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<h1 class="page-heading">
  Lidos Improvement Proposals
</h1>
<p>
  Lidos Improvement Proposals (LIPs) describe standards for the Lidos
  platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract
  standards.
</p>

<h2>Contributing</h2>
<ol>
  <li>Review <a href="https://github.com/depools/lido-improvement-proposals/blob/develop/LIPS/lip-0.md">LIP-0</a>.</li>
  <li>Fork the repository by clicking "Fork" in the top right.</li>
  <li>
    Add your LIP to your fork of the repository. There is a
    <a href="https://github.com/depools/lido-improvement-proposals/blob/develop/lip-X.md"
      >template LIP here</a
    >.
  </li>
  <li>
    Submit a Pull Request to Lido's
    <a href="https://github.com/depools/lido-improvement-proposals">LIPs repository</a>.
  </li>
</ol>

<p>
  Your first PR should be a first draft of the final LIP. It must meet the
  formatting criteria enforced by the build (largely, correct metadata in the
  header). An editor will manually review the first PR for a new LIP and assign
  it a number before merging it. Make sure you include a
  <code>discussions-to</code> header with the URL to a discussion forum or open
  GitHub issue where people can discuss the LIP as a whole.
</p>
<p>
  If your LIP requires images, the image files should be included in a
  subdirectory of the `assets` folder for that LIP as follow:
  <code>assets/lip-X</code> (for lip <b>X</b>). When linking to an image in the
  LIP, use relative links such as <code>../assets/lip-X/image.png</code>.
</p>
<p>
  When you believe your LIP is mature and ready to progress past the WIP phase,
  you should ask to have your issue added to the next governance call where it
  can be discussed for inclusion in a future platform upgrade. If the community
  agrees to include it, the LIP editors will update the state of your LIP to
  <code>Approved</code>.
</p>

<h2>LIP status terms</h2>
<ul>
  <li><strong>WIP</strong> - a LIP that is still being developed.</li>
  <li>
    <strong>Proposed</strong> - a LIP that is ready to be reviewed in a
    governance call.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Approved</strong> - a LIP that has been accepted for implementation
    by the Lido community.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Implemented</strong> - a LIP that has been released to mainnet.
  </li>
  <li><strong>Rejected</strong> - a LIP that has been rejected.</li>
</ul>