Caldera launches Guardian Nodes, creating a brand new path for groups to boost funds and decentralize their community

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, United States, May 24th, 2024]

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

Caldera, the main Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, at the moment powers over fifty EVM rollups (together with Manta, Injective inEVM, Kinto, HYCHAIN, Treasure, and ApeChain) that safe ~$1B in complete 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, nearly all of L1 blockchains function utilizing a proof-of-stake mannequin, the place a sequence’s members are incentivized through community rewards to lend their stake and validate the chain.

This incentive construction fosters decentralization by encouraging particular person stakers to function trustworthy 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 downside, with L2s and L3s on Ethereum enabling just about infinite scale. However, there’s nonetheless no incentive for trustworthy community members to observe these rollups.

Caldera’s Guardian Nodes permit groups to decentralize their rollups by enabling customers to confirm blocks and safe the community in alternate for rewards. Below 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} while not having 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 flexibility to function a Guardian Node on a given rollup.

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

By enabling extra events to observe over a rollup and establish malicious habits, 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 count on extra groups to construct rollups to leverage this revolutionary product within the coming months.

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