$ERA SETTLEMENT AS A SERVICE: THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
THE ABSTRACTION OF THE SETTLEMENT LAYER $ERA
As a cloud services product manager, I see Caldera not just as a tool for launching rollups, but as a sophisticated platform offering **Settlement as a Service**. In the future of modular blockchains, the settlement layer will not be a one size fits all choice; it will be a configurable service with different price points and security guarantees.
A MARKETPLACE FOR DECENTRALIZED TRUST
The Caldera framework is positioned to become a marketplace for this service. A new DApp could use the @Caldera Official platform to deploy its application and then choose its settlement provider from a menu of options. It could choose to settle to Ethereum for maximum security at a higher price, or it could choose to settle to a data availability layer like Celestia for very high throughput at a lower cost. This abstraction of the settlement layer into a configurable, service based model is the logical endpoint of the modular thesis, offering unprecedented flexibility for developers.