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co-founder/CEO @calderaxyz, prev @Stanford CS, @WarpDotDev, @SkiffPrivacy
Joined April 2017
I am so excited to unveil our series A fundraise. It has never been a better time to scale Ethereum 😄.
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Many people don't know how expansive the @Calderaxyz ecosystem is. 25+ mainnets on Ethereum: from DeFi, to gaming, to memecoins, to DePIN. Dozens of more teams live on testnets who will launch their mainnet chains soon. Hundreds of other projects who have deployed on a Caldera.
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From the start, we @Calderaxyz have been highly opinionated about NEVER holding rollups hostage. We want you to use Caldera because we're providing value, not because you're forced to.
GM Degens,. After careful consideration—since it affects the community most—we’re sharing our difficulties in migrating DEGEN L3 away from @conduitxyz services. They've held our rollup keys hostage for months, and we may need to relaunch a new chain.
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Caldera was founded and scaled to a team of 20+ in the US. In 3 years, we’ve launched 100+ of chains, integrated with 100+ partners, and raised from top US investors like Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Dragonfly. Building in the US is no longer a weakness, it’s a strength.
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PSA: if you even so much as *joke* about launching a chain on ecks dot com, i WILL launch a chain for you. Powered by @Calderaxyz
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So bullish on Celestia. Imo, too much focus was placed on consensus in the past, which has lead to the bunch of fairly undifferentiated chains running EVM that we have now. By abstracting away consensus, Celestia will unleash a Cambrian explosion of new experiments in blockchain.
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We @Calderaxyz are excited to collaborate with the Caldera Foundation to usher in a new era for Ethereum scalability.
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My bad for being so OOTL. Just learned there's a @ModularCards of me. Now I just need to get this jacked irl
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If the @calderaxyz ecosystem was a single rollup, it would be…. The 8th largest rollup by TVL.The 5th largest rollup by activity. Just getting started.
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@0xrectus @DavyCryptoJones @apecoin Wow - insane community response lol. Thanks all for the answer, will check @v_on_vana out.
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@Calderaxyz x @onappchain - celebrating $1B in TVL. Mint the onchain gift now :).
Congrats to our friends @Calderaxyz for surpassing $1b in TVL across all caldera chains! 🌋. Celebrate onchain with us with gift 🎁.
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Feels great to finally come out of "stealth"-ish. Major gratitude to all of our backers.
gm!. We’re excited to announce our $9M of funding across two rounds, lead by @shaunmmaguire at @sequoia and @ani_pai at @dragonfly_xyz respectively, with participation from @neo, @1kxnetwork, @alliancedao , and @etherealvc.
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if infra was infra.@Calderaxyz: @Calderaxyz.@CelestiaOrg: @CelestiaOrg.@eigenlayer: @eigenlayer.@initia: @initia.@EclipseFND: @EclipseFND.@injective: @injective.@SeiNetwork: @SeiNetwork.@wormhole: @wormhole.@Camp_L2: @Camp_L2.@nodekitorg: @nodekitorg.@hyperlane: @hyperlane.
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Stylus makes @arbitrum a strong dark-horse competitor as a zkp-verification network. Many zkp systems are not yet provable in a smart contract, but have verifiers that can compile to WASM. Arbitrum already has all the interop infra in place. Submit proof to Arbitrum -> bridge.
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To discuss the acquisition, Hook co-founders @Jake_Nyquist and @negroprogrammer joined us for a podcast. Listen here on X:
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Most important takeaway from this:. I will own (and change my pfp to) a @CelestineSloths within the next week! Long time coming 😆.
Incentive Structures In Modular Systems ✨. Join us here on X tomorrow, May 23rd at 11am EST for a livestream with:. ‣ @samkazemian of @fraxfinance.‣ @0xkatz of @Calderaxyz.‣ @felipeargento of @cartesiproject.‣ @Jake_on_me of @MitosisOrg
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I could not be more bullish about ourselves @Calderaxyz. Key hires made, great backers, iterating quickly. Solving tough engineering problems. We're hiring across eng + non-eng roles. DM me if you're looking for something new.
