IQ points, which align incentives and reward meaningful participation.","During its successful beta on Base, a general-purpose L2, the Intuition team proved the demand for its core primitives: a system where users can make verifiable claims about anything, bootstrapping a decentralized knowledge graph. However, to scale this model to become the \"data liquidity layer for the internet,\" the limitations of a shared network became clear.","A protocol designed to handle trillions of attestations and complex information markets could not be built on a general-purpose L2 without compromise. It required:","Deep Protocol Customization: Implementing a new model for \"Information Finance\" as a native, chain-level feature requires deep control over the execution environment and economic model.","Economic Sovereignty: A custom rollup gives Intuition full control over its fee structure and incentive mechanisms, allowing it to capture value to fund future R&D and ensure long-term sustainability.","An Optimized, Uncongested Environment: To guarantee the performance and reliability needed for its core functions, Intuition required its own dedicated blockspace, free from competition with unrelated DeFi or NFT activity.","To bring its vision to life, Intuition needed an infrastructure partner that could provide the flexibility of a custom rollup without the immense overhead of building from scratch. Caldera’s platform delivered the ideal solution.","Caldera’s Rollup Engine provided a fully managed, production-ready Arbitrum Orbit rollup. This handled the underlying complexities of running a sequencer, batching transactions, and settling to Base, freeing the Intuition team to focus entirely on developing its groundbreaking protocol for verifiable data.","Beyond launching their sovereign chain, Intuition needed a way for their native token, $TRUST, to be accessible across a variety of other networks. They are achieving this as the second-ever project, after Caldera’s own $ERA token, to adopt the Metatoken protocol.","Metatoken is a lock-and-mint bridge protocol that leverages the Metalayer’s secure message passing service to create wrapped, omnichain versions of a token. While the Metalayer's intent-based bridging is the ideal solution for canonical assets like stablecoins and ETH, Metatoken is designed specifically for \"long-tail\" assets like protocol tokens, memecoins, or custom gas tokens that need to exist everywhere without a native deployment on each chain.","For Intuition, this means their $TRUST token, which is canonical to their appchain, can be seamlessly bridged and used on any other Metalayer-connected chain. This is a critical advantage, offering a nimble and cost-effective way to expand their token's utility across the entire Caldera ecosystem, including Base and BNB Chain.","Key benefits of the Metatoken protocol include:","Cost-Effective Deployment: Caldera rollups receive complimentary Metatoken deployment, avoiding the six-figure integration fees charged by alternative solutions.","Enhanced Security: Token deployers can set custom rate limits to prevent illegitimate bridging and protect their communities.","Seamless User Experience: The protocol supports deterministic addresses, meaning the token has the same contract address on every chain, making it easier for users and developers to verify and integrate.","Intuition’s launch introduces a new model for onchain economies. By deploying its protocol on a dedicated Caldera rollup while using Metatoken to make its native asset available across many networks, Intuition has established a clear framework where economic rewards are tied directly to meaningful user contributions.","As more projects seek to build novel onchain systems, the need for specialized and interoperable infrastructure will only grow. Caldera provides the foundational platform for these protocols, from launching a sovereign chain with our Rollup Engine to achieving omnichain presence with the Metalayer and Metatoken protocols.","To launch your own dedicated rollup and join the Internet of Chains, visit our deployment page and explore what’s possible with Caldera.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/intuition-network-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/the-multichain-stablecoin-future":{"version":1,"title":"The Multichain Stablecoin Future - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["From Fragmentation to a Unified Network","The Metalayer: How Intent-Based Architecture Solves the Problem","A Proven Network in Action","The Future of Stablecoins is a Unified Network","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","Published on","Aug 19, 2025","In a recent interview with CoinDesk, Tom Lee suggested that stablecoins could represent a \"ChatGPT moment\" for Ethereum, catalyzed by the passage of the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts. These bills established the first comprehensive federal framework for stablecoins in the United States. To understand their full regulatory impact, we must recognize the fundamental breakthrough stablecoins unlock.","The stablecoin revolution isn't about digitizing money, banks mastered that decades ago. The true innovation is the emergence of networked money, value that exists natively on open networks rather than in siloed institutional databases. While your bank balance lives on a private server, networked money inhabits thousands of computers simultaneously. No single entity controls it, and it can be programmed with complex logic, creating a new economic physics for how value moves through the world.","Major financial institutions are racing to integrate this new primitive. JPMorgan is using its JPM Coin for euro-denominated payments with corporate clients like Siemens. PayPal paid a business invoice using its own PYUSD stablecoin. BNY Mellon now enables its bank clients to directly create and redeem USDC, and Stripe is rolling out stablecoin accounts globally.","To fulfill this potential, however, stablecoins must overcome a big challenge, the fragmented nature of blockchains. For a stablecoin to become a true global standard, it must exist seamlessly and securely across every network where users and capital are present. Interoperability is no longer optional, it’s mandatory.","The current state of blockchains, however, is defined by fragmentation. This creates two major problems:","Flawed Wrapped Assets: Third-party bridges create multiple, incompatible versions of the same stablecoin, confusing users, fracturing liquidity, and introducing major security risks.","The Issuer's Dilemma: Stablecoin issuers face an immense operational burden, forced to manage bespoke bridging solutions and capital-intensive liquidity pools for every new chain they wish to support.","This fragmentation is the single biggest barrier preventing stablecoins from reaching their full potential. The solution requires a new kind of infrastructure, a unified operating system for value. Caldera's Metalayer is the proven interoperability protocol built for this purpose, connecting a battle-tested ecosystem of over 50 rollups and over 28 million users.","Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap has led to an explosion of specialized chains, each optimized for a specific use case or market. While this is a win for scalability, it has intensified the challenge of moving assets between them. The historical reliance on wrapped assets has proven to be a flawed model that runs counter to the ethos of decentralization by introducing new trust dependencies and single points of failure.","This creates an \"Issuer's Dilemma.\" An issuer like PayPal or Circle wants their stablecoin to be ubiquitous, but the cost and complexity of deploying and managing liquidity on every new chain grows exponentially. They need a solution that allows them to expand their stablecoin's reach without compromising on security or taking on massive operational overhead.","As detailed in a recent Messari report, the Metalayer functions as the interoperability layer of a \"unified operating system for modular rollups\". It is not a single bridge, but an intent-based routing system that abstracts away the complexity of cross-chain transactions.","The architecture centers on an Execution Layer where a user or application declares a goal, such as \"move 100 PYUSD from its native chain to USDC on Kinto\". The Metalayer broadcasts this intent to a competitive network of solvers and integrated partners (like Across, Eco, and Relay) who find the optimal route to fulfill the user's request, often in seconds.","A Settlement Layer, built on a sovereign deployment of Hyperlane, ensures the secure and atomic settlement of these transactions.","This model fundamentally changes the game for stablecoin issuers and users:","Solves the Issuer's Dilemma: Issuers can integrate their canonical stablecoin with the Metalayer once and gain immediate access to the entire connected network. They no longer need to build custom bridges or manage dozens of liquidity pools, allowing them to focus on product and ecosystem growth.","Eliminates Wrapped Assets: Users can interact with the native version of a stablecoin across any chain in the network. The Metalayer ensures the canonical asset is what moves, preserving its integrity and concentrating liquidity.","Creates a Seamless User Experience: Users can move stablecoins between chains without ever leaving the application they are in, creating a fluid experience that feels like a single, unified network.","The Metalayer is not a future vision; it is a production-ready network that is battle-tested at scale. It provides the connective tissue for the Caldera ecosystem, which has already processed over 980 million transactions and serves more than 28 million unique addresses across 50+ blockchains.","This unified liquidity allows value to flow seamlessly between a diverse set of applications. A user can move stablecoins to:","Engage with a KYC-compliant DeFi protocol on Kinto.","Purchase an NFT on ApeChain, the gaming L3 for the Yuga Labs community.","Participate in the high-throughput, open gaming economy on B3, which has processed over 125 million transactions.","The Metalayer connects these specialized economies, transforming them from isolated islands into a single, interconnected capital market.","For stablecoins to evolve from a crypto-native tool to the backbone of global finance, they must become truly omnichain assets. The greatest barrier to this evolution has been the fragmentation and operational complexity of the multichain world.","By providing a unified operating system for value, the Metalayer solves this challenge. It offers a single, secure, and scalable network that allows issuers to expand their reach effortlessly and enables users to move value without friction. The future of stablecoins will be built on a seamlessly interconnected world, and the Metalayer provides the infrastructure to make that a reality today.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Oct 17, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-multichain-stablecoin-future"},"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-stablecoin-module":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["An Integrated Stablecoin Module","Three Core Benefits for Your Rollup","A Seamless Experience for End-Users","Caldera’s Competitive Advantage","Launch Partners","Completing the Stack for the Internet of Chains","About Caldera","About M0","Other blog posts"],"h4":["1. Launch Your Own Branded Stablecoin","2. Unlock Universal Onboarding & Liquidity","3. Generate Sustainable Revenue","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Published on","Sep 10, 2025","Rollups today rely on a patchwork of wrapped stablecoins from different bridges. Each of these stablecoins creates their own isolated liquidity pools, preventing a single stablecoin from becoming the network’s primary liquid asset. This problem is made worse when a single governance token, for example, is forced to trade against multiple stablecoins on the same network, further splitting liquidity. While these wrapped tokens serve as a unit of account, they fail to deliver on a core promise of DeFi: making capital productive and deeply liquid.","This unproductive capital creates real economic damage. Rollups forfeit sustainable revenue that could be used to fund ecosystem development. For users, the opportunity cost is clear, as they must park capital for zero yield while other chains offer competitive returns on stable assets. Meanwhile, developers are forced to manage the complexity of incompatible token versions instead of building their core product. The technical mess becomes a significant barrier to adoption.","Today, Caldera is introducing our solution.","We are excited to announce the Caldera Stablecoin Module, built in partnership with M0, a universal stablecoin platform powering builders of application-specific stablecoins. This is a simple, powerful module that enables any rollup to deploy their own white-labeled, yield-bearing stablecoin. The module transforms fragmented, static assets into liquid, productive capital that benefits both users and the chain itself. We ship the complete toolkit (widget, SDK, and API included), making it incredibly easy for end users to get liquidity into the new stablecoin from day one.","The module allows you to provide a clear brand and identity for your ecosystem. Instead of relying on another wrapped USDC, you can launch your own branded token. A branded stablecoin builds a stronger ecosystem moat and increases brand recognition, turning a basic utility into a core piece of your onchain economy.","Every rollup launched with Caldera is automatically connected to the Metalayer, our interoperability network that solves rollup fragmentation by unifying crosschain communication and liquidity. The Stablecoin Module’s toolkit leverages this connectivity, allowing users to bring liquidity from any Metalayer-connected network, and convert it into the rollup's native stablecoin. This creates a powerful, self-contained financial ecosystem, much like a brand's gift card program, but superior, as users earn real yield instead of just points.","Target markets for liquidity include:","Funds from other chains: Users can perform cross-chain swaps via the Metalayer, seamlessly moving assets from other networks and converting them into the new stablecoin.","Deposits from centralized exchanges (CEXs): A user holding USDC or USDT on an exchange like Coinbase or Binance can directly deposit those assets onto a Caldera chain, where they are automatically converted into the rollup's yield-bearing stablecoin.","Direct fiat purchases (coming soon): Users will soon be able to buy the chain-native stablecoin directly from a fiat onramp, further simplifying onboarding.","Rollups can capture a portion of the generated yield to fund ecosystem development without relying on token inflation. This creates a sustainable, long-term business model, allowing your team to fund grants, pay developers, and incentivize growth using revenue generated from the module's total stablecoin float.","Stablecoins launched on the module are fully interoperable with each other across the Caldera ecosystem via the Metalayer.","For the end-user, the entire process is simplified to a single \"Deposit and Earn\" button. All the complexities of bridging and swapping between different wrapped assets are handled in the background by the Metalayer, which automatically finds the optimal route for speed and cost.","While other solutions may create fragmented assets or lack the necessary infrastructure for easy onboarding, Caldera provides a complete, integrated solution that works from deployment to user onboarding.","As the platform powering nearly 25% of all Ethereum rollups, we are uniquely positioned to solve interoperability challenges at scale. We own the user experience and distribution layer, ensuring that every rollup in our ecosystem benefits from shared liquidity and network effects from day one.","The module's launch is highlighted by our flagship partnership with ApeChain. As the dedicated L3 for the ApeCoin and Yuga Labs communities, their adoption demonstrates that our platform is built to handle the demands of a major gaming and NFT ecosystem immediately.","M0 provides the module's foundational infrastructure. Their network delivers the audited, secure backend necessary for institutional-grade yield,ensuring reliability and transparency across the system.","The Stablecoin Module is the next pillar in our vision for an interconnected \"Internet of Chains.\"  It combines with our existing products to create a complete, end-to-end toolkit for launching and scaling a successful onchain ecosystem:","The Rollup Engine: Build a high-performance, custom rollup.","The Metalayer: Connect it to a universal network of shared liquidity and users.","Metatoken: Make native, long-tail assets portable across the Caldera ecosystem.","The Stablecoin Module: Power its economy with native, yield-bearing value.","Our V2 roadmap will extend the module's capabilities even further with direct fiat-to-yield-stable onramps, and CEX connectivity for direct deposits.","Each rollup launching a stablecoin contributes to a network-wide pool of shared liquidity. This creates a powerful flywheel that drives Metalayer usage and reinforces the value of the entire Caldera ecosystem.","Ready to bring yield to your rollup? Get in touch with our team to get started.