Original Title: "Understanding Caldera in Three Minutes: The Bridge of a Unified Rollup Ecosystem"
Original Author: Nicky, Foresight News
Editor's Note: On July 16, according to an official announcement, the Binance HODLer airdrop has launched its 27th project – Caldera (ERA). Its tokenomics have also been revealed: the total supply of Caldera (ERA) tokens is 1 billion, with 2% allocated for the HODLer airdrop, and the initial circulating tokens accounting for 14.85% of the maximum supply. An additional 20,000,000 ERA will be used for market activities six months after listing. This article was first published on July 30, 2024, providing a detailed introduction to Caldera, and BlockBeats has reproduced the original text as follows:
In the multi-chain world of Web3, each Layer 2 solution is like an isolated island, operating independently and lacking connectivity. However, within this fragmented ecosystem, a project named Caldera is working to build bridges and create an interconnected Metalayer to achieve seamless connections between Layer 2 and Layer 3. Today, let’s take three minutes to delve into this project.
1. What is Caldera?
Initially, Caldera was designed as a Rollup deployment platform that can launch high-performance, customizable, and application-specific rollups using the Arbitrum Nitro, Optimism Bedrock, zkSync ZK Stack, and Polygon CDK frameworks. Through Caldera, projects can easily deploy Rollups without the need for technical team support. According to official information, the number of Rollups based on Caldera has now exceeded 60.
Although there are many Rollups, they are decentralized, and their liquidity exists in isolation, leading to inconsistencies in user experience and application efficiency. To address this issue, after successfully raising funds recently, Caldera plans to build a Metalayer to create a barrier-free network. This is an innovative interconnectivity layer aimed at unifying these fragmented Rollups, breaking down liquidity islands, and unifying the entire fragmented Layer 2 ecosystem.
2. Caldera's Financing Background
Caldera has received continuous attention from capital, as evidenced by its recent completion of a $15 million Series A funding round. The lead investor is Founders Fund, with participation from other investment institutions such as Dragonfly, Sequoia Capital, Arkstream Capital, and Lattice, reflecting the market's broad confidence in Caldera. Last year, Caldera raised $10 million, and with the new round of financing, its total funding has reached $25 million, providing strong support for its technology development and ecosystem construction.
3. Caldera's Rollup Ecosystem and Growth
The Rollup ecosystem is a collection of Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions, with the core purpose of increasing network throughput, reducing transaction costs, while not sacrificing the security and decentralization characteristics of the blockchain network. This ecosystem includes various types of Rollup technologies, such as Optimistic Rollup and ZK Rollup, which significantly improve transaction processing speed and reduce costs by bundling a large number of transactions together and only interacting with the Ethereum mainnet when necessary.
The adoption of Rollup technology has significantly increased TPS (transactions per second), reduced Gas fees, and ensured security and decentralization of the network, allowing DeFi users to manage assets, lend, and trade more efficiently; at the same time, developers can utilize the Rollup platform to develop and deploy dApps (decentralized applications) at lower costs and higher efficiency; for ordinary users, the Rollup ecosystem can help them enjoy a process experience similar to centralized services when using decentralized applications, such as reducing the waiting time for transaction confirmations while ensuring asset security.
Caldera launched in 2022, and today, it has become one of the fastest-growing Rollup ecosystems globally, empowering Web3 teams to customize and launch over 60 high-performance Rollups across multiple application categories. Currently, the Caldera ecosystem includes 1.7 million unique wallets, holding over $800 million in total locked value (TVL), and has completed over 60 million transactions. Notable chains include Manta Pacific, inEVM (Injective), ApeChain, and Zero Network (Zerion). Currently, inEVM has surpassed 800 million total transactions, with over 3 million transactions in the past week; meanwhile, ApeChain will also launch its testnet soon.
4. Future Outlook for Caldera
According to the roadmap on the official website, Caldera's zkSync mainnet and Polygon CDK testnet have already launched, and the next step will be to release the Polygon CDK mainnet and self-service mainnet. To provide early insights into the user experience of Web3 dApps built on Metalayer, Caldera has established the first NFT minting factory on all Caldera chains, allowing users to mint their first NFT on the Caldera Metalayer by visiting metalayer.caldera.xyz.
As Caldera continues to advance its Metalayer project, we have reason to believe it will play an important role in the development of Web3. By achieving seamless connections between Layer 2 and Layer 3, Caldera not only addresses technical challenges but also promotes collaboration and innovation across the entire industry. In the future, we look forward to seeing more projects and teams adopt Caldera's Metalayer to jointly build a truly interconnected blockchain network.
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