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I was building in crypto in 2017/18 but stopped when winter hit. Promised myself that I wouldn't make the same mistake again. If the bear mkt is here to stay, looking forward to fulfilling that promise.
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The @Calderaxyz ecosystem is popping off, but it can be hard to visualize activity across all of our chains. So I built ListenToCaldera, where you can listen to and view blocks being produced in realtime across the Caldera ecosystem
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Congrats the Clearpool team for the launch of Ozean's Poseidon Testnet!. Got the chance to connect with them at Devcon and inspired by the vision to bring trillions of RWAs on-chain.
The highly anticipated launch of Ozean moves one step closer…. 🔱 Ozean’s Poseidon Testnet is LIVE! 🔱. This milestone brings us closer to enabling automatic native yield on-chain through Ozean’s RWA-focused blockchain, paving the way to unlock trillions in TradFi capital. 🎉
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Update on @Calderaxyz X account: the offending post was deleted and we've received direct confirmation from X that the account is now frozen and the threat is mitigated. We will be able to recover the account shortly. Thank you @X team for the incredibly fast response.
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Crazy day for @Calderaxyz. 1. @Mint_Blockchain testnet launch.2. @align_network testnet launch.3. @PulsarMoneyApp integration. We keep shipping 🛳️.
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Having a brand name that you can slot "AI" into is half the battle. Study CaldAIra.
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Ethereum has never been more alive!. Bringing ETH to the masses.
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You know you've made it when the scammers start impersonating you. Incredible milestone reached. "Celdero" Lmfao
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We blew past 100k! Thank you all for your support. Community is everything🧡
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My cofounder @theappletucker is actually one of the most legit AI devs in the blockchain space:. - Helped build self-driving systems at Waymo.- Worked at Nvidia before it was cool. He will be tweeting more about crypto x AI. You should give him a follow.
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One of our top priorities in the new year was shipping an incredible portal, and the team absolutely crushed it. The portal achieves three things:. 1. Offers a unified venues to view the most up-to-date statistics on the Caldera ecosystem.2. Provides strong, Caldera-native data.
All Caldera chains, under one roof. The Portal is now live, featuring real-time stats, insights, and latest news across the Caldera ecosystem.
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Running a @Calderaxyz guardian Node is super easy. Does not require bigbrain tech skills. Here's me setting up and running a @HYCHAIN_GAMES node 👇
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We're working with @Galxe to showcase our tech + highlight how builders are using Caldera!. Join the Caldera bootcamp :).
Announcing Caldera Bootcamp: a 6-week journey to learn about AppRollups and our partner ecosystem!. Complete weekly quizzes powered by @Galxe to earn points. Top students qualify for a Caldera NFT!. Get started:
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Anecdotally, some of my smartest Web2 friends are now looking to enter crypto. Last cycle that marked the start of an incredible rally. (What marked the end was my dumbest friends trying to get in lol).
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ORANGE RAAS JOINS FORCES WITH ORANGE PERPS TEAM. It was preordained. Don't fade destiny and don't fade Caldera.
Our mission is to build a million inter-connected rollups on Ethereum, making it reach web-scale. To bring us one step closer to this vision and accelerate the development of the Metalayer, we are excited to onboard the team from @HookProtocol. Link:
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We're still hiring for many eng roles @ Caldera. Pros:.🪙 Competitive pay + equity grant.🔧 Work on cutting-edge problems in the modular blockchain space.🏦 We're well-capitalized, multi-year runway. Cons (?):.👵 Your grandma won't understand what you do for a living. DM me
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Imagine building a rollup platform that DOESN'T settle on the most stable, decentralized smart contract platform on the planet, then getting into a slap-fight with another team who made even worse architectural decisions. Wouldn't be me 🤷♂️
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ApeChain is going crazy! Blocks and txs are coming in faster than the human mind can process 🔥
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Hyped to reveal this! It's been a joy to work with the @MantaNetwork team so far, and I'm excited to continue building with them.
