Hydra for Payments – introducing developer tooling to unlock micropayments on Cardano
A guest blog post by the Obsidian Systems Hydra team
10 November 2022 6 mins read
IOG is collaborating with the Obsidian Systems team to drive the development of use cases based on the Hydra Head protocol. Hydra for Payments is one such use case.
Introduction
Scalability is key to ensuring that a blockchain can process millions of transactions without large increases in fees and transaction settlement times. Addressing scalability issues was one of the founding principles of Cardano and is the focus of the Basho…
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