KoinlyticsRollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) providers spin up a custom L2 for any team in hours to days. Conduit, Caldera, AltLayer, Gelato, and others handle infrastructure (sequencer, bridging, monitoring), letting the team focus on their app.
What RaaS gives you
- Deploy in days, not months.
- Choice of stack (OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZK Stack, Polygon CDK).
- Choice of DA layer (Ethereum blobs, Celestia, EigenDA, Avail).
- Managed sequencer and bridging infrastructure.
- Monitoring, block explorer, RPC endpoints included.
Major providers
- Conduit. Focuses on OP Stack and Arbitrum Orbit. Backed by Paradigm.
- Caldera. Multi-stack, popular for gaming rollups.
- AltLayer. Also offers restaked rollups (borrowing EigenLayer security).
- Gelato. Focuses on OP Stack + custom features.
Notable rollups launched via RaaS
- Zora Network (Conduit).
- Frax L2 (Conduit).
- Blast (Conduit).
- Mantle (custom).
- Gaming: many L3s via Caldera.
Trade-offs
- Pro: speed to market.
- Pro: professional infra without hiring the team.
- Con: dependency on the RaaS provider.
- Con: not fully decentralized (centralized sequencer typical).
Where RaaS fits
- Consumer apps that need their own economics (fees kept, custom gas token).
- Games that need cheap onchain interactions.
- DeFi protocols that outgrow shared L2 blockspace.
Where it doesn't
- Apps that don't need their own chain (just deploy on Base or Arbitrum).
- Teams that want fully decentralized infra day one.