Cardano’s scaling roadmap hit a visible milestone yesterday as the Hydra team tagged hydra-node v1.0.0 on GitHub—positioning the isomorphic state-channels protocol for production use while still flagging remaining limitations. In a brief comment on X, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson struck an upbeat tone about the near-term trajectory: “Hydra is going to have an awesome 2026,” he wrote, amplifying a community post that framed the upgrade as a step-change for throughput-sensitive use cases.

Cardano’s Hydra Node V1.0 Is Live

The release notes , published under the “A big release of hydra-node! It’s official. We’re at version 1.0.0!” banner, emphasize that the team intends to “continue to support [the] Hydra Head protocol implementation into production environments,” even as they cont

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