High-level summary
This week, the Hydra team released version
0.9.0 - a version
of the hydra-node with fully specified behavior of on-chain scripts and
off-chain head-logic, decreased costs for opening/closing a Head and scalable
contestation deadline semantics. Check out the full release notes for details.
Furthermore, they published the monthly report of the Hydra project and conducted a review meeting with an increasingly wider audience. The team plans to extend invitations through the new Hydra #announcements discord channel for the next months, stay tuned!
What did the team achieve this week
- Monthly review meeting with report published on website
- Fixed smoke tests #726
- Reduced the cost of opening/closing a Head (error codes #748 + head reference script #701)
- Released version 0.9.0
- Conducted a first experiment on mainnet compatibility #713
- New discord category with #announcements channel
- Received a demo about the Hydra for Voting project
- Lightning talk on mutation-based testing (to be shared)
- New themes view in on our roadmap and some rearranging as we align it with high-level objectives
- Clarified things with researchers, but mostly identified action items for them
What are the goals of next week
- Redraw transaction graphs and address TODOs specification
- Run hydraw with 0.9.0 on preprod
- Make smoke tests on mainnet possible
- Groom the explorer item
- Unblock the auctions projecth with “commit from script” a solution