We're excited to announce that Caldera is supporting @MantaNetwork in its launch of 🔱 Manta Pacific, a next-gen, ZK-native L2
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Excited to announce we're working with @EspressoSys to integrate with their decentralized sequencer!.
Decentralized sequencing is coming to Caldera!. We're partnering with @EspressoSys to make it easy for teams to use the Espresso Sequencer as a plug-in component of our modular rollup stack on their Caldera chains!. Let's dive into the details 🧵
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I get notifications from lots of people tagging @Calderaxyz as a "hidden gem" project. A clear indication we still have work to do. In due time, Caldera will just be a "gem". Nothing hidden about it.
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soon???
RaaS but it’s a pumpfun inspired UI where users spin up L2s or L3s to compete on who can attract the most users / apps / TVL to their chain in weekly contests . If a chain wins it enters the optimism superchain (or something) and becomes eligible for airdrops and grants.
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Account abstraction is *the* killer feature to bring app-rollup UX to the next level. Now, @CalderaXYZ rollups have access to best-in-class AA infrastructure via @Biconomy.
Account abstraction is coming to Caldera chains!. We're partnering with @Biconomy to make it easy for teams to.deliver seamless Web2-like user experiences on Caldera chains and onboard the next billion users onto Web3. Let's jump into the details 🧵
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On monolithic chains: fight against other applications to rent scarce blockspace. With modular appchains: own your blockspace.
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Decided to throw my hat in the @lootproject ring:. introducing 🎵Tunes (for Adventurers), a set of 12000 unique, AI-generated chiptune (ie "8bit music") NFTs. You can listen to the Tunes that have been minted so far right on opensea:
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Promises made, promises kept.
𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽. Despite facing personal liquidity challenges @0xkatz of @Calderaxyz confirms his commitment to change his profile picture to a sloth. 🦥💤. Watch the full video below.
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Something coming. .
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Revealing our collaboration with @HallidayHQ!. Halliday is working on making it easy to onboard players and deliver frictionless experiences with Web3 games.
We're partnering with @HallidayHQ!. Deliver frictionless in-game experiences through Halliday’s account abstraction onboarding, fiat payments, and suite of gameplay tools!. Let's dive into the details 🧵
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@FIP_Crypto @Calderaxyz I hear you loud and clear, and I think you'll enjoy some of the stuff we're putting together for the future. Fwiw, the NFTs are being minted to your address via AA, so this will increase your onchain footprint.
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1,000,000 wallets on the metalayer NFT within the first couple days!. Insane!.
1,000,000+ unique addresses minted the Metalayer NFT. All in a single day.
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Strongarmed my family into going for Chinese food to maintain some semblance of Jewish-American identity
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The highlight of my EthCC: getting to share the stage with these chads. See you next year!.
Fireside Chat | How is App-chain Thesis Different Between Ethereum & Cosmos Ecosystem. Kicking off now with @VitalikButerin!
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This $14M wallet is farming the Caldera: Meet the Metalayer campaign.
Lol 😂 . Wait, this $14M wallet is farming plume Task on layer3?. Which means he definitely did the testnet? Ahh
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Not a dunk on this project or team specifically, but it's a little telling that the Ethereum phone looks like this. While the Solana phone actually looks like an actual phone.
With our own hardware and OS, we can go in the direction we believe in. We don’t need to bring millions along either. If the masses start liking our tech, they are more than welcome to join us. We’re not just in it for the tech. We’re in it for the people that use it.
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The endgame is NOT: all rollups fully decentralizing. The endgame IS: every rollup having the freedom to choose a position in the centralized/decentralized tradeoff space.
@_weidai Well put. Corollary: rollups allow teams to explore the tradeoff space between centralization<->decentralization on each of these axes.
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ai agents submitting transactions that send tokens created by ai agents to other ai agents. all on chains launched by ai agents.
