🎉 HYDRA 2.0 Rollout begins with Delegated Staking, 32 Sec Block Time Reduction and many more We are happy to announce that another major milestone is going live today - the release of various new features on the Hydra Public Testnet! Today's deployment is the result of multiple months of hard work, and will allow our community to test and verify some of the first features of Hydra 2.0. We are excited to share the new release version with you, and are planning a public testing event with the participation of our community members. With this upgrade, the network performance of Hydra will be boosted by a factor of 4! ⭐️ Summary of New Features The release comes with a set of completely new features, and various improvements to existing ones. Among the many upgrades, the more notable ones are: ✅ Block time reduction from current 128 seconds, to 32 seconds ✅ Integration of the Delegated Staking feature ✅ Integration of Superstaking capabilities ✅ EVM version upgrade to Istanbul release ✅ Upgrade to Bitcoin Core v0.20.1 (latest improvements inherited from the Bitcoin wallet) Additional Improvements: 🔸 Add RPC calls for offline staking utilization 🔸 Add functionality to estimate the gas cost for contract creation 🔸 Update EVM to include Istanbul and Muir Glacier updates: EIP 152, EIP 1108, EIP 1344, EIP 1884, EIP 2028, EIP 2200, EIP 2384. 🔸 Add HRC20 RPC endpoints to better manage HRC20 tokens Read the full announcement below: https://medium.com/hydra-chain/major-release-with-block-time-reduction-delegated-staking-goes-live-on-testnet-ee85af1e1257