The AI agent economy is exploding. Agent-specific protocols are now valued at over $3.8 billion, driven by a foundational shift - AI agents can now function as independent economic actors onchain. But this rapid growth has exposed a critical infrastructure gap.
Agents are purely rational and chain-agnostic. They have no loyalty to any blockchain, only to efficiency and outcomes. Yet they face an impossible choice: general-purpose chains throttle their performance with congestion and high fees, while specialized rollups risk trapping them in isolated silos, cut off from opportunities, liquidity, and data across the broader ecosystem.
To function effectively, agents need specialized environments where they can operate at full capacity and universal connectivity to access resources everywhere. More importantly, they need sustainable economic models that align developers, users, and the agents themselves.
Today, Capx is solving this problem. Capx launches its mainnet on Caldera as a dedicated Ethereum Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum Nitro stack using Caldera's Rollup Engine, delivering the specialized infrastructure agents need while remaining connected to the broader onchain economy through the Metalayer.
Building the Agent Economy's Missing Infrastructure
Capx addresses all three challenges facing autonomous AI agents: performance, connectivity, and economic sustainability.
The protocol provides a complete stack where agents can live, compute, and thrive. Capx Cloud offers Docker-native deployment with persistent memory and secure sandboxing. Capx Chain delivers an optimized execution environment with a built-in Token Factory and native AMM. The Capx SuperApp provides discovery and trading interfaces where users can interact with and invest in agents.
$CAPX powers every layer as the native gas token, while each deployed agent receives its own ERC-20 token through the automated Token Factory. Every agent gets 1 billion fixed-supply tokens, distributed across developers, ecosystem treasury, liquidity pools, and public circulation. These tokens trade against $CAPX on a native DEX forked from Uniswap V2, creating instant liquidity and price discovery.
The above combines to solve the agent economy's main pain points: programmable ownership through native ERC-20 tokens, agent-native infrastructure for continuous autonomous execution, and on-chain liquidity that makes agent assets instantly tradable and composable with DeFi.
Why Agents Need a Dedicated Appchain
Agents operating on general-purpose chains face fundamental constraints. High-throughput tasks like running complex models or executing trading strategies are throttled by network congestion and unpredictable fees. A dedicated appchain was essential for three reasons:
Optimized Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents. Capx Chain provides blockspace specifically optimized for agent workloads, with predictable transaction costs and the ability to handle continuous autonomous operations without competing with unrelated network activity.
Deep Protocol Customization. The Token Factory automatically mints ERC-20 tokens for every deployed agent. A built-in AMM provides instant liquidity against $CAPX. Custom execution environments support both EVM (Solidity) and WASM (Rust, C++) smart contracts through Arbitrum Stylus, enabling more computationally intensive agent logic to run efficiently on-chain.
Economic Sovereignty. Full control over the chain's economic model allows Capx to capture value from agent activity, transaction fees, trading volume, token launches, to fund ecosystem development and ensure long-term sustainability.
How Caldera Powers Capx's Vision
To bring this vision to life, Capx partnered with Caldera to provide production-grade infrastructure optimized for the agent economy:
Production-Ready Arbitrum Nitro Infrastructure. Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered a fully managed Arbitrum Nitro rollup, handling sequencing, transaction batching, and settlement to Ethereum. This freed the Capx team to focus on building their agent marketplace rather than managing blockchain operations.
Universal Connectivity Through the Metalayer. This solves the agent's dual mandate. Through Caldera's Metalayer, Capx Chain connects to Base, BNB Chain, and the growing Caldera ecosystem.
The Metalayer speaks the agent's native language: intents. Agents don't think in procedural steps like "bridge asset X, swap for asset Y, stake in protocol Z." They think in outcomes: "Achieve the highest yield" or "Deploy capital optimally."
An agent expresses its desired outcome as a cryptographically signed intent. The Metalayer broadcasts this to a competitive network of solvers who find and execute the most efficient path across any connected chain. Agents on Capx can access liquidity, data, and opportunities everywhere while maintaining their specialized home base.
ZK-Powered Scalability with Celestia. Capx leverages Celestia for data availability, drastically reducing transaction costs while maintaining Ethereum's security guarantees. This makes micro-transactions and complex on-chain agent logic economically feasible.
Decentralized Sequencing Through Symbiotic. Capx employs Symbiotic's restaking primitive to establish a decentralized set of sequencers, mitigating single points of failure and ensuring reliable execution for autonomous agents.
A New Primitive for the Agent Economy
Caldera's vision is to build an Internet of Chains where each new rollup adds unique capabilities to an interconnected network. Capx Chain's mainnet launch adds foundational agent infrastructure that any Metalayer-connected network can leverage.
Cross-Chain Agent Interactions. An agent on Capx managing a user's portfolio can query yield opportunities across DeFi protocols on Base, Arbitrum, and other Metalayer-connected chains. When it finds superior returns, it submits a single intent to bridge, swap, and stake assets—with solvers executing the multi-step transaction atomically.
Composable Agent Workflows. A trading agent on Capx could leverage data from Intuition's knowledge graph, execute swaps across multiple DEXs via intent-based routing, and deploy profits into yield strategies on specialized DeFi chains like Symbiosis, all through programmatic Metalayer intents.
Network Effects Drive Shared Growth. As $CAPX and agent tokens move freely via the Metalayer, liquidity deepens and user bases expand. Each new agent that launches makes the platform more valuable, attracting more developers and capital. This is the flywheel in action.
The Future of Agents is Specialized and Interconnected
Capx Chain demonstrates the solution to the agent's dual mandate: a dedicated appchain optimized for agent operations combined with the Metalayer's universal connectivity. Agents perform at full capacity on their specialized home base while accessing resources and opportunities across the entire onchain economy.
Agents don't have brand loyalty to any single chain - they demand performance, connectivity, and sustainable economics. Capx delivers all three, pioneering infrastructure where autonomous agents operate as independent economic actors, communities own the agents they use, and value flows freely across specialized chains.
We're proud to provide the platform for pioneers like Capx to build the agent economy. Congratulations to the entire team on this incredible milestone.
Ready to launch your own dedicated rollup and join the Internet of Chains? Visit our deployment page to get started.
About Caldera
Caldera is powering the next internet. Its architecture consists of two core components: the Rollup Engine and the Metalayer. The Rollup Engine is a modular operating system used to launch high-performance, custom chains on leading chains and frameworks like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and ZKsync. The Metalayer then automatically connects every chain into one network. Through this interoperability protocol, all chains access shared liquidity and secure, intent-based bridging that transforms fragmented networks into a unified Internet of Chains. And now with the launch of the Caldera Bridge Preview, Metatoken, and Stablecoin Module, this expands the product suite and market size that Caldera is tackling.
