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Hydra for Payments – introducing developer tooling to unlock micropayments on Cardano

A guest blog post by the Obsidian Systems Hydra team

10 November 2022 Obsidian Systems 6 mins read

Hydra for Payments – introducing developer tooling to unlock micropayments on Cardano

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