$@Caldera Official Series and the Relationship with Public Chains: Cooperation or Replacement?
Introduction:
When Caldera claims to be a Rollup-as-a-Service platform, some ask: Is it helping public chains expand their ecosystem, or is it encroaching on their territory?
@Caldera Official Caldera's model allows applications to build their own Rollups based on different L1s. This means that Ethereum, Polygon, and even other L1s could potentially expand through it. On the surface, this appears to be cooperation—helping public chains attract projects more quickly.
But from another perspective, if more and more projects choose to launch their own chains, wouldn't users and traffic be diverted? The original network effects of public chains might be diluted. For certain L1s, Caldera is both a partner and a potential competitor.
This is akin to the relationship between shopping malls and independent stores. Malls want merchants to come in, but once merchants grow, they may want to open their own street-side stores. Caldera provides a “street-side store toolkit,” which, in a sense, undermines the mall's position.
In the future, the relationship between @Caldera Official Caldera and public chains is likely to be both cooperative and competitive. It is an ecosystem accelerator, but it may also become a new center of power.