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","M0 is the universal platform powering builders of application-specific stablecoins. With M0, developers can build safe, programmable and interoperable digital dollars. Learn more at m0.org","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-stablecoin-module"},"/blog/introducing-metatoken-a-new-standard-for-multichain-tokens":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["How Metatoken Unlocks Onchain Assets","An Integrated and Secure Solution","The Caldera Ecosystem Advantage","Metatoken in Action: Early Adopter Case Studies","Building the Internet of Chains","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["B3 - A Universal Currency for a Gaming Ecosystem","Intuition - Universal Reach for a Protocol's Native Token","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Published on","Sep 3, 2025","With the growth of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap, the rise of modular blockchains, and the popularity of non-EVM networks like Solana, there are now hundreds of onchain ecosystems. Each of these networks hosts unique applications and numerous \"long-tail\" native assets, from protocol governance tokens to community memecoins, that are essential to their local economies.","However, these long-tail assets are often isolated, trapped on the chains where they were created. This asset isolation severely limits a token's reach and utility. It creates a challenge for token issuers, who struggle to expand their token’s presence into new ecosystems, and a poor experience for users, who must navigate complex and insecure third-party bridges.","Today, Caldera introduces our solution for asset isolation: Metatoken, a new protocol built on the Metalayer. Metatoken establishes a new standard for multichain assets, allowing any token to be universally portable across multiple chains with the same contract address on every network, all while the issuer remains in control.Token portability represents a massive opportunity. Bringing thousands of emerging assets to every market creates unprecedented liquidity flows across the Internet of Chains. For Caldera, more Metatokens lead to greater ecosystem value accrual through increased transaction volume, cross-chain activity, and expanded liquidity across our ecosystem of rollups.","While the Metalayer’s intent-based bridging is the premier solution for major assets like stablecoins and Ether, Metatoken brings assets to caldera rollups that — unlike stables, ETH, or custom gas tokens — don't exist there natively. For tokens like protocol governance tokens or community memecoins that lack deployments on every chain, Metatoken establishes a new standard. It transforms a localized asset into a truly interoperable one with a unified supply, designed to exist across many networks simultaneously.","Metatoken streamlines deployment through the Metalayer’s infrastructure. Alternative protocols typically involve complex multi-party agreements and extended setup periods, while Metatoken’s integrated approach reduces both time-to-market and operational complexity.","The process behind a Metatoken transfer is a system of accounting that uses a lock-and-mint mechanism. When an existing asset is moved from its home chain (Chain A), it is locked in a secure hub contract. A message is then sent via the Metalayer to a destination chain (Chain B), authorizing the minting of an equal number of 1:1 backed, wrapped tokens.","To move the asset to a third network (Chain C), the wrapped version on Chain B is burned, and a new message authorizes a mint on Chain C. The process reverses when returning to the home chain: the wrapped token is burned on its current chain, and a final message unlocks the original, native token from the hub contract on Chain A.","This architecture offers several key advantages for both token issuers and users:","Unified Supply: Asset issuers can manage a single, global token supply, eliminating the confusion of multiple, unofficial wrapped versions.","Capital Efficiency: Direct transfers eliminate the need for liquidity pools for the bridging process itself, resulting in no slippage for users and avoiding the operational complexity of managing or rebalancing collateral across multiple chains.","Expanded Network Effects: Projects can quickly extend their native tokens to new and growing ecosystems to integrate with new applications and capture user attention.","This model establishes Metatoken as a standard for asset portability, allowing a token to access liquidity and applications on any connected network, rather than attempting to manage liquidity itself.","For projects building on Caldera, Metatoken provides integrated tooling that reduces deployment costs and unlocks new economic possibilities through a suite of integrated features.","An Integrated, Cost-Effective Solution: Teams launching with the Rollup Engine receive an Included Metatoken deployment as part of the integrated stack. Traditional cross-chain token solutions typically require $100,000+ in fees and lengthy approval processes, while Metatoken is available at no additional cost for Caldera customers.","Application-Owned Security: With Metatoken, security is controlled by the asset issuer. The protocol is built on the secure messaging of the Metalayer and includes features like custom rate limits, allowing token deployers to define their own security policies.","Seamless User Experience: Metatoken supports deterministic addresses, meaning a token has the same contract address on every chain for easy verification. Cross-chain transfers confirm in seconds via the Metalayer's messaging system.","Metatoken does more than just connect two chains, it provides a framework for integrating an asset across the Caldera ecosystem. An asset deployed as a Metatoken can be easily extended to any Metalayer-connected rollup, giving the issuer control over which networks their token supports.","As more projects deploy omnichain tokens, rollups in the Caldera ecosystem gain access to diverse assets that can drive new applications and user activity. Projects benefit from expanded reach, while rollups attract users seeking access to these newly available tokens, creating mutual growth across the network.","This targeted availability enables new types of applications on Caldera rollups. Decentralized exchanges can now support tokens from external ecosystems as trading pairs or collateral, expanding beyond assets that exist natively on their chain. DeFi protocols can integrate governance tokens from other networks, enabling cross-chain yield farming and lending markets that weren’t previously possible.For token issuers, Metatoken provides access to rollups where their assets don’t yet exist, opening new user bases and user cases. A memecoin community can expand to gaming-focused rollups, while a DeFi protocol can bring its governance token to specialized financial chains where it can serve as collateral in new applications.","Several projects have deployed Metatoken to address distinct multichain challenges. Each implementation demonstrates how the protocol solves specific problems around asset fragmentation and cross-chain utility.","B3 operates a horizontally-scaled gaming ecosystem where individual games like PRIME and InfiniGods run on dedicated rollups. Each game generates its own native assets and rewards, but players need to move value between games seamlessly. Without an omnichain token, players would face complex bridging every time they wanted to use rewards from one game in another.","Using Metatoken, B3's native $B3 token serves as a universal currency across all gaming chains in their ecosystem. Players can earn $B3 in one game and instantly use it in another without traditional bridge delays, creating the seamless \"game cartridge\" experience B3 designed for.","Intuition is building a token-curated knowledge graph designed to function as a \"shared memory layer\" for crypto. While its core protocol state lives on a dedicated Caldera-powered appchain, its native $TRUST token needed to be accessible everywhere users make attestations.","Metatoken solves this critical piece of Intuition's architecture. Using Metatoken, $TRUST maintains the same contract address across all major blockchains, allowing seamless integration with applications on any Metalayer-connected network.","A multichain future requires more than just connected chains, it requires portable assets. An asset confined to a single blockchain is like a currency trapped within one country’s borders, its reach is isolated and its potential is limited.","Metatoken is the critical infrastructure that makes assets portable, enabling issuers to extend their tokens to new ecosystems for any reason, whether it's to reach a larger community, access higher throughput, or form new business partnerships. The impact of this extends beyond crypto. For real-world applications like cross-border settlement, Metatoken provides a framework to move value as freely as data on the internet, removing the intermediaries, fees, and delays common in traditional finance.","The Rollup Engine deploys the chains. The Metalayer provides interoperability. Metatoken makes native assets universally portable. Together, these components establish the foundation for a new economic model where onchain value flows as freely as data on the internet. As more projects choose Metatoken for their tokens' multichain strategy, the collective value of the entire Caldera ecosystem grows, benefiting the Internet of Chains.","Ready to make your token omnichain? Asset issuers and teams building on Caldera can get in touch to begin the deployment process today.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 14, 2025","Sep 10, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-metatoken-a-new-standard-for-multichain-tokens"},"/blog/sandchain-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"SANDchain Now Live on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Other blog posts"],"h3":["SANDchain, A New Economic Engine for Creators","Why a Custom L2 Was Essential","Caldera and ZKsync as The Technical Foundation","A Movement Begins","About SANDchain","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","SANDchain Now Live on Caldera","Published on","Sep 30, 2025","Every creator knows the dreadful feeling. You build an audience of millions, pour years into content, cultivate a community that trusts you, only to watch platforms change their algorithms overnight, slash your revenue share, or worse, de-platform you without recourse. You never owned anything. You were just renting space in someone else's kingdom.","The numbers tell a story of extraction: platforms like the Apple App Store took 30% of subscription revenue (until recently), YouTube still takes 45% of ad revenue, and platforms like TikTok have a 50% platform fee on fan donations. Creators get what's left, if they're lucky. Meanwhile, a single algorithm tweak can destroy years of work. One policy change can eliminate entire revenue streams. One moderation decision can erase everything.","This is unsustainable and creators are done pretending otherwise.","Today, that model is being rebuilt from the ground up. We are thrilled to announce the launch of SANDchain, a creator-first blockchain built by The SANDchain Foundation to serve as the financial backbone of the creator economy. Building on the foundation of The Sandbox, with its 8 million users, 1,500+ creator-built games, 25,000+ LAND owners, and 700,000+ created experiences, SANDchain introduces a powerful new economic engine designed to turn creativity into a sustainable, scalable business.","As Sébastien Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox, describes it, \"SANDchain builds on that foundation—creating a dedicated economic and engagement layer for Creators across any platform. By rewarding loyalty, we're transforming fans into active participants in culture and paving the way towards a Creator Nation that is built, owned, grown, and funded by its creators and supporters\".","SANDchain introduces a sophisticated, onchain financial system designed to provide creators with the \"funding rails, automated revenue management, and ways to turn audience support into tangible growth\" that they have been waiting for. This is enabled by a suite of new, interconnected primitives:","Three Integrated Value Layers: The economy is powered by SANDpoints for network-wide reputation, Creator Points that track fan support for individual creators, and Creator Tokens, which are tradeable assets tied to a creator’s brand.","Programmable Capital Vaults: At the core of the product suite are Creator Vaults, which aggregate receivables from Web2 platforms like YouTube and TikTok, and Patron Vaults, which allow investors to fund creator loans while earning yield and loyalty points.","This system provides a transparent, programmable alternative to traditional financing, allowing creators to leverage their existing Web2 success to fund their future growth onchain. Every interaction, from launching a Creator Token to funding a vault, is designed to increase the utility of the SAND token, expanding its role into a universal currency for the entire creator economy.","To build this new financial foundation for creators, a general-purpose L2 was not enough. A dedicated, application-specific chain was essential to integrate these novel economic models at the protocol level.","Deep Protocol Customization: Implementing unique, chain-native features like programmable vaults that can manage and collateralize revenue from external Web2 platforms requires deep control over the execution environment that only an appchain can provide.","Dedicated Performance: A thriving creator economy will generate a high volume of unique transactions. By operating on its own dedicated blockspace, SANDchain ensures these interactions are fast and low-cost, without competing for resources with unrelated network activity.","Economic Sovereignty: A custom L2 gives The SANDchain Foundation full control over the network's economic model, allowing it to capture and reinvest value directly into the ecosystem to fund grants, reward participation, and ensure long-term sustainability.","To bring this ambitious vision to life, The SANDchain Foundation partnered with Caldera. Our Rollup Engine provided the fully managed, production-ready infrastructure needed to launch their specialized ZK-powered blockchain, freeing the SANDchain team to focus on building their revolutionary creator finance protocol.","SANDchain is built with ZKsync, leveraging zk-rollup technology for limitless scalability, ironclad security, and transaction fees low enough to support a new wave of creative micro-economies. As a rollup, SANDchain inherits the full security guarantees of Ethereum while operating as a high-performance execution layer.","Furthermore, every chain launched with Caldera is automatically connected to the Metalayer, our universal interoperability protocol. The Metalayer is more than just a bridge. It’s an intent-based network designed to solve the critical \"cold-start\" problem of liquidity and user onboarding that new chains often face. For SANDchain, this means fans and patrons can seamlessly move capital from major ecosystems like Ethereum or Base to fund Creator Vaults or purchase new Creator Tokens in a single, simplified transaction.","The SANDchain rollout begins today, October 1st, with the launch of the Creator Manifesto and early access sign-ups, followed by the Testnet debut on October 14th. The first wave of creator partners, including Web3 Honey, Pandapops, French DJ Agoria, and Let It Fly podcast host Jared Dilinger, are already committed to building the future of the Creator Nation.","We invite creators to claim their sovereignty, fans to fuel the new economy, and builders to provide the tools that will power the Creator Nation. Join the movement by signing the Manifesto to be first in line for the Testnet launch.","SANDchain is a zk-powered blockchain built by The SANDchain Foundation with ZKsync and Caldera, serving as the financial backbone of the global creator economy. SANDchain delivers transparent, programmable infrastructure where creators, fans, and brands can build and participate in thriving onchain economies, unlocking creator tokens, loyalty programs, programmable vaults, and DeFi integrations.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/sandchain-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/unlocking-capital-efficiency-for-prediction-markets":{"version":1,"title":"Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Prediction Markets Are Having a Moment","The Capital Lockup Problem","What Infrastructure Would Look Like If Built for Prediction Markets","How Caldera Enables This","What This Unlocks","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["1. Near-Zero Transaction Costs","2. Positions as Collateral","3. Universal Liquidity Access","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","The Multichain Stablecoin Future","How Caldera Unlocks Onchain Capital Markets for Digital Asset Treasuries","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Leadership","Unlocking Capital Efficiency for Prediction Markets","Published on","Oct 17, 2025","A trader spots a mispricing on a prediction market. A major referendum is six weeks away. Every poll, every analyst, every data point says the probability is 92%. The market shows 78%.","Put down $10,000 at 78¢ per share. When the outcome resolves, you get $12,820 back. That's a $2,820 profit, or 28% return.","But that $10,000 sits locked for six weeks earning nothing. Park that same capital in DeFi money markets earning 8% APY? You'd make $92 over those six weeks. The real profit is $2,728, not $2,820.","Now scale this up. What about election markets that lock for six months? Or 2030 climate targets that won't resolve for five years? The opportunity cost compounds. The math breaks down. The trader moves on. The mispricing stays on the books.","Prediction markets hit mainstream consciousness in 2024. Polymarket processed over $3 billion in volume during the U.S. election cycle. Kalshi became the first CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange. The thesis is proven: crowds aggregate information better than experts, and markets price the future more accurately than polls.","But despite this success, something's broken. Right now, $196.9 million sits locked in Polymarket markets. That's $197 million earning exactly zero yield while waiting for outcomes to resolve. Some positions resolve in days. Others in months. A few in years.","The problem is infrastructure. General-purpose blockchains treat prediction market positions as static database entries. Once you place a bet, your capital is frozen. It can't be collateralized. It can't generate yield. It just waits.","Prediction markets face a constraint that doesn't exist in traditional finance: once you place a bet, your funds freeze until resolution. Days, weeks, sometimes months. During this time, that capital earns nothing.","This creates cascading problems:","Long-term markets stay thin. The 2028 election markets should be the deepest, most liquid markets on the platform. Instead, they're ghost towns. Why? Because traders with $100,000 won't lock that capital for three years when they could rotate it through dozens of shorter-term opportunities. Even six-month positions feel too long when that capital could be deployed elsewhere.","Gas costs make small positions uneconomical. On general-purpose chains, a $50 bet with $3 in gas fees (6% overhead) doesn't make sense. Neither does frequently adjusting positions when each transaction costs real money. This prices out retail and creates barriers to entry that shouldn't exist.","Liquidity fragments. Capital sits trapped on individual platforms and chains. Moving funds requires slow bridges and multiple transactions. Users stick to one ecosystem not by choice, but because the friction of moving capital is too high.","The core issue is that these positions can't be composed with the rest of DeFi. Positions sit as bets waiting to resolve, unable to generate any returns.","The solution requires infrastructure built specifically for prediction markets - infrastructure that treats positions as productive financial assets from the moment they're created.","This requires three things:","Dedicated blockspace where gas approaches zero changes what's economically viable. Micro-positions work. Markets can be created for niche topics regardless of expected volume because failed markets cost nothing. Users can adjust positions frequently without bleeding capital to fees.","This is where capital efficiency compounds. Represent every position as a tradeable NFT (similar to how Uniswap V3 represents LP positions). These NFTs become collateral for DeFi protocols built on the same chain.","Here's how it works in practice:","You place a $10,000 bet on a 95% likely outcome. You receive a position NFT. Take that NFT to a lending protocol and use it as collateral to borrow $9,000 in stablecoins (95% loan-to-value ratio reflecting the probability). Deploy those stablecoins to yield strategies earning 8% APY.","For a six-month position, that's $360 in yield on capital that would otherwise earn nothing. The yield turns even modest-probability bets into profitable trades. More importantly, your capital is now productive while still exposed to the prediction market outcome you wanted.","The result is a powerful cycle. When traders can borrow against positions immediately, they're willing to lock capital for longer periods. Greater participation brings deeper liquidity across all time horizons, leading to tighter markets and more attractive trading opportunities.","Even capital-efficient infrastructure fails if it's isolated. Prediction markets need frictionless access to