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Hydra Team Update

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Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary

This week, the Hydra team restored test compatibility with all networks, reviewed and merged streaming plugins contributed by SundaeLabs. The team also fixed tutorial instructions for downloading the latest cardano-node, fixed the observed contesters bug, prepared a PRs for downstream clients to use the new API format for transactions (preparing the release with this breaking change). Finally, they also recorded a walkthrough video on how the hydra project is run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUeO7A6mMU

What did the team achieve this week

  • Restored compatibility with all networks #1355.
  • Reviewed and merged streaming plugins (only missing a how-to) #1325.
  • Fixed tutorial instructions for downloading cardano-node 8.9.0 #1367.
  • Fixed the observed contesters bug #1266.
  • Prepared a PR for Kupo using new Hydra transaction format kupo#166.
  • Recorded a walkthrough on how the hydra project is run (uncut) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUeO7A6mMU.

What are the goals of next week

  • Conduct the monthly review meeting
  • Improve the /commit endpoint to unblock users
  • Stateful testing of transaction traces to verify corner cases for incremental decommit
  • Release 0.16.0