Caldera’s Role in DeFi: Powering the Next Generation of Financial Apps Decentralized finance (DeFi) thrives on speed, low costs, and interoperability qualities Caldera delivers in spades. As a Rollups-as-a-Service platform, Caldera enables DeFi projects to deploy custom rollups optimized for high-throughput trading, lending, and asset management.
With $1 billion in total value locked across its ecosystem, Caldera is a key player in Ethereum’s scaling journey, supporting projects like Kinto and Syndr that prioritize user safety and performance.Kinto, for instance, uses Caldera’s Rollup Engine to create a secure DeFi hub with regulatory-friendly features like account recovery.
By processing transactions off-chain and settling them on Ethereum, Kinto offers low fees and fast execution without compromising security. Similarly, Syndr leverages Caldera’s Arbitrum Orbit stack for options and futures trading, delivering the low latency traders demand. These projects benefit from Caldera’s ability to customize gas tokens and integrate data availability layers like EigenDA, ensuring scalability and efficiency.The Caldera Bridge takes DeFi to the next level by enabling cross-chain liquidity.
Through the Metalayer, DeFi protocols can share assets and data across rollups, eliminating silos and enhancing composability. For example, a user can move assets from a Caldera-powered DeFi rollup to Arbitrum One instantly, thanks to the Bridge’s intent-based routing. As Caldera expands to non-EVM ecosystems, DeFi developers will gain even more flexibility to innovate across chains, making Caldera a cornerstone of the multi-chain financial future.