Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs)

Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) describe standards, processes; or provide general guidelines or information to the Cardano Community. It is a formal, technical communication process that exists off-chain. The current process is described in details in CIP1 - "CIP Process".

Current CIPs (as of 2022-01-05)

#	Title	Status
1	CIP process	Active
2	Coin Selection Algorithms for Cardano	Active
3	Wallet key generation	Active
4	Wallet Checksums	Draft
5	Common Bech32 Prefixes	Draft
6	Stake Pool Extended Metadata	Draft
7	Curve Pledge Benefit	Proposed
8	Message Signing	Draft
9	Protocol Parameters	Active
10	Transaction Metadata Label Registry	Active
11	Staking key chain for HD wallets	Active
12	On-chain stake pool operator to delegates communication	Draft
13	Cardano URI Scheme	Draft
14	User-Facing Asset Fingerprint	Draft
15	Catalyst Registration Transaction Metadata Format	Draft
16	Cryptographic Key Serialisation Formats	Draft
17	Cardano Delegation Portfolio	Active
18	Multi-Stake-Keys Wallets	Draft
19	Cardano Addresses	Active
20	Transaction message/comment metadata	Active
21	Transaction requirements for interoperability with hardware wallets	Draft
22	Pool operator verification	Active
23	Fair Min Fees	Draft
24	Non-Centralizing Rankings	Draft
25	NFT Metadata Standard	Draft
26	Cardano Off-Chain Metadata	Draft
27	CNFT Community Royalties Standard	Draft
28	Protocol Parameters (Alonzo)	Draft
29	Phase-1 Monetary Scripts Serialization Formats	Draft
30	Cardano dApp-Wallet Web Bridge	Draft
1852	HD (Hierarchy for Deterministic) Wallets for Cardano	Draft
1853	HD (Hierarchy for Deterministic) Stake Pool Cold Keys for Cardano	Draft
1854	Multi-signatures HD Wallets	Draft
1855	Forging policy keys for HD Wallets	Draft

💡 For more details about Statuses, refer to CIP1.

CIP creation process as a Sequence Diagram

“Alice has a Cardano idea she'd like to build more formally…”

Diagram: Mary interacting with community and editors for a Cardano Proposal

Extend or discuss ‘ideas’ in the Developer Forums, Cardano’s Official Developer Telegram Group or in #developers in Cardano Ambassadors Slack. CIP Editors meetings are public, recorded and summarized: do join and participate for discussions/PRs of significances to you.

🛈 To facilitate browsing and information sharing for non-Github users, an auto-generated site is also provided at cips.cardano.org.