capital across chains. Users should bridge funds from Ethereum, Base, or Arbitrum without manual steps or wrapped assets. Borrowed capital should access yield opportunities across the ecosystem. This transforms isolated prediction markets into connected financial infrastructure.","Building this new generation of applications requires infrastructure that makes DeFi composability economically viable at scale. Caldera's architecture provides exactly that:","The Rollup Engine delivers dedicated blockspace where transaction costs approach zero. Prediction market platforms get their own high-performance environment optimized for their specific needs. No competition for resources, predictable costs, and the ability to customize the chain for their use case.","The Metalayer connects every Caldera chain into one network, solving the liquidity fragmentation problem. Capital flows in from any connected chain without bridges or wrapped assets. Borrowed capital from collateralized positions can access yield opportunities across the entire ecosystem. This two-way flow transforms isolated platforms into connected financial hubs.","Beyond user capital efficiency, the platform itself needs sustainable economics:","The Stablecoin Module solves a platform-level challenge. Prediction markets naturally accumulate large stablecoin deposits. Polymarket alone holds nearly $200M. Traditionally, this capital sits idle. The Stablecoin Module allows platforms to deploy a yield-bearing stablecoin where user deposits automatically earn while markets resolve. Platforms capture a portion of generated yield, creating sustainable revenue without increasing user fees or relying on token inflation.","This infrastructure makes existing markets more efficient while enabling entirely new categories:","Markets for the long-term. Liquid markets for 2030 climate targets or 2028 election outcomes become viable. Traders lock capital for years because they can borrow against positions immediately. The opportunity cost barrier disappears.","Markets for low-probability events. A 5% probability outcome market becomes attractive when you can take a $100,000 position, borrow $95,000 against it, and deploy that capital to yield strategies. Tail-risk markets become viable hedging instruments instead of speculative dead-ends.","Institutional participation. Professional market makers can hold large positions across hundreds of markets while keeping capital productive through collateralization. The infrastructure supports the liquidity depth that institutions require.","Retail inclusion. Someone with $50 can participate because gas costs don't consume their edge. Micro-markets for niche topics become economically viable. The barriers to entry collapse.","Actual treasury tools. Businesses can hedge operational risk through prediction markets, collateralize those positions to access working capital, and treat markets as legitimate financial instruments, not just speculation platforms.","When capital can flow freely, markets become efficient. When markets are efficient, they produce the highest-quality information. The infrastructure constraint has been the binding factor preventing prediction markets from becoming what they were always meant to be: essential instruments for understanding and pricing the future.","Building a prediction market platform? We're working with teams that are serious about solving capital efficiency. If you're building the next generation of prediction markets and want infrastructure designed for your use case, talk to our team.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Aug 19, 2025","Aug 15, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/unlocking-capital-efficiency-for-prediction-markets"},"/blog/studio-chain-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Studio Chain Mainnet Now Live on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Building Infrastructure for the Next Era of Gaming and Entertainment","Why Studio Chain Needed a Dedicated Appchain","How Caldera Powers Studio Chain's Vision","A New Primitive for Gaming in the Internet of Chains","The Future of Entertainment is Decentralized","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Studio Chain Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Published on","Oct 23, 2025","The traditional entertainment industry is facing a crisis. Studios are shutting down. Layoffs are constant. Barriers to entry remain impossibly high. Communities that make games successful have no voice in how those games are built, funded, or evolved.","Today, KARRAT Foundation's Studio Chain is changing that. Studio Chain is launching its mainnet on Caldera as a dedicated appchain built on the Arbitrum Nitro stack using Caldera's Rollup Engine, bringing the KARRAT Protocol and its flagship game My Pet Hooligan into a live, production-ready environment.","Studio Chain provides the infrastructure the traditional entertainment industry needs. $KARRAT powers every layer of the ecosystem as the native gas token for all transactions and the governance token for protocol decisions. This could enable studios and creators to access democratized funding channels, tokenized IP and content rights, and transparent governance without traditional gatekeepers.","The chain launches with My Pet Hooligan (MPH), a third-person action shooter and social sandbox from AMGI Studios that has achieved over 500,000 downloads across the Epic Games Store and Steam, where the demo launched in October 2025 during early access. My Pet Hooligan won Best Action Game at the 2023 GAM3 Awards and brings AAA production values to Web3 gaming.","\"By leveraging Arbitrum's powerful infrastructure, we're able to create gaming experiences that were previously impossible,\" said Luke Paglia, COO and co-founder of AMGI Studios. \"My Pet Hooligan is just the beginning. This collaboration enables seamless in-game asset ownership, true player-driven interactive extensions, and enhanced interoperability that will transform how audiences engage with entertainment.\"","Studio Chain's vision extends beyond gaming to film, animation, and AI-powered entertainment products. A feature-length My Pet Hooligan animated movie is currently in development, expanding the IP beyond gaming into mainstream media. This positions the KARRAT Protocol as infrastructure for the next era of decentralized entertainment.","The 60+ person team at AMGI includes veterans from Disney Pixar, Riot Games, Warner Brothers, Industrial Light & Magic, and EA, with backing from Paris Hilton, Coldplay, and Tony Robbins. AMGI's ecosystem partnerships include Epic Games, Nvidia, ElevenLabs, and Animoca Brands.","Built using Unreal Engine 5, My Pet Hooligan features advanced motion capture and AI technology, enabling real-time face-driven animation where players embody their NFTs in-game through the KARRAT Protocol's Token Play system. This infrastructure will expand to Xbox consoles and additional PC platforms in the coming months.","AMGI Studios and the KARRAT Foundation recognized that building AAA gaming experiences on shared infrastructure wouldn't work. AAA games generate massive transaction volumes. To deliver the performance, customization, and governance model they envisioned, a dedicated appchain was essential for three reasons:","High-Performance Gaming Infrastructure. AAA games require consistent, low-latency performance. Studio Chain needed dedicated blockspace optimized for gaming workloads, where transaction costs stay predictable and the network handles massive spikes during peak gameplay.","Deep Customization for Entertainment. The KARRAT Protocol includes specialized tools like Token Play (which imports NFT metadata into gaming engines) and onchain governance contracts. These features required chain-level customization only possible on a sovereign rollup.","Economic Sovereignty. Community control of the KARRATco Treasury and governance mechanisms required full control over the chain's economic model and fee structure.","To bring this vision to life, the KARRAT Foundation partnered with Caldera to provide the infrastructure needed to launch and scale a production-grade gaming chain.","Production-Ready Arbitrum Nitro Infrastructure. Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered a fully managed Arbitrum Nitro rollup, handling sequencing, transaction batching, and settlement to Ethereum. This freed the AMGI and KARRAT teams to focus on building gaming experiences rather than managing blockchain operations.","Seamless Interoperability Through the Metalayer. Through Caldera's Metalayer, Studio Chain gains automatic connectivity to a growing network of chains, including Base and BNB Chain. This enables cross-chain gaming experiences, shared liquidity access, and the interoperability needed for players and assets to move freely across entertainment platforms.","Community-Powered Network Security Through Resiliency Nodes. Studio Chain launches with a staking-based node system that makes network participation accessible to everyone. Resiliency Nodes strengthen uptime and security through community activation rather than costly licenses. At launch, twenty Resiliency Nodes will each require 5 million $KARRAT staked, targeting 100 million $KARRAT locked in total.","The staking program offers up to 20% APY during the first year, with rewards claimable from day one. Principal stakes lock for six months, after which stakers can unlock with a penalty that decreases from 12% to 0% between months seven and twelve. This structure incentivizes sustained participation while maintaining network stability. Stakers also receive a share of sequencer revenue and early access to an upcoming memecoin initiative from AMGI Studios, aligning community incentives with Studio Chain's long-term growth.","Just as Cosmos grew stronger with each new specialized chain joining its ecosystem through IBC, or Polkadot expanded its capabilities as new parachains launched, Caldera's vision is to build an Internet of Chains where each new rollup adds unique capabilities to an interconnected network.","Studio Chain's mainnet launch adds foundational gaming and entertainment infrastructure that any Metalayer-connected network can leverage:","New Gaming Infrastructure Unlocks Cross-Chain Experiences. Studio Chain brings production-grade gaming infrastructure and community governance to the Caldera network. DeFi protocols on the Metalayer could integrate $KARRAT for in-game economies. NFT marketplaces could enable cross-chain trading of My Pet Hooligan assets.","Network Effects Drive Shared Growth. As $KARRAT and gaming assets move freely via the Metalayer, liquidity deepens and user bases expand. Players discovering My Pet Hooligan can explore other applications in the Caldera ecosystem, and vice versa. Each new gaming project that launches makes the platform more valuable, attracting more developers and studios. This is the flywheel in action.","Studio Chain's launch demonstrates that the future of gaming and entertainment requires specialized, interoperable chains. Studio Chain combines dedicated appchain performance with Metalayer connectivity to deliver AAA gaming experiences while remaining deeply integrated with a growing ecosystem.","KARRAT Foundation is carving out a distinct position as the go-to blockchain for entertainment innovation. \"This isn't a 'My chain is quicker than yours' argument,\" the foundation stated. \"The aim is to carve out a distinct lane—complementing rather than directly rivaling—what other great industry solutions and chains are doing.\"","As the entertainment industry faces unprecedented challenges, Studio Chain offers a new path forward where communities participate in funding, governance, and growth alongside the studios building the experiences they love.","We're proud to provide the foundational platform for pioneers like the KARRAT Foundation and AMGI Studios to build the future. Congratulations to the entire team on this incredible milestone.","Ready to launch your own dedicated rollup and join the Internet of Chains? Visit our deployment page to get started.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/studio-chain-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/appchain-on-caldera-making-global-payments-as-simple-as-cash":{"version":1,"title":"Case Study - AppChain - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["eth.cash: A Blockchain-Native Global Payment App","The Case for a Dedicated Payments Rollup","How Caldera Enabled the Vision","The Networked Money Future","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Sub-Cent Transaction Economics","Protocol-Level Customization for Web2-Simple UX","Brand and Ecosystem Sovereignty","A Production-Ready Payments Rollup","A Shared On-Ramp for the Internet of Chains","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Case Study - AppChain","Published on","Oct 31, 2025","A freelance designer in Lagos needs to receive payment from a client in Berlin. The traditional financial system turns this into an ordeal: an international wire transfer takes 3-5 days to settle, currency conversion fees stack up, and intermediary charges eat 5-7% of the payment. Days of time lost. Hundreds of dollars vanish to friction.","Traditional cash apps were supposed to fix this. Instead, they created regional monopolies. Venmo works in the US. Revolut covers Europe. Paytm serves India. None of them talk to each other. Cross-border payments remain expensive, slow, and fragmented.","Crypto offered a different vision: a global, permissionless payment network. But the reality fell short. Crypto payments became too complex for everyday people. Most apps optimized for speculation rather than utility. The promise of frictionless global payments remained just that, a promise.","AppChain started with a simple belief: \"a blockchain is nothing without successful apps.\" So they built eth.cash, a global payment app where users send money using just an email address, Farcaster handle, or Telegram handle. From your bank to anyone in the world in under one minute. No wallet management. No seed phrases. No blockchain complexity.","The timing couldn't be better. Stablecoin adoption is accelerating globally, and TradFi is jumping in headfirst. Western Union is launching its own dollar-backed stablecoin. Coinbase and Citigroup partnered to help institutional clients use stablecoins for faster payments. Zelle is exploring stablecoin-powered international transfers. Citi projects stablecoins could reach $1.9 trillion by 2030 in its base case, up to $4 trillion in a bullish scenario.","The momentum follows the GENIUS Act signed in July, which established the first comprehensive federal framework for stablecoins in the United States. Circulating stablecoin market capitalization jumped from $206 billion at the start of the year to over $308 billion today. Visa reports over $670 billion in on-chain loans over the past five years. Stablecoins aren't a crypto experiment anymore, they're officially mainstream.","In emerging markets facing inflation, USDC and other dollar-denominated assets are becoming the currency of choice. AppChain is building the infrastructure to make stablecoin payments as simple as sending a text message, exactly when the world needs it most.","The numbers prove it works: Circle USDC Grant Program selection, over 1.4 million transactions processed, 354,000+ addresses onboarded, 226,000+ account abstraction wallets created, and over $10.5M USD in volume YTD.","Back to that Lagos-Berlin payment. With ethcash, the client logs in using their email, connects Apple Pay, and sends USDC to the designer's email address. The designer receives it within minutes and will soon be able to hold the USDC in yield-bearing form while idle, spend it directly through ethcash, or off-ramp to local currency when needed. The entire flow takes less than 60 seconds of active time, with no wire transfer delays, no currency conversion spread, and no intermediaries taking cuts along the way.","The product keeps evolving beyond simple transfers. A bill splitter app lets users upload receipts and send payment requests to their contacts, while Telegram integration enables payments to any Telegram handle. Request payment features mirror what users expect from traditional cash apps, bringing familiar functionality to a global, stablecoin-powered infrastructure.","This is AppChain's values-driven approach in action: real utility over speculation, building infrastructure to \"multiply the people who think about crypto like us.\" Their mission is clear: \"AppChain exists to fill blockspace with transactions from apps that provide value to real people solving real problems.\"","To build a global payment app that feels as simple as Venmo, the AppChain team couldn't just build the dApp itself, they had to design the underlying infrastructure from the ground up. A general-purpose L2 would mean compromising on cost, UX, and control. So they built everything in-house, including their own bridge infrastructure.","A $50 remittance payment with a $2 gas fee is unacceptable for mainstream adoption. When someone in Nigeria sends money to family or receives freelance payment, transaction costs must be measured in fractions of a cent, not dollars. Shared networks mean competing for blockspace, where costs spike during congestion and fees become unpredictable, ultimately pricing out users in developing markets who need these services most.","AppChain built a dedicated rollup on Arbitrum Nitro (Orbit stack) and gained full control over its fee market, achieving an average cost per transaction of just $0.0000017 (0.001 ETH across 570 transactions over 24 hours). That's the economic foundation that makes micro-payments viable and ensures users in developing markets can actually afford to use the platform.","Mainstream users will not tolerate seed phrases, and they won't understand gas fees. ethcash required social and email logins from day one, which meant building Account Abstraction natively at the chain level rather than bolting it on as an afterthought. The result: over 226,000 AA wallets created where the blockchain becomes completely invisible to users. They interact via email and social handles without ever managing private keys. The chain has processed over 1.44M transactions, proving this approach works at true payment scale where crypto complexity disappears entirely.","Deep protocol control enabled seamless integration with thirdweb's Universal Bridge as core infrastructure. Users can onboard from over 150 countries with automatic provider selection that routes each user to the best option for their region, whether that's Stripe, Coinbase, Kado, or Transak. Apple Pay works, Google Pay works, and cards and bank transfers work. Users interact with payment methods they already trust, while flexible offramps to local currencies complete the full cycle.","This infrastructure matters most for users in regions with currency hyperinflation like Argentina, Turkey, and Nigeria, where holding USD stablecoins provides protection against local currency devaluation. Direct sequencer control for AppChain delivers the fast confirmations users expect from payment apps, ensuring the experience feels instant and reliable.","AppChain is building a values-driven ecosystem where apps solve real problems for real people—supporting DePIN protocols, real gaming, and applications that reward meaningful contribution. ethcash isn't \"a dapp on some chain.