Recently, the blockchain community has been noisy, with Rollups, ZK, Modular, AppChain, AVS, each track playing its own game.
But I suddenly realized one thing:
Web3 is not lacking chains, but lacking 'the power system of chains'.
Just like having many electrical devices is useless without a power plant;
No matter how many Rollups, without a collaborative network, they are all islands.
And Caldera is the key link that transforms Web3 chains from 'devices' to 'systems'.
⚡️ Caldera is a combination of 'power plant' + 'smart grid'.
🏗 Power plant = Rollup factory.
Caldera provides Rollup-as-a-Service, allowing developers to deploy chains as freely as building with Legos:
• Execution layer: EVM, Solana VM, Move VM can all be selected;
• Data layer: Choose from Ethereum, Celestia, EigenDA;
• It also comes with bridging, RPC, wallet integration, frontend deployment systems...
It's like you want to start a power station, and it gives you the entire national power grid support.
🌐 Smart grid = Metalayer.
The best part is: all chains produced by Caldera automatically become part of the Metalayer communication network.
• Messages can be sent mutually (cross-chain chat);
• Shareable asset pool (TVL reuse);
• Shareable state (governance collaboration);
What is this? It is a rare 'system-level collaboration' in Web3.
Other Rollups say 'I build my chain', Caldera says 'I build a chain for you, and let you access the network directly'.
🪙 ERA is here, not just a token, but the unit of electricity costs for the entire system.
$ERA is the settlement asset for cross-chain communication on Metalayer, the incentive asset for verification, and the voting asset for governance.
And it's a unit of energy that is truly burned:
• Transfer assets across Rollups → deduct ERA;
• Execution state synchronization → deduct ERA;
• To connect to Metalayer → you need to stake ERA;
It is not meant for boasting; it is the fuel that makes the entire system 'run'.
📈 Don't believe it? Look, this data is not a PPT, but real traffic:
Other small chains are 'the mainnet launch is the peak', Caldera is 'ecological exponential development'.
🔮 Why do I dare to say it can explode in the long term?
1. It does not compete with other chains, but rather 'lets others become chains'.
→ Instead of building a chain, it wraps around all those who want to build a chain;
2. It has been doing L2 interoperability from Day 1, rather than relying on external bridging patches.
→ Naturally adaptable to a modular future, rather than being patched up later;
3. It is the trinity of platform + protocol + network.
→ Tools + network + tokens form a flywheel closed loop, not relying on a central entity for support;
This is no longer a traditional Rollup competitor, but an 'OS for launching and connecting chains'.
🧠 Final thoughts:
If the next phase of Web3 is not Layer1 fighting, but 'the infrastructure for multi-chain collaboration',
Then which asset do you think is the most valuable?
Is it still the small chains competing for TPS?
Or is it building the backbone layer for the entire system's collaboration?
Welcome to discuss in the comments, I guess you have already understood it early.