The objective of the LIPs is to establish uniformity and offer comprehensive documentation for Lens, including the conventions and frameworks built on top of it. This repository monitors both completed and ongoing enhancements to Lens through the LIPs.

LIPs are a path for Lens community to establish a formal framework for open governance and contributions for Lens Protocol. As the Lens ecosystem grows, it is important to enable the ability to participate in the future development of Lens Protocol and set foundations for open governance and path towards decentralization. As Lens Protocol is a neutral and flexible technology stack for social networking use-cases, LIPs provides the basis to ensure that Lens Protocol remains flexible and uniform across all potential use-cases, improvements and ideas within the community.

This repository will contain all the open standards that are used by Lens Protocol. The standards are divided into folders. Each folder contains a specific type of standard. For example, the lens-open-algorithm-standards folder contains all the standards that are related to the Lens Open Algorithm Standards.

This repository draws significant inspiration from the Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) and their well-structured format. We have made an effort to closely adhere to the same format in order to maintain familiarity for those accustomed to it. As a result, there should be little that feels entirely new to individuals who are accustomed to working with EIPs.

We have different types of proposals which currently are:

• Protocol
• Lens Ecosystem Standard
• Lens Metadata Standard
• Lens Open Algorithm Standard

All of these can go through an LIP process. Lens Open Algorithm Standards are the only ones that are not required to go through the LIP process as has its own flow. That said if you want to improve that standards an LIP can be opened for it.

You can see all the supported standards which that are supported and shaped by LIPs here.