Hiro launched Chainhooks 2.0 Beta, aimed at enhancing the reliability of Stacks and Bitcoin development infrastructure

Hiro Team recently announced the Beta testing of Chainhooks 2.0. Chainhooks is the development infrastructure for the Stacks and Bitcoin ecosystems.

Hiro stated that Chainhooks 2.0 has been completely restructured based on the experiences from version V1, aiming to address issues such as unreliable infrastructure, high maintenance costs, and difficulty in scaling found in the old version. The new version prioritizes reliability, re-splits services, and provides a scalable architecture.

The main updates in Chainhooks 2.0 include:

• Architecture Restructuring: Services are independently split and can be scaled independently to enhance reliability, targeting the issues of block drops and chain hook failures that occurred in version V1.

• Simplified Experience: A RESTful API and typed Javascript SDK are provided, allowing developers to use Webhooks with simple descriptive filters, while the service automatically handles queuing, retries, rate limiting, and observability issues.

• Management Features: The SDK and API offer complete lifecycle management capabilities, including creation, reading, updating, bulk enabling, and replay evaluation.

• Performance Improvement: Preliminary tests show an increase in throughput with lower resource consumption.

Currently, access to Chainhooks 2.0 Beta is limited to 10 seats and is open for free. This Beta version currently only supports Stacks chain filtering, but the future roadmap plans to support Bitcoin filtering and will introduce a command-line tool (CLI). Hiro emphasizes that with the adoption and increasing transaction volume of sBTC, reliable tools like Chainhooks are crucial for the development of the ecosystem.