EIP Champion's Handbook | Protocol Support

The Champion's Journey

Prepare

Assess readiness, understand the landscape, identify stakeholders

Propose

Open a PFI PR, begin implementations, create a Forkcast entry

Build Consensus

Engage client teams, gather evidence, drive toward CFI

Ship

SFI, devnets, testnets, mainnet

Before you commit to championing an EIP, make sure you can check these boxes.

Time commitmentAre you available for the next few months to coordinate and follow up?

Know your layerExecution, consensus, or cross-layer? Which client teams are most impacted?

Know your stakeholdersWho else needs to understand this change — wallets, dApps, L2s, infra?

Understand the tradeoffsWhat needs benchmarking, careful reasoning, or is likely to be contentious?

Implementation planWho is likely to implement? What's the first concrete milestone?

Be reachablePlan to be responsive in R&D Discord, GitHub, and on calls when your EIP is discussed.

How ACD calls work, what PFI/CFI/SFI mean in practice, where decisions happen, implementation requirements, and how to stay informed.

Guidance on validating demand, gathering stakeholder evidence, and building a compelling case for inclusion — before you invest months of work.