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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

The last two weeks, the Hydra team achieved several milestones. They published the monthly report for October, providing updates on project developments. The team delivered a presentation and workshop at the Cardano Summit, contributing to community engagement. They implemented a \"dirt road\" solution for the \"Ignored init tx\" notification and moved the hydra-poll example project to a dedicated repository. Additionally, the team built a hydra-chain-observer tool for Hydra Heads, updated the toolchain to GHC 9.6.3, and made various improvements to tooling and code formatting. They addressed specific issues, such as fixing the gen-hydra-keys command and resolving concerns with the rewritten hydra-tui. The team also enhanced the hydra-cluster smoke test suite by fetching network configurations dynamically. Lastly, they actively reviewed pull requests and architectural decision records from the community, including contributions from SundaeSwap. An experiment, the Hydra tally, was completed and successfully deployed to the mainnet by the Cardano Foundation.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Published the monthly report for october
  • Given a presentation / workshop at the Cardano summit #1109
  • Dirt road implementation for \"Ignored init tx\" notification #529 (without stateless observation)
  • Completed and moved hydra-poll example project into a dedicated repository
  • Built a first version of a chain observation tool for Hydra Heads #1096
  • Switched toolchain to GHC 9.6.3 and various improvements on tooling and code formatting #1135#1152#1151#1154
  • Fix gen-hydra-keys command to not overwrite existing keys #1136
  • Fixed the rewritten hydra-tui#1113#1137
  • Fetch network configurations instead of packaging them into hydra-cluster (smoke) test suite #1156
  • Reviewing PRs and ADRs from the community (SundaeSwap) #1118#1157
  • Hydra tally experiment (Cardano Foundation) deployed to mainnet

What are the goals of next week​

  • Tackle reported bugs
  • Shepherd contributed off-line mode PR to the main codeline
  • Improve chain observation tool to include more data and refactor existing code towards more stateless observation
  • Start work on incremental decommits