From 1993 to Blockchain: Doom Finds New Life on Cardano’s Hydra

• IOHK CTO Romain Pellerin highlights Cardano Hydra’s supremacy over ZK rollups.
• Pellerin and different main group figures reward Cardano’s implementation of Doom by way of Hydra.
• Hydra’s EUTXO mannequin affords higher scalability and privateness and simplified transaction logic.

Cardano’s layer-2 scaling resolution, Hydra, is making a splash within the blockchain world with its revolutionary options, and the current implementation of the basic recreation Doom is a chief instance.

Romain Pellerin, the Chief Know-how Officer of Enter Output Hong Kong (IOHK), took to X to focus on Hydra’s benefits, particularly its superiority over ZK rollups. He credit this effectivity to Hydra’s use of the Prolonged Unspent Transaction Output (EUTXO) mannequin.

Pellerin’s X put up emphasizes that Hydra doesn’t require “ZK proofs to choose Cardano.” He praised Cardano’s EUTXO mannequin for making a safe and versatile setting that may deal with a number of operations with out failing. This interprets to higher scalability, privateness, and simplified transaction logic. Pellerin additionally believes Hydra is the proper match for session-based decentralized functions (dApps) like multiplayer video games, group chats, or high-speed fee channels between platforms.

Notably, the primary Hydra head went reside on the mainnet in Might 2023. On the time, Enter Output, the engineering firm behind Cardano, took to X to share insights on the Hydra challenge. As per the tweet,

The primary Hydra head went reside on the mainnet in Might 2023. IOHK, the corporate behind Cardano, described Hydra on X as “a household of layer 2 protocols designed to make Cardano extra scalable and adaptable for numerous use circumstances that require quick and low cost transactions.”   

In an earlier X thread, Pellerin expressed his pleasure about bringing Doom, a groundbreaking first-person shooter recreation, to Hydra. It is a huge step for Cardano and blockchain gaming. Pellerin even reminisced about enjoying Doom as a 16-year-old.

Cardano YODA, one other influential group member, identified on X that enjoying Doom on Cardano by way of Hydra is advantageous as a result of, as an off-chain resolution, the large quantities of information generated by the sport received’t be saved on-chain, not like on Solana.