Caldera is redefining the way we build blockchain applications. If you remember the time when Ethereum's gas fees exceeded $50 million in a single day, you can understand how network congestion restricts the development of NFTs, DeFi, and GameFi—it's like all traffic is stuck at the same intersection waiting for a red light. The emergence of Layer 2 has successfully increased TPS to over 5000 by layering execution, settlement, and data processing, reducing fees by 90%, which has truly brought blockchain into a usable and user-friendly stage.
In this context, Caldera is not creating yet another isolated chain, but rather a highly customizable Rollup generation environment. It allows developers to combine different modules like building with LEGO, quickly deploying their own application chains without having to build the underlying architecture from scratch. Currently, the networks supported by Caldera have exceeded 60, with a total locked value of over $800 million, providing underlying support for multiple projects including RARI Chain and Zero Network.
In terms of performance, Caldera has achieved data throughput capabilities of up to 100 MB/s by integrating EigenDA V2 in collaboration with EigenCloud. What does this mean? Financial transactions can achieve settlement in seconds, and game interactions can be smooth and lag-free—these are not just theoretical concepts, but already realized realities.
The token ERA, as the core of the entire ecosystem, has a total supply of 1 billion, with a current circulation of 148.5 million. In July of this year, Binance conducted an airdrop of 20 million ERA, accounting for 2% of the total supply. Currently, ERA has opened trading pairs with BNB, USDT, and USDC on multiple mainstream trading platforms, continuously injecting liquidity into the ecosystem.
In addition to performance improvements, Caldera's greater vision is to achieve interoperability between multiple chains. Its Metalayer protocol acts like a high-speed hub, allowing different Rollups to not only communicate but also share resources and states, breaking the previous 'value islands'. Cross-chain operations no longer rely on traditional bridging models, but ensure security through a validator network and staking economy—each node needs to stake ERA as collateral, and in the event of malicious behavior or data inconsistency, the stake will be forfeited.
This mechanism not only enhances the system's security but also diversifies the use cases of ERA. It serves as a tool for paying cross-chain transaction fees, a certificate for participating in network governance and staking, and can even be used as collateral in on-chain financial applications. This design deeply binds the token's value with network activity, forming a positive economic cycle.
In practice, Caldera has already covered over 100 chains and 30 mainnet environments, with daily active users exceeding 250,000 and a cumulative transaction count surpassing 60 million. Developers can deploy Rollup chains supporting various frameworks such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon CDK in just a few minutes, and freely choose data availability layers like Celestia or EigenDA.
In the future, Caldera's development will focus on three directions: execution chain clusters for vertical industries, stronger cross-chain interoperability, and customized chain deployment for enterprise scenarios. Its goal is very clear—to make blockchain development as modular and efficient as internet development, truly lowering the barriers to innovation.
It is not difficult to see that Caldera is not building in isolation. Starting from practical pain points, it responds to the market's demand for high performance, low cost, and interoperability with viable solutions. Perhaps in the near future, 'multi-chain' will no longer be a technical concept, but a norm—Caldera is laying the infrastructure for this norm.