Dash Improvement Proposals (DIPs)

DIP stands for Dash Improvement Proposal. Similar to Bitcoin’s BIPs, a DIP is a design document providing information to the Dash community, or describing a new feature for Dash or its processes or environment. The DIP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature.

Because Dash is forked from the Bitcoin codebase, many of the BIPs can be applied to Dash as well (a list of the BIPs updated to include Dash-specific details can be found here). The purpose of the DIPs is not to duplicate those which exist as BIPs, but to introduce protocol upgrades or feature specifications which are unique to Dash.

Contributions

We use the same general guidelines for introducing a new DIP as specified in BIP 2, with a few differences. Specifically:

• Instead of the BIP editor, initiate contact with the Dash Core development team and your request should be routed to the DIP editor(s). The DIP workflow mimics the BIP workflow.

• Recommended licenses include the MIT license

• Markdown format is the preferred format for DIPs

• Following a discussion, the proposal should be submitted to the DIPs git repository as a pull request. This draft must be written in BIP/DIP style as described in BIP 2, and named with an alias such as “dip-johndoe-infinitedash” until the editor has assigned it a DIP number (authors MUST NOT self-assign DIP numbers).

Dash Improvement Proposal Summary

Number	Layer	Title	Owner	Type	Status
1	Consensus	Initial Scaling of the Network	Darren Tapp	Standard	Final
2	Consensus	Special Transactions	Samuel Westrich, Alexander Block, Andy Freer	Standard	Final
3	Consensus	Deterministic Masternode Lists	Samuel Westrich, Alexander Block, Andy Freer, Darren Tapp, Timothy Flynn, Udjinm6, Will Wray	Standard	Final
4	Consensus	Simplified Verification of Deterministic Masternode Lists	Alexander Block, Samuel Westrich, UdjinM6, Andy Freer	Standard	Final
5	Consensus	Blockchain Users	Alexander Block, Cofresi, Andy Freer, Nathan Marley, Anton Suprunchuk, Darren Tapp, Thephez, Udjinm6, Alex Werner, Samuel Westrich	Standard	Withdrawn
6	Consensus	Long-Living Masternode Quorums	Alexander Block	Standard	Final
7	Consensus	LLMQ Signing Requests / Sessions	Alexander Block	Standard	Final
8	Consensus	ChainLocks	Alexander Block	Standard	Final
9	Applications	Feature Derivation Paths	Samuel Westrich	Informational	Proposed
10	Consensus	LLMQ InstantSend	Alexander Block	Standard	Final
11	Consensus	Identities	Ivan Shumkov, Anton Suprunchuk, Samuel Westrich, Cofresi	Standard	Proposed
12	Consensus	Dash Platform Name Service	Ivan Shumkov, Anton Suprunchuk	Standard	Proposed
13	Applications	Identities in Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets	Samuel Westrich	Informational	Proposed
14	Applications	Extended Key Derivation using 256-Bit Unsigned Integers	Samuel Westrich	Informational	Proposed
15	Applications	DashPay	Samuel Westrich, Eric Britten	Standard	Proposed
16	Applications	Headers First Synchronization on Simple Payment Verification Wallets	Samuel Westrich	Informational	Proposed
20	Consensus	Dash Opcode Updates	Mart Mangus	Standard	Final
21	Consensus	LLMQ DKG Data Sharing	dustinface	Standard	Final
22	Consensus	Making InstantSend Deterministic using Quorum Cycles	Samuel Westrich, UdjinM6	Standard	Final
23	Consensus	Enhanced Hard Fork Mechanism	Pasta	Standard	Proposed
24	Consensus	Long-Living Masternode Quorum Distribution and Rotation	Samuel Westrich & Virgile Bartolo	Standard	Final
25	Peer Services	Compressed Block Headers	gabriel-bjg, Thephez, UdjinM6	Standard	Proposed
26	Consensus	Multi-Party Payout	Timothy Munsell, UdjinM6	Standard	Proposed
27					Reserved
28	Consensus	Evolution Masternodes	Paul DeLucia, Odysseas Gabrielides, Łukasz Klimek, Ivan Shumkov, Samuel Westrich	Standard	Final
29	Consensus	Randomness Beacon For LLMQ Selection	Virgile Bartolo	Standard	Proposed

License

Unless otherwise specified, Dash Improvement Proposals (DIPs) are released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see the MIT License.