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Caldera is an app-rollup scaling solution that has built a rollup deployment platform enabling users to focus on building high-performance, customizable, and application-specific Layer 2 blockchains using the Arbitrum Nitro and Optimism Bedrock frameworks. Each Caldera rollup comes equipped with high-performance RPC nodes, a block explorer, data indexer, and bridge interface to the settlement chain.
These customized blockchains (Caldera Chains) can customize their gas tokens, utilize DA layers provided by Celestia and Near instead of Ethereum's DA to reduce fee pressure, and support decentralized sequencers to avoid centralization and single points of failure. These features grant Caldera Chains higher throughput and lower latency, capable of processing hundreds of transactions per second with sub-second finality, optimizing performance and user experience for decentralized applications. Caldera enables anyone to launch and operate dedicated, high-performance Layer 2 blockchain "Rollups".
On February 13, 2023, Caldera announced it had raised $9 million across two funding rounds led by Sequoia Capital and Dragonfly, with participation from Neo, 1kx, Ethereal Ventures, and other angel investors.
