Of course, I can only speak for myself at this point, because I don't know the OP. To ensure 100% transparency on my part: I have been accumulating tokens of this project since 2018, so I am definitely biased. However, I have no connections to anyone involved in the development of the project and I'm not paid for writing here. I'm just a silent reader on Discord to keep myself informed about the status.. sometimes I ask questions.
The reason one specifically has not heard anything about Hydranet, or the token HDN at this point, has different reasons, in my opinion:
I became aware of the project in 2018 through a user named "Jumperbillijumper". At that time, I was particularly interested in the topic of consensus building in conjunction with blockchains and this project then had the intention to develop its own Layer-1 Chain, with its own consensus mechanism "Trusted Proof-of-Stake/TPoS". Here is a very old video of the user on this:
https://youtu.be/suM6EQG9QXgLater, other YouTubers from the German-speaking area also addressed the project:
https://youtu.be/dyL0hasDGT0But as already mentioned, the team bit off more than they could chew with the development of a complete Layer-1 Chain and had no spare resources to focus on the actual feature, a Layer-3 DEX based on Lightning/Connext. Therefore, the project was relaunched and rebranded a little over a year ago. Stakenet/XSN then became Hydranet/HDX.
A few weeks ago, it was decided that the token symbol HDX was unfortunately chosen, as it was already used by another project. Therefore, the symbol was changed from HDX to HDN.
It must be said that marketing was not the team's strength so far. Add to that, Cryptopia and LiveCoin had a significant share of the trading volume at times, both of which, as is well known, were "hacked". Token Hodlers therefore did not necessarily always have luck with their investment, regardless of the project. Although we all know: not your keys, not your coins!
Nevertheless, one has to give credit to the team for not being deterred by any bear market since 2018. The foresight, the perseverance and the uniqueness speak for me personally primarily for the project!
Of course, these are only the impressions/experiences of someone who has invested in this project. As always, do your own research!
There is also a Medium, but I don't know how frequently they update it:
https://medium.com/@HydranetI want to ask you that how does it really make it as DEX if the trades are happening off chain? because it says assets can be traded without the L2 layer which seems impossible.
May I ask where exactly you read that it is possible to trade without L2? Because as far as I understood, the exact opposite is the case: different L2s are connected (via Lightning/Connext) and that's exactly where the magic happens:
https://docs.hydranet.ai/blog/how-does-the-hydranet-dex-workhttps://i.ibb.co/b2C21rw/Hydranet-Workflow.png