Rollups are becoming more prevalent, but users are trapped on isolated islands, facing cross-chain troubles and fragmented liquidity. Caldera ($ERA) aims to connect everything, creating a modular, interconnected, and customizable Rollup internet.
Initially, it served as a Rollup chain launch tool, helping projects to easily deploy on OP, Arbitrum, ZK, and other technology stacks. Its current goal is Metalayer—enabling all Caldera-driven chains to communicate messages, share liquidity, and even achieve unified gas settlement. Developers can freely combine technology stacks like building with Legos, allowing games to have low latency and DeFi to achieve high security, with Rollups working collaboratively instead of functioning in isolation.
As of now, Caldera has supported over 100 chains, including Manta Pacific, ApeChain, Zerion, etc., serving more than 27 million users and processing over 100 million transactions. If $ERA can truly become a universal gas and settlement medium between chains, its value will be directly tied to the expansion of Rollup networks.
Of course, risks remain: cross-chain security is a hard metric, and the utility of the token must be realized; otherwise, $ERA will only remain at the narrative level. Overall, Caldera is not just a chain launch tool; it aims to become the internet protocol stack of the Rollup era.
