@Caldera Official How to Lead the Multi-Chain Era with ERA
If Ethereum is the 'foundation' of blockchain, then Layer2 is the 'floors' extending upward. However, as more floors are added, the 'partitions' between them have become a new issue — and @Caldera Official provides the ultimate solution to break down these partitions with the 'metal layer' and $ERA tokens.
In 2023, Caldera debuted with a Rollup as a Service (RaaS) platform, making it possible for developers to 'deploy' custom Rollups with one click. Without the need for a complex technical team, by choosing technology stacks like Arbitrum and zkSync, developers can have their own chain in just a few minutes — this innovation quickly attracted over 60 projects. But @Caldera Official ’s ambitions go beyond that: upon seeing the fragmentation caused by Rollups fighting their own battles, the team decisively turned to the research and development of the 'metal layer', aiming to allow all Rollups to communicate freely like different floors of the same building.
The ERA token is the core tool for achieving this goal. In the metal layer ecosystem, ERA serves as the 'gas fee' for cross-chain transactions, ensuring efficient and unified value transfer between different Rollups; it acts as the 'collateral' for node staking, securing the network through a proof-of-stake mechanism, where higher staking amounts lead to greater node participation; and it is also the 'power source' for subnet operations, such as the consensus and operations of zero-knowledge proof subnets, all based on ERA. This design makes ERA the 'energy core' of the ecosystem, with every cross-chain interaction and every Rollup operation relying on it.
More importantly, $ERA grants users and developers a 'proprietor' identity. Holders participate in the future decision-making of @Caldera Official through on-chain governance, with every vote tied to their ERA holdings, from protocol upgrades to treasury usage; developers pay for Rollup deployment and maintenance fees with ERA while enjoying ecosystem traffic support; users stake $ERA to earn rewards and can also experience new features first. This 'co-build and share' model has created a strong cohesion within the #caldera ecosystem.
Today, #caldera has achieved a scale of 80 million transactions and 1.8 million independent wallets, with TVL consistently ranking among the industry's top. While other platforms are still struggling with single-chain performance, @Caldera Official has already woven a network connecting multiple chains with the metal layer, and ERA is the 'nervous center' of this network.
