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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