Caldera Project Overview and Technical Advantages
Caldera is a blockchain infrastructure platform focused on Ethereum rollup scaling, hailed as the 'Internet of Chains.' It helps developers quickly deploy custom chains through the Rollup Engine, which inherit Ethereum's security while achieving high throughput and low costs. As of August 2025, Caldera has deployed over 75 chains, with a total transaction volume of 550 million transactions, a TVL exceeding $1 billion, and serves 17 million unique wallets. The project's core is to address the fragmentation problem of blockchains, promoting large-scale applications in fields such as gaming, AI, and DeFi. $ERA, as the native token, is used for fee payments, staking, and governance, supporting sustainable ecosystem development.
Caldera's technical architecture centers around the Rollup Engine and Metalayer. The Rollup Engine supports frameworks like Optimism, Arbitrum Orbit, and ZKSync, allowing developers to customize execution layers, data availability (such as EigenDA v2), and consensus mechanisms, achieving hundreds of transactions per second and sub-second confirmations. Metalayer serves as a unified interconnecting layer, linking all Caldera chains, supporting cross-rollup messaging, asset transfers, and shared liquidity, avoiding traditional bridging risks. In August 2025, the integration of EigenDA v2 further enhances throughput to 100 MB/s. This architecture relies on Ethereum's PoS security, reducing costs and latency, and driving the transition of rollups to a multi-chain ecosystem.
