EIP Standards

Proposals for engineering updates to the blockchain.

Proposals along the Ethereum roadmap

EIPs, what developers need to know

Questions

Which standard covered here is most frequently adopted in name but not in practice — and what's the gap between stated adoption and actual behavior?

• At what adoption percentage does a standard produce enough network effects to become the de facto requirement for a new entrant?
• How does a standard age when the underlying technology evolves faster than the standards body can update the specification?
• Which standard decision — naming conventions, interface design, or versioning strategy — compounds most over time as a codebase grows?