Referendum #13 · staking admin · fact-checked

Failed attempt to cancel slash 0 from staking era 327

Original title: [Staking Admin] Referendum #13

Governance: Executed · Dispatch failed

Submitted 2023-12-24T11:30:06.000Z · 2023-12-28T13:35:15.000Z

Verification date in this record: 2026-10-14. This is not a live chain status check.

What this referendum means

What was proposed?

Voters approved cancelling one deferred slash from era 327, but the direct Staking Admin call failed with BadOrigin.

Why it mattered

Cancelling a deferred slash prevents the affected validator and nominators from receiving the pending penalty; it therefore changes enforcement rather than merely adjusting configuration.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported cancelling slash index 0 from era 327.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed cancelling that deferred slash.

What happened or is happening

The proposal called staking.cancelDeferredSlash directly through the Staking Admin track. Referendum #14 wrapped the same underlying era-and-index action in a whitelisted call and succeeded later the same day.

The referendum reached the Executed lifecycle state, but the dispatch returned BadOrigin and did not cancel the slash.

Call staking.cancelDeferredSlash for staking era 327 and slash index 0.

No separate off-chain action was encoded.

Observable on-chain result

Dispatch returned an error.

{"badOrigin":null}

Promised outcomes

Cancel deferred slash index 0 from staking era 327.

Verified outcomes

The dispatch failed with BadOrigin.
Referendum #14 subsequently executed the same underlying cancellation target.

Follow-up: contradicted

The review does not infer validator identity or fault details from an era and slash index alone.

Still unknown

The archived proposal metadata does not identify the validator, nominators, slash amount or incident behind slash index 0.

Further explanation and reporting

No additional reporting has been published for this referendum.

Details and evidence

Participation

Calculation status: complete. Address-level figures are not counts of distinct people or organizations.

Individual vote rows reconcile to the aggregate capital total. Concentration treats delegated capital as controlled by the account casting the direct vote.

Direct addresses	7
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	499475772
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	484647832
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	300
Approval (%)	99.9999381
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	4.9947558
Support capital (VARA)	499475472
Top-one share (%)	96.10076
Top-three share (%)	99.99574
HHI (0–10,000)	9249.83419
Gini (0–1)	0.8457133

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2023-12-24T11:30:06.000Z · block 7941854
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2023-12-24T12:56:51.000Z · block 7943589
DecisionStarted · 2023-12-24T13:30:06.000Z · block 7944254
ConfirmStarted · 2023-12-28T10:25:15.000Z · block 8055751
Confirmed · 2023-12-28T13:25:15.000Z · block 8059351
Executed · 2023-12-28T13:35:15.000Z · block 8059551

Technical call tree

{
  "call": {
    "callIndex": "0x0d11",
    "section": "staking",
    "method": "cancelDeferredSlash",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "era",
        "type": "u32",
        "value": 327
      },
      {
        "name": "slashIndices",
        "type": "Vec<u32>",
        "value": [
          0
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x0d11",
      "section": "staking",
      "method": "cancelDeferredSlash"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

{
  "maxDeciding": 10,
  "preparePeriodBlocks": 2400,
  "decisionPeriodBlocks": 403200,
  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 3600,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 200,
  "decisionDeposit": {
    "planck": "250000000000000000",
    "vara": "250000"
  },
  "approvalCurve": {
    "linearDecreasing": {
      "length": 607142857,
      "floor": 500000000,
      "ceil": 1000000000
    }
  },
  "supportCurve": {
    "reciprocal": {
      "factor": 7892829,
      "xOffset": 15544040,
      "yOffset": -7772020
    }
  }
}

Deposits

Governance deposits are not proposal spending.

{
  "submission": {
    "depositor": "kGkDQ9q3sgvCYi9j7p2DYFBQZ7adpuoeBNJ3bRnTgYk5UJRCt",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "500000000000000",
      "vara": "500"
    }
  },
  "decision": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "250000000000000000",
      "vara": "250000"
    }
  },
  "outcome": "unknown"
}

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 7941854
Public server-rendered page data captured before editorial translation.
subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:56:36.175Z
Public final vote rows used for voter counts, conviction values, delegation aggregates, and concentration calculations.

Corrections

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