In the past year, Rollup has been seen as the correct solution for Ethereum's scaling path, but it has also exposed significant limitations: general-purpose L2s cannot meet the multidimensional demands of specific Dapps for performance, cost, and customization. As Dapps become increasingly complex, vertical, customized, and modular Rollups are becoming a new trend. In this trend, Caldera (Era) is rapidly establishing a market-leading position as a leading Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, providing developers with a highly flexible on-chain operating environment.
Caldera's vision is clear and direct: to provide developers with the ability to 'generate high-performance AppChains with one click', allowing every Web3 project to have its own Rollup while avoiding the heavy burden of underlying technology deployment. Through modular design, developers can freely choose the data availability layer (such as Celestia, EigenDA), settlement layer (Ethereum, OP Stack), consensus scheme (PoS, PoA), and accompanying RPC, Block Explorer, bridging solutions, etc. This highly customizable framework allows chains to truly become 'affiliated' to applications rather than the other way around.
Technically, the Rollup built by Caldera integrates the current mainstream L2 modular stack: supporting OP Stack and Arbitrum Orbit, and is the first to be compatible with emerging stacks such as Polygon CDK and zkStack, reserving a path for projects to migrate and interoperate between different tech stacks. Especially against the backdrop of zk-Rollup gradually maturing, Caldera explores zk modularization paths through collaboration with teams like Succinct and RISC Zero, further strengthening its positioning as a 'neutral yet powerful' technology platform.
In terms of performance, Caldera's Rollup typically achieves second-level finality, with transaction throughput reaching thousands of TPS, and guarantees state security while significantly reducing user Gas costs through a combination of on-chain and off-chain verification methods. More importantly, it enables developers to embed token economic models, permission management systems, and governance mechanisms at the chain level through App-Specific Design, truly achieving 'sovereign deployment', which is nearly impossible on traditional general-purpose L2s.
In terms of ecology, Caldera has currently deployed over 60 App Rollups, serving projects across multiple directions including DeFi, Gaming, SocialFi, and DePIN. Among them are notable deployments such as Scroll ecosystem DEX, BNB Greenfield subnet, and Manta's privacy computing chain. These deployments demonstrate Caldera's technical stability and operational capabilities, as well as the broad demand for modular Rollup services. It is not a 'challenge' to existing L2s, but rather serves as a 'foundational network operator', lowering the threshold for building chains and enhancing differentiated value between chains.
In addition, Caldera's business model adopts a SaaS + pay-as-you-go model, offering transparent services that are developer-friendly and supporting white-label customization, allowing project teams to fully bind their brand to the chain's architecture, achieving true on-chain sovereignty. This business model also ensures the sustainability of Caldera itself.
In the future, as blockchain applications move towards a larger user scale, 'every blockbuster application will have its own chain' will become the norm. Caldera has seized the central point of this trend, and with its comprehensive advantages in technical adaptation, ecological operation, and developer experience, is redefining Rollup as no longer an 'extension of Ethereum', but rather the cornerstone of Dapp self-expression.