### What did the team achieve this week

- Github actions improvements and small fixes to the smoke tests [\#1242](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1242), [\#1233](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1233)
- Fixed protocol parameter schema consistency around `hydra-node` [\#1234](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1234)
- Log schema tests improvements and fixes [\#1244](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1244)
- Created [ADR](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1215/files?short_path=3a6c7dc#diff-3a6c7dcfd58c753d4e2639cbfeeff78b09bdd0709a01e6658884de790590c702) about Cardano transactions serialisation in our APIs [\#1215](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/pull/1215)
- Moved `hydra-chess`[\#1237](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1237) to a dedicated cardano-scaling organisation repository <https://github.com/cardano-scaling/hydra-chess>
- Identified bug on `quickcheck-dynamic` / our model tests [\#1239](https://github.com/input-output-hk/hydra/issues/1239)

### What are the goals of next week

- Monthly review meeting (January 19, 17:30 UTC) including several demos (from team and contributors)
- Do release 0.15.0
- Improve `quickcheck-dynamic` model to be more robust and cover more behaviour.
- Draft POC about backend for a `hydra-explorer` that can track all heads on-chain.