In the current landscape where blockchain technology is rapidly evolving yet facing challenges of scalability, interoperability, and customization, @Calderaxyz is redefining the way Web3 infrastructure is built with its innovative Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. Caldera aims to break the traditional 'one-size-fits-all' blockchain model through modular architecture, providing developers with high-performance, customizable, and seamlessly interconnected dedicated chain (app-chains) deployment solutions, pushing blockchain from the 'island era' to the 'Internet of Chains'.
🛠️ Product Core: Modular Architecture and Full-stack Ecosystem
Caldera's core product is a platform that allows developers to deploy dedicated Rollup chains in minutes. Its modular design covers four key components:
1. Execution Layer: Supports various virtual machines like EVM, SVM, and FuelVM, allowing developers to customize gas tokens, handle transactions and smart contract logic.
2. Settlement Layer: Based on base chains like Ethereum and Polygon for validation, inheriting their security and liquidity.
3. Data Availability Layer (DA): Integrating solutions like Ethereum, Celestia, and EigenDA, where Celestia can reduce storage costs by 90%, significantly enhancing economic efficiency.
4. Interoperability Layer (Metalayer): Achieving bridge-less cross-chain communication, asset transfers can be completed in 2 seconds, supporting resource sharing and efficient communication between multiple chains.
The platform also provides a full-stack toolkit, including APIs, SDKs, block explorers, bridges, and fiat channels, supporting no-code deployment, significantly lowering the development threshold. Currently, Caldera has deployed over 100 chains (including 30 mainnets), processed 850 million transactions, with a total locked value (TVL) exceeding $400 million, serving over 27 million users, covering multiple fields such as DeFi, gaming, NFTs, and AI.
⚡ Technical Advancements: Performance, Interoperability, and Security
Caldera's technological advantages are reflected in three dimensions:
· Ultimate Performance and Low Cost: Through solutions like Alt-DA, transaction costs are compressed to $0.001 (only 1% of Ethereum L1), transaction speeds are increased to 20,000 TPS, and latency is under 0.2 seconds, supporting high-frequency applications like gaming and DeFi derivatives.
· Metalayer Cross-chain Protocol: Based on an intent-driven cross-chain mechanism, realizing full-chain fuel functionality, allowing transactions to flow seamlessly between multiple Rollups, eliminating liquidity fragmentation, and reducing cross-chain transaction costs by 40%.
· Enterprise-level Reliability and Security: Using multi-region AWS data centers and load balancing to ensure 99.99% uptime. The platform provides automated auditing and real-time threat monitoring; although security ultimately depends on each Rollup's configuration, Caldera reduces risks through tools.
🌐 Ecosystem Expansion: From Ethereum to a Multi-chain Universe
Caldera is transitioning from Ethereum expansion solutions to a multi-chain infrastructure platform, integrating Non-EVM chains (like Solana, Aptos) and aggregating cross-chain liquidity through Caldera Bridge. Its ecosystem partners include Manta Pacific (DeFi), ApeChain (gaming), and KINTO (compliant finance), covering over 10 tracks, with a monthly TVL growth rate of 300%. The platform also launched a domain service to strengthen the digital identity system, heating up for TGE.
💰 Token Economy and Value Capture
$ERA token is the core of the ecosystem, with a fixed supply of 1 billion, and its functions include:
· Gas Payment: Used for cross-chain transaction fees.
· Staking and Security: Users can earn 8-15% annualized returns through staking, maintaining network security.
· Governance: Holders participate in voting to decide on protocol upgrades, fee structures, etc.
In token distribution, 30% is used for airdrops, 25% for ecosystem incentives, and the remainder is allocated to the team, investors, and the foundation. Caldera's revenue sources are diverse, including chain deployment fees (starting at $50,000 per chain), transaction fees, and cross-chain sharing, adopting a deflationary model where 70% of revenue is used to buy back and burn $ERA, enhancing token scarcity.
🚀 Vision: Building the 'Internet of Chains'
@Caldera Official 's ultimate goal is to create a world of 'default interconnection between chains'. By lowering the threshold for launching chains and enhancing interoperability, it is becoming the core infrastructure of the modular blockchain era, similar to the role of AWS in cloud computing. With the launch of TGE and ecosystem expansion, @Caldera Official is expected to lead the next generation of Web3 application innovation.
'Blockchain should not be an island, but a node in a unified network' — Caldera's practice is pushing this concept towards reality.
