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Sharan Konerira and the Hydra Team join us for a technical session on building scalable applications on #Cardano using Hydra. 🚀 This Developers Office Hour explores the L2 architecture and its role in the future of Cardano infrastructure: 🔵 Instant Finality: Understanding the mechanics of the Hydra Head protocol.... show more

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