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:

• [x] Charter of the working group
• [x] What to release as Hydra Head V1?
• [x] 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, ...)