Matthew Katz

Arbitrum Stylus: Why We're Excited

Two weeks ago, Arbitrum Stylus was announced. In short, Stylus provides support for native WASM execution on Arbitrum Chains, which means that smart contracts can be written in any language that compiles to WASM, including Rust, C++, and C. The space has been positively buzzing with excitement about Arbitrum Stylus

Caldera and Espresso Systems unveil Vienna: the first Optimistic Rollup using Espresso's Decentralized Sequencer

We're excited to share the next update in our collaboration with Espresso Systems to bring Espresso's decentralized sequencer to the OP Stack: The public Vienna devnet! The launch of this devnet represents the first time that developers and users alike will be able to interact with

Caldera x SupraOracles: bringing price feeds and VRF to Caldera chains

Hello everyone! We are absolutely thrilled to announce a key partnership that we believe is going to shake things up in the blockchain space. Caldera, your innovative go-to for blockchain infrastructure, is teaming up with SupraOracles, a leader in blockchain oracle services. SupraOracles: Bringing Offchain Data Onchain SupraOracles is a

The Dapp Noisy Neighbor Problem

If you're a software engineer, you might have heard the term "noisy neighbor effect". This describes a common problem in computing where one application or process can impact the performance of others running on the same system. It's like having a loud neighbor who

Caldera x Loot: A Dedicated Chain for the Lootverse

Hey Everyone! We're beyond excited to share some more news. Caldera is collaborating with the Adventure Gold DAO to launch a dedicated blockchain for the Loot ecosystem - the Loot Chain! This is a new leap forward for the Lootverse and all the projects it encapsulates, including new

Caldera x zkHoldem: fully-on chain ZK Poker

Hello Everyone! We are absolutely thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership that's reshaping the future of onchain gaming. Caldera is teaming up with zkHoldem, the world's first fully on-chain Texas Hold'em Poker platform. zkHoldem is enabling a revolutionary gaming experience that takes full

UniDex launches Magma Testnet

Today marks an important step in our collaboration with UniDex: the official launch of UniDex's Magma Testnet. About Magma Testnet The Magma Testnet is designed to provide a sandbox environment for the UniDex community to explore, test, and provide feedback on their features. This feedback will be instrumental

Re-introducing Bubs: the first public testnet of Celestia x OP Stack

Hello friends! After a brief hiatus, our public OP Stack x Celestia DA testnet is back and better than ever, now running on Celestia's Oolong upgrade. Now named Bubs, this testnet is running on the Goerli testnet and uses Celestia as its native DA layer. Why Celestia for

Caldera x UniDex: a new paradigm for decentralized exchanges

We are delighted to announce a partnership between Caldera and UniDex, an innovative decentralized exchange operating on its own rollup. UniDex is making strides as a powerful aggregation layer in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, providing users with a comprehensive trading experience by aggregating a wide array of financial instruments,

Caldera x Modular Cloud: Next-gen block explorers for modular blockchains

Hey there, friends! We've got some awesome news! Caldera, is joining forces with Modular Cloud, the amazing folks who create customizable block explorers for modular blockchains. This partnership is all about making life easier and more fun for everyone working with Caldera chains. Modular Cloud will automatically integrate

Bridging ERC-1155 With Caldera

What is 1155? The main token standard in NFTs is known as ERC-721. Each token created under ERC-721 is a unique asset — it’s indivisible and cannot be exchanged for other tokens on a one-to-one basis. ERC-1155 builds on the foundation of ERC-721. Tokens using the ERC-1155 standard can represent

Early Access to EIP's with Caldera

EIP's Today Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) describe standards for the Ethereum platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract standards. - Ethereum Foundation Part of what makes Ethereum magical is the network in which hundreds or sometimes thousands of developers come together and discuss improvements to Ethereum.

Subsidizing User Gas Fees with Caldera

What are gas fees? Gas refers to the unit that measures the amount of computational effort required to execute specific operations on the Ethereum network. * Ethereum.org Gas is the foundation of the Ethereum network. Every network on the chain has a non-zero gas fee that rewards supporters who have

Why We Started Caldera

We first started thinking about Caldera (dubbed Constellation at the time) when we saw that the web3 world was in a catch-22. Blockchain developers — branching across various verticals like NFTs, DeFi, gaming — want to build complex applications. Yet, they’re plagued by the limitation of everyone building on a handful

Caldera x Giant Leap: Unleashing Next-Level Gaming Experiences

Hey everyone! We're stoked to share some fantastic news with you all - Caldera and Giant Leap are teaming up! This collaboration between us and Giant Leap, on-chain gaming masterminds, is going to take the fully-on-chain gaming world by storm. We're super excited to announce we&

Partnering with Hyperlane: Enabling interoperability for Caldera rollups

Ever since we started working on Caldera, we’ve always believed that Caldera chains will be more than just app-specific rollups. We view Caldera chains as an ecosystem of their own, integrating with each other and enabling interesting cross-chain use cases. For this to work, a key issue is Caldera

Announcing SevenX Ventures' Participation in Caldera's Seed Round

Hey everyone! We've got a great update on our seed round, which we announced back in February on TechCrunch. We’re happy to announce SevenX Ventures as an additional investor in this round, and we're really looking forward to this partnership. Let's dive into

Custom Native Tokens: A Massive Unlock for User Experience

The Web3 world is always evolving, and it's becoming increasingly important for developers to adapt and optimize their projects to provide the best user experience possible. This is especially true for those building massive, consumer-facing crypto apps: games, social networks, rewards platforms, and more. One of the greatest

Caldera Spark Retrospective: 5000 rollups launched

Hey there, folks! In February, we announced the launch of Caldera Spark, a proof-of-concept dashboard that enabled developers to permissionlessly launch their own rollups with a single click. Given that we just launched our public testnet rollups, we decided now is a good time to retire Caldera Spark. Spark was

Unveiling Caldera's Public Testnets

Caldera’s Testnets Are Live! We are excited to share that Caldera has officially opened two public testnets! Caldera is already live, running multiple production rollups on mainnet for select projects. But we wanted to open up public Caldera chains for the broader Ethereum developer community to test with. Since

Marble x Caldera: Improving UX with embedded wallets

We are excited to announce a partnership between Marble Wallet and Caldera! Marble Wallet is an embeddable self-custodial wallet that provides a seamless onboarding experience for users by replacing seed phrases with email or phone authentication. With Marble Wallet, developers building on Caldera chains can now easily offer wallet onboarding,

Caldera x Curio: Making On-chain Gaming Possible

“Working with Caldera has saved us the equivalent of two full-time engineers who would otherwise be solely focused on blockchain infrastructure.” - Kevin Zhang, Curio Co-founder Curio is bringing games fully on-chain Curio is an on-chain gaming studio that is working on the next generation of games. They aim to

Caldera raises $9M to enable Web3 at scale

We’re excited to announce that Caldera has raised $9M in funding across two rounds, lead by Shaun Maguire at Sequoia Capital and Ani Pai at Dragonfly respectively. This funding will help us grow our team, build out partnerships and integration to support developers, and help make Caldera’s vision

Hop into the driver's seat with Caldera Chains

Imagine your dream car. One that can reach lightning-fast speeds, is fully tailored to fit your preferences, and is ready for both your daily commute and high-speed racing on the track. Well, let us introduce you to Caldera, the easiest way to build and run modular rollups. Caldera chains are

Constellation is now Caldera

Gm again! Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves. Constellation is now Caldera. Although our name has changed, our goals remain the same: empowering developers to build apps in Web3 by making it easy for anyone to launch performant, customizable layer-two blockchains. Why rebrand? We loved the name “Constellation” and thought