Caldera (ERA) Analysis: The Infrastructure Puzzle for Rollup Internet?
Recently, I have seen many people mention @Caldera Official . As an author who has long been following the evolution of blockchain infrastructure, I took a serious look at their model and data, and found that this is a project that is both pragmatic and ambitious — it does not aim to create another "new chain," but is building a "Rollup aggregation layer" that serves all Rollups.
🧩 Introduction to the Caldera Project
#Caldera is a modular, customizable Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform established in 2022. It allows developers to deploy dedicated L2/L3 Rollups as quickly as using AWS, covering mainstream execution frameworks and DA layers. By 2025, its platform has processed over 750 million transactions, supported more than 50 chains, with a total user count exceeding 27 million and a TVL of over 400 million USD.
In simple terms, it is a foundational layer of "Rollup engine + interoperability network."
🔥 What are the highlights of #Caldera ?
1⃣ Rollup Engine: Making chain deployment as simple as launching a website
Developers do not need to build complex infrastructure; they can customize their own chain with just a few steps of configuration, including choosing execution environments, DA layers, fee structures, etc.
2⃣ Metalayer: The killer solution to Rollup fragmentation
Rollups are essentially islands; Caldera achieves cross-chain interoperability through Metalayer. Currently, it has connected to over 100 Rollups, enabling cross-chain flow of assets and data. It may become the central nervous system of the Rollup world in the future.
3⃣ Top-tier financing and ecological partnerships
Backed by giants like Sequoia, Dragonfly, and Polygon, Caldera is not just a theoretical "platform project"; its ecosystem already includes Manta Pacific, ApeChain, Plume, B3, and others.
4⃣ $ERA : The economic fuel connecting the Rollup ecosystem
$ERA is the native token of the ecosystem, covering functions such as: cross-chain gas payments, staking, governance participation, and more.
As a deep player in the Web3 infrastructure direction, #Caldera is taking a very smart route — not to rebuild a chain with stronger performance, but to provide capabilities that "serve all chains."
Of course, this path also has its challenges: the security of Metalayer, the progress of governance decentralization, and competition for resources with native frameworks like OP/zkSync are all worth continuous attention.
