Acquisition
Nov 2024Caldera acquired Hook to accelerate product development and build the Metalayer; the deal was described as Caldera's first acquisition.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Caldera is a San Francisco-based blockchain infrastructure company building a rollup-as-a-service platform and interoperability layer for launching, managing, and connecting purpose-built Ethereum rollups. Its core pitch is one-click deployment with managed operations, then cross-rollup connectivity through the Metalayer.
Primary product
Rollup Engine and Metalayer
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Blockchain infrastructure / Rollup-as-a-Service
Business model
rollup-as-a-service
blockchain infrastructure platform
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Director of Talent Acquisition
Director of Talent Acquisition
Head of Business Development, GTM & Growth
Work & culture
Mission-driven, builder-focused, crypto-native team with a distributed workforce across multiple countries. Public materials emphasize speed, customization, security, and developer experience for teams building app-specific chains.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public careers materials state compensation includes competitive pay plus equity and token grants, with full benefits.
Benefits
full benefits
competitive pay
equity
token grants
Product & market
Pricing
Sales-led / custom quote; book-a-demo or call-based motion
Differentiators
- —1-click deployment of production-grade rollups
- —managed deployment, customization, maintenance, and security
- —support for multiple rollup frameworks and VM environments
- —Metalayer interoperability across rollups
- —shared liquidity and cross-chain messaging
- —built for app-specific chains
- —production-ready launches without in-house blockchain engineering
Technology
Arbitrum Orbit
Arbitrum Nitro
OP Stack
Optimism Bedrock
ZK Stack / zkSync
Polygon CDK
SVM via SOON stack
Hyperlane
TypeScript SDK (@metalayer/sdk)
bridge widget
Metatoken
intent-based bridging
block explorers
Customers
Manta Pacific
ApeChain
Kinto
Injective
RARI Chain
Zero Network by Zerion
Curio
Horizen
Intuition
AppChain
B3
SX Network
Capx
Competitors
Conduit
AltLayer
Optimism
Offchain Labs / Arbitrum
Metis
Eclipse
Dymension
Alchemy
Kaleido
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
about USD 1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
30.9K
Traffic estimate as of Oct 2025
Signals & risks
Latest news
Caldera · Jan 2026
Official announcement of a partnership with BitcoinOS to add a path toward Bitcoin-aligned security for Caldera rollups.
Caldera · Dec 2025
Horizen’s mainnet launched live on Caldera, highlighting privacy-preserving appchain infrastructure and interoperability via the Metalayer.
Caldera · Nov 2025
Intuition launched its mainnet on Caldera as a Base L3 built on Arbitrum Orbit, using Caldera’s Rollup Engine and Metatoken.
The Block · Nov 2024
Caldera acquired Hook in its first acquisition, bringing the Hook team into Caldera to help build the Metalayer.
CoinDesk · Jul 2024
Caldera closed a $15 million Series A led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $25 million.
Jobs and careers at Caldera
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