Cardano, a leading PoS blockchain, took a step forward towards scalability as the first mainnet-compatible Hydra node went live,
Sebastian Nagel, the project developer, announced the release of Hydra node version 0.10.0 after successful demonstrations of Hydra heads on the Cardano mainnet during recent review sessions.
According to GitHub, the release includes technical changes required to fix must-have issues before using a Hydra Head with real ADA.
The first release of hydra-node and hydra-plutus scripts which can be used on mainnet. Includes the technical changes required and must-have issues we want to see fixed before using a Hydra Head with real ADA, as well as documentation on how to run Hydra on the mainnet.
Besides the mainnet compatibility, the team has also updated the API to accommodate a first round of user requests.
Additionally, Nagel stated that some of the things on the team’s roadmap that are scheduled for release in version 0.11.0 are currently under development and that the team is always open to user suggestions for new features or ideas.
Hydra, a layer 2 scalability solution for Cardano, seeks to boost transaction speed by achieving low latency, high throughput, and minimal transaction cost.
Also, the first Hydra head is different from earlier updates in that it does not require a hard fork as it is not a network upgrade, Nagel clarified.
“Hydra is not a network upgrade, so there is no hard fork. There’s nothing really the whole network is waiting on-it’s just flipping a switch, and everything is fast,” he added.
The Hydra family of protocols was created to increase Cardano’s scalability and adaptability for a variety of use cases.
Cardano’s Hydra To Boost Adoption
In late March, Input Output Global [IOHK], the firm behind Cardano released Hydra head version 0.10.0, on the mainnet, establishing the standard for subsequent updates in its category intended to improve Cardano’s speed.
“Our goal is to make Cardano possible to grow and increase its adoption by making it more scalable. We do that by building several protocols to make these situations possible,” the lead software engineer of Hydra, noted.
Nagel stressed that there would be other incoming updates to include more use cases and that the product is not yet complete.