\" It's AppChain's flagship application, and they grow together with a unified brand and mission. Full control over economics, governance, and which applications to support allows AppChain to maintain those principles rather than competing for attention with thousands of unrelated applications on shared infrastructure.","\"Caldera gave us the infrastructure to build what users actually need: simple, fast, global payments without compromise. Their Rollup Engine handled all of the complexity of launching on Arbitrum Orbit — easier than just clicking a button. We were able to focus on building the best payment experience while Caldera ensures the infrastructure just works.\" — Alex Carrabre, AppChain Team","AppChain's goals required infrastructure supporting global payment scale while maintaining sovereignty and customization. Caldera provided the complete stack.","Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered the high-performance chain AppChain needed with fully managed infrastructure, allowing the team to focus on building ethcash rather than managing DevOps or Nitro stack operations. The scale speaks for itself: 1.4 million transactions processed across 354,000+ addresses, over 716,000 blocks maintained, and a transaction success rate approaching 100% (1.449M total transactions vs 1.446M completed). The platform scaled from zero to over 1 million transactions while maintaining reliability, proving the Rollup Engine can handle production-ready payment applications at scale.","Every Caldera chain connects automatically to the Metalayer, solving the liquidity cold start problem that typically plagues new chains. Instant connectivity to highly liquid networks like Base, BNB Chain, and the broader Arbitrum ecosystem means users can move assets from established networks without friction, while intent-based bridging routes assets across chains intelligently and finds optimal paths without requiring users to understand the underlying complexity.","The connectivity works both ways. AppChain gains access to liquidity from established networks, while ethcash becomes critical onboarding infrastructure for the entire Caldera ecosystem. Other Caldera rollups benefit from ethcash's 150+ country fiat onramp coverage and Web2-friendly UX, creating a network effect where each new integration strengthens the whole.","Consider a concrete example: A user in Argentina facing peso devaluation wants to protect savings in USDC and access DeFi yield. They onboard through ethcash using a local payment method, receive USDC on AppChain, then bridge seamlessly via the Metalayer to deploy capital on a DeFi-focused Caldera rollup earning 8% APY. As the ecosystem matures, this same Metalayer pathway will allow them to access new primitives like native yield-bearing stablecoins launching across the network, all from their ethcash hub. When they need to make a payment, they bridge back to AppChain and send via email to any recipient globally. ethcash becomes a shared payment rail for the Internet of Chains, bringing non-crypto natives into the broader ecosystem at scale.","Stablecoins can finally become what they were meant to be: networked money that moves as freely as information across the internet. JPMorgan, PayPal, and BNY Mellon are integrating stablecoins into their operations, and the payment layer must be ready to handle global scale. ethcash proves that crypto payments can match Web2 simplicity while delivering Web3's global reach and programmability.","AppChain demonstrates what happens when you build with values-first principles and focus on solving real problems for real people—you attract users building real businesses. The numbers tell the story: 1.4 million transactions, 354,000+ addresses, over 226,000 account abstraction wallets making blockchain invisible to end users. This is what mainstream adoption looks like when infrastructure meets intention.","For builders considering blockchain infrastructure for payments, the path is clear. Custom rollup with full sovereignty, integration into existing applications, sub-cent economics that make small payments viable, day-one liquidity access, complete stack covering rollup deployment through ecosystem connectivity, all in a single partnership. Caldera’s infrastructure is proven at scale across 50+ live rollups processing millions of transactions.","The future of payments isn't regional apps that aren’t interoperable. It's a unified network where value flows as freely as information, where sending money to Lagos is as simple as sending an email, where users never need to understand what blockchain is to benefit from it. AppChain is building that future on Caldera, and the infrastructure is ready for the next wave of payment applications to scale globally. Building the future of payments? Get in touch to learn more.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/appchain-on-caldera-making-global-payments-as-simple-as-cash"},"/blog/capx-chain-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Capx Chain Mainnet Now Live on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Building the Capital Formation Layer for AI Apps","Why AI Apps Need a Dedicated Appchain","How Caldera Powers Capx's Vision","A New Primitive for the Internet of Chains","The Future of AI Apps is Onchain","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Capx Chain Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Published on","Nov 3, 2025","The AI app economy is exploding. Consumer AI apps are hitting $1M MRR in under 7 months and seventeen-year-old founders are building $35M ARR businesses in 12 months. These are real, revenue-generating businesses scaling faster than anything we've seen in previous tech cycles.","But these builders are locked out of traditional venture funding. Their apps don't fit the \"scale fast, exit fast\" model VCs optimize for. Meanwhile, everyday users who want to invest early in these breakout apps have no way to participate in their upside.","Sequoia and top funds have made this clear across cloud, mobile, and now AI: the app layer is where value accrues. Yet there's no infrastructure enabling capital formation for this asset class. Builders can't access funding beyond traditional VC. Users can't own a piece of the AI apps they use daily. That changes today.","Capx is launching its mainnet on Caldera as a dedicated Ethereum Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum Nitro stack using Caldera's Rollup Engine, delivering the capital formation layer the AI app ecosystem needs.","Capx provides the economic and infrastructure rails the AI app economy needs to thrive. The protocol transforms revenue-generating AI apps into investable assets through three integrated layers:","Capx SuperApp functions as an App Store meets Robinhood interface where users can discover, use, and invest in consumer AI apps. This separates legitimate revenue-generating apps from memecoin noise through curation focused on actual business metrics.","Capx Chain delivers an optimized Ethereum L2 for app tokenization and trading. Every deployed app receives its own ERC-20 token through the automated Token Factory, with 1 billion fixed-supply tokens distributed across builders, ecosystem treasury, liquidity pools, and early users. These tokens trade against $CAPX on a native DEX, creating instant liquidity and price discovery based on app performance.","Capx Cloud provides $450M-secured decentralized hosting via Symbiotic restaking. This eliminates keyman risk: the threat that a developer could walk away with the codebase and userbase, leaving investors with nothing. By deploying apps on neutral, decentralized infrastructure, Capx protects both users and investors.","The protocol has already demonstrated significant traction during its testnet phase, processing over 100 million transactions across more than 450,000 wallet addresses, with a community of 500,000+ users spanning 95 countries. This proven infrastructure now transitions to mainnet, ready to scale the AI app economy.","$CAPX powers every layer as the native gas token, creating a unified economic system where builders access democratized funding, users capture upside from day one, and AI apps become a liquid, tradable asset class.","The market opportunity is massive. The AI app sector has seen 37x revenue growth in two years with several sector leading applications hitting over $1M ARR in just months. As these apps reach critical mass, the infrastructure for capital formation becomes essential.","Consumer AI apps have unique requirements that general-purpose chains can't support. Apps generating millions in MRR need predictable costs, instant token liquidity, and infrastructure optimized for their business model. A dedicated appchain was essential for three reasons:","Optimized for App Economics. Capx Chain provides blockspace specifically designed for app tokenization and trading. Transaction costs stay predictable even as trading volume scales, ensuring the economics work for both $10K MRR apps and $10M MRR apps.","Deep Protocol Customization. The Token Factory creates instant investability for every deployed app. A built-in AMM provides liquidity against $CAPX from day one. Custom execution environments support both EVM (Solidity) and WASM (Rust, C++) smart contracts through Arbitrum Stylus, enabling sophisticated app-specific logic.","Economic Sovereignty. Full control over the chain's economic model allows Capx to capture value from app activity (token launches, trading fees, transaction volume) and reinvest it into ecosystem growth, ensuring long-term sustainability as the app economy scales.","Capx partnered with Caldera to provide production-grade infrastructure optimized for app tokenization and trading at scale:","Production-Ready Arbitrum Nitro Infrastructure. Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered a fully managed Arbitrum Nitro rollup with Celestia for data availability, handling sequencing, transaction batching, and settlement to Ethereum. This combination drastically reduces transaction costs while maintaining Ethereum's security guarantees, making high-frequency app trading economically feasible. The infrastructure freed the Capx team to focus on building their app marketplace and tokenization infrastructure rather than managing blockchain operations.","Universal Connectivity Through the Metalayer. Through Caldera's Metalayer, Capx Chain connects to Base, BNB Chain, and the growing Caldera ecosystem. App tokens flow freely across chains, allowing users to invest from any network and creating deeper liquidity pools as the market matures. The Metalayer's intent-based architecture simplifies the user experience: users express simple goals like \"invest $100 in this AI app\" and solvers handle the optimal execution path across chains.","Native Token Portability with Metatoken. Through Caldera's Metatoken protocol, $CAPX achieves universal portability across all Metalayer-connected chains with the same contract address on every network. This integrated solution makes Capx's native token instantly accessible on Base, BNB Chain, and the entire Caldera ecosystem. AI app developers launching on Capx can also leverage Metatoken to make their app tokens omnichain, extending their reach to new ecosystems and user bases beyond Capx Chain itself.","Just as Cosmos grew stronger with each new specialized chain joining its ecosystem through IBC, or Polkadot expanded its capabilities as new parachains launched, Caldera's vision is to build an Internet of Chains where each new rollup adds unique capabilities to an interconnected network. Capx Chain's mainnet launch adds a critical missing piece: capital formation infrastructure for consumer AI apps.","Cross-Chain App Investment. A user on Base discovers a nutrition tracking AI app on the Capx SuperApp that's generating strong revenue growth. They can invest directly through a single transaction, with the Metalayer handling asset bridging and token purchase automatically. The app token remains liquid across the entire ecosystem.","Composable DeFi Integration. As AI app tokens prove their value through sustained revenue growth, DeFi protocols on other Metalayer-connected chains can integrate them as collateral, enable lending markets, or create index products that bundle top-performing app tokens. Through Metatoken, these app tokens can extend beyond Capx Chain to any connected network, transforming standalone businesses into composable financial primitives accessible across Base, BNB Chain, and beyond.","Network Effects Drive Shared Growth. As more AI apps launch on Capx and their tokens gain liquidity, the platform becomes more attractive to builders and investors alike. Users discovering high-performing apps on Capx can explore other applications in the Caldera ecosystem. Each new revenue-generating app increases the total addressable market and attracts more capital.","Capx Chain's launch delivers the infrastructure the AI app economy has been waiting for: a dedicated blockchain optimized for app tokenization, trading, and capital formation, connected to the broader onchain economy through the Metalayer.","For the first time, seventeen-year-old founders building $1M MRR apps can access capital from their users, not just Sand Hill Road. And those users own a piece of the apps they help scale. AI apps become liquid, tradable assets. As the AI app market expands from billions to hundreds of billions, Capx provides the foundation this ecosystem needs to thrive.","We're proud to support pioneers like Capx building the capital formation layer for AI apps. Congratulations to the entire team on this milestone.","Ready to launch your own dedicated rollup and join the Internet of Chains? Visit our deployment page to get started.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/capx-chain-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/intuition-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Building the Missing Infrastructure for an Intelligent Onchain World","Why Intuition Needed a Dedicated Appchain","How Caldera Powers Intuition's Vision","A New Primitive for the Internet of Chains","The Future is Interconnected","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Published on","Nov 5, 2025","Web3 has proven itself for securing financial assets. But when it comes to establishing trust and reputation, the tools remain fragmented and siloed. There's no native \"Web of Trust\" where information itself becomes a programmable, verifiable asset. This gap prevents the emergence of truly decentralized identity, robust reputation systems, and AI applications that can reason about trust and credibility.","Today, Intuition is solving this problem. Intuition launches its mainnet on Caldera as a dedicated Base L3 built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack using Caldera's Rollup Engine, transitioning from a successful testnet phase into a live, production-ready environment.","Intuition is creating a foundational piece of infrastructure: a shared memory layer for crypto. By enabling anyone to make verifiable claims, or \"attestations,\" about anything (from a smart contract's security to a user's reputation), the protocol bootstraps a decentralized knowledge graph. Think of it as Wikipedia meets blockchain, where users can stake on the accuracy of information, turning knowledge into a tradable, composable asset.","This \"Web of Trust\" is designed to give both humans and AI better intuition by providing the data they need, from sources they trust, at the moment they need it. Intuition functions as a dynamic information market where truth emerges through economic incentives and community curation.","In preparation for mainnet, the Intuition team has launched the Ecosystem Instantiation Initiative. This program combines a long-form hackathon with their first official grants program. It invites builders to deploy high-quality applications and tooling directly on mainnet, moving from \"testnet tinkering\" to an ecosystem with \"real money, real stakes, real users”, creating a community-driven approach to bootstrap a vibrant knowledge economy from day one.","During its successful beta on Base, Intuition proved demand for its core primitives. However, to scale their vision of becoming the \"data liquidity layer for the internet\" (a protocol designed to handle trillions of attestations and complex information markets), the limitations of a shared, general-purpose network became clear.","Building on a dedicated appchain was essential for three main reasons:","Deep Protocol Customization. Implementing a new economic model for \"Information Finance\" as a native, chain-level feature required deep control over the execution environment. This level of customization is only possible on a sovereign rollup where Intuition controls the core protocol design.","Economic Sovereignty. A custom appchain gives Intuition full control over its fee structure and incentive mechanisms. This allows the team to capture value generated by the protocol to fund future R&D, ensure long-term sustainability, and align economic incentives precisely with their vision for a decentralized knowledge graph.","An Optimized, Uncongested Environment. To guarantee the performance and reliability needed for its core functions, Intuition required its own dedicated blockspace. On a shared L2, the protocol would compete for resources with unrelated DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, and gaming applications. This creates unpredictable costs and performance bottlenecks.","To bring this ambitious project to life, Intuition partnered with Caldera to provide the flexible, powerful infrastructure needed to realize their vision.","Production-Ready Infrastructure. Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered a fully managed, production-ready Arbitrum Orbit rollup, handling all the underlying complexities: running the sequencer, batching transactions, and settling to Base. This freed the Intuition team to focus entirely on developing their groundbreaking protocol for verifiable data, rather than managing blockchain infrastructure.","Universal Token Accessibility with Metatoken. An appchain provides sovereignty, but Intuition's native $TRUST token (central to the protocol's design) needed to be accessible across the entire onchain economy. To achieve this, Intuition became one of the first projects to adopt Caldera's Metatoken protocol.","Built on the Metalayer (Caldera's universal interoperability network), Metatoken is a lock-and-mint bridge protocol designed specifically for \"long-tail\" assets like protocol tokens. It allows $TRUST to be seamlessly bridged across the entire Caldera ecosystem with the same verifiable contract address on every chain, all while Intuition retains full control. This provides a cost-effective and secure way to achieve the universal reach that their protocol demands, without the six-figure integration fees charged by alternative solutions.","Just as Cosmos grew stronger with each new specialized chain joining its ecosystem through IBC, or Polkadot expanded its capabilities as new parachains launched, Caldera's vision is to build an Internet of Chains where each new rollup adds unique capabilities to an interconnected network.","Intuition's mainnet launch exemplifies this vision perfectly. This launch adds a foundational new primitive that any other Metalayer-connected network can leverage, creating a powerful flywheel for the entire ecosystem:","New Capabilities Unlock Cross-Chain Use Cases. Intuition brings a \"shared memory\" and \"Web of Trust\" layer that any application can now access. Manta Pacific could integrate Intuition's attestations to verify user credentials for privacy-preserving DeFi protocols. RARI Chain could leverage the knowledge graph to verify creator authenticity and strengthen royalty enforcement. B3's gaming ecosystem could create persistent player achievements that follow users across games.","Network Effects Drive Shared Growth. As $TRUST and other assets move seamlessly via the Metalayer, liquidity deepens and user bases expand. Users discovering Intuition explore other Caldera applications, and vice versa. Each new integration makes the platform more valuable, attracting more builders, which creates more integration opportunities. This is the flywheel in action.","Intuition's launch proves that the future of onchain innovation lies in specialized, interoperable rollups. By combining the sovereignty of a dedicated appchain with the connectivity of the ​​Metalayer, Intuition can build exactly the protocol it envisions while remaining deeply integrated with a growing ecosystem of complementary applications.","As more pioneering projects like Intuition choose to build on Caldera, the collective value and capabilities of the entire network compound. Each new chain doesn't just add users or TVL. It adds unique functionality that makes every other chain in the ecosystem more powerful.","This is the Internet of Chains in action: a unified network where innovation flows freely, liquidity moves seamlessly, and builders can focus on creating groundbreaking applications rather than reinventing infrastructure.","We're proud to provide the foundational platform for pioneers like Intuition to build the future. Congratulations to the entire Intuition team on this incredible milestone.","Ready to launch your own dedicated rollup and join the Internet of Chains? Visit our deployment page to get started.