🎯 Caldera Acquires Hook: Accelerating the Metalayer Vision
When Caldera acquired Hook in November 2024—whose team previously built the Hook Odyssey rollup protocol—it wasn’t just a hiring move. It was a strategic leap toward building Ethereum’s Metalayer faster and smarter.
The Hook team, with real experience deploying rollups, is now embedded in Caldera’s core engineering. This accelerates development of rollups-as-a-service tooling, interoperability standards, and orchestration layers.
With backing from Founders Fund and other top-tier investors, Caldera has raised over $25M to unify Ethereum’s fragmented scaling ecosystem—and this acquisition strengthens execution.
➡️ The takeaway: Caldera isn’t planning to build the Metalayer—it is already assembling the best team to make it real.