Hydra update

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2024-11-14-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+This last few weeks have been focused on incremental commits, re-writing more
+validators in Aiken, and the associated changes that have come about as the
+our scripts sizes increase. We continue along on prioritising incremental
+commits and a 0.20.0 release, as well as some repository cleanup and
+additional functionality based on user requests.
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* Benchmarked memory limits on number of Txns [#1724](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1724)
+* Re-wrote Initial validators script to Aiken [#1734](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1734)
+* Bump to PlutusV3 [#1734](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1734)
+* Continued progress on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Move hydra-explorer out of the mono-repo [#1716](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1716)
+* Add ability to filter the API by UTxO address [#1719](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1719)
+* Continued work on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)
+* Investigate options for customised ledger in a Hydra Head [#1727](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1727)
+* Plan the [0.20.0 release](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.20.0)
+* Continue to support Hydra Doom