Caldera (ERA) feels like the quiet infra play nobody’s paying attention to (yet)

Most of the market’s attention right now is on big caps pumping or the next meme coin rotation, and don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the chaos like anyone else. But I’ve been trying to balance that with watching actual infrastructure plays that could stick post-cycle. That’s how I ended up finding Caldera. At first glance, it sounds like another rollup project, but it’s not. It’s a rollup platform, like a toolkit that lets other people spin up their own L2s in a few clicks. It abstracts all the hard parts: sequencers, bridges, even DA layers like Celestia. You just launch, tweak settings, and deploy. Super modular.

What really clicked for me is that this isn’t some hypothetical roadmap. Over 50+ rollups are already using Caldera in production, and the platform has processed 400M+ transactions with $500M+ in TVL. It’s already battle-tested. Most other infra tokens, Polygon, Optimism, Starknet, are locked to their specific ecosystems. But Caldera is like a cloud service for rollups, interoperable by default. All rollups on Caldera can pass messages, share liquidity, and even coordinate gasless UX through their MetaLayer system. Their token, ERA, just launched on different exchanges like Bitget and others with a Launchpool where you can stake BTC, ETH, or BGB to farm rewards. It’s not a “hype and dump” listing; it actually feels like part of a larger strategy to slowly decentralize the protocol and incentivize builders.
Honestly this feels like one of those infra sleeper tokens that might not move much now, but could suddenly become critical infrastructure if modular rollups hit scale.

Would love to know if anyone else here has tested Caldera or is farming the Launchpool. Curious how builders view it vs OP Stack or Polygon CDK.