High-level summary
This week, the Hydra team worked on multiple fronts. They finished the investigation about the broken head on mainnet and re-opened their persistent head instance. The team also fixed the monthly report publication on their website and started sketching ideas and further improvements. Also, they are on the last mile to deliver a new feature which will allow parties to commit funds from extern wallets. Finally the team started to work on optimizing the performance on their benchmarks.
What did the team achieve this week
- Finished investigation on broken head on mainnet #897 and re-opened it.
- Added support for externally committing regular utxo #887
- Fix monthly report publication on docs website and published the monthly report. Odd problems when publishing monthly report:
- Fixed a bug in the benchmark process #910
- Explored performance of the
hydra-node{.verbatim} and identified a bottleneck. - Timed transaction feature is being used by the auction project 🎉
What are the goals of next week
- Complete performance analysis and start/plan improvements and provide regular benchmarks for Hydra #186
- Add hydra as tool to developer platform #872.
- Authenticate network messages #727.
- Complete journey for external commits using multiple script UTxOs #903
- Start implementing Option B for external commits #215.