add hydra team update for week #41

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+title: Hydra Team Update
+slug: 2023-10-13-hydra
+authors: [ffakenz]
+tags: [hydra]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High-level summary
+
+This week, the Hydra team's primary focus was on finalizing the new network resilience layer. This involved adding persistency to ensure data integrity.
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+They also completed the exploration of potentially moving the Plutus validator scripts to Aiken.
+
+Additionally, the team dedicated some attention to our TUI by upgrading the Brick framework. They also undertook a comprehensive refactoring of the project's structure and addressed various bug fixes. These efforts are aimed at enhancing the overall user experience of our project.
+
+
+## What did the team achieve this week
+
+-   Network Resilience Persistence (#1101)[https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1101].
+-   Upgrade brick on TUI (#1103)[https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1103].
+-   Aiken commit validator translation (#1072)[https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1072].
+-   Fixed some bugs in our TUI client.
+
+
+## What are the goals of next week
+
+-   Prepare presentation and workshop for Cardano Summit.
+-   Work on hydra-poll dApp for Cardano summit.
+-   Start the work on packaging hydra-node and related services.