Add this week's hydra team update (#277)

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-10-20-hydra
+authors: [ffakenz]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team mainly focused on preparing a masterclass and workshop for #CardanoSummit2023.
+
+In addition, they improved the Hydra node API's submit-transaction endpoint to accept three different encoding types: Base16 encoded CBOR string, TextEnvelope type, and JSON.
+This improvement offers users greater flexibility and ease of interaction with the API.
+
+Finally, the team has followed up on the TUI brick upgrade to version 1.10.
+This effort has resulted in addressing minor details and enhancing the overall user experience with the TUI.
+
+
+## What did the team achieve this week
+
+-   Prepare presentation and workshop for Cardano Summit.
+-   More TUI fixes and improvements.
+    +   [#1127](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1127)
+    +   [#1120](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1120)
+-   Upgrade GHC from 9.2.8 -> 9.6.2 [#1105](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1105)
+-   Solved user issue related to submitting transactions in cbor format [#1111](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1111).
+-   Fix hydraw connection issue making it more stable [#1121](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1121).
+
+
+## What are the goals of next week
+
+-   Work on hydra-poll dApp for Cardano summit.
+-   Start the work on packaging hydra-node and related services.
+