HYDRA CARDANO LAYER 2

A protocol that is set to launch on Cardano this year that will change it for the better is Hydra. Hydra is a big deal because it could provide the parameters that are met to take Cardano to the fastest blockchain out there and see scalability reach a million plus transactions per second. There is almost unlimited scalability that can be unlocked with it depending on how many heads are opened. There is a deal with layer 2 on Cardano because they are Cardano's answer to scalability and interoperability. If you have the layer 1 which is Cardano that runs on the Oroboros protocol which is sound fundamentally and one of the most secure protocols out there, you can take that as bedrock and build something on top of it.

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With this layer 2 on Cardano, it is going to act as a securing network that will allow people to build on top of it in the form of sidechain or layer 2s and do case-specific things that benefits the entire Cardano ecosystem. Hydra is looking to take TPS transactions per second to over a million. Another thing different from Mitrill that Cardano has but layer 2 is Hydra. It tackles the issue of scaling not just in terms of sending Cardano from one place to another but also through a smart contract. We saw these with Sundayswap looking to implement Hydra on Sundayswap.

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Hydra is actively been worked on GitHub and that is because people are working hard to get this protocol to market. Hydra runs a kind of parallel chain that batches multiple transactions together. It is very interesting what hydro is bringing to the table, it is massive. I believe layer 2s and side chains are Cardano path way to victory because the layer 1 that these layers 2s will run on top of but not effect necessarily. I think Cardano has a good chance of becoming a operating system real with applications are used and institutions potentially run off. Right now, no blockchain out there needs to scale to a million transactions per second but as blockchain takes more and more of the world share, it going to need to be able to scale. Cardano already has a pretty immutable solution for this that runs on a immutable layer 1 and that is very secure.

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