Add this week's hydra team update (#176)

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-06-02-hydra
+authors: ffakenz
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team has put their effort on finding solutions on many different problems, such as our broken head on mainnet [#897](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/897), our fragile monthly report publications on the website and implementing “Option A” for external commits [#215](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/215). Although most of these items are still open, huge progress has been made. To accelerate the investigation, they improved their logging to give more precise errors when a transition requirement fails, and to reduce duplication on effets logged content.
+Also, worth to mention that they started interviewing candidates to join our team.
+Last but not least, we want to give a big up to @Sebastian for being invited and attending a workshop on formal methods and crypto in Agda!
+
+
+## What did the team achieve this week
+
+-   Continued investigating broken head and opened an issue to keep track [#897](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/897).
+
+    As part of this issue, improvements were made to the node logs:
+
+    +   Give a precise error when a transition requirement fails [#895](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/895).
+
+    +   Reduce duplication for effects logged content by using sequential eventId and effectId pair  [#896](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/896).
+
+-   Fixed references in the hydra specification [#893](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/893).
+
+-   Completed external commits with script UTxOs [#215](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/215).
+
+    Have a first end-to-end journey for external commits implementing “Option A”
+    for script UTxOs [#903](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/903) (still considering “Option B”).
+
+-   Interviews for opening to join the team. 
+
+-   Attended a workshop on formal methods and crypto in Agda.
+
+## What are the goals of next week
+
+-   Investigate and re-open our team-internal head on mainnet.
+-   Improve and provide regular benchmarks for Hydra [#186](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/186).
+-   Complete journey for external commits implementing “Option A” and start implementing “Option B” [#215](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/215).
+-   Authenticate network messages [#727](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/727).
+-   Add hydra as tool to developr platform [#872](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/872).
+-   Fix monthly report publication on docs website.