what is Caldera and why should you care? 🌋 at it's core, Caldera helps developers easily launch custom blockchains, also known as rollups you can think of it like Shopify for blockchains with fast setup, flexible design and no need to code everything from scratch ⸻ fundamental concepts to understand: roll-ups, wtf is that? a rollup is like a mini blockchain that runs fast and cheap but still gets the security of a big chain (Ethereum) this gives builders the best of both worlds. speed and scale, but without giving up on safety. ⸻ automated infra? you don’t need to touch sequencers, rpc, indexers, or any backend stuff. caldera runs all of that for you. this saves time, money, and headaches. more focus on building, instead of endlessly managing servers. ⸻ connecting to other chains out the box? caldera chains are already bridged to ethereum, solana, arbitrum and more this means users can move money across chains easily. no weird third-party bridges or extra steps. ⸻ wtf is 'mOduLaR'? you pick your gas token, your data layer, your plugins. build what you want this lets projects go full meme or full serious. totally up to the team behind it ⸻ now, why should you care about it? it's simple, you care because it makes things CHEAPER and FASTER for you. that's it. the team is already winning, this isn't some basement project - $ERA is coming soon and I'm excited to hear what tokenomics Jimmy and the rest of the team came up with 👀