Referendum #34 · whitelisted caller · fact-checked

Increase Vara's validator count from 55 to 56

No original public title was captured.

Governance: Executed · Dispatch succeeded

Submitted 2024-08-28T14:29:36.000Z · 2024-09-02T11:17:51.000Z

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

What this referendum means

What was proposed?

This referendum increased Vara's configured validator count by 1, from 55 to 56.

Why it mattered

The configured validator count affects how many validators can participate in the active set, influencing decentralization, nomination competition and the distribution of validation rewards.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported increasing the configured validator count to 56.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed this validator-count increase.

What happened or is happening

The call used staking.setValidatorCount(56). Historical staking state confirms the target changed from 55 to 56.

The call executed successfully and Staking.ValidatorCount changed from 55 to 56.

Set Staking.ValidatorCount to 56.

No validator was individually appointed or funded by this call. Validator election still depended on staking, nominations and the network's election process.

Observable on-chain result

Dispatch returned success.

Staking.ValidatorCount changed from 55 to 56 at the execution block.

Promised outcomes

Set Vara's configured validator count to 56.

Verified outcomes

The dispatch returned success.
Historical staking state changed from 55 to 56.

Follow-up: verified-complete

Validator identities and subsequent election results are separate from this parameter change.

Still unknown

The configured count does not by itself establish which validators entered or left the elected set at the next election.

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	31
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	1931535455
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	193153545.5
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	0
Approval (%)	100
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	19.31535508
Support capital (VARA)	1931535455
Top-one share (%)	7.97521
Top-three share (%)	23.92564
HHI (0–10,000)	494.98223
Gini (0–1)	0.37464991

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2024-08-28T14:29:36.000Z · block 15070822
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2024-08-28T14:29:48.000Z · block 15070826
DecisionStarted · 2024-08-28T14:59:36.000Z · block 15071422
ConfirmStarted · 2024-09-02T10:57:51.000Z · block 15210584
Confirmed · 2024-09-02T11:07:51.000Z · block 15210784
Executed · 2024-09-02T11:17:51.000Z · block 15210984

Technical call tree

The call used staking.setValidatorCount(56). Historical staking state confirms the target changed from 55 to 56.

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  "call": {
    "callIndex": "0x1503",
    "section": "whitelist",
    "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "call",
        "type": "Call",
        "value": {
          "callIndex": "0x0d09",
          "section": "staking",
          "method": "setValidatorCount",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "new",
              "type": "Compact<u32>",
              "value": 56
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x1503",
      "section": "whitelist",
      "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "callIndex": "0x0d09",
      "section": "staking",
      "method": "setValidatorCount"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

{
  "maxDeciding": 100,
  "preparePeriodBlocks": 600,
  "decisionPeriodBlocks": 403200,
  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 200,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 200,
  "decisionDeposit": {
    "planck": "100000000000000000",
    "vara": "100000"
  },
  "approvalCurve": {
    "reciprocal": {
      "factor": 270899180,
      "xOffset": 389830523,
      "yOffset": 305084738
    }
  },
  "supportCurve": {
    "reciprocal": {
      "factor": 8650766,
      "xOffset": 18867926,
      "yOffset": 41509433
    }
  }
}

Deposits

Governance deposits are not proposal spending.

{
  "submission": {
    "depositor": "kGgQqLXhVVMv85XDy1v5AE6HVBG1tkAwURrdmq1ewbmGMCaGH",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "100000000000000",
      "vara": "100"
    }
  },
  "decision": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "100000000000000000",
      "vara": "100000"
    }
  },
  "outcome": "unknown"
}

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 15070822
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.
vara-chain · retrieved 2026-10-14T18:25:38.101Z · block 15210984
Historical Staking.ValidatorCount comparison: 55 at the parent block and 56 at the execution block.

Corrections

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