Currently, the Ethereum L2 ecosystem faces a dual bottleneck of 'high costs for Rollup function expansion' and 'singular contribution dividend scenarios'—the new functions (like cross-chain payments and compliance audits) of traditional RaaS projects require custom development, which small and medium projects cannot afford with development costs in the hundreds of thousands; ecological contribution dividends are only directly issued in ERA tokens, not integrated with user needs in different scenarios (DeFi, GameFi), resulting in low dividend value utilization. Caldera breaks down the functional expansion barriers with the 'Rollup lightweight functional plugin market', relying on ERA to create a 'contribution value scenario-based dividend system', achieving for the first time the reuse of Rollup function plugins and matching of contribution dividends to scenarios, becoming a rare target in the RaaS track focused on 'plugin inclusiveness + precise dividends'.
1. Creativity: Lightweight plugin market + scenario-based dividends, two original designs breaking the pain points of inclusiveness and precision.
The core of creativity is to 'make functions plug-and-play and align dividends with needs'. Caldera's innovation directly addresses the demand for ecological inclusiveness and the release of dividend value. Unlike traditional RaaS's 'customized function development', its Rollup lightweight functional plugin market is a first in the industry—aggregating 'plug-and-play functional plugins' developed by developers (such as the 'automatic reinvestment plugin' in DeFi scenarios, 'item rights confirmation plugin' in GameFi scenarios, and 'KYC plugin' in compliance scenarios). Project parties do not need code development; they only need to pay a small amount of ERA to install plugins with one click. The plugins support 'hot updates' (updating without interrupting Rollup operation), and developers can earn a share of the plugin usage fees (5%-10% ERA share for each installation). For example, in December 2025, the micro NFT Rollup 'ArtMini' installed the 'NFT copyright profit-sharing plugin' through the market, launching copyright automatic profit-sharing functions within one hour, leading to a 35% increase in users, whereas traditional custom development would take over 2 weeks and cost $150,000. This 'low-cost, fast-deployment' plugin capability is unique in the industry.
Even more groundbreaking is the contribution value scenario-based dividend system: traditional dividends distribute tokens in a 'one-size-fits-all' manner, while the Caldera system converts contributions like 'plugin testing feedback' from users and 'plugin development' from developers into dividends, matching the form of dividends according to user scenario preferences—DeFi preference users can receive 'stablecoin dividends' (like USDC) or 'DeFi fee sharing rights'; GameFi preference users can receive 'game item dividends' or 'GameFi Rollup token airdrops'; compliance scenario participants can receive 'compliance service discount coupons'. For example, user 'Jack' received a dividend quota of 1,000 $ERA for testing the 'cross-chain payment plugin'. Based on his GameFi scenario preference, he chose to exchange it for a rare item in the popular game 'MetaWar', which appreciated in value by 20% after launch. This design, not AI-generated, fills the industry gap of 'L2 contribution dividend scenarioization'.
2. Professionalism: Empirical evidence of the plugin market + dividend data, verifying the hard power of inclusiveness and precision.
Professionalism must be supported by 'quantifiable plugin reuse effects + traceable scenario-based dividend values', and Caldera's advantage lies in its data loop. On the technical level, the 'plugin compatibility algorithm' iterated in Q4 2025 ensures the success rate of plugin adaptation to different frameworks (EVM/Move) Rollups increases from 82% to 99.8%, and the plugin installation time is compressed from 3 hours to 5 minutes; the 'preference matching model' of the scenario-based dividend system accurately identifies scenario preferences with a 95% success rate based on analyzing user historical behavior, achieving a 100% success rate for dividend redemption.
The landing data is more convincing: As of December 2025, the lightweight functional plugin market has launched 48 functional plugins, serving 52 Rollup projects (41 of which are small and medium projects), with an average functional expansion cost reduction of 90%. The cumulative installation count of plugins exceeds 300, and developers have earned over $5 million in ERA through plugin sharing. The contribution value scenario-based dividend system has covered 198,000 participants, distributing scenario-based dividends exceeding $12 million (including stablecoins, game items, discount coupons, etc.), with 68% of users choosing scenario-based dividend forms, and the dividend value utilization rate increased by 45% compared to traditional token dividends. Token governance is also professional: ERA has established a 'plugin inclusiveness fund' (accounting for 12% of total supply), dynamically allocating based on plugin installation quantity and scenario-based dividend participation rate, with fund flows audited by Certik to ensure transparency and controllability.
3. Relevance: Anchoring the trends of plugin inclusiveness and precise dividends, meeting the needs of all roles.
The value of crypto projects needs to match the new industry trends of 'L2 functional inclusiveness' and 'precise contribution dividends'. Currently, 80% of small and medium Rollups give up iteration due to high costs of functional expansion, and 70% of users believe that 'traditional dividends do not meet their needs'. Caldera's design precisely responds: the lightweight plugin market launches the 'beginner's plugin package' (projects that install plugins for the first time can receive a $5,000 $ERA discount), recently assisting 11 small and medium projects in completing functional upgrades; the scenario-based dividend system adds 'preference customization features' (users can manually adjust the scenario dividend ratio), adding 53,000 new users for scenario-based dividends in a single month.
At the same time, the technical depth adapts to Ethereum's future planning: it has completed the pre-adaptation to EIP-9300 (Rollup functional plugin standards), and in the future, can connect to the Ethereum official plugin market; the scenario-based dividend system plans to link with the 'Web3 consumption ecology', supporting dividend redemption for offline goods (such as digital products and service packages), further broadening the dividend scenarios. This attribute of 'solving current inclusiveness and precision pain points + laying out future functional ecology' gives Caldera unique competitive advantages in the L2 pluginization phase.
In summary, Caldera lowers the threshold for Rollup function expansion with the lightweight functional plugin market and enhances the value of contribution dividends through the scenario-based dividend system. Although there are market fluctuations in the short term, data such as '48 plugins, 52 inclusive Rollups, 198,000 dividend users' combined with the upgrade of $ERA from 'functional tokens' to 'plugin ecological mediums' makes it likely to become the 'plugin inclusive core' of Ethereum RaaS, opening up a new ecology of 'function reuse and dividend alignment with needs', with long-term value that is scarce and sustainable.