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Hydra Team Update

· One min read
Noon van der Silk

High-level summary

We're very happy to have release 0.21.0; featuring many big changes. Check out the full release notes here: Hydra 0.21.0. We continue working on supporting the Glacier Drop; the Blockfrost chain layer, fixing some bugs in the incremental commit workflow (please consider this feature in beta until these are fixed), among other day-to-day improvements.

What did the team achieve?

  • Released version 0.21.0! With a tonne of new features.
  • Completed example of withdraw-zero based sha512 trick #1933.
  • Progress on Blockfrost chain layer #1305.
  • Investigated a feature to "Re-open" a closed head; decided against implementing it for security reasons.
  • Continued work on fixes to the deposit workflow #1951

What's next?

  • Finished new deposit check #1951
  • Fix "UX" bug when changing peers on a previously-configured hydra-node #1937
  • Work on a simple endpoint to check head status #1957
  • Continued work on a full Blockfrost chain layer #1305
  • Reinstate Kupo support #1785
  • Investigate bug allowing fan-out #1476
  • Investigate event-log rotation #1581
  • Continue to focus on supporting the Glacier drop