🔍 What Is Caldera?

Caldera is a modular Web3 infrastructure platform focused on deploying customizable, high-performance Layer‑2 rollups (called Caldera Chains) with just one click. It enables developers to build dedicated blockchains tailored to their applications while leveraging Ethereum’s security.

Key features include support for major rollup frameworks like Arbitrum Nitro, Optimism Bedrock, zkSync ZK Stack, and Polygon CDK, as well as integration with data availability layers like Celestia and Near. This flexibility allows developers to optimize performance, fees, and gas token models.

Its Metalayer protocol facilitates seamless interoperability across different Caldera Chains and with the broader Ethereum ecosystem.

💼 Founders, Funding & Ecosystem

Co‑founded in 2022 by Matthew Katz (CEO) and Parker Jou (CTO), previously affiliated with Stanford, Apple, Nvidia, Waymo, and other tech firms.

Has raised approximately $24–25 million across seed and Series A rounds, led by investors such as Founders Fund, Dragonfly Capital, Sequoia Capital, 1kx, and Lattice Fund.

The team also includes industry veterans from Coinbase, Google, Scale AI, Jump Trading, and Amazon.

🪙 Token (ERA): Utility & Markets

ERA is Caldera’s native utility and governance token, used for staking, governance, fee payment, and access to the platform.

Circulating Supply: ~148.5 million; Max Supply: 1 billion

Market Cap: approx. $219 million; Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV): ~$1.47 billion (based on Coinbase data as of July 18, 2025)

All-Time High: $1.73 (reached July 17, 2025)

Current Price Trend: Recently spiked — up ~56–57% in past day/week.

ERA is available on major exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, Upbit, and Crypto.com, with fiat on‑ramps via USD, EUR and more.

📈 Milestones & Usage

Surpassed $1 billion in total value locked (TVL), processed over 550 million transactions, supported 17 million unique wallets, and launched 75+ Caldera Chains shortly after listing.

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Listed on DigiFinex on July 18, 2025 as another major exchange listing.

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⚙️ Technical Highlights

Supports custom gas fee tokens, even stablecoins like USDC/USDT, enabling app‑specific fee models.

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Offers “Guardian Nodes” — light verifiers that enable proof creation on ordinary hardware.

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Designed to reduce bridging complexity and improve composability across rollups.

✅ Pros & ⚠️ Considerations

Pros:

Robust investor backing and rapid ecosystem growth

Flexible, no-code deployment of scalable rollups

Advanced interoperability via Metalayer

Cons:

Security audits and formal roadmap documentation are scarce or not public

Tokenomics and long-term issuance model may still evolve

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High volatility typical of newly launched tokens

🗣️ Community Insight

From reddit users familiar with Web3 infrastructure:

“Caldera enables anyone to launch and run dedicated, performant layer‑two blockchain ‘rollups’ … radically lowering transaction costs.”

“Caldera and conduit more or less the same… integrated with op stack, arbitrum orbit, shared sequencers, and multiple da layers… conduit has better UX.”

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