RustChain Improvement Proposals (RIPs)
July 10, 2026 · View on GitHub
RustChain Improvement Proposals (RIPs)
Formal specifications for changes to the RustChain protocol.
Browse the current proposal index with the standalone RIP search and status filter.
Current RIP Index
This repository mirrors the standalone RIP-300 document and links to canonical RIP documents that currently live in the main RustChain repository. Status values below are copied from the referenced RIP documents.
| RIP | Title | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Proof of Antiquity (PoA) Consensus Specification | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0007 | Entropy-Based Validator Fingerprinting & Scoring | Active | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0201 | Fleet Detection Immune System | Deployed | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0202 | Fail-Closed Producer Enrollment Gate | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 200 | Round-Robin 1-CPU-1-Vote PoA | Active | README legacy entry |
| 300 | Post-Quantum Signature Migration | Draft | This repository |
| 0301 | Tip Credits + Atlas Land Transfer Economy | Draft / Request for Comments | RustChain canonical docs |
| 302 | Agent Economy Protocol | Active | RustChain canonical docs |
| 302-test | Reproducible Agent-to-Agent Transaction Test Challenge | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0304 | Retro Console Mining via Pico Serial Bridge | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0305-A | Solana SPL Token Deployment for wRTC Bridge | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0305-C | Bridge API + Lock Ledger | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0305-D | Reward Claim System & Eligibility Flow | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0306 | SophiaCore Attestation Inspector | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0308 | Proof of Physical AI (PPA) | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0310 | Proof of Provenance (PoP) | Draft | RustChain canonical docs |
| 0311 | Scarcity-Weighted Reward Distribution with Tenure and Identity-Cap | Draft (Request for Comments and Vote) | This repository |
| 0312 | SOPHIA Decoupling — Verifiable Attestation-Oracle Architecture | Draft | This repository |
RIP-300: Post-Quantum Signature Migration
Phased migration from Ed25519 to hybrid Ed25519 + ML-DSA-44 (CRYSTALS-Dilithium2) signatures, motivated by Google Quantum AI research showing Ed25519 crackable with <500K physical qubits in ~9 minutes.
- Phase 1 (Q3 2026): PQ-Ready -- dual keypair generation, RTCQ addresses, zero breaking changes
- Phase 2 (Q1 2027): Hybrid signing -- transactions carry both Ed25519 + ML-DSA signatures
- Phase 3 (Q1 2029): PQ enforcement -- Ed25519-only rejected after cutoff block
Reference implementation: rustchain_crypto_pq.py
License
MIT License. (c) 2026 Elyan Labs.