Are appchains the real way forward — and is Caldera building the “shopify for chains”?

Caldera’s thesis is simple: not every app should fight for the same settlement lane. Instead, spin a custom appchain with fees, VM, and latency tuned to the use case.

That’s powerful for gaming (state updates per millisecond), marketplaces (custom mint economics), and high-frequency DeFi.

The tradeoff is obvious:

fragmentation vs specialization. Caldera’s success depends on the UX of liquidity — bridges, unified wallets, and composability primitives that let users move capital smoothly.

If bridges are instant and cheap, appchains become like microservices in a larger web: efficient and replaceable. If not, they’re islands.

My read:

the winning approach is incentive alignment .. offer liquidity incentives, rent-sharing for common primitives, and a developer experience that feels as easy as deploying a single smart contract. If Caldera nails that, teams won’t ask “should we use Ethereum” ./ they’ll ask “what’s the right chain flavor for our product?” That’s not fragmentation ... that’s specialization at scale.

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