Hydra: Cardano scalability solution

Cardanians.io (CRDNS pool)
15 min readMar 19, 2020
The body of Hydra is like the mainchain. Hydra can have more heads. Every head can process ~1000 TPS.

Cryptocurrencies came to the world to become an alternative to the current financial system. As such, users must be able to pay in a shop as fast as with credit cards. It means that a transaction must be settled within a few seconds. The Visa network processes an average of 150 million transactions every day. It is approximately 2 000 transactions per second (TPS). Such throughput is unreachable for current blockchain…

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