Hydra, the protocol which has been touted as one of the tools that could dramatically improve the performance of Cardano (albeit in particular situations), is still some time away. Despite this, on October the first Hydra node’s pre-release was made available on GitHub.
For those unaware, Hydra is a scaling solution (Layer 2) for Cardano aiming to increase transaction throughput while ensuring cost efficiency and maintaining rigorous security. The Hydra Head is the first protocol within this solution.
According to the release notes, the hydra-node version 1.0.0 represents a huge mark in the development of Hydra as a whole and it is the first step to bring it into production environments. As of today, a new 1.1.0 version has already been released, therefore, it seems that development is advancing at a good pace.
