《Caldera: Making Blockchain Scalability a One-Click Deployment Business》
In the past few years, Ethereum has almost become the 'operating system' of the blockchain world. However, the problems are also obvious—network congestion and high gas fees often deter ordinary users. Therefore, how to scale and how to lower the usage threshold has become an unavoidable challenge for the entire industry.
@Caldera Official provides a very straightforward answer: transform the complex Rollup construction process into a 'plug-and-play' service. Developers do not need to reinvent the wheel or spend money to maintain a large infrastructure team; with just a click, they can generate their own high-performance L2 chain. These chains not only inherit Ethereum's security but also achieve sub-second confirmations and high-concurrency transactions, making them truly suitable for performance-intensive scenarios such as DeFi, GameFi, and NFTs.
What’s even more interesting is that Caldera has proposed the concept of Metalayer to address the issue of 'Rollup islanding.' Simply put, it involves building bridges between different Rollups to achieve seamless cross-chain liquidity and transaction integration. For example, RARI Chain directly embeds a royalty mechanism at the node level through Caldera, ensuring that creators can earn revenue from every NFT transaction. This makes Rollup not just 'fast and cheap,' but genuinely unique and capable of supporting new business models.
As of early 2025, Caldera has already supported over 100 Rollup chains, with a TVL exceeding 1 billion USD and wallet addresses surpassing 1.7 million. Behind it are investments from top VCs such as Sequoia and Dragonfly, and it maintains deep integration with ecosystems like Arbitrum, Optimism, Celestia, and zkSync. This 'blockchain as a service' model makes Caldera somewhat like Shopify in the blockchain world—lowering the barriers and opening up possibilities for scalable applications.
Of course, there are controversies within the community, such as the airdrop distribution of $ERA being questioned for favoring 'socially active users.' However, the Caldera team has shown a pragmatic attitude through continuous iteration and responses. In the future, they also plan to support multi-virtual machine Rollups, such as introducing the Solana VM, making the entire ecosystem more open and compatible.
Caldera is not creating a new chain, but helping countless chains run faster. This might be the most practically significant part of Ethereum's scalability story.
