San Francisco, United States, Might twenty fourth, 2024, Chainwire

• Rollup-as-a-Service platform Caldera is launching Guardian Nodes, a production-ready node system that allows community customers to confirm rollup blocks for rewards.
• HYCHAIN, the primary group to leverage this method with Caldera, generated $8 million from their preliminary node sale.

Caldera, the main Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, presently powers over fifty EVM rollups (together with Manta, Injective inEVM, Kinto, HYCHAIN, Treasure, and ApeChain) that safe ~$1B in whole worth locked.

Together with their core rollup infrastructure, Caldera gives a catalog of over 50 integrations throughout the modular stack and an assortment of different customized user-facing instruments for chains to leverage. 

Guardian Nodes are the most recent addition to that checklist.

The Background

As we speak, the vast majority of L1 blockchains function utilizing a proof-of-stake mannequin, the place a sequence’s members are incentivized by way of community rewards to lend their stake and validate the chain.

This incentive construction fosters decentralization by encouraging particular person stakers to function sincere validators, whereas punishing those that don’t, making for a particularly excessive price to assault a community and compromise its safety.

Decentralizing Rollups

EVM rollups have all however solved the scalability drawback, with L2s and L3s on Ethereum enabling just about infinite scale. However, there’s nonetheless no incentive for sincere community members to observe these rollups.

Caldera’s Guardian Nodes enable groups to decentralize their rollups by enabling customers to confirm blocks and safe the community in change for rewards. Underneath the hood, that is completed by introducing a novel “gentle verifier” to Arbitrum rollups that enables Guardian Node operators to confirm Nitro batches on on a regular basis {hardware} with no need to run a full node.

Groups can launch Guardian Nodes to their customers by means of a “Node Sale”, which distributes “keys” that authenticate a node’s eligibility to submit claims and earn rewards, granting purchasers the power to function a Guardian Node on a given rollup.

HYCHAIN, the primary group to leverage this method, raised over $8m throughout 16,000+ node keys in simply 2 weeks, fully supercharging their neighborhood whereas producing vital income for his or her mission.

By enabling extra events to observe over a rollup and determine malicious conduct, the community’s safety grows extra sturdy— an important step to establishing belief within the chain’s correctness. This in flip generates extra demand for a rollup’s native token, which is required for customers to take part in validation and helps present sensible cryptoeconomic safety for the community.

Guardians Nodes are one other notch within the belt of Caldera’s spectacular infrastructure answer. With the success of HYCHAIN’s launch, we anticipate extra groups constructing rollups to leverage this revolutionary product within the coming months.

To get began with a excessive efficiency rollup, go to Caldera’s web site right here and/or guide a name right here.

Contact

Development
Alex Gu
Caldera
alex@caldera.xyz
4844329611