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· 2 min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team worked on several fronts, including fixing state machine continuity on-chain, discussing voting project solutions, exploring adding Hydra support to kupo, and improving API navigation with a sidebar. The team also updated dependencies and fixed issues in their test suites. Moving forward, the team plans to hold the next monthly review meeting, address a user issue, prepare for the 0.10.0 release, and work on a dirt road fix for the rollbacks issue with proper test coverage.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Fixed scripts to enforce state machine continuity on-chain #777.
  • Took part in a twitter space on “Scaling Cardano”.
  • Joined a CBIA meeting to discuss Cardano network protocols & how to specify them.
  • Discussed potential solutions of ensuring vote uniqueness in the voting project.
  • Updated dependencies to match cardano-node master to prepare for upcoming releases and hard-forks
  • Explored adding Hydra support to kupo, a lightweight Cardano chain indexer - some more work required.
  • Improved navigation of the API Reference with a sidebar, see unstable API version.
  • Fixed two things in our test suites (random port conflicts and an arithmetic underflow in smoke test)

What are the goals of next week​

  • Monthly review meeting (join via Discord or AddEvent) & report
  • Dirt road fix for rollbacks #784 properly covered by a test.
  • Groom and ideally address user issue #823.
  • Put the spec into the repo #693 and prepare release 0.10.0.

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team focused on improving the smoke test, fixing developer tooling, and improving the API for voting use cases. They reviewed progress on auction, payments, and voting projects and made worked on reproducing a bug with handling rollbacks. Moving forward, the team plans to update dependencies, implement a dirt road fix for the rollbacks bug, and explore adding Hydra support to kupo.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Reviewed progress on auction, payments and voting projects
  • Improved smoke tests so they can run on mainnet
  • Fixed a regression in the development environment and updated cardano-node used in tests
  • Improved API with more configurability to unblock voting use case
    • Exclude utxo in SnapshotConfirmed outputs #808
    • Addressed a user request by only sending Greetings once #813
  • Reproduced the rollback bug by improving our model-based test suite #784

What are the goals of next week​

  • Update dependencies to match cardano-node master
  • Dirt road fix for rollbacks #784
  • Update Hydraw to maintain state locally
  • Explore adding Hydra support to kupo
  • Put disclaimer texts and closing mainnet compatibility feature #713

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra team published the monthly report for March, created separate links for different versions of documentation, and clarified potential solutions for the Rollbacks bug. The team also discussed Query API requests for the Hydra Voting project and met with community members to answer questions about Hydra. Moving forward, the team plans to integrate the specification into the repository, implement a short-term fix for the Rollbacks issue, and draft a Query API ADR.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Published monthly reports on website
  • Separate last released and latest versions of docs (e.g. normal released vs. /unstable)
  • Discussed Query API concerns from Hydra Voting project (link)
  • Clarified rollbacks bug and defined possible solutions (short and long term) #784
  • Met with community members to answer questions about Hydra

What are the goals of next week​

  • Finally get the docs integrated into the repository #693
  • Dirt road fix for rollbacks #784
  • Disclaimer text and detail known issues about mainnet compatibility #713

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra continued work on finishing mainnet compatibility. The semi-automated smoke tests and some missing documentation is still preventing from calling that fully done. They fixed smaller issues and made a step in the Head protocol more robust. Besides development, they met with interested people from the community who want to get started collaborating on communication and marketing materials.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Groomed and followed-up on GetUTxO user request discussion #797
  • Fixed hydra-node crashes after forks #560
  • Made collectCom more robust and aligned with spec #786
  • Completed configurable API feature #380
  • Met potential contributors about Hydra communication and marketing materials
  • Versioned documentation: we have a unstable bleeding edge version available as well now, seperate from the last released version

What are the goals of next week​

  • Follow-up backlog and roadmap clean-up
  • Complete mainnet compatibility feature #713 (documentation updates)
  • Integrate Hydra specification into repository #693

· One min read
Sebastian Nagel

High-level summary​

This week, the Hydra had a team workshop and conducted the monthly review meeting for March. They demonstrated a Hydra Head on mainnet, which was running the hydraw demo application. While this marks an important milestone, they also emphasized that more features are still to be added as needed for applications to run on Hydra. Besides this, the roadmap is getting cleaned up to encourage discussions and provide more space for user requests.

What did the team achieve this week​

  • Monthly review meeting slides/recording, full report of March next week
    • Opened a head on mainnet with hydraw demonstration
    • Hydra pay updates
  • Team workshop in Austria
    • Hydra presentation at the Cardano Foundation in Zurich
    • In-person grooming session, marked many items as candidates to be rather :idea: dicussions
    • Improved head protocol #786 and investigated a potential bug in rollback handling #784
    • Team building and retrospective

What are the goals of next week​

  • Follow-up on backlog and roadmap clean-up
  • Complete mainnet compatibility feature (documentation updates)
  • Make API more configurable #380
  • Integrate Hydra specification into repository #693