- Hydra has generated significant excitement in the Cardano community due to its scaling potential.
- The hype around Hydra has led to some overestimation of its capabilities
- Following Hydra’s purportedly extraordinary numbers making headlines, a Cardano developer had to chime in.
- Charles Hoskinson has also spoken about Hydra’s inflated metrics in the past.
Hydra is Cardano’s ticket to the big leagues with Ethereum and Bitcoin, and people are more than excited. The layer-2 scalability protocol’s ability to offer a more efficient solution compared to existing methods like sharding, the lightning network, and zkEVMs, has sparked a lot of interest.
However, the enthusiasm around Hydra has led to people getting a little too excited as they inflate its numbers to astronomical heights. Now, with Cardano’s unnatural metrics making headlines one too many times, developers had to intervene and put an end…