hydra (#687)

Author: noonio

blog/2025-11-14-hydra.md

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2025-11-14-hydra
+authors: [noonio]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
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+### What did the team achieve?
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+* Great progress on partial fanout [#1468](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1468)
+* Improved logging for failed HTTP requests [#2315](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2315)
+* Added API to get head opened time [#2316](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2316)
+* Worked on a new "SafeClose" client input to try and avoid closing when you have unburned minted tokens [#2330](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2330)
+* Progress on making sure hydra is in sync with the chain [#2286](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2286)
+* Linked the new [VTech Hydra SDK](https://hydrasdk.com/)!
+
+### What's next?
+
+* Finsh off work on "SafeClose" feature [#2330](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2330)
+* Build a demo using the VTech SDK [#2353](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2353)
+* Continue working on partial fanout [#1468](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/1468)
+* Continue working on chain following approach [#2206](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra/issues/2206)