This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact the consensus mechanisms of the protocol. LIPs belonging to this category may cover how block proposers are selected in the protocol (i.e. DPoS system) as well as how consensus is achieved around these proposed new blocks.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that deal with governance mechanisms for the protocol.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that cover techniques and protocols for inter-blockchain communication.

This category contains technical discussion regarding proposals that cover implementation changes: Architecture, database, transaction pool, etc.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact accounts, for example, account serialization, account properties, etc.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact the transactions’ format, properties and verification process as well as proposals defining new transaction types.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact the blocks’ format, properties and verification process.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact the cryptography of the project, as for example, the signature scheme.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that cover economic related aspects of the protocol: transaction fees, token issuance and inflation, etc.

This category contains scientific discussion regarding proposals that impact the P2P layer of the protocol.

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.