/cips

Counterparty Improvement Proposals

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
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 Draft
28 Broadcast Token Naming System Jeremy Johnson & MikeInSpace Standards Draft