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 25, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/intuition-mainnet-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/horizen-mainnet-is-now-live-on-caldera":{"version":1,"title":"Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Why Privacy Matters for the Next Phase of Web3","A Privacy Chain Inside the Internet of Chains","How the Metalayer Multiplies Horizen’s Impact","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Open","The Privacy Era of the Internet of Chains Begins","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Confidential DeFi Across Chains","Private Identity & Reputation for Every Appchain","Privacy for AI-Enabled Applications","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Published on","Dec 9, 2025","In our previous announcement, we shared how Horizen was preparing to bring privacy-preserving infrastructure to Caldera through a dedicated appchain built with the Rollup Engine. Today, that moment has arrived: Horizen’s mainnet is officially live. This launch isn’t just another chain going live. It’s the introduction of privacy as a first-class primitive into the Caldera ecosystem — a capability that unlocks entirely new categories of onchain applications, use cases, and cross-chain interactions. Horizen is now the privacy backbone of the Internet of Chains.","Public blockchains have made data verifiable, but not private. Everything — user behavior, business logic, transaction intent — is exposed. For consumer applications, enterprise adoption, and AI-driven systems, this is a structural barrier. Horizen solves this by providing configurable, end-to-end privacy infrastructure. Its mainnet combines:","Zero-knowledge capabilities for proving facts without revealing sensitive information","Selective disclosure so users and enterprises choose what to revealCompliance-aware architecture that preserves auditability while keeping data confidential","Full EVM compatibility, meaning builders can use standard tooling while gaining advanced privacy protections This transforms privacy from an afterthought into a programmable feature of the chain itself. And now, thanks to Caldera, that privacy becomes interoperable.","Horizen’s mainnet joins a growing network of specialized rollups built on the Caldera Metalayer. But Horizen contributes something unique: privacy as a shared capability across the entire ecosystem. This unlocks a host of cross-chain possibilities:","Other Metalayer-connected L2s can route sensitive transactions through Horizen for private order flow, compliance checks, or selective verification.","Gaming rollups can use Horizen to hold private player profiles. Social rollups can keep user graphs confidential but provable. Enterprise chains can integrate KYB/KYC without leaking user data.","AI systems require verifiable yet private datasets. Horizen provides the confidentiality layer while Caldera provides the interoperability, allowing AI agents to operate across chains without compromising sensitive information.","Horizen chose Caldera partly to ensure its privacy stack wasn’t isolated. With mainnet live:","ZEN becomes universally accessible through Metatoken and the Metalayer","Attestations, proofs, and confidential data flows can move across chains","Developers building on any Caldera chain can instantly deploy private components by calling into Horizen","This accelerates the ecosystem flywheel:","New chains launch →","They integrate Horizen’s privacy features →","Users and liquidity flow across the network →","More developers build →","More chains join →","Horizen grows as the privacy hub","With mainnet live, developers can begin deploying privacy-preserving applications that simply aren’t possible on transparent chains. Users can access these applications using standard Ethereum wallets, such as Metamask.","Developers and users alike can get started by visiting https://horizen.hub.caldera.xyz.","This launch marks a pivotal expansion of Caldera’s vision: a world where specialized chains form a unified, interoperable network — and where privacy is a core building block, not an optional add-on. Horizen’s mainnet is now live. Its privacy infrastructure is now interoperable. And the Caldera ecosystem is stronger, more capable, and more composable than ever. Congratulations to the Horizen team on reaching this milestone. We’re proud to partner with them in building the next generation of confidential, interconnected blockchain systems.","Nov 25, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/horizen-mainnet-is-now-live-on-caldera"},"/blog/era-s-onchain-expansion-continues-era-is-now-live-on-base":{"version":1,"title":"ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Enabled by the Caldera Metalayer","Why Base?","What’s Next","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Bringing Caldera’s Token to One of the Fastest-Growing Onchain Ecosystems","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Introducing the Caldera Stablecoin Module","Introducing Metatoken: A New Standard for Multichain Tokens","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Product","ERA's onchain expansion continues: ERA is now live on Base","Published on","Dec 14, 2025","As part of the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program, we’re excited to announce that the $ERA token is now live on Base, marking a major step toward making ERA more accessible across the onchain economy. The ERA token is accessible at address 0x00312400303d02c323295f6e8b7309bc30fb6bce on Base.","Today, liquidity for ERA on Base is available on Aerodrome, giving users a seamless way to trade and interact with the token directly within Base’s rapidly growing ecosystem of consumer apps, DeFi protocols, and onchain experiences.","ERA’s expansion to Base is powered by the Caldera Metalayer — our multichain infrastructure that maintains the same canonical ERA token across all supported chains.","With Metalayer:","Bridging ERA to and from Base is near-instant","Users and apps interact with a single, unified asset, not wrapped variants","Liquidity can flow naturally across ecosystems","Builders can integrate ERA without worrying about cross-chain fragmentation","You can bridge ERA at bridge.caldera.xyz.","Base has rapidly become one of the most vibrant networks in crypto — home to consumer apps, novel onchain experiences, and a massive influx of new users. Expanding ERA to Base helps:","Increase accessibility for developers and users","Strengthen ERA liquidity across major venues","Expand the footprint of the Caldera ecosystem into new high-growth sectors","ERA on Base lays the groundwork for deeper integrations across the chain and continued expansion throughout the broader ecosystem.","ERA’s Base deployment is the next step in a broader strategy. The Onchain Expansion Program will continue to introduce ERA to additional networks, deepen liquidity, and enhance the multichain capabilities enabled by Metalayer.","Sep 10, 2025","Sep 3, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/era-s-onchain-expansion-continues-era-is-now-live-on-base"},"/blog/horizen-joins-the-caldera-ecosystem-to-launch-privacy-first-blockchain-on-base":{"version":1,"title":"Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Building the Infrastructure for Confidential Web3","Why Horizen Needed a Dedicated Appchain","How Caldera Powers Horizen’s Vision","A New Primitive for the Internet of Chains","The Future is Interconnected, Confidential, and Sovereign","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Horizen Mainnet Is Now Live on Caldera","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Intuition Mainnet Now Live on Caldera","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Customer","Horizen joins the Caldera Ecosystem, to launch Privacy-first Blockchain on Base","Published on","Nov 25, 2025","Today, Web3 has proven itself for securing assets and moving money. But when it comes to protecting data, maintaining confidentiality, and enabling truly private, compliant applications, the tools remain fragmented and siloed. There’s still no native, generalized “privacy-first infrastructure” for Web3: one that combines confidentiality, regulatory alignment and seamless composability across chains.","Enter Horizen. Horizen is launching its mainnet with Caldera as a dedicated appchain built via Caldera’s Rollup Engine — a full production-ready environment where privacy meets interoperability, moving beyond testnets into live deployments. Horizen is an EVM blockchain built on Base for secure, regulatory-compliant confidential trading and DeFi applications for individual traders and financial institutions.","The Horizen testnet is already live, and open for users to explore and developers to launch applications.","Horizen is delivering what many blockchains promise but few deliver: a modular, EVM-compatible chain optimized for confidential, compliant, developer-friendly applications.","Key elements of Horizen’s vision:","Privacy by design: integrating technologies like zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution environments and selective disclosure.","Compliance aware: giving enterprises the tools to build onchain privacy solutions while retaining auditability, regulatory alignment, and control.","Developer-first: EVM-compatible, enabling development with familiar stacks (Solidity, Ethers, Viem, and Foundry) so privacy isn’t the barrier but the enabler.Now, by launching on Caldera, Horizen gains access to a high-performance, sovereign rollup environment that’s already connected into a broader interoperable network — giving the chain the advantages of both privacy sovereignty and cross-chain reach.","In its evolution, Horizen recognized three core limitations of building on a generic shared layer:","1. Deep protocol customization for privacy Horizen needed to embed confidentiality, selective disclosure, and custom governance directly into the chain’s native execution model. Only a sovereign rollup can give that level of control.","2. Economic sovereignty and token utility Horizen’s native token (ZEN) and privacy stack required bespoke fee models, staking mechanisms, and ecosystem incentives aligned with confidentiality and compliance use-cases. A dedicated chain enables full alignment.","3. Uncongested, predictable performance Privacy-enabled applications demand consistent performance and reliability—not subject to the traffic surges of generic DeFi and gaming activity. A dedicated chain ensures resource availability and premium UX.","Caldera brings the infrastructure so Horizen can focus purely on privacy innovation:","Production-ready infrastructure: Caldera’s Rollup Engine handles sequencer operations, batching and settlement, so Horizen doesn’t have to build chain operations from scratch.","Built on Base: As a Base L3, Horizen can tap into the network effects provided by one of the top rollups on Ethereum. Horizen’s token, ZEN, has already completed its migration to Base, unlocking access to liquidity and enabling the onboarding of privacy-focused token holders.","Sovereign yet connected: Horizen retains full protocol sovereignty while being part of a wider Internet of Chains — the best of both worlds.","With Horizen’s appchain launch, Caldera’s ecosystem gains a powerful new building-block: a privacy-centric rollup that any other chain in the network can tap. The flywheel is real:","Other chains in Caldera’s ecosystem can plug into Horizen’s privacy primitives: identity systems, confidential finance modules, developer tooling.","Liquidity and value propagate: ZEN via Metatoken moves across chains; developers on Horizen build tools that serve users elsewhere.","Network effects intensify: each added chain (Horizen included) doesn’t just bring more users — it brings unique capabilities that strengthen the entire network.","Horizen’s launch shows that the next wave of on-chain innovation isn’t about just decentralizing finance — it’s about privacy, compliance, sovereign execution, and interoperability. By combining a dedicated appchain architecture with the connectivity of Caldera’s Metalayer, Horizen can pioneer a new category of apps: confidential, developer-friendly, multi-chain.","As more projects like Horizen build on Caldera, we’re not just adding chains — we’re adding distinct capabilities that raise the baseline for everyone. The Internet of Chains isn’t just about scaling users. It’s about scaling possibilities.","We’re proud to power innovators like Horizen as they push the frontier. Congratulations to the Horizen team on this major milestone.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.","Website | X/Twitter | Docs | Rollup Engine | Metalayer","Dec 9, 2025","Nov 5, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/horizen-joins-the-caldera-ecosystem-to-launch-privacy-first-blockchain-on-base"},"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-onchain-expansion-program-era-is-live-on-arbitrum-one":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Expanding ERA Across the Onchain Economy","ERA Is Now Live on Arbitrum One","Powered by Caldera Metalayer: Near-Instant Bridging, Unified Liquidity","Why the Onchain Expansion Program Matters","What’s Coming Next","About Caldera","Other blog posts"],"h3":["1. Universal Access","2. Liquidity Everywhere","3. Deep Integrations","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community","Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community","Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Announcement","Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One","Published on","Dec 4, 2025","Today, we’re launching the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program—our long-term initiative to bring the $ERA token to more networks, more liquidity venues, and more users across the onchain world. This program is designed to make ERA one of the most widely accessible, deeply integrated across the blockchain ecosystem.","And we’re starting with Arbitrum One, the top Ethereum L2 by total value secured.","As the first step in the expansion program, the ERA token is now natively available on one of the most active ecosystems in crypto: Arbitrum. The canonical ERA token is deployed at Arbitrum contract address 0x00312400303d02c323295f6e8b7309bc30fb6bce.","To support this launch, a liquidity pool has been seeded on Uniswap on Arbitrum One. Users can now trade between ERA and USDC, USDT, and ETH on Arbitrum.","This pool provides deep, permissionless liquidity from day one, allowing users to trade ERA seamlessly where they already spend their time onchain. Additionally, user-facing applications such as wallets and bridge aggregators can integrate ERA on Arbitrum.","What makes this expansion possible is the Caldera Metalayer, our unified multichain infrastructure that abstracts away the fragmentation typical of bridging and token deployments.","With the Metalayer:","Bridging ERA takes seconds","Users get a consistent, canonical ERA asset across supported chains","Liquidity can flow smoothly between ecosystems","Applications can compose across chains without fragmentation","The Metalayer is the connective tissue enabling the future we’ve always envisioned: scalable, specialized chains that remain unified at the asset and liquidity layer.","You can bridge ERA via the Metalayer at bridge.caldera.xyz.","The program is designed around three core goals:","ERA should be available wherever developers build and users transact. Supporting more chains means reducing friction and enabling broader utility.","By intentionally expanding liquidity across top L2s and eventually L3s, we strengthen the foundation for the entire Caldera ecosystem — including ecosystem chains, applications, and the Metalayer itself.","Multichain deployment isn’t just about token presence — it’s about embedding ERA into the workflows, incentives, and infrastructure of the ecosystems where modern applications live.","ERA’s onchain footprint will continue to grow in phases, each adding new venues and new capabilities.","The Arbitrum launch is just the beginning.","Over the coming months, the Onchain Expansion Program will introduce:","Additional ERA deployments across major execution environments","Deeper liquidity programs and cross-chain market-making support","Expanded integrations with Caldera ecosystem chains","More venues powered by instant Metalayer bridging","This is the foundation for a broader, more interoperable, more scalable Caldera universe.","Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains.","Website | X | Docs","Feb 4, 2026","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-the-caldera-onchain-expansion-program-era-is-live-on-arbitrum-one"},"/blog/introducing-era-drops-the-airdrop-hub-for-the-caldera-community":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["What Are ERA Drops?","Featured ERA Drop: Espresso","A Growing Ecosystem, Shared Upside","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community","Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community","Introducing the Caldera Onchain Expansion Program: ERA is live on Arbitrum One","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Announcement","Introducing ERA Drops: The Airdrop Hub for the Caldera Community","Published on","Feb 4, 2026","Caldera is built around one core idea: ecosystems grow fastest when builders and users are aligned.","As the Caldera ecosystem expands, more partners — from appchains to infrastructure and integration teams — are choosing to directly reward the Caldera community. To support this, we’re introducing ERA Drops: a Caldera-led initiative that highlights airdrops from partners who have committed to distributing tokens to $ERA holders, stakers, and active Caldera ecosystem participants.","ERA Drops exists for one reason: to make sure the Caldera community is recognized and rewarded as the ecosystem grows.","ERA Drops is a curated initiative featuring airdrops from Caldera-aligned partners who have chosen to include the Caldera community in their token distributions.","These drops are not random listings or speculative opportunities. Every ERA Drop comes from a partner