Cardano (ADA) has announced a new Hydra testing campaign, packaged as a gaming tournament called Hydra Doom, to enhance mainnet scalability. The tournament, starting next month, will feature both bots and human players, with a prize pool of 100,000 USDM. This initiative aims to push the limits of the Hydra protocol, a key scaling solution for Cardano. Previous tests showed impressive performance metrics, including 3 million transactions in an hour and a 1663 Global TPS. The ADA price has reacted positively, rising 8.62% to $1.06, as the community shows strong interest in the event.

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HIGHLIGHTS Cardano plans to conduct a new Hydra Doom testing onchain The protocol aims to boost its mainnet scalability with community help ADA price reacted to the boost as quest for new high grows Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the parent company of Cardano (ADA) has announced its upcoming Hydra testing campaign. Packaged as a gaming tournament on Doom, a title built on Hydra protocol, the startup said it plans to push the limit of the scaling solution.
Cardano Hydra Expectations
As IOHK revealed, the Hydra Doom deathmatch will kick off next month. The gamified testing is in stages and will feature both bots and humans. While the first round will feature players versus bots, the second round will see real players take on themselves.

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A tournament like no other, the Hydra Doom deathmatch kicks off this December, and 100,000 USDM in various prizes can be won. Featuring a brand new customized game look, multiple thrilling rounds of non-stop fragging, and an in-person… pic.twitter.com\/iRLVFYrsld
— Input Output (@InputOutputHK) November 23, 2024


Cardano plans to incentivize participation in the Hydra Doom tournament with a 100,000 USDM prize pool. Cardano developed the protocol as its solution to scaling the mainnet. Doom is one of the dominant DApps that even Charles Hoskinson promotes as a showcase of the Hydra innovation.

This is not the first time the protocol will carry out related testing on Hydra. It relies on the performance and statistics from this testing to firther develop the protocol.

As reported earlier by Coingape, in previous testing, Hydra Doom recorded a total transaction of 3 million in approximately 1 hour. Beyond this, it achieved a 1663 Global TPS. In addition, it recorded more than a constant 1000 transactions with no failed transactions. Lastly, Cardano Hydra Doom attained a 14% 1 hour chain load.
Community and ADA Market Reaction
Cardano remains one of the best performing assets in the market at the month. Despite ADA price crossing the $1 mark, top market analysts believes it is just getting started.

Initial reaction that trailed the Hydra Doom testing has further sparked community intrigue. Many members of the Cardano ecosystem confirmed sign ups to the testing event, boosting ADA price sentiment.

At the time of writing, the coin was changing hands for $1.06, up 8.62% in 24 hours. Within this time span, the coin jumped from a low of $0.9508 to a high of $1.16. Riding on the broader Bitcoin price momentum, Cardano appears poised to reclaim new highs and current ecosystem upgrades might help achieve this goal.

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Cardano Launches Hydra Doom Tournament to Test Mainnet Scalability