Hydra bi-weekly update

blog/2024-09-03-hydra.md

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2024-09-03-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+We have put together a nice base of network-resiliance tests to build from,
+and already started exploring potential improvements to our networking.
+We've made good progress on incremental commits, by way of deposits, and
+settled on an approach to tackle a few of the known problems related to
+"stuck funds", and finally we completed some work related to usability of
+new functionality and documentation in our changelog. Up next we will
+switch the ledger to Conway and prepare a release, and we will continue
+working on incremental commits.
+
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* Implemented initial suite of network-resiliance tests [#1532](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1532)
+* We explored persistence as an improvement to our networking layer [#1593](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1593)
+* Incremental commits (coming in a 0.19 release) have pivoted to a deposit-based scheme based on [open discussions](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199) (thanks [@GeorgeFlerovsky!](https://github.com/GeorgeFlerovsky))
+* Settled on [Partial Fanout](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1468) as a good solution to [a few known problems](https://hydra.family/head-protocol/docs/known-issues#head-protocol-limits)
+* Split out some functionality into a new library, `hydra-tx`, to eventually support user workflows around deposit/recover transactions [#1587](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1587)
+* Golden tests to help track breaking data changes in the changelog [#1554](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1554)
+
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Switch ledger to Conway [#1178](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1178)
+* Update our networking page with the findings from our resiliance work
+* Fix search on the docs [#1556](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1556)
+* Release 0.19.0 with L2 Ledger in Conway
+* Continued work on incremental commit [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)