ARCs: Algorand Requests for Comments

Mission

This repository serves to provide a location for the proposal and discussion of ARCs.

To know an ARC's status, please refer to https://arc.algorand.foundation/.

Status

Please consider anything which is not published on https://github.com/algorandfoundation/ARCs as a working paper.

And please consider anything published at https://github.com/algorandfoundation/ARCs with a status of "draft" as an incomplete draft.

We recommend only using ARCs with the status "Final", "Living" or "Last Call".

Process

Before submitting a new ARC, please have a look at ARC-0.

Validation

Pull requests in this repository must pass automated validation checks:

• HTML formatting and broken links are checked using html-proofer.

• ARC front matter and formatting are checked using ARC Validator.

To install arcw and validate the ARCs repository:

You will need Rust/cargo

git clone git@github.com:algorandfoundation/arcw.git
cargo install --path=arcw arcw
arcw Path-to-ARCs-Folder/ARCs/ARCs/arc-xxxx.md

Here is a dedicated part on the forum to talk about ARCs.

To discuss ARCs ideas, see the open Pull Requests of this repository.

To discuss ARC drafts, use the corresponding issue in the issue tracker.