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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team has worked on cleaning up several things in progress after last week's summit. They have extended their model-based testing (MBT) approach with transaction creation & observation #410, solved AcquirePointTooOld problems of the hydra-node with by changing the wallet initialization #439. Also, the Hydra researchers updated the security proofs of the Coordinated Hydra Head, which are bound to be included in the Hydra HeadV1 specification.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Monthly review & report - will also be published on our website #644
  • Extended the model-based testing (MBT) with transaction creation/observation #410
  • Solve AcquirePointTooOld problems with new wallet initialization #439
  • Fixed our hydraw deployments (EC2 instances)
  • Created & discussed ADR21 within tx validity work
  • Received & discussed security proofs of Coordinated Hydra Head (requires more work)

What are the goals of next week​

  • Get ADR21 accepted & close tx validity gap in our implementation
  • Complete review & integrate the Hydra tutorial
  • Review latest hydra-pay work
  • Have a LaTeX write-up of the HeadV1 (Coordinated Hydra Head) spec
  • Get Cicero (new CI) working