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	Approved
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	Anchor/Golden Gateways	In Discussion
23	Decouple Consensus From Gateways	In Discussion
24	Transfer Percentage of Hotspot	In Discussion
25	Validators	In Discussion

HIP19 third-party manufacturers

Name	Date	Status
Nebra Ltd	2020-12-10	Approved
SyncroB.it	2020-12-14	Approved
RAK Wireless	2020-12-29	Approved
EasyLinkin	2021-01-12	Approved

Status key

• 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• Closed: HIP abandoned, rendered obsolete by other changes, or otherwise withdrawn by the author