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 permits community customers to confirm rollup blocks for rewards.
- HYCHAIN, the primary workforce 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 presents 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
Right now, the vast majority of L1 blockchains function utilizing a proof-of-stake mannequin, the place a sequence’s contributors 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 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 sincere community contributors 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. Beneath the hood, that is achieved by introducing a novel “gentle verifier” to Arbitrum rollups that permits Guardian Node operators to confirm Nitro batches on on a regular basis {hardware} without 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 power to function a Guardian Node on a given rollup.
HYCHAIN, the primary workforce to leverage this method, raised over $8m throughout 16,000+ node keys in simply 2 weeks, fully supercharging their neighborhood whereas producing important income for his or her venture.
By enabling extra events to look at over a rollup and determine 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 modern 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
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