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· 2 min read
Noon van der Silk

High-level summary​

We are excited to be making great progress towards a "light-weight" Hydra node by finishing the Blockfrost chain-following integration. We have also made great progress on our fixes around deposits. We have made some other small UX improvements and continue focusing in that area, as well as continuing our focus of supporting the Midnight Glacier Drop. We will largely continue on as we have been; making UX improvements and finishing the final bits and pieces for the deposit checks.

What did the team achieve?​

  • Implemented a full Blockfrost chain layer! #1305
  • Finished new deposit check #1951
  • Updated the hydra-explore to track 0.21 #45
  • PostTx error includes the failing transaction #2004
  • Almost finished event-log rotation #1581
  • Working on a simple endpoint to check head status #1957
  • Progress on simplifying UX around hydra scripts #1441
  • Progress on a way to query the head status #1957
  • Continued to support the Midnight Glacier Drop

What's next?​

  • Final piece on deposit logic checks #1978
  • Finish event-log rotation #1581
  • Simplify finding the hydra scripts #1441
  • Better UX around etcd errors #2026, #1937
  • Finish query for head status #1957
  • Continue to focus on supporting the glacier drop

· One min read
Noon van der Silk

High-level summary​

We continue working away on fixes for deposits/incremental commits, and some UX and documentation improvements that have come about as a result of working with the Glacier Drop operators. We continue working on Blockfrost integration, event log rotation, and more UX improvements.

What did the team achieve?​

  • Update the hydra-explore to track 0.21 #45
  • Small updates to the tutorial around etcd #1991
  • Fixes to the documentation #1636, #1752, #1975
  • Embedded etcd into hydra-node to improve UX of running the node #1992
  • Fix "UX" bug when changing peers on a previously-configured hydra-node #1965
  • Reinstated Kupo support #1785 (pending merging the PR.)

What's next?​

  • Finished new deposit check #1951
  • Work on a simple endpoint to check head status #1957
  • Continued work on a full Blockfrost chain layer #1305
  • Investigate event-log rotation #1581
  • Simplifty finding the hydra scripts #1441
  • Add a way to query the head status #1957
  • Continue to focus on supporting the Glacier drop

· 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

· 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,

· One min read
Noon van der Silk

High-level summary​

The team has been working hard on some bugfixes and investigations, as well as a new feature that can be used to "un-stuck" a Hydra head: side-loading snapshots. We're working on some documentation of this feature, and in the coming weeks we will merge several bugfixes, and an implementation of the "Withdraw 0" trick, which will turn out to be very convenient for those wishing to use custom plutus operations on the L2 ledger but still retain the ability to fanout.

What did the team achieve?​

  • New --advertise option to bind to public IPs #1874
  • New feature: Side-loading of a snapshot #1858
  • Mirror node investigation #1859
  • Bugfix for memmory reduction #1917

What's next?​

  • Documentation for the side-loading snapshot feature #1912
  • Tighten security options of the networking layer #1867
  • Publishing scripts with blockfrost #1668
  • Withdraw 0 trick in L2 ledger #1795
  • Various bugfixes #1916, #1924, #1913, #1915
  • More work on Blockfrost and continued support of Hydra users