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Why is $ERA still worth paying attention to after the airdrop?
After Succinct, more and more people are starting to focus on the underlying infrastructure of Web3. The ZK narrative is heating up, and capital's attention is shifting from applications to inter-chain interoperability and "intent" execution.
➤ Caldera is one of the key infrastructures in this trend.
With so many chains now, the ecosystem is severely fragmented, leading to new plays like "abstract wallets" and "intent protocols"—but these all rely on the underlying execution network.
More and more projects no longer need to build chains from scratch, but can directly use the Rollup modules provided by Caldera, which is simple, fast, and convenient.
You may not have noticed that many familiar projects are actually supported by Caldera:
🔸 Towns (the most active social project on Celestia)
🔸 Space and Time (a data project that just completed its TGE)
🔸 Plume (dubbed the RWA dark horse)
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➤ Caldera itself is also accelerating the improvement of its interoperability capabilities:
The Metalayer cross-chain bridge is now live, currently supporting instant transfers between EVM chains like Base and BNB, with plans to expand to non-EVM chains like Solana and Hyperliquid in the future.
You can apply to join the whitelist first.
Application link 🔗
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➤ Caldera is gradually becoming a key infrastructure for inter-chain interoperability.
Caldera's Rollup engine already supports over 100 L2/L3 chains, accounting for 25% of the entire Ethereum Rollup. This means that for every 4 chains in the market, 1 is using Caldera.
It has processed over 1 billion transactions, with a TVL exceeding 400 million USD, over 30 million wallet addresses, and services covering more than 75 chains, encompassing multiple popular narratives such as AI, RWA, DePIN, and GameFi.
Overview of the Caldera ecosystem 🔗
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➤ The native token $ERA of Caldera is also sending out several signals.
Investors have a long lock-up period, a slow release rhythm, support staking to obtain ecological airdrops, and holders have the opportunity to unlock qualifications for cooperative projects.
The "ERA Power" mechanism launched by the project encourages deep community participation, providing more incentives for participants after the TGE.
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What Caldera aims to do is not to replace any chain, but to build an "interoperable foundation"—just like a browser does not replace websites but connects thousands of applications.
Behind these new narratives of ZK, chain abstraction, and intent execution, Caldera is the infrastructure project worth continuous attention.
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From the time I first entered the crypto space, every new coin launch would mention ERC20 tokens and various standards, and I was filled with awe and admiration for the act of issuing coins, feeling that it was a very difficult thing to do.
Later, I got used to it, and one-click coin issuance became the norm.
Then came the era of "one-click chain issuance," with OP Stack, Caldera, AltLayer, Dymen, Arbitrum Orbit... chains are no longer scarce, and Rollups today can even be stacked in bulk like modular Legos. All of this is made possible by some infrastructure wizards like Caldera.
Looking back at $ERA
On July 17, $ERA launched simultaneously on Coinbase, Binance, and Upbit, the three major exchanges debuted on T1 exchanges. To be honest, I was surprised at the time, but looking back, the logic isn't complicated.
Big narrative + solid product + deep capital
What Caldera aims to do is to be an infrastructure builder for an "infinite chain world":
Every chain can be created quickly like a website, seamlessly connected, with assets, applications, and transactions able to interact across chains in real-time. For ordinary users, this means no longer having to endure high gas fees, slow transactions, and the complexities and risks of cross-chain bridges.
The product line revolves around: Rollup technology suite + Metalayer creation:
Rollup technology suite: Chain issuance in minutes, allowing anyone to deploy high-performance sub-chains.
Metalayer cross-chain protocol: Achieving seamless interactions across Rollups, across L2, and even across ecosystems.
Currently, it supports 1/4 of Ethereum Rollups, processing nearly 1 billion transactions, with an ecosystem TVL exceeding $400 million.
At the same time, it is backed by top crypto VCs like Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and Dragonfly, originating from the Alliance DAO incubator, which has invested in many well-known projects like pump, pendle, spaceandtime, stepn, etc. For investment research, the direction of Alliance and FF, Dragonfly can serve as predictive signals for future major projects, worth continuous tracking.
The airdrop part has been a bit confusing, with a significant gap between the distribution method and user perception, some are happy while others are not, but what's done is done.
Everything has come, yet it seems like nothing has truly been left behind.
By the way, if you're still looking at this track, you might want to check out another competing project, Conduit, which was invested in by Paradigm.
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