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 05/05/21)
| # | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIP Process | Active |
| 2 | Coin Selection Algorithms | Draft |
| 3 | Wallet key generation | Draft |
| 4 | Wallet Checksum | Draft |
| 5 | Common Bech32 Prefixes | Draft |
| 6 | Stake Pool Extended Metadata | Draft |
| 7 | Curve Pledge Benefit | Draft |
| 8 | Message Signing | Draft |
| 9 | Initial Parameters | Draft |
| 10 | Transaction Metadata Label Registry | Draft |
| 11 | Staking key chain for HD wallets | Draft |
| 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 | Draft |
| 16 | Cryptographic Key Serialisation Formats | Draft |
| 19 | Cardano Addresses | Draft |
| 1852 | HD Wallets for Cardano | Draft |
| 1853 | HD Stake Pool Cold Keys | Draft |
| 1854 | Multi-signatures HD Wallets | Draft |
:bulb: - 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":
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. <=