Referendum #48 · whitelisted caller · fact-checked

Add two active-validator slots

Original title: [Whitelisted Caller] Referendum #48: Add 2 additional validators

Governance: Executed · Dispatch succeeded

Submitted 2025-03-06T16:54:24.001Z · 2025-03-10T13:01:48.000Z

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 active-validator count by two slots.

Why it mattered

More configured slots create room for additional elected validators, although election still depends on stake and nominations.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported adding two active-validator slots.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed the increase.

What happened or is happening

The encoded additional value was 2. This changes capacity, not a guarantee that any particular waiting validator will be elected.

The whitelisted staking.increaseValidatorCount dispatch returned success.

Increase Staking.ValidatorCount by two.

No additional off-chain action is treated as verified unless explicitly stated.

Observable on-chain result

Dispatch returned success.

The whitelisted staking.increaseValidatorCount dispatch returned success.

Promised outcomes

Add two active-validator slots.

Verified outcomes

The dispatch returned success.

Follow-up: verified-complete

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	35
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	1931631183.87903629152
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	193311415.439906409104
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	0
Approval (%)	100
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	19.31631236
Support capital (VARA)	1931631183.87903629152
Top-one share (%)	7.97482
Top-three share (%)	23.92446
HHI (0–10,000)	494.93319
Gini (0–1)	0.44605833

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2025-03-06T16:54:24.001Z · block 20535262
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2025-03-06T16:55:18.001Z · block 20535280
DecisionStarted · 2025-03-06T17:24:24.000Z · block 20535862
ConfirmStarted · 2025-03-10T12:41:48.000Z · block 20645404
Confirmed · 2025-03-10T12:51:48.000Z · block 20645604
Executed · 2025-03-10T13:01:48.000Z · block 20645804

Technical call tree

The encoded additional value was 2. This changes capacity, not a guarantee that any particular waiting validator will be elected.

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            }
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      "section": "staking",
      "method": "increaseValidatorCount"
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Historical track parameters

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  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 200,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 200,
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    "vara": "100000"
  },
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      "yOffset": 305084738
    }
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  "supportCurve": {
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      "yOffset": 41509433
    }
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Deposits

Governance deposits are not proposal spending.

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

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 20535262
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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