About Hydra

If you've read the user manual and want to learn more about the Hydra protocol, its inner workings, and its implementation, you're in the right place.

The developer documentation provides detailed materials that move beyond just using Hydra to understanding it. This section is for anyone looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Hydra protocol, including protocol architects interested in developing their own variants and developers contributing to the reference implementation of Hydra.

The following sections are more technical and may be less cohesive than the user manual. However, the architecture and the specification sections are good starting points.