Caldera was born from a simple observation: Ethereum was never meant to carry the weight of every app alone. As the ecosystem grew, developers faced rising fees, congestion, and limited blockspace — making it nearly impossible for DeFi, gaming, and new Web3 apps to scale. $ERA
The #Caldera team set out with a mission: to unlock horizontal scaling for Ethereum. Instead of one chain trying to handle it all, why not let every project launch its own custom rollup — optimized for its use case, but still backed by Ethereum security?
🚀 This vision led to the creation of $ERA :
App-specific rollups: independent blockchains that run fast, cheap, and customized for each app.
The Metalayer: a coordination layer connecting Optimistic and ZK rollups, allowing them to share liquidity, communicate, and compose apps together.
The $ERA token: designed to power cross-rollup fees, secure the validator network, and enable community governance.
Caldera’s journey reflects the shift from monolithic blockchains to a modular, interconnected future — where rollups scale side by side instead of competing for blockspace.
In short, the history of ERA is the story of Ethereum’s next chapter: scaling not up, but out.
