# Hydra

> A transparent, weekly-updated tracker for Hydra. Manual deliverable status backed by automatically gathered GitHub evidence.

Treasury ask: ₳5,100,781. Window: Q3-2026 – Q4-2026. Lead: Noon van der Silk and Sharan Konerira.
Deliverable status as of 2026-08-12. Activity data as of 2026-08-13.

For the entire corpus as one document, fetch /llms-full.txt. For structured data, fetch /api/status.json.

## Deliverables
- [M2 · Performance — in-progress](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/deliverables/perf/): Addressing memory usage reduction, maximum TPS improvement, benchmarking suite, and binary protocol improvements.
- [M3 · Operational Excellence — in-progress](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/deliverables/operations/): A more resilient, observable and operator-friendly Hydra node, reducing friction for SPOs and dApp teams running production infrastructure.
- [M4 · Ecosystem Support — in-progress](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/deliverables/ecosystem/): A growing and well-supported community of Hydra builders, sustained through direct user engagement, developer events, Dev Rel work, and an active working group - ensuring development remains driven by real user needs
- [M5 · Maintenance and DevX — in-progress](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/deliverables/maintenance/): Improved developer experience, reduced technical debt, and more stable CI and tooling - covering test infrastructure, documentation, logging, configuration, and API usability
- [M6 · KPI & Outcome Achievement — not-started](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/deliverables/kpi/): Measure the initiative's outcomes - TVL, MAU, and Tx Volume against baseline - and deliver the final close-out report.

## Weekly updates
- [2026-W32 (Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w32/): 9 PRs merged, 48 commits across 2 repos.
- [2026-W31 (Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w31/): 2 PRs merged, 22 commits across 2 repos.
- [2026-W30 (Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w30/): 16 PRs merged, 141 commits across 3 repos.
- [2026-W29 (Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w29/): 1 PRs merged, 35 commits across 3 repos.
- [2026-W28 (Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w28/): 10 PRs merged, 47 commits across 3 repos.
- [2026-W27 (Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w27/): 2 PRs merged, 18 commits across 1 repos.
- [2026-W26 (Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/updates/2026-w26/): 1 PRs merged, 2 commits across 1 repos.

## Machine-readable
- [Full corpus (Markdown)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/llms-full.txt): all deliverable status and every weekly update in one file.
- [Status snapshot (JSON)](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/hydra-updates/api/status.json): structured deliverable status and cumulative proof-of-work.
- [Source repository](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra-updates): the committed YAML/Markdown behind everything here.