Recently, a conversation with a friend sparked my deep thinking about the Web3 ecosystem. Someone compared Caldera to Shopify in the Web3 world, and this analogy is indeed quite enlightening.

Looking back at the development of e-commerce, it is not difficult to find similarities with the current Web3 field. Once upon a time, creating an online store required a significant amount of technical expertise and financial investment. The emergence of Shopify completely changed this situation, allowing ordinary people to easily enter the e-commerce space.

The same revolutionary changes are taking place in the Web3 world. Caldera is significantly lowering the threshold for deploying rollups. In the past, this required an elite technical team, substantial funding, and a long development cycle. Now, with Caldera, a small team can launch a new chain in a short period of time and quickly validate innovative ideas.

The democratization of this technology is likely to trigger a "rollup revolution." We can foresee that in the coming years, various chains tailored for different scenarios will emerge like mushrooms after rain—fields such as gaming, social networking, DeFi, and NFTs may each have their own customized chains, just like the diverse specialty shops in a city.

Even more exciting is that these "on-chain towns" are not isolated. Through the connection of Metalayer, they will form an interconnected ecosystem. Imagine being able to seamlessly transfer items obtained on the gaming chain to the financial chain for collateral, and then showcase them on the social chain; this cross-chain interaction will bring a whole new user experience.

Therefore, rather than getting bogged down by the performance metrics of a single chain, I am more concerned with whether Caldera can become a key entry point to drive more people to participate in Web3. It is not just a technology, but more like an "innovation incubator" that brings infinite possibilities to the Web3 space. This is exactly what makes Caldera so exciting — it has the potential to be a catalyst for driving the entire industry forward.