Governance, in plain language.
All 152 concepts, connected to real Vara referenda.
OpenGov
Vara's system for proposing, voting on and enacting governance decisions.
Referendum
A numbered governance proposal on which eligible VARA holders may vote.
Proposal
The action or statement submitted for governance consideration.
Preimage
The encoded call data behind a proposal hash.
Proposal hash
A cryptographic identifier for encoded proposal content.
Runtime call
A specific instruction the Vara runtime can dispatch.
Pallet
A functional module inside the Vara runtime.
Origin
The authority under which a runtime call is dispatched.
Governance track
A lane of OpenGov with its own origin, deposits, timing and approval rules.
Root
The runtime's highest on-chain administrative origin.
Whitelisted Caller
An origin used to dispatch a call that has been approved through the whitelist process.
General Admin
A governance track for general administrative actions.
Staking Admin
A governance origin and track for authorized staking administration.
Referendum Canceller
The origin used to cancel a referendum without treating it as normally rejected.
Referendum Killer
A stronger governance origin used to terminate a referendum under its configured rules.
Bridge Admin
The origin used for authorized administration of Vara's Ethereum bridge.
Bridge Pauser
A limited origin used to pause or unpause bridge components.
Submission deposit
Funds reserved when a referendum is submitted.
Decision deposit
Funds reserved before a referendum can enter decision.
Governance deposit
VARA reserved as part of a governance operation.
Prepare period
The minimum time before a referendum may enter decision on its track.
Decision period
The maximum track-specific period in which a referendum can satisfy approval and support.
Confirmation period
The time a referendum must continuously satisfy its thresholds before approval.
Minimum enactment period
The shortest delay allowed between approval and scheduled execution.
Deciding
The lifecycle stage in which approval and support thresholds are evaluated.
Confirming
The stage after thresholds are met but before approval becomes final.
Enactment
The scheduled point when an approved proposal is dispatched.
Approval
The share of decisive weighted votes supporting Aye.
Support
The portion of the eligible electorate represented by Aye-side capital under the runtime formula.
Approval curve
The track's time-dependent minimum approval requirement.
Support curve
The track's time-dependent minimum support requirement.
Electorate
The balance base used when calculating governance support.
Aye
A vote in favor of the referendum's proposed action or signal.
Nay
A vote against the referendum's proposed action or signal.
Abstain
Capital included in a split-abstain vote without choosing Aye or Nay for approval.
Conviction voting
A system that exchanges a longer token lock for greater voting influence.
Conviction multiplier
The factor applied to capital when calculating a conviction vote's influence.
Governance lock
A restriction associated with balance used in conviction voting.
Lock period
The time a conviction-voted balance remains restricted after the relevant governance point.
Direct vote
A vote cast by an address directly on a referendum.
Standard vote
A single Aye or Nay vote using one balance and conviction setting.
Split vote
A vote that assigns separate amounts to Aye and Nay.
Split-abstain vote
A vote divided among Aye, Nay and abstain amounts.
Delegation
Assigning governance voting influence to another account for a track.
Delegated vote
Voting influence applied through another account's vote.
Raw capital
The actual VARA balance committed to a vote before conviction weighting.
Weighted vote
Voting influence after applying conviction and applicable delegation rules.
Tally
The referendum's current or final aggregate Aye, Nay and support values.
Participation
The addresses and capital represented in a referendum's captured votes.
Turnout
Participation expressed against a clearly stated eligible-population or capital denominator.
Vote concentration
How much of the participating capital or influence is controlled by the largest voters.
Top-voter share
The percentage of captured voting capital represented by the largest one or several voters.
HHI
A concentration index based on the squared share of each participant.
Gini coefficient
A measure of inequality across participating vote-capital amounts.
Lifecycle status
The referendum's governance-process state, such as Rejected, Executed or Timed Out.
Approved
The referendum satisfied its track's approval and support requirements.
Rejected
The referendum ended without approval under its voting rules.
Cancelled
A referendum stopped by an authorized cancellation call.
Timed Out
The referendum reached the end of its allowed decision process without approval.
Executed
The runtime attempted to dispatch an approved referendum's call.
Dispatch
The runtime's attempt to execute a call with a particular origin.
Dispatch result
The success or error returned when an enacted call is attempted.
Dispatch failure
An error returned instead of successful completion of the proposed call.
BadOrigin
A dispatch error indicating that the call was not authorized by the supplied origin.
Observable state change
A before-and-after chain value that independently confirms an executed effect.
Nested call
A runtime call contained inside a wrapper, batch or changed-origin call.
batchAll
An atomic utility call that requires all included calls to succeed together.
forceBatch
A utility batch that continues attempting later calls after an inner failure.
Atomicity
The property that a group of runtime operations succeeds or fails as one unit.
dispatchAs
A utility wrapper that dispatches an inner call using a specified origin.
Whitelist
A governance mechanism for authorizing a specifically identified call.
system.remark
A call that records arbitrary bytes on-chain without commanding another system action.
Signaling proposal
A referendum that records community preference without directly implementing the requested off-chain result.
Text proposal
The VaraGov label for a proposal that expresses a statement rather than an executable policy change.
On-chain effect
The state change or message submission the encoded call can perform.
Off-chain action
Work expected outside Vara's runtime after or alongside a governance decision.
Accountability review
Comparison of promised outcomes with later verifiable results.
