🌐【Caldera: Transforming Rollup from 'Local Area Network' to 'Internet'】
Today's Ethereum scaling resembles the early internet of the last century:
Various local area networks can run, yet remain isolated from each other, preventing the sharing of information and resources.
This is precisely the predicament of Rollup at present:
Users rely on bridging for cross-chain transactions, which incurs costs in both security and experience.
Liquidity is fragmented, making it difficult to achieve economies of scale.
Project teams create their own chains but struggle to connect to a larger ecosystem.
What Caldera (ERA) aims to do is establish a set of interconnection protocols for Rollup.
📌 Its core logic
1️⃣ Dedicated Rollup Deployment —— Sovereign chains can go live within days, with performance and economic models determined by the project team.
2️⃣ Metalayer Coordination Layer —— Enables native interoperability among different Rollups, allowing seamless application switching as if on the same chain.
3️⃣ EVM Compatibility —— Utilizes Ethereum's security and development tools, lowering the migration threshold.
🪙 The role of $ERA
Assets for fees related to cross-Rollup transactions and settlements.
Node staking to ensure network security.
Voting rights for protocol governance and evolution.
📈 Ecosystem Progress
Currently, over 50 Rollups have been deployed through Caldera, covering popular sectors such as DeFi, GameFi, RWA, DePIN, etc., and have received support from leading capital.
The significance of Caldera lies in the fact that it does not create more Rollups but weaves them into a network.
When Rollups evolve from 'Local Area Network' to 'Internet', the true value of modular blockchains will be unleashed.