Add this week's hydra team update (#226)

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-08-25-hydra
+authors: [ffakenz]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team conducted the monthly review meeting for Agust,which
+continously ensures transparent communication and project evaluation.
+
+In terms of community engagement, the Hydra team gave a Hydra master-class at
+RareEvo workshop as an educational initiative for the community.
+Additionally, the team updated the Hydra demo and tutorial to include Mithril
+and latest release changes.
+
+They also focused on exploring the Hydra network resiliance in order to improve
+`hydra-node` availability, as it becomes stuck very easily and that leads to a
+bad user experience.
+
+## What did the team achieve this week
+
+-   Hydra master-class at RareEvo workshop!
+-   Monthly report & review meeting
+-   Updated Hydra tutorial including Mithril and re-record demo/tutorial stuff
+-   Groomed network resilience and explorer features [#188](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/188)
+-   New ADR for “Resourced based API” [#1028](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1028)
+
+## What are the goals of next week
+
+-   Have a poc on network resilience working [#188](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/188)
+-   Fix issue [#931](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/931): “Chain state in head state not updated on replayed observation”
+-   Fix issue [#1039](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1039): "Close transaction dropped from cardano-node"