🎯 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.