ApeChain, powered by Caldera, is now officially live on Mainnet. ApeCoin holders can enjoy effortless yield rewards and seamless cross-chain transfers with LayerZero OFTs. 

What is ApeChain?

ApeChain is an Arbitrum Orbit L3 designed to serve as a home base and dedicated infrastructure layer for the ApeCoin ecosystem. It offers high-speed transactions, ultra-low fees, and full EVM equivalence.

Through Caldera’s custom native token feature, ApeChain utilizes $APE as its native gas token, fostering a robust and dynamic economy driven by $APE and bolstered by a novel Native Yield feature powered by a unique collaboration with LayerZero.

What’s Unique about ApeChain?

Truly Ape. Truly Ethereum.

Using Caldera’s rollups-as-a-service platform, ApeChain benefits from Arbitrum’s security and production-grade infrastructure. As Ethereum secures Arbitrum One, ApeChain can offer ultra-fast transaction times and low fees while benefiting from Ethereum’s security and deep liquidity. 

The First Rollup with Effortless Native Yield Earning

ApeChain users will also benefit from native yield on stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI), ETH, WETH, and the APE token. Our team at Caldera worked closely with our friends at LayerZero, Decent, Offchain Labs and ApeCoin to bring this innovative concept to life. 

With native yield, ApeChain users will see their assets on ApeChain automatically grow without requiring manual intervention, enabling exciting new developer and consumer experiences. To learn more about native yield on ApeChain, click here. 

The First Rollup with a LayerZero OFT as the Native Token

ApeChain is focused on fostering a robust and dynamic economy driven by $APE and positioning itself as a premier platform for all web3 developers and users. To this end, the team at ApeCoin has upgraded its smart contracts with LayerZero’s OFT standard, making $APE truly interoperable with multiple chains. Our team at Caldera helped ApeChain take this one step further and enabled the use of omnichain $APE as the native gas fee token for the rollup. This novel implementation of the OFT standard enables seamless, fully collateralized $APE transfers across other chains, ensuring ApeChain is deeply connected with other ecosystems while also allowing for $APE to be used as the native gas token - greatly enhancing the $APE utility. 

Building with Caldera

We’re thrilled to be the official rollups-as-a-service partner of the ApeCoin DAO, joining forces with all its key stakeholders. The mainnet launch of ApeChain has truly been a decentralized effort involving many teams like LayerZero, Horizen Labs, Offchain Labs, and Decent, spanning several months. In addition to cutting-edge performance, ultra-low gas fees, and $APE as the native gas fee token, we helped ApeChain with a suite of complementary tools right out of the box, including a bridge interface, block explorer, and on/off ramp for a seamless onboarding experience. 

To learn more about ApeChain, visit their developer docs here. 

If you’re interested in deploying your own rollup with Caldera, contact us.  

About Caldera

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

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