This is the repository for Counterparty Improvement Proposals, also known as "CIPs". People wishing to submit CIPs, first should propose their idea or document to the spec-proposals channel on the Counterparty Slack chat. After discussion and copy-editing and acceptance, it will be published here, normally as a pull request merge.
The CIP process will follow the Counterparty Improvement Proposals (CIP) process as closely as is reasonably possible. We are fairly liberal with approving CIPs, and try not to be too involved in decision making on behalf of the community. The exception is in very rare cases of dispute resolution when a decision is contentious and cannot be agreed upon. In those cases, the conservative option will always be preferred.
Having a CIP here does not make it a formally accepted standard until its status becomes Active. For a CIP to become Active requires the mutual consent of the community.
Those proposing changes should consider that ultimately consent may rest with the consensus of the Counterparty users.
| Number | Title | Owner | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIP Purpose and Guidelines | Devon Weller | Process | Active |
| 2 | Counterparty Payment URI Scheme | Devon Weller | Informational | Accepted |
| 3 | Reset Token & Divisibility Statuses | JP Janssen | Standards | Active |
| 4 | Subassets | Jeremy Johnson | Standards | Active |
| 5 | Broadcast Voting Meta Protocol | Ruben de Vries | Standards | Draft |
| 6 | P2SH data encoding | Ruben de Vries | Standards | Active |
| 7 | Blockchain Validated Asset Metadata (BVAM) | Devon Weller | Informational | Draft |
| 8 | CIP Implementation Bounties | Robby Dermody | Process | Accepted |
| 9 | Enhanced Asset Send | Joe Looney | Standards | Active |
| 10 | Multi Peer Multi Asset Send (MPMA) | John Villar & Javier Varona | Standards | Active |
| 11 | Shorten Transaction Type ID Namespace | Devon Weller | Standards | Active |
| 13 | Multiparty Counterparty Aggregate Transaction (MCAT) | Devon Weller | Standards | Draft |
| 12 | Memo Requirement through Broadcasts | Jeremy Johnson | Standards | Active |
| 14 | Instant Lottery | JP Janssen | Standards | Deferred |
| 15 | Segwit Support | Devon Weller | Standards | Active |
| 16 | Scheduled Distributions | Dan Anderson | Standards | Draft |
| 17 | Automated Feed with Bitcoin and Counterparty Data | JP Janssen | Standards | Pre-Draft |
| 18 | Cfg flag to change API query limit defaults | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 19 | Upgrade to latest Bitcoin and Indexd | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 20 | Add "address sweep" message | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 21 | Add "dispenser" message | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 22 | Update Fednode stack to use addrindexrs | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 23 | Bug fixes on non-divisible dividends and 0 quantity credits | John Villar | Standards | Active |
| 24 | Oracled dispensers | John Villar, Jeremy Johnson, & Javier Varona | Standards | Active |
| 25 | Enhanced Asset Information Specification | Jeremy Johnson | Informational | Draft |
| 26 | STAMP Protocol | MikeInSpace & Jeremy Johnson | Informational | Draft |
| 27 | STAMP Filesystem | Jeremy Johnson | Standards | Withdrawn |
| 28 | Broadcast Token Naming System | Jeremy Johnson | Informational | Draft |
| 29 | Asset Issuance Fees | JP Janssen | Standards | Withdrawn |
| 30 | Support for taproot addresses | Javier Varona & Jeremy Johnson | Standards | Draft |
| 31 | Enhanced File Encoding Support | Jeremy Johnson | Standards | Draft |
| 32 | Dispenser Reservation | JP Janssen | Standards | Draft |
| 33 | File Storage in P2WSH Outputs | JP Janssen | Informational | Draft |