Hydra working group

Welcome to the documentation repository of the Hydra working group. It holds defining documents like the working group charter and procedural documentation like meeting notes.

Note

The working group is currently being formed and a dedicated git repository was chosen to form charter and processes. Perspectively individual documents may be moved / integrated to intersect or its working group index as the working group gets registered.

Charter

Important

The charter itself is in draft status and one of the first work items of the working group will be to ratify it.

Why

Why is this working group needed?

• Open discussion and governance of the hydra project roadmap
• Identify and scope fundable features and projects related to Hydra into a roadmap to be ratified by the community (e.g. through intersect)
• Break up silos and cross-pollinate projects across the broader domain of scaling Cardano transaction processing

What

What are we doing concretely?

• Prioritize and scope out 💬 features from 💭 feature ideas and 💡 idea discussions.
• Create and maintain a high-level backlog of fundable features and projects/RFPs (level of detail to be defined)
• Coordinate ratification by the community through Intersect
• Review and report on individual project deliveries

How

How are we producing results?

Where and how work items produced

• Meeting notes are stored in meetings/
• The repository will hold any artifacts produced, unless more suitable places are available.

Work group meetings

• Bi-weekly using Google Meet
• Next meeting: 2024-10-02 14:00 UTC
• Agenda TBD
• See also lu.ma calendar

Collaboration channels

• #wg-hydra on Intersect Discord Invite link
• #ask-hydra on IOG Discord Invite link

How membership is governed

• Signal interest by opening an issue and/or join a work group meeting
• You are a member as long as you join regularly the work group meetings
• New members will gain voting rights in the meeting following the one they joined
• After not attending three consecutive meetings, members are removed
• Member list is kept in this charter

Members

See also @wg-hydra github team, in no particular order:

• Sebastian Nagel
• George Flerovsky (missed 3)
• Sasha Bogicevic
• Tudor Cotruta
• Philip Di Sarro
• Pi Lanningham (missed 2)
• Ilia Rodionov
• Franco Testagrossa
• Noon van der Silk
• Trym Bruset
• Caiña Costa (missed 1)
• Sam Leathers (missed 3)
• Lucas Pedro
• Sandip Pandey
• Perry Wasserbauer
• Aaron Boyle

How voting will be conducted

• TBD

Tip

If you read this far you might want to join us? Signal interest on above's collaboration channels by dropping a message on Discord, on Twitter, or by opening an issue!

Agenda

Warning

This is very preliminary and more a tool to define scope & purpose of the working group itself. That being said, it should also provoke thought and ideally spark interest in being part of these discussions. Open an issue or a PR and we'll get you covered & involved on this journey.

List of current and past topics to be discussed by the Hydra working group:

• Charter of the working group
• What to release as Hydra Head V1?
• Whether and scope of audit Head V1? RFP?
• How to discover off-chain funds and standardize access to them? CIP?
• Ways to achieve interoperability across L2 ledgers?
• What features / projects to fund next?
  • Hydra Tail as collateralized optimistic rollup or as zk rollup
  • Payment focused projects (revisiting hydra-pay, or from Catalyst: subbit, Cardano Lightning, μgraph, Cosmex, ...)
  • Sidechain-like variants (from Catalyst: Gummiworm, Midgard, ...)