that:","Is building on Caldera or integrating with the ecosystem","Is aligned with Caldera’s long-term vision","Has intentionally chosen to airdrop to $ERA holders, stakers, or ecosystem users","ERA Drops makes these commitments visible — and easy to follow — in one place.","ERA Drops are designed specifically for:","$ERA holders and stakers supporting the network","Users participating in Caldera-powered chains","Builders deploying, integrating, and experimenting within the ecosystem","If you fall into one of the above categories, you may qualify for ERA drops.","Espresso is the first project featured on ERA Drops — and a strong example of what this initiative is all about.","Espresso is a core piece of infrastructure for the rollup ecosystem, providing shared sequencing to help rollups scale while maintaining strong guarantees around decentralization and composability. As a key integration with Caldera’s technology, Espresso has chosen to meaningfully reward the Caldera community as part of its initial token distribution.","Through its airdrop, the Caldera ecosystem collectively accounts for close to 2% of the total initial $ESP supply. This includes allocations for Caldera-supported rollups such as ApeChain, RARI Chain, Molten, Rufus, and NodeOps, as well as broader ecosystem participation.","This allocation reflects Espresso’s alignment with Caldera and its recognition of the role Caldera-powered rollups play in advancing the modular stack. For Caldera users and builders, it’s a concrete example of shared upside.","ERA Drops reflect a simple principle: as Caldera grows, its community should grow with it.","As more Caldera integrations and users choose to align themselves with the Caldera community, ERA Drops helps reinforce shared incentives across the ecosystem — builders, users, and infrastructure alike.","This is just the beginning. As more partners join the Caldera ecosystem, ERA Drops will continue to evolve as a way to surface meaningful rewards and deepen alignment.","Dec 4, 2025","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-era-drops-the-airdrop-hub-for-the-caldera-community"},"/blog/caldera-partners-with-bitcoinos-to-bring-bitcoin-native-security-to-high-performance-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups - Caldera - The Internet of Rollups","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":["Other blog posts"],"h2":["Why This Partnership Matters","What This Partnership Delivers","What This Means for Builders on Caldera","Looking Ahead","Other blog posts"],"h3":["Launch Fast, With Proven Infrastructure","Modern Security, Without the Complexity","A Real Upgrade Path to ZK and External Anchoring","Flexible Sequencing, Your Way","Other blog posts"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Other blog posts","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","The Multi-VM Era of Rollups: Deploy SVM Rollups on Caldera","Integrate ZK Proofs on OP Stack Chains with Succinct","Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Integration","Caldera Partners with BitcoinOS to Bring Bitcoin-Native Security to High-Performance Rollups","Published on","Jan 29, 2026","We're thrilled to announce our partnership with BitcoinOS (BOS), a collaboration that opens a new frontier for rollup builders: the ability to launch production-ready chains today while gaining a clear path to Bitcoin-level security.","This partnership combines Caldera's battle-tested Rollup-as-a-Service infrastructure with BOS's trust-minimized settlement layer, proof systems, and Bitcoin anchoring roadmap. The result? Builders no longer have to choose between speed-to-market and long-term security guarantees.","At Caldera, we've always believed that great infrastructure should meet builders where they are, and grow with them. Our Rollup Engine already powers some of the most advanced rollups in production, with flexible execution environments and deep modular integrations.","But we've heard a consistent ask from teams exploring Bitcoin-aligned architectures: How do we get the performance and reliability we need today, without painting ourselves into a corner on settlement and security?","BitcoinOS answers that question. Their infrastructure layer enables rollups to settle credibly to Bitcoin and Bitcoin-adjacent networks using modern cryptography, trusted execution environments, and zero-knowledge proofs, all without requiring teams to rebuild from scratch later.","Together, we're offering builders the best of both worlds.","Caldera's stack is designed for production. Teams building with BOS can now leverage our Rollup Engine as their preferred deployment path, getting live faster with less custom engineering, while retaining full control over execution and settlement choices.","BOS integrates trusted execution environments (like AWS Nitro) to support secure batch posting, proof generation, and verification. Combined with Caldera's infrastructure, this means chains can enforce correctness guarantees at the infrastructure layer from day one.","Through our modular architecture, chains launched today can evolve toward ZK-based state proofs and external state anchoring including Bitcoin-adjacent networks like Litecoin, as part of BOS's roadmap. No forced migrations. No dead ends.","Start with centralized sequencing for simplicity. Upgrade to decentralized or shared models when you're ready. Caldera and BOS support this progression without requiring architectural rewrites.","If you're building with Caldera:","You now have direct access to Bitcoin-aligned settlement and proof systems","You can position your chain to integrate with the broader BOS ecosystem as it expands","You retain full optionality across execution, sequencing, and settlement layers","Over the coming months, Caldera and BitcoinOS will collaborate on joint support for ecosystem rollups, deeper integrations with proof and verification layers, and shared go-to-market efforts for Bitcoin-aligned projects.","We're excited to support the next generation of rollups, and to help them settle on foundations that actually matter.","Dec 18, 2024","Oct 9, 2024","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/caldera-partners-with-bitcoinos-to-bring-bitcoin-native-security-to-high-performance-rollups"},"/terms":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera - The Internet of Chains","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Terms of Service"],"h3":["Terms of Service"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Last updated: April 08, 2024","The website located at https://caldera.xyz (the “Site”) is a copyrighted work belonging to Constellation Labs, Inc (“Company”, “us”, “our”, and “we”).  Certain features of the Site may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules, which will be posted on the Site in connection with such features.  All such additional terms, guidelines, and rules are incorporated by reference into these Terms.","THESE TERMS OF USE (THESE “TERMS”) SET FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE SITE.  BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THESE TERMS (ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF OR THE ENTITY THAT YOU REPRESENT), AND YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, AUTHORITY, AND CAPACITY TO ENTER INTO THESE TERMS (ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF OR THE ENTITY THAT YOU REPRESENT).  YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE OR ACCEPT THE TERMS IF YOU ARE NOT AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THE PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS AND/OR USE THE SITE.","PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SECTION 10.2 CONTAINS PROVISIONS GOVERNING HOW TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY. 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Such action may include removing or modifying your User Content, terminating your Account in accordance with Section 8, and/or reporting you to law enforcement authorities.","Indemnification.   You agree to indemnify and hold Company (and its officers, employees, and agents) harmless, including costs and attorneys’ fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your use of the Site, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of applicable laws or regulations or (d) your User Content.  Company reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims.  You agree not to settle any matter without the prior written consent of Company.  Company will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action or proceeding upon becoming aware of it.","Third-Party Links & Ads; Other Users","Third-Party Links & Ads.  The Site may contain links to third-party websites and services, and/or display advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Links & Ads”).  Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not under the control of Company, and Company is not responsible for any Third-Party Links & Ads.  Company provides access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads.  You use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices.  You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction in connection with such Third-Party Links & Ads.","Other Users.  Each Site user is solely responsible for any and all of its own User Content.  Since we do not control User Content, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content, whether provided by you or by others.  We make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, appropriateness, or quality of any User Content.  Your interactions with other Site users are solely between you and such users.  You agree that Company will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such interactions.  If there is a dispute between you and any Site user, we are under no obligation to become involved.","Release.  You hereby release and forever discharge Company (and our officers, employees, agents, successors, and assigns) from, and hereby waive and relinquish, each and every past, present and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right, obligation, liability, action and cause of action of every kind and nature (including personal injuries, death, and property damage), that has arisen or arises directly or indirectly out of, or that relates directly or indirectly to, the Site (including any interactions with, or act or omission of, other Site users or any Third-Party Links & Ads).  IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”","Disclaimers","THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND COMPANY (AND OUR SUPPLIERS) EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.  WE (AND OUR SUPPLIERS) MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS, OR WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE, COMPLETE, LEGAL, OR SAFE.  IF APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO 90 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF FIRST USE.","SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.  SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.","Limitation on Liability","TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY (OR OUR SUPPLIERS) BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS, OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  ACCESS TO, AND USE OF, THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING THEREFROM.","TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS (FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION), WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM OF FIFTY US DOLLARS. THE EXISTENCE OF MORE THAN ONE CLAIM WILL NOT ENLARGE THIS LIMIT.  YOU AGREE THAT OUR SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS.","SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.","Term and Termination.   Subject to this Section, these Terms will remain in full force and effect while you use the Site.  We may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Site (including your Account) at any time for any reason at our sole discretion, including for any use of the Site in violation of these Terms.  Upon termination of your rights under these Terms, your Account and right to access and use the Site will terminate immediately.  You understand that any termination of your Account may involve deletion of your User Content associated with your Account from our live databases.  Company will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights under these Terms, including for termination of your Account or deletion of your User Content.  Even after your rights under these Terms are terminated, the following provisions of these Terms will remain in effect: Sections 2.2 through 2.6, Section 3 and Sections 4 through 10.","Copyright Policy.","Company respects the intellectual property of others and asks that users of our Site do the same.  In connection with our Site, we have adopted and implemented a policy respecting copyright law that provides for the removal of any infringing materials and for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users of our online Site who are repeat infringers of intellectual property rights, including copyrights.  If you believe that one of our users is, through the use of our Site, unlawfully infringing the copyright(s) in a work, and wish to have the allegedly infringing material removed, the following information in the form of a written notification (pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) must be provided to our designated Copyright Agent:","your physical or electronic signature;","identification of the copyrighted work(s) that you claim to have been infringed;","identification of the material on our services that you claim is infringing and that you request us to remove;","sufficient information to permit us to locate such material;","your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;","a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the objectionable material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or under the law; and","a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are either the owner of the copyright that has allegedly been infringed or that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.","Please note that, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any misrepresentation of material fact (falsities) in a written notification automatically subjects the complaining party to liability for any damages, costs and attorney’s fees incurred by us in connection with the written notification and allegation of copyright infringement.","General","Changes.  These Terms are subject to occasional revision, and if we make any substantial changes, we may notify you by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us (if any), and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Site.  You are responsible for providing us with your most current e-mail address.  In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice.  Continued use of our Site following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.","Dispute Resolution. Please read the following arbitration agreement in this Section (the “Arbitration Agreement”) carefully.  It requires you to arbitrate disputes with Company, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives (collectively, the “Company Parties”) and limits the manner in which you can seek relief from the Company Parties.","Applicability of Arbitration Agreement.  You agree that any dispute between you and any of the Company Parties relating in any way to the Site, the services offered on the Site (the “Services”) or these Terms will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that (1) you and the Company Parties may assert individualized claims in small claims court if the claims qualify, remain in such court and advance solely on an individual, non-class basis; and (2) you or the Company Parties may seek equitable relief in court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights (such as trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents). This Arbitration Agreement shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms and shall apply, without limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before you agreed to these Terms (in accordance with the preamble) or any prior version of these Terms. This Arbitration Agreement does not preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state or local agencies.  Such agencies can, if the law allows, seek relief against the Company Parties on your behalf.  For purposes of this Arbitration Agreement, “Dispute” will also include disputes that arose or involve facts occurring before the existence of this or any prior versions of the Agreement as well as claims that may arise after the termination of these Terms.","Informal Dispute Resolution. There might be instances when a Dispute arises between you and Company. If that occurs, Company is committed to working with you to reach a reasonable resolution. You and Company agree that good faith informal efforts to resolve Disputes can result in a prompt, low‐cost and mutually beneficial outcome. You and Company therefore agree that before either party commences arbitration against the other (or initiates an action in small claims court if a party so elects), we will personally meet and confer telephonically or via videoconference, in a good faith effort to resolve informally any Dispute covered by this Arbitration Agreement (“Informal Dispute Resolution Conference”). If you are represented by counsel, your counsel may participate in the conference, but you will also participate in the conference. The party initiating a Dispute must give notice to the other party in writing of its intent to initiate an Informal Dispute Resolution Conference (“Notice”), which shall occur within 45 days after the other party receives such Notice, unless an extension is mutually agreed upon by the parties. Notice to Company that you intend to initiate an Informal Dispute Resolution Conference should be sent by email to: matt@caldera.xyz, or by regular mail to 589 Howard St, Floor 3, San Francisco, California 94105. The Notice must include: (1) your name, telephone number, mailing address, e‐mail address associated with your account (if you have one); (2) the name, telephone number, mailing address and e‐mail address of your counsel, if any; and (3) a description of your Dispute. The Informal Dispute Resolution Conference shall be individualized such that a separate conference must be held each time either party initiates a Dispute, even if the same law firm or group of law firms represents multiple users in similar cases, unless all parties agree; multiple individuals initiating a Dispute cannot participate in the same Informal Dispute Resolution Conference unless all parties agree. In the time between a party receiving the Notice and the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference, nothing in this Arbitration Agreement shall prohibit the parties from engaging in informal communications to resolve the initiating party’s Dispute. Engaging in the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference is a condition precedent and requirement that must be fulfilled before commencing arbitration. The statute of limitations and any filing fee deadlines shall be tolled while the parties engage in the Informal Dispute Resolution Conference process required by this section.","Arbitration Rules and Forum. These Terms evidence a transaction involving interstate commerce; and notwithstanding any other provision herein with respect to the applicable substantive law, the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration Agreement and any arbitration proceedings. If the Informal Dispute Resolution Process described above does not resolve satisfactorily within 60 days after receipt of your Notice, you and Company agree that either party shall have the right to finally resolve the Dispute through binding arbitration. