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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary

This week, the Hydra team made progress by releasing version 0.14.0, incorporating updates and improvements. They also updated dependencies in preparation for Conway support, addressing #1114. Additionally, the team completed substantial refactoring in hydra-node using stateless observation, aiming to enhance system efficiency and performance #1096. Lastly, they investigated regressions related to JSON serialized transactions and consider dropping this in favor of CBOR only submission.

What did the team achieve this week

  • Released version 0.14.0
  • Updated dependencies to prepare for Conway support #1114
  • Completed substantial refactoring in hydra-node using stateless observation #1096
  • Investigated regressions about JSON serialized transactions

What are the goals of next week

  • Analysed our mainnet head and why some transactions were invalid
  • Detect incompatible blocks and provide better UX
  • Update to newer cardano-node and Conway support in hydra-node
  • Draft the end-to-end workflow for incremental decommits