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 2021-09-16)

#	Title	Status
1	CIP process	Active
2	Coin Selection Algorithms for Cardano	Draft
3	Wallet key generation	Draft
4	Wallet Checksums	Draft
5	Common Bech32 Prefixes	Draft
6	Stake Pool Extended Metadata	Draft
7	Curve Pledge Benefit	Draft
8	Message Signing	Draft
9	Protocol 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 Metadata Format	Draft
16	Cryptographic Key Serialisation Formats	Draft
17	Cardano Delegation Portfolio	Draft
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
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…”

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.