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration Agreement. The arbitration will be conducted by JAMS, an established alternative dispute resolution provider. Disputes involving claims and counterclaims with an amount in controversy under $250,000, not inclusive of attorneys’ fees and interest, shall be subject to JAMS’ most current version of the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and procedures available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-streamlined-arbitration/; all other claims shall be subject to JAMS’s most current version of the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures, available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/. JAMS’s rules are also available at www.jamsadr.com or by calling JAMS at 800-352-5267. A party who wishes to initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a request for arbitration (the “Request”). The Request must include: (1) the name, telephone number, mailing address, e‐mail address of the party seeking arbitration and the account username (if applicable) as well as the email address associated with any applicable account; (2) a statement of the legal claims being asserted and the factual bases of those claims; (3) a description of the remedy sought and an accurate, good‐faith calculation of the amount in controversy in United States Dollars; (4) a statement certifying completion of the Informal Dispute Resolution process as described above; and (5) evidence that the requesting party has paid any necessary filing fees in connection with such arbitration. If the party requesting arbitration is represented by counsel, the Request shall also include counsel’s name, telephone number, mailing address, and email address. Such counsel must also sign the Request. By signing the Request, counsel certifies to the best of counsel’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, that: (1) the Request is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of dispute resolution; (2) the claims, defenses and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law; and (3) the factual and damages contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery. Unless you and Company otherwise agree, or the Batch Arbitration process discussed in Subsection 10.2(h) is triggered, the arbitration will be conducted in the county where you reside. Subject to the JAMS Rules, the arbitrator may direct a limited and reasonable exchange of information between the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the arbitration. If the JAMS is not available to arbitrate, the parties will select an alternative arbitral forum. Your responsibility to pay any JAMS fees and costs will be solely as set forth in the applicable JAMS Rules. You and Company agree that all materials and documents exchanged during the arbitration proceedings shall be kept confidential and shall not be shared with anyone except the parties’ attorneys, accountants, or business advisors, and then subject to the condition that they agree to keep all materials and documents exchanged during the arbitration proceedings confidential.","Authority of Arbitrator. The arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to resolve all disputes subject to arbitration hereunder including, without limitation, any dispute related to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Arbitration Agreement or any portion of the Arbitration Agreement, except for the following: (1) all Disputes arising out of or relating to the subsection entitled “Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief,” including any claim that all or part of the subsection entitled “Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief” is unenforceable, illegal, void or voidable, or that such subsection entitled “Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief” has been breached, shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator; (2) except as expressly contemplated in the subsection entitled “Batch Arbitration,” all Disputes about the payment of arbitration fees shall be decided only by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator; (3) all Disputes about whether either party has satisfied any condition precedent to arbitration shall be decided only by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator; and (4) all Disputes about which version of the Arbitration Agreement applies shall be decided only by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator.  The arbitration proceeding will not be consolidated with any other matters or joined with any other cases or parties, except as expressly provided in the subsection entitled “Batch Arbitration.” The arbitrator shall have the authority to grant motions dispositive of all or part of any claim or dispute. The arbitrator shall have the authority to award monetary damages and to grant any non-monetary remedy or relief available to an individual party under applicable law, the arbitral forum’s rules, and these Terms (including the Arbitration Agreement). The arbitrator shall issue a written award and statement of decision describing the essential findings and conclusions on which any award (or decision not to render an award) is based, including the calculation of any damages awarded. The arbitrator shall follow the applicable law. The award of the arbitrator is final and binding upon you and us. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.","Waiver of Jury Trial. EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 10.2(A)  YOU AND THE COMPANY PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE ANY CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A TRIAL IN FRONT OF A JUDGE OR A JURY. You and the Company Parties are instead electing that all covered claims and disputes shall be resolved exclusively by arbitration under this Arbitration Agreement, except as specified in Section 10.2(a) above. An arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court and must follow these Terms as a court would. However, there is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is subject to very limited review.","Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief.  YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT, EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION 10.2(H)  EACH OF US MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR COLLECTIVE BASIS, AND THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO HAVE ANY DISPUTE BE BROUGHT, HEARD, ADMINISTERED, RESOLVED, OR ARBITRATED ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, REPRESENTATIVE, OR MASS ACTION BASIS. ONLY INDIVIDUAL RELIEF IS AVAILABLE, AND DISPUTES OF MORE THAN ONE CUSTOMER OR USER CANNOT BE ARBITRATED OR CONSOLIDATED WITH THOSE OF ANY OTHER CUSTOMER OR USER. Subject to this Arbitration Agreement, the arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the party’s individual claim. Nothing in this paragraph is intended to, nor shall it, affect the terms and conditions under the Subsection 10.2(h) entitled “Batch Arbitration.” Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Arbitration Agreement, if a court decides by means of a final decision, not subject to any further appeal or recourse, that the limitations of this subsection, “Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief,” are invalid or unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief (such as a request for public injunctive relief), you and Company agree that that particular claim or request for relief (and only that particular claim or request for relief) shall be severed from the arbitration and may be litigated in the state or federal courts located in the State of California. All other Disputes shall be arbitrated or litigated in small claims court. This subsection does not prevent you or Company from participating in a class-wide settlement of claims.","Attorneys’ Fees and Costs. The parties shall bear their own attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of the Dispute or the relief sought in the Request was frivolous or was brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)). If you or Company need to invoke the authority of a court of competent jurisdiction to compel arbitration, then the party that obtains an order compelling arbitration in such action shall have the right to collect from the other party its reasonable costs, necessary disbursements, and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in securing an order compelling arbitration. The prevailing party in any court action relating to whether either party has satisfied any condition precedent to arbitration, including the Informal Dispute Resolution Process, is entitled to recover their reasonable costs, necessary disbursements, and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.","Batch Arbitration. To increase the efficiency of administration and resolution of arbitrations, you and Company agree that in the event that there are 100 or more individual Requests of a substantially similar nature filed against Company by or with the assistance of the same law firm, group of law firms, or organizations, within a 30 day period (or as soon as possible thereafter), the JAMS shall (1) administer the arbitration demands in batches of 100 Requests per batch (plus, to the extent there are less than 100 Requests left over after the batching described above, a final batch consisting of the remaining Requests); (2) appoint one arbitrator for each batch; and (3) provide for the resolution of each batch as a single consolidated arbitration with one set of filing and administrative fees due per side per batch, one procedural calendar, one hearing (if any) in a place to be determined by the arbitrator, and one final award (“Batch Arbitration”). All parties agree that Requests are of a “substantially similar nature” if they arise out of or relate to the same event or factual scenario and raise the same or similar legal issues and seek the same or similar relief. To the extent the parties disagree on the application of the Batch Arbitration process, the disagreeing party shall advise the JAMS, and the JAMS shall appoint a sole standing arbitrator to determine the applicability of the Batch Arbitration process (“Administrative Arbitrator”). In an effort to expedite resolution of any such dispute by the Administrative Arbitrator, the parties agree the Administrative Arbitrator may set forth such procedures as are necessary to resolve any disputes promptly. The Administrative Arbitrator’s fees shall be paid by Company. You and Company agree to cooperate in good faith with the JAMS to implement the Batch Arbitration process including the payment of single filing and administrative fees for batches of Requests, as well as any steps to minimize the time and costs of arbitration, which may include: (1) the appointment of a discovery special master to assist the arbitrator in the resolution of discovery disputes; and (2) the adoption of an expedited calendar of the arbitration proceedings. This Batch Arbitration provision shall in no way be interpreted as authorizing a class, collective and/or mass arbitration or action of any kind, or arbitration involving joint or consolidated claims under any circumstances, except as expressly set forth in this provision.","30-Day Right to Opt Out.  You have the right to opt out of the provisions of this Arbitration Agreement by sending a timely written notice of your decision to opt out to the following address: 589 Howard St, Floor 3, San Francisco, California 94105, or email to matt@caldera.xyz, within 30 days after first becoming subject to this Arbitration Agreement. Your notice must include your name and address and a clear statement that you want to opt out of this Arbitration Agreement. If you opt out of this Arbitration Agreement, all other parts of these Terms will continue to apply to you. Opting out of this Arbitration Agreement has no effect on any other arbitration agreements that you may currently have with us, or may enter into in the future with us.","Invalidity, Expiration. Except as provided in the subsection entitled “Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief”, if any part or parts of this Arbitration Agreement are found under the law to be invalid or unenforceable, then such specific part or parts shall be of no force and effect and shall be severed and the remainder of the Arbitration Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. You further agree that any Dispute that you have with Company as detailed in this Arbitration Agreement must be initiated via arbitration within the applicable statute of limitation for that claim or controversy, or it will be forever time barred. Likewise, you agree that all applicable statutes of limitation will apply to such arbitration in the same manner as those statutes of limitation would apply in the applicable court of competent jurisdiction.","Modification. Notwithstanding any provision in these Terms to the contrary, we agree that if Company makes any future material change to this Arbitration Agreement, you may reject that change within 30 days of such change becoming effective by writing Company at the following address: 589 Howard St, Floor 3, San Francisco, California 94105, or email to matt@caldera.xyz.  Unless you reject the change within 30 days of such change becoming effective by writing to Company in accordance with the foregoing, your continued use of the Site and/or Services, including the acceptance of products and services offered on the Site following the posting of changes to this Arbitration Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Changes to this Arbitration Agreement do not provide you with a new opportunity to opt out of the Arbitration Agreement if you have previously agreed to a version of these Terms and did not validly opt out of arbitration. If you reject any change or update to this Arbitration Agreement, and you were bound by an existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes arising out of or relating in any way to your access to or use of the Services or of the Site, any communications you receive, any products sold or distributed through the Site, the Services, or these Terms, the provisions of this Arbitration Agreement as of the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms) remain in full force and effect. Company will continue to honor any valid opt outs of the Arbitration Agreement that you made to a prior version of these Terms.","Export. The Site may be subject to U.S. export control laws and may be subject to export or import regulations in other countries. You agree not to export, reexport, or transfer, directly or indirectly, any U.S. technical data acquired from Company, or any products utilizing such data, in violation of the United States export laws or regulations.","Disclosures.  Company is located at the address in Section 10.8. If you are a California resident, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Product of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by contacting them in writing at 400 R Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.","Electronic Communications.  The communications between you and Company use electronic means, whether you use the Site or send us emails, or whether Company posts notices on the Site or communicates with you via email. For contractual purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications from Company in an electronic form; and (b) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Company provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were be in a hardcopy writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.","Entire Terms. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Site. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. The word “including” means “including without limitation”.  If any provision of these Terms is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of these Terms will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.  Your relationship to Company is that of an independent contractor, and neither party is an agent or partner of the other.  These Terms, and your rights and obligations herein, may not be assigned, subcontracted, delegated, or otherwise transferred by you without Company’s prior written consent, and any attempted assignment, subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of the foregoing will be null and void.  Company may freely assign these Terms.  The terms and conditions set forth in these Terms shall be binding upon assignees.","Copyright/Trademark Information.  Copyright © 2024  Constellation Labs, Inc. All rights reserved.  All trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Site are our property or the property of other third parties. You are not permitted to use these Marks without our prior written consent or the consent of such third party which may own the Marks.","Contact Information:","Matthew Katz","Address: 589 Howard St, Floor 3","San Francisco, California 94105","Telephone: (707) 652-9811","Email: matt@caldera.xyz","Book A Call","Newsletter","Brand kit","Careers","Caldera 2025 © All rights reserved."