HIP

Helium Improvement Proposals

"How a bill becomes a law"

More details on process and how to participate can be found in HIP7, "A Process For Managing Helium Improvement Proposals".

If you have questions or feedback, please ask in #hip-open-discussion in the community Discord. Each proposal in discussion also has its own dedicated channel.

Index of proposals

ID	Title	Status
1	Longfi and LoRaWAN	Deployed
2	Sign miner	Deployed
4	Expensing Data Credits for LoRaWAN Traffic	Deployed
5	PoC fairness/epoch challenge limit	Closed
6	Ramp-up period for data transfer rewards	Closed
7	Process for managing Helium Improvement Proposals	Approved
8	XOR filter for LoRaWAN packet routing tables	Draft
9	Ensuring trust for non-Helium hotspots (DIY gateways)	Draft
10	Proportional reward scheme for data transfers	Deployed
11	Amendment to proportional data transfer reward scheme	Closed
12	Remote location assertion	Deployed (audit / txn)
13	Transfer hotspot	Deployed (audit / txn)
14	PoC Ripple Method	In Discussion
15	Beaconing Rewards	Deployed (audit / txn)
16	Remove Score from Consensus Group Elections	Deployed (audit / txn)
17	Hex Density-based Transmit Reward Scaling	Deployed (audit / txn)
18	Remove Oracle Forecast for DC Burn	Approved
19	Approval Process For Third-Party Manufacturers	Approved
20	HNT Max Supply	Approved
21	PoC Link Layer Upgrades	In Discussion
22	DIY Concentrators (f/k/a Golden or Anchor Gateways)	In Discussion
23	Decouple Consensus From Gateways	In Discussion
24	Transfer Percentage of Hotspot	In Discussion
25	Validators	Approved
26	Payment Notes	In Discussion
27	Support CBRS 5G	Approved
28	Consensus Reward Adjustments	In Discussion
29	Multi-signature Keys	Approved
30	BLS12-381 for Threshold Cryptography	Approved
31	Governance by Token Burn	In Discussion
32	Split DCs Among All Transferers	In Discussion
33	Regional Reward Adjustments	In Discussion
34	Validator Node Security	In Discussion

The most up to date status of manufacturers in progress can be viewed here

Draft: HIP is in process of being written; author is not yet soliciting feedback from the community at large
In Discussion: HIP is under active consideration by the community
Approved: HIP has been approved by rough consensus, and pending development and testing
Deployed: Code to implement HIP has been merged and deployed to the network
Closed: HIP abandoned, rendered obsolete by other changes, or otherwise withdrawn by the author