San Francisco, USA, Might 24, 2024, Chainwire

• Rollup-as-a-Service platform Caldera is releasing Guardian Nodes, a production-ready node system that enables community customers to validate rollup blocks and earn rewards.
• HYCHAIN, the primary group to leverage the system on Caldera, raised $8 million from their first node sale.

Caldera, a number one Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, at present helps over 50 EVM rollups (Manta, Injective inEVM, Kinto, HYCHAIN, Treasure, ApeChain, and many others.) with a mixed locked worth of roughly $1 billion.

Along with its core roll-up infrastructure, Caldera gives a listing of over 50 integrations throughout its modular stack, in addition to a spread of customized user-facing instruments that chains can leverage.

Guardian Nodes are a current addition to that listing.

background

Presently, nearly all of L1 blockchains function utilizing a proof-of-stake mannequin, the place members within the chain are incentivized via community rewards to lend their stake to validate the chain.

This incentive construction promotes decentralization by encouraging particular person stakers to function trustworthy validators and punishing those that don’t, making the price of attacking and compromising the community extraordinarily excessive.

Decentralization of rollups

EVM rollups have largely solved the scalability downside, and Ethereum's L2 and L3 permit for just about infinite scale, however there may be nonetheless no incentive for trustworthy community members to police these rollups.

Caldera's Guardian Nodes permit the group to decentralize the rollup by permitting customers to validate blocks and safe the community in alternate for rewards. Internally, they obtain this by introducing a brand new “light-weight validator” to the Arbitrum rollup, permitting Guardian Node operators to validate Nitro batches on on a regular basis {hardware} with out having to run a full node.

Groups can launch Guardian Nodes for customers via a “node sale” wherein they distribute “keys” that authenticate a node’s eligibility to submit claims and earn rewards, granting purchasers the ability to function Guardian Nodes on a particular rollup.

HYCHAIN, the primary group to make the most of this method, raised over $8 million from over 16,000 node keys in simply two weeks, absolutely activating their neighborhood and bringing vital income to their undertaking.

Having extra events in a position to monitor the rollup and establish malicious habits makes the community safer – a vital step in establishing belief within the chain's correctness. It will drive demand for the rollup's native token, which is required for customers to take part in validation and helps present sensible crypto-economic safety for the community.

Guardians Nodes is one other milestone in Caldera's main infrastructure options, and with the profitable launch of HYCHAIN, we count on to see much more groups constructing rollups and leveraging this progressive product within the coming months.

To get began in your high-performance roll-up, go to Caldera’s web site or schedule a name right here.

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