February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
The life cycle of a proposal life cycle is pretty straightforward. On a typical happy path, a proposal is born with an idea of improvement for Ethereum. Such an idea is formalized by a draft EIP. Once the EIP has gained the confidence of the Ethereum community, the proposal is accepted and assigned an EIP number. Then it is implemented using code, and given a Final status, or if it is a guideline, made active on GitHub. The EIP list is eventually updated with the finalized EIP proposal number. The life cycle of a proposal can dramatically change if it is critically opposed by the general community:

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