We’re thrilled to officially announce our partnership with Hytopia, and share our exciting work on HYCHAIN and its innovative Guardian Node system.

Built with Caldera’s Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution atop the Arbitrum Nitro stack, HYCHAIN is an L2 rollup designed to empower gamers and game-developers in Web3 by eliminating friction associated with onboarding and development on-chain, enabling games on the network to achieve massive scale.

Optimized for Player Experience

By leveraging Caldera to build out key functions and tooling, Hychain offers an infrastructure layer designed and optimized for player experience, boasting ultra-high throughput and lightning fast block times through Anytrust DA, along with completely gasless transactions, and a custom native token in $TOPIA to create a seamless, connected experience for its users.

Through custom work from the Caldera team, HYCHAIN also employs a Guardian Node system as an additional component in maintaining the network's robustness and accuracy. These Guardian Nodes play a pivotal role in overseeing the network's operations, acting as “guardians” that constantly monitor and verify that the network performs as expected, thereby contributing significantly to the overall health and stability of the network.

Creating a unified gaming ecosystem

While HYCHAIN is able to process thousands of transactions per second, there still may be a need for more scalable long-term solutions as more games join the HYCHAIN ecosystem and usage among them continues to grow.

To address this potential future, HYCHAIN will offer an option for large-scale games to create and manage their own L3 blockchains atop HYCHAIN's L2. These game-specific chains will be designed to support the demands of tens of millions of players, providing tailored scalability and unparalleled performance, while still utilizing $TOPIA as their network token to ensure interoperability, cohesion, and scalability for years to come.

About Caldera

Caldera is one of the fastest-growing rollup ecosystems on Ethereum, empowering web3 teams to launch high-performance, customizable, application-specific rollups. Leading EVM chains like Manta, Apechain, Kinto, Injective, RARI Chain and Zero Network by Zerion use our industry-leading rollups-as-a-service platform and enjoy unified connectivity with rollups across all leading frameworks.

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