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What Is Caldera?
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Caldera is a rollup platform on Ethereum that enables horizontal scaling and interoperability between rollups. Instead of optimizing a single blockchain, Caldera allows projects to launch customizable rollups while maintaining Ethereum's security and decentralization.
The platform introduces the Metalayer, a unifying layer designed to connect rollups across Optimistic and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) frameworks. This enables coordination, communication, and resource sharing while preserving the distinct features of each rollup.
Caldera's native utility and governance token, $ERA, is used for:
- Transaction fees within the Metalayer for cross-rollup interactions.
- Staking for validator nodes participating in the network.
- Governance decisions on protocol upgrades and treasury allocations.
Key Features:
- Rollup Engine: Projects can deploy rollups without requiring an engineering team.
- Message Passing & Relaying: Facilitates efficient data and asset transfers between rollups.
- Fast Finality & Preconfirmations: Improves transaction speed and security.
- Guardian Nodes: Provides additional security and decentralization for rollups.
- Native Yield: Supports ecosystem incentives and economic sustainability.
Who Founded Caldera?
Caldera was developed by Constellation Labs, a blockchain research and development group focused on Ethereum scaling. The team includes engineers and protocol designers with experience in Web3 infrastructure. The CEO and co-founder is Matthew Katz, and the CTO and co-founder is Parker Jou.
Launched in 2023, Caldera has enabled over 60 rollups and processed more than 400 million transactions, with $500 million in Total Value Locked (TVL).
Some projects using Caldera's rollup infrastructure include:
The live Caldera price today is $0.730943 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $17,996,119 USD. We update our ERA to USD price in real-time. Caldera is down 4.55% in the last 24 hours. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #340, with a live market cap of $108,544,977 USD. It has a circulating supply of 148,500,000 ERA coins and a max. supply of 1,000,000,000 ERA coins.