From a0b6054661506d84d15462098971b2b767392ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noon van der Silk Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:55:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Hydra update --- blog/2024-10-17-hydra.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/2024-10-17-hydra.md diff --git a/blog/2024-10-17-hydra.md b/blog/2024-10-17-hydra.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b719b17428 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2024-10-17-hydra.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +title: Hydra Team Update +slug: 2024-10-17-hydra +authors: [noonio] +tags: [hydra] +hide_table_of_contents: false +--- + +### High-level summary + +The last few weeks have seen a solid amount of work and changes to the +user-facing side of Hydra; namely great progress on incremental commits and +using Aiken for our commit validator which has [yielded size/cost +savings](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1680#issue-2565734963). +This has also allowed us to support PlutusV3 validators and keep up to date +with the cardano-api. We also made a breaking change (improvement) to the +server output `SnapshotConfirmed` to make it easier to work with signed +snapshots. Finally, we made good progress on blockfrost support by adding an +option to follow the chain via blockfrost, instead of through a cardano-node. +Next up we continue our focus on incremental commits and general improvements, +while planning the next release. + +### What did the team achieve? + +* Added the raw CBOR datum in transaction outputs [#1543](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1543) +* Used Aiken for commit validator [#1680](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1680) +* Updated to cardano-api 9.4 [#1706](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1706) +* Implemented the off-chain user journey for incremental commits [#1522](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1522) +* Documentation on the incremental commits feature [#1704](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1704) +* Some cleanup of unused modules and functions +* Full transaction information in `SnapshotConfirmed` event [#1685](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1685) +* Added blockfrost mode to hydra-chain-observer [#1631](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1631) + +### What's next? + +* Continued work on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199) +* Improvements to memory usage [#1618](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1618) +* DevEx improvements to split out components of the `hydra` monorepo +* Start to plan the [0.20.0 release](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.20.0)