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Hydra Team Update

· One min read
Noon van der Silk

High-level summary

The team accomplished quite a lot of things, notably the Withdraw Zero trick is now possible, we have documentation for snapshot side-loading, and we have fixed a number of bugs with deposits. We are now focused on our next big release, a Blockfrost-based chain layer, and supporting the Glacier drop.

What did the team achieve?

  • New metric, hydra_head_peers_connected #1946
  • Withdraw zero trick #1795
  • Better defaults for contestation period and deposit deadline #1925
  • Documentation for the side-loading snapshot feature #1912
  • Bugfixes for deposits #1915, #1895, #1924
  • Head finalised reporting wrong UTxOs #1913
  • Publishing scripts with blockfrost #1668
  • Improved Blockfrost API for following the chain #1931

What's next?

  • Release version 0.21.0
  • Continued work on a full Blockfrost chain layer #1305
  • Reinstate Kupo support #1785
  • Continue to focus on supporting the Glacier drop
  • Fixes to the documentation #1636,