Scalability at Cardano (ADA): Activation of the first hydra head!

Not a week goes by without Cardano posting a real breakthrough as a layer 1 blockchain protocol. Recently we learned that its Hydra scaling protocol just posted on the mainnet. Zoom !

Cardano deploys Hydra on its mainnet

Cardano is doing well, some observers think. But the statistics also confirm their statements.

To give you a glimpse of how healthy this Layer 1 protocol is, we’ve hovered over a article published yesterday on U°Today. According to this crypto media, Cardano beat “ its own limitations in terms of launching new features “. This was materialized by the deployment of its Hydra protocol on the mainnet.

Hydra, another feat from Caradano

Hydra is a family of layer 2 protocols designed to make Cardano more scalable and adaptable across multiple use cases requiring fast and cheap transactions. The first Hydra head was recently opened on the mainnet.

This video is a great starting point to explore the current release, v.0.10. »

Basically, Hydra will allow Cardano to explore again and again possibilities of make your network more scalable. At the same time, he will establish a ” new standard for scalability based on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism “.

Unfortunately, this did not positively impact the price of ADA.

What about the objectives of this innovation?

The Hydra protocol is supposed to make Cardano more usableif we refer to the video of Sebastian Nagel.

Concretely, Hydra will make it possible to:

  • to treat 1 million transactions per second ;
  • reduce transaction costs;
  • assign the status great hub of smart contracts to Cardano;
  • reach the desired level of scalability for the blockchain;

Nagel, in his explanations, however specified that the hydra head is not an upgrade. Therefore, it cannot be the subject of a possible hard fork.

It should be mentioned that Cardano’s competitors, including Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism, are also very keen on this scalability story.

End of March, Polygon Labs has completed the deployment of Polygon zkEVM Layer 2 on the Ethereum mainnet. Objective: to authorize faster and cheaper transactions.

Note also the importance of layer 2 solutions such as Arbitrum and Optimism for the security offered to Ethereum, transaction speed, reduced fees and many more.

The race for the DeFi podium seems tough right now.

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