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/terms"},"/privacy":{"version":1,"title":"Caldera - The Internet of Chains","description":"Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Privacy Policy"],"h3":["Privacy Policy"],"h4":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h5":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"h6":["Fastest-Growing Rollup Ecosystem On Ethereum"],"p":["Rollups","Metalayer","Blog","$ERA","Docs","Get Started","Last updated: April 09, 2024","This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.","We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.","Interpretation and Definitions","Interpretation","The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.","Definitions","For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:","Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.","Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where \"control\" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.","Application refers to Caldera, the software program provided by the Company.","Business, for the purpose of CCPA/CPRA, refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the State of California.","CCPA and/or CPRA refers to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the \"CCPA\") as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the \"CPRA\").","Company (referred to as either \"the Company\", \"We\", \"Us\" or \"Our\" in this Agreement) refers to Constellation Labs, Inc., 589 Howard St, Floor 3, San Francisco.","For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.","Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA/CPRA, means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.","Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.","Country refers to: California, United States","Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.","Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.","Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.","GDPR refers to EU General Data Protection Regulation.","Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.","For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.","For the purposes of the CCPA/CPRA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.","Service refers to the Application or the Website or both.","Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.","Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.","Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).","Website refers to Caldera, accessible from https://caldera.xyz","You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.","Under GDPR, You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.","Collecting and Using Your Personal Data","Types of Data Collected","Personal Data","While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:","Email address","First name and last name","Phone number","Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City","Usage Data","Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.","Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.","When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.","We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.","Information from Third-Party Social Media Services","The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:","Google","Facebook","Instagram","Twitter","LinkedIn","If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with that account.","You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.","Tracking Technologies and Cookies","We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:","Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.","Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).","Cookies can be \"Persistent\" or \"Session\" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeed website article.","We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:","Necessary / Essential Cookies","Type: Session Cookies","Administered by: Us","Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.","Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies","Type: Persistent Cookies","Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.","Functionality Cookies","Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.","Tracking and Performance Cookies","Administered by: Third-Parties","Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.","For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.","Use of Your Personal Data","The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:","To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.","To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.","For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.","To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.","To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.","To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.","For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.","For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.","We may share Your personal information in the following situations:","With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact You.","For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.","With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.","With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.","With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.","With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.","Retention of Your Personal Data","The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.","The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.","Transfer of Your Personal Data","Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.","Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.","The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.","Delete Your Personal Data","You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.","Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.","You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.","Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.","Disclosure of Your Personal Data","Business Transactions","If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.","Law enforcement","Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).","Other legal requirements","The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:","Comply with a legal obligation","Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company","Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service","Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public","Protect against legal liability","Security of Your Personal Data","The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.","Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data","The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.","Analytics","We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.","Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. You may opt-out of certain Google Analytics features through your mobile device settings, such as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy","Datadog: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/privacy/","Payments","We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).","We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.","These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.","Stripe","Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy","Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous","We may use third-party Service Providers to maintain and improve our Service.","Cloudflare","Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/","GDPR Privacy","Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR","We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:","Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.","Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.","Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.","Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.","Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.","Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.","In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.","Your Rights under the GDPR","The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.","You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:","Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.","Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.","Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.","Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.","Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.","Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.","Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights","You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.","You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.","CCPA/CPRA Privacy Notice (California Privacy Rights)","This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.","Categories of Personal Information Collected","We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.","Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by Us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of Our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.","Category A: Identifiers.","Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.","Collected: Yes.","Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).","Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.","Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.","Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).","Collected: No.","Category D: Commercial information.","Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.","Category E: Biometric information.","Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.","Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.","Examples: Interaction with our Service or advertisement.","Category G: Geolocation data.","Examples: Approximate physical location.","Category H: Sensory data.","Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.","Category I: Professional or employment-related information.","Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.","Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).","Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.","Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.","Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.","Category L: Sensitive personal information.","Examples: Account login and password information, geolocation data.","Under CCPA/CPRA, personal information does not include:","Publicly available information from government records","Deidentified or aggregated consumer information","Information excluded from the CCPA/CPRA's scope, such as:","Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data","Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994","Sources of Personal Information","We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:","Directly from You. For example, from the forms You complete on our Service, preferences You express or provide through our Service, or from Your purchases on our Service.","Indirectly from You. For example, from observing Your activity on our Service.","Automatically from You. For example, through cookies We or our Service Providers set on Your Device as You navigate through our Service.","From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that We use to provide the Service to You.","Use of Personal Information","We may use or disclose personal information We collect for \"business purposes\" or \"commercial purposes\" (as defined under the CCPA/CPRA), which may include the following examples:","To operate our Service and provide You with Our Service.","To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries, including to investigate and address Your concerns and monitor and improve our Service.","To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information. For example, if You share Your contact information to ask a question about our Service, We will use that personal information to respond to Your inquiry. If You provide Your personal information to purchase a product or service, We will use that information to process Your payment and facilitate delivery.","To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.","As described to You when collecting Your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA/CPRA.","For internal administrative and auditing purposes.","To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.","Other one-time uses.","Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how we use this information, please refer to the \"Use of Your Personal Data\" section.","If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes, We will update this Privacy Policy.","Disclosure of Personal Information","We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:","Category A: Identifiers","Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))","Category D: Commercial information","Category F: Internet or other similar network activity","Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.","When We disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.","Share of Personal Information","We may share, and have shared in the last twelve (12) months, Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:","Service Providers","Payment processors","Our affiliates","Our business partners","Third party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in connection with products or services We provide to You","Sale of Personal Information","As defined in the CCPA/CPRA, \"sell\" and \"sale\" mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information by the Business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.","We do not sell personal information as the term sell is commonly understood. We do allow Service Providers to use Your personal information for the business purposes described in Our Privacy Policy, for activities such as advertising, marketing, and analytics, and these may be deemed a sale under CCPA/CPRA.","We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:","Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of Our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return.","Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age","We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service, although certain third party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies and We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.","We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless We receive affirmative authorization (the \"right to opt-in\") from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, You (or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to Us by contacting Us.","If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.","Your Rights under the CCPA/CPRA","The CCPA/CPRA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:","The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.","The right to know/access. Under CCPA/CPRA, You have the right to request that We disclose information to You about Our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal information. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will disclose to You:","The categories of personal information We collected about You","The categories of sources for the personal information We collected about You","Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information","The categories of third parties with whom We share that personal information","The specific pieces of personal information We collected about You","If we sold Your personal information or disclosed Your personal information for a business purpose, We will disclose to You:","The categories of personal information categories sold","The categories of personal information categories disclosed","The right to say no to the sale or sharing of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct Us to not sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, please see the \"Do Not Sell My Personal Information\" section or contact Us.","The right to correct Personal Data. You have the right to correct or rectify any inaccurate personal information about You that We collected. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct (and direct our Service Providers to correct) Your personal information, unless an exception applies.","The right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive Personal Data. You have the right to request to limit the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information We collected about You, unless an exception applies. To submit, please see the \"Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information\" section or contact Us.","The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will delete (and direct Our Service Providers to delete) Your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny Your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Us or Our Service Providers to:","Complete the transaction for which We collected the personal information, provide a good or service that You requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with You, or otherwise perform our contract with You.","Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.","Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.","Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.","Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).","Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if You previously provided informed consent.","Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your relationship with Us.","Comply with a legal obligation.","Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which You provided it.","The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your consumer's rights, including by:","Denying goods or services to You","Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties","Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You","Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services","Exercising Your CCPA/CPRA Data Protection Rights","Please see the \"Do Not Sell My Personal Information\" section and \"Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information\" section for more information on how to opt out and limit the use of sensitive information collected.","Additionally, in order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:","By email: privacy@caldera.xyz","Only You, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.","Your request to Us must:","Provide sufficient information that allows Us to reasonably verify You are the person about whom We collected personal information or an authorized representative","Describe Your request with sufficient detail that allows Us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it","We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if We cannot:","Verify Your identity or authority to make the request","And confirm that the personal information relates to You","We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.","Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request's receipt.","For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily usable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.","Do Not Sell My Personal Information","You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from You, we will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to opt-out, please contact Us.","The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA/CPRA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.","Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that You use.","Website","If applicable, click \"Privacy Preferences\", \"Update Privacy Preferences\" or \"Do Not Sell My Personal Information\" buttons listed on the Service to review Your privacy preferences and opt out of cookies and other technologies that We may use. Please note that You will need to opt out from each browser that You use to access the Service.","Additionally, You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:","The NAI's opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/","The EDAA's opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/","The DAA's opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN","The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by Your browser, You will need to opt out again.","Mobile Devices","Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use in order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests:","\"Opt out of Interest-Based Ads\" or \"Opt out of Ads Personalization\" on Android devices","\"Limit Ad Tracking\" on iOS devices","You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on Your mobile device.","Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information","If You are a California resident, You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of Your sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests such services or goods.","We collect, use and disclose sensitive personal information in ways that are necessary to provide the Service. For more information on how We use Your personal information, please see the \"Use of Your Personal Data\" section or contact us.","\"Do Not Track\" Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)","Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.","However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.","Your California Privacy Rights (California's Shine the Light law)","Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.","If you'd like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.","California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)","California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.","To request removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.","Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.","Children's Privacy","Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. 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