🕯️Midnight 0:00, I opened my wallet and found that my NFT avatars had collectively "vanished"—only a countdown remained: "After 23:59, you will lose them forever."

I thought it was a hacker, but I received a private message on the blockchain: Coordinates 0xCA1D3RA… sent by @caldera pointed to a virtual volcano burning with blue flames.

🔥I jumped in, and the first layer of suspense was revealed: it wasn't destruction, but a "rebirth furnace." All NFTs were being reforged into programmable souls (ERC-6551) in Caldera's Rollup, but they required a rare fuel—ERA.

I had a balance of 0, yet I saw the second line of text: "Use tomorrow’s you to pay for today’s fire."

⏳23:58, I gritted my teeth and signed a cross-time zone bond, pledging 24 hours of tomorrow into the contract. The volcano erupted, and the NFTs transformed into liquid metal, reforming into a "Key of Time."

In the final second, the key cracked open, revealing the answer: Caldera's L2 is actually an "on-chain time machine"; and ERA is not a token, but the future we have sliced and sold.

I bought back today with tomorrow, but I heard a message from tomorrow's me in my wallet: "Don’t forget to return my time."

@calderaxyz are you listening?

#caldera ERA