GIPs

Gitcoin Improvement Proposals (GIPs) describe standards for the Gitcoin platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, community standards, and contract standards.

This process is a fork of Ethereum EIPs.

Discuss on Gitcoin Slack in the #community-GIPs channel.

Contributing

First review GIP-1. Then clone the repository and add your GIP to it. There is a template GIP here. Then submit a Pull Request to Gitcoin's GIPs repository.

GIP status terms

Draft - an GIP that is open for consideration
Accepted - an GIP that is planned for immediate adoption, i.e. expected to be included in the next hard fork (for Core/Consensus layer GIPs).
Final - an GIP that has been adopted in a previous hard fork (for Core/Consensus layer GIPs).
Deferred - an GIP that is not being considered for immediate adoption. May be reconsidered in the future for a subsequent hard fork.

Non-final GIPs

Number	Title	Author	Layer	Status
X	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Deferred GIPs

Number	Title	Author	Layer	Status
X	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Finalized GIPs

(standards that have been adopted)

Number	Title	Author	Layer	Status
1	GIP Process	Kevin Owocki	N/A	Active
2	OKRs Q1 2018	Kevin Owocki	N/A	Active

Active GIPs

(standards that have been adopted but never meant to be completed)

Number	Title	Author	Layer	Status
1	GIP Purpose and Guidelines	Martin Becze, Hudson Jameson (EIP). Kevin Owocki (GIP)	Meta	Active

Past Hard Forks

Codename	Aliases	Block number	Date (UTC)
StandardBounties		N/A	2018-01-26
Launch		N/A	2017-09-25

mkosowsk/GIPs