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All teams working on mass consumer experiences should consider launching a chain using USDC as a gas token. Extremely low fees, denominated in USD.
Starting today, Caldera chains on @arbitrum Orbit will be able to choose USDC as their custom gas token 🧡. Excited to support builders in creating frictionless user experiences 💪🏼
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This is awesome, massive props @MantaNetwork @socialscan_io for the incredible visualization. We now have an example of modular DA in production. and it's saving Manta $7k per DAY in gas fees. Wild!.
Amazing gas fee estimator dashboard created by @socialscan_io, illustrating estimates of @CelestiaOrg's impact on data fees. Celestia going live exceeded our initial estimates, and will continue doing so over the next few weeks.
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Congratulations to @UniDexFinance for re-launching their testnet as a Celestium: an L2 using Celestia for DA. With Celestia, users can save massively on transaction fees.
1/ Molten Network upgrades with Celestia underneath. By switching to @CelestiaOrg’s modular DA, we're saving traders over 100x in gas fees, making Unidex one of the cheapest L2s on the market. Read more ↓ 🧵
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Caldera chains are loving our latest Guardian Nodes offering. @HYCHAIN_GAMES node sale raised over $7M within a few months of launch 🚀.
Guardian Nodes Case Study 🕵🏽. 👉🏽 @HYCHAIN_GAMES. 4 months since launch. 17k+ Nodes sold. 2250+ ETH in revenue ($7M+ 🤯)
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There's a shortage of good coders.There's a glut of bad coders. Good coders can tell whether or not someone is a good coder. Bad and non-coders can't tell. Bad coders blame external factors, sometimes immigrants.
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@JeremiahDJohns Progressives know they got an incredible "deal" with Biden (traffic in left-wing policies via Biden's bona fides as a "moderate"), and that any replacement candidate will be significantly more centrist policy-wise.
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Wrote a horizontally scalable miner for @darkforest_eth a few days ago, was able to mine a good chunk of the map (before radius increase). Was getting > 200k hashes/sec at my peak for a few hours until the VPS provider shut me down 😢
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Rollup security is important, and we're building a coalition of the best in the business to provide enhanced protection for Caldera chains. Excited to work with @HypernativeLabs!.
We're excited to report that we've partnered with @HypernativeLabs.to level up security for all Caldera chains ⛓️ 🔐. ✔️ Real-time threat monitoring.✔️ Real-time fraud alerts.✔️ Incident response & analysis.✔️ Emergency security measures
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24h later, I'm reflecting on how the $TRUMP launch signals a sea change in how 🇺🇸 projects can do tokens:.- Token details front-and-center.- Launched out of an American LLC.- "Buy tokens" link right on the front page. Entering a new era.
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Friendly PSA: if you're an airdrop farmer and book time on the Calendly I use for new project onboarding, there's a 0% chance we will ever give you an airdrop.
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My co-conspirators have an order of magnitude more followers than I do, so you've probably already seen this. but on the off chance you haven't:. Join us if you're an undergrad interested in blockchain. It'll be a good time!.
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Hayden gets it. Do you?.
Some context on @unichain and L2s as it relates to gas markets👇. Apps want low, predictable gas fees . AMMs raise fees (fee floor = lowest profitable arb) and increase volatility (big market movements). In the future, most apps won’t want to share block space w/ AMMs for this.
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We just formally launched Caldera's guardian node product, giving teams a new path to 1) raise funds, and 2) incentivise node operators.
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Could not be more excited to reveal the next step in our collaboration with @EspressoSys: the first public Optimistic Rollup that uses Espresso's decentralized sequencer infrastructure.
Introducing the Vienna Network ☕️. We're thrilled to unveil this public devnet of an Optimistic Rollup using the @EspressoSys Shared Sequencer. This launch signifies the first-ever instance of a live Optimistic chain powered by a decentralized sequencer!
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@ItsAlwaysZonny @initia > I'll tag @0xkatz and i bet we'll see one in the replies in just a few minutes. He's right.
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