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· One min read
Franco Testagrossa
Sasha Bogicevic

High-level summary​

This week the Hydra team accomplished some nice progress. They secured the network layer further by implementing authentication of the messages between the peers in the Head protocol. In the process they also managed to separate HeartBeat messages from the protocol ones which somewhat improved the quality of code in Hydra. The team also finished work related to sending only transaction ids in ReqSn messages, fixed an issue in the smoke tests, and improved benchmark publishing on the website.

What did the team achieve this week​

What are the goals of next week​

  • Spike on performance improvements of event sourced persistence #913
  • Add new endpoint for submitting client transactions
  • Remove commit from internal wallet

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team wrote and published the monthly report for June, implemented the end-to-end functionality for external commits, and tested it on the preview environment. They also listed Hydra as a tool on the Cardano developer portal, providing more visibility for the project. The team clarified the path forward for L2 protocol improvements and explored an alternative CI approach using cabal instead of nix. Additionally, they released version 0.11.0, marking another milestone in the project’s development.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Written and published the monthly report for June
  • Implemented external commits end-to-end incl. tested it on preview #215
  • Listed Hydra as a tool on cardano developer portal
  • Cleared up path forward on L2 protocol improvements #728
  • Established an alternative CI using more cabal tools #923
  • Release version 0.11.0

What are the goals of next week​

  • Spike on performance improvements of event sourced persistence #913
  • Complete ReqSn only sends transaction ids #728
  • Groom and plan last items for 0.12.0 (remove internal commit)
  • Improve reliability of benchmarks

· One min read
Franco Testagrossa
Pascal Grange

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team shared progress updates during the monthly review meeting (monthly report and video recording available soon) and started experimenting on preview network with the new commit from external wallet feature.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Monthly report & review meeting, demonstrating commit from external wallet
  • Published regular benchmarks for Hydra
  • Moved forward the journey for external commits using multiple script UTxOs #903
  • Changed the API to only put transaction id in snapshots, instead of the full transactions #922 -> this is now evolved into fully addressing #728
  • Fuel marking is now optional as one can now commit from an external wallet #924
  • Add flag option to display node version on tui #934

What are the goals of next week​

  • Complete external commits using multiple script UTxOs #903
  • New release 0.11.0
  • Dirtroad solution of improved persistence performance #913

· One min read
Franco Testagrossa

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team focused their efforts on continuing to investigate and experiment operating a head on mainnet. They collected several bugs and issues and worked on fixing them. Now the team is soon to release a new version, 0.11.0, which comes with a lot of improvements and bug fixes.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Restored and fixed a bug which stalled our head on mainnet #927
  • Solved one user issue #914
  • Reduced significantly local state size and logs by removing the full scripts from it #928
  • (pending review) Reduced snapshot size in the API, by only including tx ids #922

What are the goals of next week​

  • New release 0.11.0
  • Monthly report & review meeting.
  • Fix some minor bugs discovered when operating our head on mainnet
  • Complete journey for external commits using multiple script UTxOs #903
  • Publish benchmarks and provide regular benchmarks for Hydra #186

· 2 min read
Franco Testagrossa

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team worked on multiple fronts. They finished the investigation about the broken head on mainnet and re-opened their persistent head instance. The team also fixed the monthly report publication on their website and started sketching ideas and further improvements. Also, they are on the last mile to deliver a new feature which will allow parties to commit funds from extern wallets. Finally the team started to work on optimizing the performance on their benchmarks.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Finished investigation on broken head on mainnet #897 and re-opened it.
  • Added support for externally committing regular utxo #887
  • Fix monthly report publication on docs website and published the monthly report. Odd problems when publishing monthly report:
    • Make us think about if we should change something about the website #908
    • Open issue to docusaurus #9036
  • Fixed a bug in the benchmark process #910
  • Explored performance of the hydra-node{.verbatim} and identified a bottleneck.
  • Timed transaction feature is being used by the auction project 🎉

What are the goals of next week​

  • Complete performance analysis and start/plan improvements and provide regular benchmarks for Hydra #186
  • Add hydra as tool to developer platform #872.
  • Authenticate network messages #727.
  • Complete journey for external commits using multiple script UTxOs #903
  • Start implementing Option B for external commits #215.