EIPs
Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) describe standards for the Ethereum platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract standards.
Contributing
First review EIP-1 . Then clone the repository and add your EIP to it. There is a template EIP here . Then submit a Pull Request to Ethereum's EIPs repository .
EIP status terms
Draft - an EIP that is open for consideration
Accepted - an EIP that is planned for immediate adoption, i.e. expected to be included in the next hard fork (for Core/Consensus layer EIPs).
Final - an EIP that has been adopted in a previous hard fork (for Core/Consensus layer EIPs).
Deferred - an EIP that is not being considered for immediate adoption. May be reconsidered in the future for a subsequent hard fork.
Non-final EIPs
Number
Title
Author
Layer
Status
3
Addition of CALLDEPTH opcode
Martin Holst Swende
Core
Draft
4
EIP Classification
Eric Lombrozo
Meta
Draft
5
Gas Usage for RETURN
and CALL*
Christian Reitwiessner
Core
Draft
101
Serenity Currency and Crypto Abstraction
Vitalik Buterin
Active
158
State clearing
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Superseded
234
Add blockHash
to JSON-RPC filter options
Micah Zoltu
Interface
Draft
615
Subroutines and Static Jumps for the EVM
Greg Colvin
Core
Draft
616
SIMD Operations for the EVM
Greg Colvin
Core
Draft
758
Subscriptions and filters for transaction return data
Jack Peterson
Interface
Draft
801
ERC-801 Canary Standard
ligi
Interface
Draft
Deferred EIPs
Number
Title
Author
Layer
Status
86
Abstraction of transaction origin and signature
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Deferred
96
Blockhash refactoring
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Deferred
145
Bitwise shifting instructions in EVM
Alex Beregszaszi, Paweł Bylica
Core
Deferred
Finalized EIPs (standards that have been adopted)
Number
Title
Author
Layer
Status
2
Homestead Hard-fork Changes
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
6
Renaming Suicide Opcode
Hudson Jameson
Interface
Final
7
DELEGATECALL
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
8
devp2p Forward Compatibility Requirements for Homestead
Felix Lange
Networking
Final
20
ERC-20 Token Standard
Fabian Vogelsteller, Vitalik Buterin
ERC
Final
55
ERC-55 Mixed-case checksum address encoding
Vitalik Buterin
ERC
Final
100
Change difficulty adjustment to target mean block time including uncles
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
137
Ethereum Domain Name Service - Specification
Nick Johnson
ERC
Final
140
REVERT instruction in the Ethereum Virtual Machine
Alex Beregszaszi, Nikolai Mushegian
Core
Final
141
Designated invalid EVM instruction
Alex Beregszaszi
Core
Final
150
Gas cost changes for IO-heavy operations
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
155
Simple replay attack protection
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
160
EXP cost increase
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
161
State trie clearing (invariant-preserving alternative)
Gavin Wood
Core
Final
162
ERC-162 ENS support for reverse resolution of Ethereum addresses
Maurelian, Nick Johnson
ERC
Final
170
Contract code size limit
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
181
ERC-181 ENS support for reverse resolution of Ethereum addresses
Nick Johnson
ERC
Final
190
ERC-190 Ethereum Smart Contract Packaging Standard
Merriam, Coulter, Erfurt, Catalano, Matias
ERC
Final
196
Precompiled contracts for addition and scalar multiplication on the elliptic curve alt_bn128
Christian Reitwiessner
Core
Final
197
Precompiled contracts for optimal Ate pairing check on the elliptic curve alt_bn128
Vitalik Buterin, Christian Reitwiessner
Core
Final
198
Precompiled contract for bigint modular exponentiation
Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
211
New opcodes: RETURNDATASIZE and RETURNDATACOPY
Christian Reitwiessner
Core
Final
214
New opcode STATICCALL
Vitalik Buterin, Christian Reitwiessner
Core
Final
649
Metropolis Difficulty Bomb Delay and Block Reward Reduction
Afri Schoedon, Vitalik Buterin
Core
Final
658
Embedding transaction return data in receipts
Nick Johnson
Core
Final
706
DEVp2p snappy compression
Péter Szilágyi
Networking
Final
Past Hard Forks
Codename
Aliases
Block number
Date (UTC)
Homestead
1,150,000
2016-03-14
DAO Fork
1,920,000
2016-07-20
Tangerine Whistle
Anti-DoS, EIP 150
2,463,000
2016-10-18
Spurious Dragon
State-clearing, EIP 158/161
2,675,000
2016-11-22
Byzantium
Metropolis: Part 1
4,730,000
2017-10-16