Promised outcome
A result claimed or requested by the proposal materials.
Verified outcome
A later result supported by chain state or attributable evidence.
Follow-up status
VoteVara's assessment of how completely a proposal's outcomes can be verified.
Unknown
A fact the available evidence does not establish.
Inference
A reasoned conclusion drawn from evidence but not directly stated by it.
Decode limitation
A specific reason the archive cannot fully translate encoded proposal data.
Source record
Evidence used to support a referendum fact or interpretation.
Editorial status
VoteVara's review stage for a referendum explanation.
Correction
A documented change to VoteVara's published interpretation or data.
Repeated proposal
The same encoded proposal submitted in more than one referendum.
Replacement sequence
A set of related referenda that retry, correct or supersede an earlier action.
Staking
Locking or pooling VARA to support validator election and network security.
Validator
A network participant eligible to produce and finalize blocks when elected into the active set.
Active validator
A validator elected into the current era's active set.
Waiting validator
A registered validator candidate not elected into the active set for the current era.
Validator count
The configured target number of validators elected into Vara's active set.
Validator election
The staking process that selects candidates for the active validator set.
Nominator
An account that backs validator candidates with staked VARA.
Nomination
Staking support assigned to one or more validator candidates.
Nomination pool
A staking structure that combines many members' VARA for nomination participation.
Pool member
An account contributing bonded VARA to a nomination pool.
Nomination-pool commission
A fee a pool may charge from rewards under configured limits.
Minimum nominator bond
The minimum bonded VARA required for direct nomination.
Pooled VARA voting
The idea that VARA staked through nomination pools should retain usable governance voting power.
Staking era
A staking period used for validator election, rewards and slash accounting.
Slash
A staking penalty applied for specified validator faults or rule violations.
Deferred slash
A staking penalty recorded for later application.
Runtime
The WebAssembly logic that defines Vara's on-chain rules.
Runtime upgrade
Governance-authorized replacement of the chain's executable runtime code.
specVersion
The numeric version of the live runtime specification.
Block
An ordered unit of finalized chain data containing extrinsics, events and state changes.
Extrinsic
An external input submitted to the runtime, such as a signed transaction or inherent operation.
Event
A runtime record emitted when a meaningful chain action or state transition occurs.
Storage item
A named value or map maintained in runtime state.
Planck
The smallest on-chain unit of VARA.
VARA
The native token used for fees, staking and governance on Vara Network.
Balance
The on-chain VARA amount associated with an account under a particular balance category.
Perbill
A fixed-point proportion measured in parts per billion.
Total issuance
The exact quantity of VARA represented in the runtime's Balances.TotalIssuance state.
Total supply
The total amount of a token existing under the definition used by the cited source.
Circulating supply
An off-chain estimate of tokens considered available in the market under a provider's methodology.
Inflation
Growth in token issuance over time under the network's reward mechanism.
Target inflation
A staking-rewards parameter representing the network's targeted annualized issuance rate.
Staking rewards
VARA issued or distributed to incentivize validator and nominator participation.
Inflation-offset pool
A designated balance used to counter issuance created by network rewards.
Burn
An on-chain operation that removes tokens from total issuance.
Vesting
A restriction that releases tokens according to a schedule.
Vesting schedule
The starting block, release rate and locked amount governing token release.
Beneficiary
The account intended to receive funds, rights or a schedule under a proposal.
Address
A public on-chain account identifier.
Identity evidence
Attributable proof connecting an on-chain address to a person or organization.
Vara Fellowship
A ranked technical governance body represented by Fellowship collective state and tracks.
Fellowship rank
A member's level within the technical Fellowship collective.
promoteMember
A Fellowship collective call that raises one member by one rank.
removeMember
A Fellowship collective call that removes an account subject to its minimum-rank parameter.
GRANDPA
The finality protocol used to agree that blocks will not be reverted.
GRANDPA signer request
An encoded request scheduled through Vara's grandpaSigner runtime component.
Finality
The point at which a block is considered irreversible under the chain's consensus protocol.
Title/call mismatch
A case where public proposal wording and the decoded on-chain call describe different or unequally specific actions.
Vara–Ethereum bridge
The contracts, runtime pallet, Gear programs and relayers that move authenticated messages and represented assets between Vara and Ethereum.
gearEthBridge pallet
The Vara runtime component used for Ethereum-bridge administration and message submission.
Gear program
A WebAssembly program running through Gear's actor-style message model on Vara.
Gear message
A payload sent to a Gear program actor.
Actor ID
The 32-byte identifier of a Gear program or actor.
Asynchronous execution
Processing that completes separately from the call that submitted the message.
VFT
A Vara fungible-token program interface used for represented assets.
VFTManager
A Gear program coordinating bridge-related fungible-token administration.
Tokenized VARA
The VFT representation of VARA used by the bridge system.
Minter authority
Permission for an address or program to create token units under a token program's rules.
Burner authority
Permission for an address or program to destroy token units under a token program's rules.
Pause
An administrative state that temporarily stops specified operations.
Unpause
An administrative action that re-enables operations previously stopped by a pause.
Cross-chain message
A message submitted on one chain for authenticated delivery and execution on another.
Relayer
Infrastructure that observes and transports authenticated bridge information between chains.
Ethereum finality
Confirmation that a destination-side Ethereum transaction is finalized under Ethereum's consensus rules.