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Switch L2 ledger to Conway #1178

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ch1bo opened this issue Nov 24, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #1338
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Switch L2 ledger to Conway #1178

ch1bo opened this issue Nov 24, 2023 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #1338
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ch1bo commented Nov 24, 2023

Why

While the Cardano node needs to be able to maintain support to all past eras (to verify the full chain), a Hydra head has a definite beginning and end of existence.

As maintainers of a hydra-node, we want to drop support for old eras to improve maintainability.

The next hard-fork event will be the fork into Conway era in Q1 or Q2 2024.

After #1177, we want to drop support for Babbage eventually.

What

  • A new version of hydra-node which requires a Conway network is created.

  • The hydra-node does detect and inform users when the network is still in Babbage era.

    • This may be just the same mechanism as described in Conway support #1177
    • Additional instructions or documentation to connect "later" when synchronized may be appropriate here.
  • The layer 2 ledger does understand Conway transactions (i.e. this includes PlutusV3 scripts)

How

  • Preparing this already prior to the hard-fork
    • would allow us to push any problems we have upstream!
    • Early adopters can use plutusv3 and conway with hydra already before the hard-for
  • Change the Hydra protocol transactions to be Conway transactions.
    • As this is a breaking change already, we might want to switch to PlutusV3 as well here
    • Keep the "fixed" type Era alias, but just point it to ConwayEra
@ch1bo ch1bo added the 💭 idea An idea or feature request label Nov 24, 2023
@ch1bo ch1bo added 💬 feature A feature on our roadmap and removed 💭 idea An idea or feature request labels Jan 19, 2024
@ch1bo ch1bo changed the title Drop Babbage support Switch L2 ledger to Conway Jan 19, 2024
@ch1bo ch1bo added the amber ⚠️ Medium complexity or partly unclear feature label Jan 23, 2024
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