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

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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 staff 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 affords 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 newest addition to that checklist.

The Background

In the present day, the vast majority of L1 blockchains function utilizing a proof-of-stake mannequin, the place a sequence’s contributors 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 value 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 trustworthy community contributors to watch these rollups.

Caldera’s Guardian Nodes enable groups to decentralize their rollups by enabling customers to confirm blocks and safe the community in trade for rewards. Underneath the hood, that is completed by introducing a novel “mild 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 flexibility to function a Guardian Node on a given rollup.

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

By enabling extra events to observe over a rollup and establish malicious conduct, the community’s safety grows extra strong— a vital 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 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 e book a name right here.