What are Guardian Nodes by Caldera

Watchman Zēk
3 min readJul 12, 2024

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Guardian nodes is the recent Infrastructure introduced by Caldera. It enables decentralizing Rollups and enable community participation in the network.

A Rollup can organize a node sale and present it to the community, this helps team to raise funds as well. In other words, team can now launch guardian node to accomplish certain goals such as decentailsed their network and raised funds by involving the community as well.

This gives honest users the chance to participate in the network freely and also rewarding them in the process is very crucial to decentralisation. This means users can verify blocks and secure the network in exchange for rewards.

Decentralizing Rollup is an important factor we need to take note. It gives chances for more parties to watch over a rollup to help identify malicious behavior. This also improve the network security and prevent bad players.

With Caldera infrastructure, team can now organize a node sale which allows participants to operate a guardian node. This distributes key that authenticate the node’s eligibility to submit claims and earn rewards.

One of the L2 built on Caldera has already adopted this innovation. Hychain is a L2 built for Web3 game adoption powered by Caldera. They recently announced their node sale, thanks to the introduction of guardain nodes by caldera.

Caldera also gives discount on the node sale. If you are interested you can read more about it. Participating in the node sale and running one gives you the chance to participate in the network and be incentivized.

You can visit nodes.hychain.com

The Enter CALDERA in the promo code section and Complete purchase.

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However, you can follow a full video guide to run yours : Hychain node guide

They’ve already raised over $8m across 16,000+ node keys in just 2 weeks.

Moreso, Caldera have been front running various Rollups and L2s’ on Ethereum in the past few months. Moreso, it offers different integrations across various blockchain network.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to explore on guardian nodes and also be incentivized by joining Hychain node sale.

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Watchman Zēk

Tech Expert, Defi Analyst, Blockchain Researcher and Data Analyst