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# EIPs Insight (January 2022)

## Summary
In January, [EIP-1271: Standard Signature Validation Method for Contracts](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1271) was added to the Ethereum standards as a standard way to verify a signature when the account is a smart contract. This is a *Standard Track* EIP of ***ERC*** category, originally documented in July 2018.

Furthermore, the EIP repository received [ **4** new proposals](https://hackmd.io/Dw6CU9EVQsiDdD9wJRK6rg#New-proposals-Draft) as `Draft`. [**4** EIPs](https://hackmd.io/Dw6CU9EVQsiDdD9wJRK6rg#Draft-to-Review) are moved to `Review` from `Draft`, [2 proposals](https://hackmd.io/Dw6CU9EVQsiDdD9wJRK6rg#Stagnant-to-Draft) are resurrected to `Review` and [**3** proposals](https://hackmd.io/Dw6CU9EVQsiDdD9wJRK6rg?both#Review-to-Last-Call) are moved to `Last Call`. [**5** EIPs](https://hackmd.io/Dw6CU9EVQsiDdD9wJRK6rg#To-Stagnant) are moved to `Stagnant`.


One [change added to EIP-1](https://hackmd.io/SjtSl-lWS0Kyg9jFjnvdxg?both#Changes-to-EIP-1) is consistent documentation of ERC category EIPs in EIP-1. There are a few `Final` EIPs those were updated to update wording and EIP author name format.

Other stats - This repo has **3204 Forks** and 898 users have put it on the watchlist. Open [Pull Request-54](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pulls) & [Issues-101](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues).

## New EIPs & Status change
(Last updated: Jan 31, 2022)

### New proposals (`Draft`)
1. [EIP-4521: 721/20-compatible transfer](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4521)
2. [EIP-4626: Tokenized Vault Standard ](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4626)
3. [EIP-4546: Wrapped Deposits](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4546)
4. [EIP-4341: Ordered NFT Batch Standard](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4341)

### `Draft` to `Review`

1. [EIP-3779: Safer Control Flow for the EVM](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3779) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4719)
2. [EIP-2315: Simple Subroutines for the EVM](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2315) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4692)
3. [EIP-4200: Static relative jumps](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4200) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4716)
4. [EIP-4626: Tokenized Vault Standard](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4626) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4645/commits/3ceb5752f813eeadb2cec0a7ce4bb1ee6974694f)
5. ~~[EIP-3668: CCIP Read: Secure offchain data retrieval](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3668) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4633)~~

### `Review` to `Last Call`
1. [EIP-3448: MetaProxy Standard](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3448) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4558) **Last Call Deadline**: 2022-01-25
2. [EIP-3607: Reject transactions from senders with deployed code](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3607) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4663) **Last Call Deadline**: 2022-01-25
3. [EIP-3668: CCIP Read: Secure offchain data retrieval](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3668) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4657) **Last Call Deadline**: 2022-01-24

### `Last Call` to `Final`
1. [EIP-1271: Standard Signature Validation Method for Contracts](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1271) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4717)

### `Stagnant` to `Draft`
None

### `Stagnant` to `Review`

1. [EIP-2980: Swiss Compliant Asset Token](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2980) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4660)
2. [EIP-2098: Compact Signature Representation](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2098) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4659)

### To `Stagnant`

1. [EIP-3651: Warm COINBASE](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3651) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4731)
2. [EIP-2771: Secure Protocol for Native Meta Transactions](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2771) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4712)
3. [EIP-2333: BLS12-381 Key Generation](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2333) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4588)
4. [EIP-1753: Smart Contract Interface for Licences](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1753) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4621)
5. [EIP-2098: Compact Signature Representation](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2098) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4604)

### Changes to EIP-1
1. [Change 'ERC#' to 'EIP#' for consistent documentation of EIPs in EIP-1](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4625)

### Changes to `Final` proposals
1. [EIP-191: Signed Data Standard](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-191) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4677)
2. [EIP-161: State trie clearing (invariant-preserving alternative)](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-161) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4534)
3. [EIP-2228: Canonicalize the name of network ID 1 and chain ID 1](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2228) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4599)

### Other improvements
None

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## General stats (December 31, 2021 – January 31, 2022 )


Excluding merges, **34 authors** have pushed **80 commits** to master and **83 commits** to all branches. On master, **35 files** have changed and there have been [1259](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/compare/1ed32a1f5a5182fe422bf19b2b6bf10c30b6afb3...master) additions and [590](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/compare/1ed32a1f5a5182fe422bf19b2b6bf10c30b6afb3...master) deletions.