Hydra Test Replays Midnight Claims And Finds A Smaller, More Useful Speed Gain

A new Cardano scaling test has an unusually useful feature: it explains why its headline speed gain is smaller than the biggest numbers attached to the technology. Input Output’s October 22 Hydra report replays a real application workload and measures what changed. The Input Output report compared 24,576 generated claim transactions containing the scripts used by its distribution pipeline. Reported throughput rose from 42 to 79 claims per second. Total completion time fell from 590.4 to 339.1 seconds, a reduction of about 43%. Those measures answer different questions.