ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera acquires Hook. This strategic acquisition brings Hook's team into Caldera's one-click Rollup platform, thereby driving product development. Hook is the development team behind Hook Odyssey, a perpetual futures Rollup focused on memecoins and NFTs.The addition of the Hook team brings Caldera's employee count to 20, distributed across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera posted on X: "We have noticed that scammers are creating and promoting counterfeit Caldera tokens on BSC. Please be aware that the official token has not been launched yet, and do not purchase or interact with this fraudulent token."

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera has completed a $15 million Series A funding round, led by Founders Fund. Dragonfly, Sequoia Capital, Arkstream Capital, Lattice, and others participated. The Series A funding brings Caldera's total funding to $25 million, having raised $10 million last year.Caldera is a platform that provides Rollup as a service, helping developers quickly launch Ethereum-based Rollups or scaling networks. The platform has assisted over 50 projects in launching Rollups, with a total locked value of over $800 million and processing more than 59 million transactions.Caldera co-founder and CEO Matt Katz stated that the funding will further drive its technological development and help Web3 teams leverage shared network effects to achieve greater scalability and security.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Rollup scaling project Intmax announced today the launch of testnet v1, which is a command-line type primarily aimed at developers. Intmax plans to launch a general-purpose testnet in the first quarter of next year and go live with the mainnet in the second quarter.According to the introduction, Intmax is the first zk-rollup for various network services and finance, featuring a privacy and decentralized sequencer (sequencing) customized for NFTs. After the mainnet goes live, decentralized sequencers will be implemented, and block mining will be opened for rewards. In November this year, Intmax was selected as one of the 18 winners of the first batch of the Mask Network Grant donation program. (source link)