Web3 has proven itself for securing financial assets. But when it comes to establishing trust and reputation, the tools remain fragmented and siloed. There's no native "Web of Trust" where information itself becomes a programmable, verifiable asset. This gap prevents the emergence of truly decentralized identity, robust reputation systems, and AI applications that can reason about trust and credibility.
Today, Intuition is solving this problem. Intuition launches its mainnet on Caldera as a dedicated Base L3 built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack using Caldera's Rollup Engine, transitioning from a successful testnet phase into a live, production-ready environment.
Building the Missing Infrastructure for an Intelligent Onchain World
Intuition is creating a foundational piece of infrastructure: a shared memory layer for crypto. By enabling anyone to make verifiable claims, or "attestations," about anything (from a smart contract's security to a user's reputation), the protocol bootstraps a decentralized knowledge graph. Think of it as Wikipedia meets blockchain, where users can stake on the accuracy of information, turning knowledge into a tradable, composable asset.
This "Web of Trust" is designed to give both humans and AI better intuition by providing the data they need, from sources they trust, at the moment they need it. Intuition functions as a dynamic information market where truth emerges through economic incentives and community curation.
In preparation for mainnet, the Intuition team has launched the Ecosystem Instantiation Initiative. This program combines a long-form hackathon with their first official grants program. It invites builders to deploy high-quality applications and tooling directly on mainnet, moving from "testnet tinkering" to an ecosystem with "real money, real stakes, real users”, creating a community-driven approach to bootstrap a vibrant knowledge economy from day one.
Why Intuition Needed a Dedicated Appchain
During its successful beta on Base, Intuition proved demand for its core primitives. However, to scale their vision of becoming the "data liquidity layer for the internet" (a protocol designed to handle trillions of attestations and complex information markets), the limitations of a shared, general-purpose network became clear.
Building on a dedicated appchain was essential for three main reasons:
Deep Protocol Customization. Implementing a new economic model for "Information Finance" as a native, chain-level feature required deep control over the execution environment. This level of customization is only possible on a sovereign rollup where Intuition controls the core protocol design.
Economic Sovereignty. A custom appchain gives Intuition full control over its fee structure and incentive mechanisms. This allows the team to capture value generated by the protocol to fund future R&D, ensure long-term sustainability, and align economic incentives precisely with their vision for a decentralized knowledge graph.
An Optimized, Uncongested Environment. To guarantee the performance and reliability needed for its core functions, Intuition required its own dedicated blockspace. On a shared L2, the protocol would compete for resources with unrelated DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, and gaming applications. This creates unpredictable costs and performance bottlenecks.
How Caldera Powers Intuition's Vision
To bring this ambitious project to life, Intuition partnered with Caldera to provide the flexible, powerful infrastructure needed to realize their vision.
Production-Ready Infrastructure. Caldera's Rollup Engine delivered a fully managed, production-ready Arbitrum Orbit rollup, handling all the underlying complexities: running the sequencer, batching transactions, and settling to Base. This freed the Intuition team to focus entirely on developing their groundbreaking protocol for verifiable data, rather than managing blockchain infrastructure.
Universal Token Accessibility with Metatoken. An appchain provides sovereignty, but Intuition's native $TRUST token (central to the protocol's design) needed to be accessible across the entire onchain economy. To achieve this, Intuition became one of the first projects to adopt Caldera's Metatoken protocol.
Built on the Metalayer (Caldera's universal interoperability network), Metatoken is a lock-and-mint bridge protocol designed specifically for "long-tail" assets like protocol tokens. It allows $TRUST to be seamlessly bridged across the entire Caldera ecosystem with the same verifiable contract address on every chain, all while Intuition retains full control. This provides a cost-effective and secure way to achieve the universal reach that their protocol demands, without the six-figure integration fees charged by alternative solutions.
A New Primitive for the Internet of Chains
Just as Cosmos grew stronger with each new specialized chain joining its ecosystem through IBC, or Polkadot expanded its capabilities as new parachains launched, Caldera's vision is to build an Internet of Chains where each new rollup adds unique capabilities to an interconnected network.
Intuition's mainnet launch exemplifies this vision perfectly. This launch adds a foundational new primitive that any other Metalayer-connected network can leverage, creating a powerful flywheel for the entire ecosystem:
New Capabilities Unlock Cross-Chain Use Cases. Intuition brings a "shared memory" and "Web of Trust" layer that any application can now access. Manta Pacific could integrate Intuition's attestations to verify user credentials for privacy-preserving DeFi protocols. RARI Chain could leverage the knowledge graph to verify creator authenticity and strengthen royalty enforcement. B3's gaming ecosystem could create persistent player achievements that follow users across games.
Network Effects Drive Shared Growth. As $TRUST and other assets move seamlessly via the Metalayer, liquidity deepens and user bases expand. Users discovering Intuition explore other Caldera applications, and vice versa. Each new integration makes the platform more valuable, attracting more builders, which creates more integration opportunities. This is the flywheel in action.
The Future is Interconnected
Intuition's launch proves that the future of onchain innovation lies in specialized, interoperable rollups. By combining the sovereignty of a dedicated appchain with the connectivity of the Metalayer, Intuition can build exactly the protocol it envisions while remaining deeply integrated with a growing ecosystem of complementary applications.
As more pioneering projects like Intuition choose to build on Caldera, the collective value and capabilities of the entire network compound. Each new chain doesn't just add users or TVL. It adds unique functionality that makes every other chain in the ecosystem more powerful.
This is the Internet of Chains in action: a unified network where innovation flows freely, liquidity moves seamlessly, and builders can focus on creating groundbreaking applications rather than reinventing infrastructure.
We're proud to provide the foundational platform for pioneers like Intuition to build the future. Congratulations to the entire Intuition team on this incredible milestone.
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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.
