Add consensus update for 2024-10-30

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+title: Consensus Team Update
+slug: 2024-10-30-consensus
+authors: dnadales
+tags: [consensus]
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+## High level summary
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+- Investigated performance improvements in mempool snapshotting in recent node benchmarks and [discussed potential further improvements](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/issues/568#issuecomment-2432329822).
+- Started the review of the UTXO-HD [feature branch](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1267) after all the issues have been resolved.
+- Published [`io-classes-extra`](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/io-classes-extra), which hosts concurrency utilities that were extracted from the consensus repository.
+- Elaborated the [plan](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/milestone/5) for the last quarter of 2024. You can reach out to our [Discord channel](https://discord.com/channels/1136727663583698984/1239889178938966016) for any comments or suggestions.