TIPs are improvement proposals for bettering the IOTA technology stack.
Building the IOTA ecosystem is a community effort, therefore we welcome anyone to propose, discuss and debate ideas that will later become formalized TIPs.
Do you have an idea how to improve the IOTA technology stack?
- Head over to the discussions page to browse already submitted ideas or share yours!
- Once your idea is discussed, you can submit a draft TIP (template here) as a PR to the repository.
- You will receive feedback from the TIP Editors and review from core devs.
- Once accepted, your TIP is merged as Draft.
- It is your responsibility to drive its implementation and to present a clear plan on how the new feature will be adopted by the network.
- Once implementation is ready and testing yields satisfactory result, the TIP becomes Proposed.
- Proposed TIPs that are supported by majority of the network become Active.
You may find more information about the TIP Process in TIP-1.
The following TIPs are currently being discussed and are awaiting further contribution:
| # | Title | Description | Type | Layer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | Multi-Asset Ledger and ISC Support | Transform IOTA into a multi-asset ledger that supports running IOTA Smart Contracts | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 19 | Dust Protection Based on Byte Costs | Prevent bloating the ledger size with dust outputs | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 20 | Transaction Payload with New Output Types | UTXO-based transaction structure with TIP-18 | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 21 | Serialization Primitives | Introduce primitives to describe the binary serialization of objects | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 22 | Protocol Parameters | Describes the global protocol parameters for the IOTA protocol | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 23 | Tagged Data Payload | Payload for arbitrary data | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 24 | Tangle Message | A new version of TIP-6 that removes the Indexation Payload and instead adds the Tagged Data Payload as a supported payload | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 25 | Core REST API | Node Core REST API routes and objects in OpenAPI Specification | Standards | Interface | Draft |
| 26 | UTXO Indexer REST API | UTXO Indexer REST API routes and objects in OpenAPI Specification | Standards | Interface | Draft |
| 27 | IOTA NFT standards | Define NFT metadata standard, policy registry and creator royalties | Standards | IRC | Draft |
| 28 | Node Event API | Node event API definitions in AsyncAPI Specification | Standards | Interface | Draft |
| 29 | Milestone Payload | Milestone Payload with keys removed from essence | Standards | Core | Draft |
| 30 | Native Token Metadata Standard | A JSON schema that describes token metadata format for native token foundries. | Standards | IRC | Draft |
| # | Title | Description | Type | Layer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TIP Process | Purpose and guidelines of the contribution framework | Process | - | Active |
| 2 | White Flag Ordering | Mitigate conflict spamming by ignoring conflicts | Standards | Core | Active |
| 3 | Uniform Random Tip Selection | Perform fast tip-selection to increase message throughput | Standards | Core | Active |
| 4 | Milestone Merkle Validation | Add Merkle tree hash to milestone for local ledger state verification | Standards | Core | Active |
| 5 | Binary To Ternary Encoding | Define the conversion between binary and ternary data | Standards | Core | Active |
| 6 | Tangle Message | Generalization of the Tangle transaction concept | Standards | Core | Active |
| 7 | Transaction Payload | UTXO-based transaction structure | Standards | Core | Active |
| 8 | Milestone Payload | Coordinator issued milestone structure with Ed25519 authentication | Standards | Core | Active |
| 9 | Local Snapshot File Format | File format to export/import ledger state | Standards | Interface | Active |
| 10 | Mnemonic Ternary Seed | Represent ternary seed as a mnemonic sentence | Standards | IRC | Obsolete |
| 11 | Bech32 Address Format | Extendable address format supporting various signature schemes and address types | Standards | Interface | Active |
| 12 | Message PoW | Define message proof-of-work as a means to rate-limit the network | Standards | Core | Active |
| 13 | REST API | Node REST API routes and objects in OpenAPI Specification | Standards | Interface | Active |
| 14 | Ed25519 Validation | Adopt ZIP-215 to explicitly define Ed25519 validation criteria | Standards | Core | Active |
| 15 | Dust Protection | Prevent bloating the ledger size with to dust outputs | Standards | Core | Active |
| 16 | Event API | Node event API definitions in AsyncAPI Specification | Standards | Interface | Active |
| 17 | Wotsicide | Define migration from legacy WOTS addresses to post-Chrysalis Phase 2 network | Standards | Core | Active |
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