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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2025-01-23-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+### High-level summary
+
+The last few weeks have seen us finialising a copule of things; notably our
+experiments into running Hydra with a custom ledger (to support, for example,
+    a custom plutus script operation you may be interested in). We have almost
+wrapped up incremental commits; just finishing the spec changes. We will then
+focus on a release, and some features that users have been wanting for a while
+around memory usage and resilience.
+
+### What did the team achieve?
+
+* Completed custom ledger experiment [#1727](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1727), [#1742](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1742#issuecomment-2605023483), [#1796](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1796)
+* Restored hydra-explorer for 0.19 [#12](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra-explorer/pull/12)
+* Add deposit deadline command-line option [#1798](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1798)
+* Researched options for less-than-totaly consensus in a Hydra Head
+* Investigated resiliance to nodes offline [#1780](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1780) and investigated solution [#1786](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/pull/1786)
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Start to investigate memory usage enhancements [#1618](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1618)
+* Final work on incremental commits [#199](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/199); namely the spec changes [#12](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra-formal-specification/pull/12)
+* Finish Hydra explorer supporting multiple versions [#1282](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1282)
+* Plan the [0.20.0 release](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.20.0)
+* Continue support Hydra Doom
+* Start work on API command to clear pending transactions [#1284](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1284)