Cardano Just Rewrote Its Scaling Playbook—Here’s What’s Coming

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A June 24 blog post by Input Output Research (IOR) and the Intersect Research Working Group marks the clearest pivot yet in Cardano’s scaling strategy. Rather than elevating Hydra as a lone panacea, the six-minute read recaps a recent IOR research session and positions Hydra as simply one branch of a broader, interoperable layer-2 ecosystem. “Hydra aims to deliver scalable off-chain transaction execution while preserving the security guarantees and settlement finality of layer 1,” writes Directo...