Imagine the Age of Discovery, where each country has its own ports and goods, but lacks a mature shipping network. Ships rely on wind direction and manual handling, resulting in extremely low trade efficiency. Today's Rollup world is quite similar: there are more and more chains, but they are isolated from each other, with assets and liquidity trapped in ports like goods.
Caldera ($ERA) aims to build a Rollup shipping system. It started with RaaS to help projects quickly 'build ports', but its true ambition is to connect these ports into a trade route through modularity, interoperability, and customizability.
Modularity means developers can freely build the functional stack of chains; interoperability relies on Metalayer and Hyperlane to ensure messages, liquidity, and gas can flow smoothly across chains, just like ships entering and leaving ports freely; customizability allows different applications to have dedicated shipping lanes, with gaming chains needing speed, DeFi chains requiring security, and social chains needing capacity.
Today, Caldera has connected over 100 chains, including Manta, ApeChain, and Zerion, with cumulative transactions exceeding 27 million. If Metalayer can truly be implemented, $ERA could become the 'currency of passage' in this shipping system.
In summary: Caldera is not just a chain-building tool; it aims to transform the isolated ports of the Rollup world into an interconnected maritime Silk Road.
