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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary

In between the end-of-year holidays, the Hydra team completed the implementation of the Conway support feature, fixed a minor bug that was hindering tests from running on MacOS, and addressed a regression in the protocol-parameter formats used by the hydra-node. They also worked on off-chain code for incremental decommits, specifically focusing on transaction creation. Furthermore, they conducted a spike on implementing a Chess game using Hydra, with an experience report provided.

What did the team achieve this week

  • Fixed a regression on protocol-parameter formats used by the hydra-node #1226
  • Fixed a minor bug prohibiting tests running on MacOS #1218
  • Complete conway support feature #1227
  • Transaction creation off-chain code for incremental decommits #1218
  • First spike on implementing a Chess game on Hydra report, related to: #1098

What are the goals of next week

  • Fully resolve protocol parameter misalignment #1234
  • Cut a release 0.15.0 to ship offline-mode and conway support
  • Prepare demo for conway support
  • Complete transaction creation and observation for incremental decommits
  • Backend for a hydra-explorer that can track all heads on-chain