STXGOV · Stacks governance
Shape the future of Stacks.
Stacks Improvement Proposals are how the community suggests and makes changes to the network. From new features to protocol upgrades, every proposal follows a clear process, and you can follow along, give feedback and vote on what gets built.
- Ratified
- 26
- In progress
- 34
- CAB votes held
- 23
The path every proposal follows
Any step can end in rejected, withdrawn, obsolete or replaced.- 010IdeaPosted on Zero Authority, before anyone writes it up as a formal draft.
- 0231DraftWritten up and opened as a pull request on stacksgov/sips for public comment.
- 030AcceptedThe SIP editors find it complete and pass it to the Consideration Advisory Boards.
- 040CAB voteThe technical, economic and governance boards it touches each vote on it.
- 051RecommendedThe boards recommend it, and it goes to the Steering Committee for approval.
- 062ActivationApproved. Consensus changes now need stackers and miners to vote it in.
- 0726RatifiedLive on the network, or adopted as a standard the ecosystem builds on.
Proposals
- SIP-034
Dimension-Specific Tenure Extend Variants
Activation in progressThis SIP details a rider to SIP-033, including a new variant of the tenure change control transaction. This variant allows the tenure change to specify which dimension of the block budget to reset.
Aaron Blankstein, Jude Nelson15 Oct 2025ConsensusTechnical, Governance - SIP-033
Clarity Smart Contract Language, version 4
Activation in progressThis SIP details Version 4 of the Clarity smart contract language, which introduces new operations to provide mechanisms for building more secure smart contracts on Stacks.
Brice Dobry, Marvin Janssen +320 Jun 2025ConsensusTechnical
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