Today's episode with Matt from Caldera explores how Rollup-as-a-Service providers are dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of launching L2s, from $15M down to just thousands. Learn about Caldera's strategy for standardizing blockchain infrastructure, their perspective on different rollup stacks (Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync), and their vision for connecting multiple blockchain clusters through their meta layer. Thanks for tuning in!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:26) Rollup as a Service Model

(06:11) True Cost of L2s

(15:09) End Game of Infra

(34:15) Pros and Cons of Stacks

(48:39) Are RAAS Providers Centralizing?

(57:10) Virtual Machine Inclusion

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