Draft monthly report for February 2024

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+title: February 2024
+slug: 2024-02
+authors: [ch1bo]
+tags: [monthly]
+---
+
+This is the first joint report of the Hydra and Mithril projects and summarizes on the work done since January 2024.
+
+In the past, each team had published updates as part of their repositories in varying form and cadence:
+
+  - Hydra [monthly reports](https://hydra.family/head-protocol/monthly)
+  - Mithril [dev blog](https://mithril.network/doc/dev-blog/)
+
+Keeping such "procedural" documents as part of the code base is not ideal, as it often requires special handling when building versioned, published documentation. For example, [this workflow](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/blob/fad12fd7d967e5e8af4d8b832396e68bd8510e9a/.github/workflows/publish-docs.yaml#L87-L92) in the Hydra project which publishes to https://hydra.family required several attempts to work around how docusaurus websites are built. Consequently, we introduced a [dedicated repository](https://github.com/cardano-scaling/website) that builds into a [website](https://cardano-scaling.github.io/website). This not only helps in keeping the original product repositories clean of inherently dated information, but also serves as a new home for joint reports, announcements or occasional articles.
+
+Finally, this monthly report here serves us as preparation for the monthly review meeting (see [slides][slides] and [recording][recording]), where the team updates project stakeholders on recent developments to gather their feedback on proposed plans.
+
+## Mithril Roadmap & Status
+
+TODO
+
+## Mithril Development Highlights
+
+TODO
+
+## Hydra Roadmap
+
+The Hydra project [roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/input-output-hk/projects/21/views/7) updates of this month.
+
+TODO: update
+
+![The roadmap with features and ideas](./img/2024-01-roadmap.jpg) <small><center>The latest roadmap with features and ideas</center></small>
+
+#### Notable updates
+
+* Started work on https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/199 as the UX will be very similar to https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1057
+  - Having both features implemented off-chain, would allow early adopters to try this out while we work on the on-chain security.
+* Added https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1325 feature to cover SundaeLab's work on their Catalyst proposal
+* https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1257 took longer than anticipated as it uncovered some issues, but seeing smoke tests run on Sanchonet now makes us confident the `hydra-node` is ready for the Conway hard-fork
+* https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/696 is about half-way done as the data is available for `sanchonet` under http://explorer.hydra.family/heads and we're only missing a user interface
+* New: https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1213 to communicate breaking changes we experienced when switching cardano-node and cardano-ledger versions
+
+## Hydra Development Highlights
+
+[Issues and pull requests closed since the last report](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+sort%3Aupdated-desc+closed%3A2024-01-31..2024-02-29).
+
+This month, the team worked on the following:
+
+### Contest after fanout bug hunt
+
+TODO
+
+### Hydra explorer supporting multiple versions
+
+TODO
+
+## Community update
+
+TODO: Ikigai on hydra auctions?
+
+TODO: on-going mithril contributions by TxPipe?
+
+## Conclusion
+
+We held the monthly review meeting for February 2024 on 2024-02-26 via Google Meet, presenting these [slides][slides] and this [recording][recording].
+
+TODO
+
+[slides]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18buDs_TcMHgFAYjJt9GftQiEnVB3ubcoD3Djh3ovxSc/edit#slide=id.g1f87a7454a5_0_1392
+[recording]: