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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2024-10-30-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+This last few weeks have seen us spend some time in internal planning, focus
+hard on incremental commits. We've made good progress on the on-chain
+validators and associated tests; we continue on with this work. We are also
+beginning to tackle partial fanout by making some small steps based on the
+ongoing work of [Thomas](https://github.com/perturbing/plutus-accumulator) and
+others.
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* Small cleanup as part of our first group knowledge-sharing session [#1714](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1714)
+* Progress on the validators and tests for incremental commits [#1715](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1715), [#1664](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1664)
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Continued work on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199)
+* Begin work on partial fanout [#1468](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1468)
+* Investigate options for customised ledger in a Hydra Head [#1727](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1727)
+* Continue to support Hydra Doom
+* Continue to plan the [0.20.0 release](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.20.0)