Looking back at every bull market in cryptocurrency, we find an interesting phenomenon: apart from the star projects themselves, the ones that truly capture immense value are often those who provide tools and services to gold miners. From exchanges to public chains, and wallets, infrastructure has always been the cornerstone of industry development. Now, a new track called RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) is becoming the most critical water-selling business in this cycle.
Caldera is indeed one of the leaders in this track. To understand the importance of RaaS, we first need to recognize that Rollup has become the absolute mainstream solution for Ethereum scaling. However, for the vast majority of project teams, deploying and maintaining their own Rollup chain from scratch is an incredibly high technical barrier and cost. It's as impractical as it was in the early days of the internet when every company wanting to build a website had to assemble servers and lay dedicated lines themselves.
The emergence of RaaS platforms has completely changed everything. It transforms the complex work of blockchain deployment into a one-click, standardized service. Just like Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows companies to avoid building their own data centers, Caldera enables project teams to move in with their bags and launch a high-performance Rollup chain tailored for them in just a few minutes.
The impact of this is profound. It greatly lowers the barrier to innovation, allowing developers to focus all their energy on the logic and user experience of the application itself, rather than wasting it on complex infrastructure operations. We can foresee that in the next bull market, thousands of application chains (AppChains) will emerge, covering various fields such as gaming, social, DeFi, and RWA. Behind these chains, the vast majority will be powered by RaaS providers like Caldera.
This is not just a technical service, but an evolution of a business model. RaaS platforms build strong network effects and moats by providing a series of value-added services such as node services, cross-chain bridging, and data indexing. They are the cloud service providers of the future Web3 world, serving as the underlying operating system that supports the entire decentralized application ecosystem. Therefore, while we are chasing the next hundredfold coin, we should perhaps pay more attention to infrastructure giants like Caldera, who are paving roads, building bridges, and providing water for the entire industry.
