Referendum #52 · whitelisted caller · fact-checked

Increase Vara's validator count from 58 to 59

No original public title was captured.

Governance: Executed · Dispatch succeeded

Submitted 2025-05-19T11:30:15.000Z · 2025-05-26T17:35:18.000Z

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 58 to 59.

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 59.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed this validator-count increase.

What happened or is happening

The call used staking.increaseValidatorCount(1). Historical staking state confirms the target moved from 58 to 59. The exact proposal hash also appeared in named referendum #51, which described the action as adding one active validator slot.

The call executed successfully and Staking.ValidatorCount changed from 58 to 59.

Increase Staking.ValidatorCount by one.

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 58 to 59 at the execution block.

Promised outcomes

Set Vara's configured validator count to 59.

Verified outcomes

The dispatch returned success.
Historical staking state changed from 58 to 59.

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	11
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	605567082
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	60556717.2
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	0
Approval (%)	100
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	6.05567098
Support capital (VARA)	605567082
Top-one share (%)	10
Top-three share (%)	30.00001
HHI (0–10,000)	999.99997
Gini (0–1)	0.09090925

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses
#49 First rejected attempt to add one validator slot This was the first rejected attempt to add one slot to Vara's configured validator count.	Rejected	Not executed	5
#50 Second rejected attempt to add one validator slot This was the second rejected attempt to add one slot to Vara's configured validator count.	Rejected	Not executed	3
#51 Rejected first attempt to add one validator slot This proposal would have added one active-validator slot, but it was rejected before the identical call passed as referendum #52.	Rejected	Not executed	2

Timeline

Submitted · 2025-05-19T11:30:15.000Z · block 22651987
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2025-05-19T11:30:27.001Z · block 22651991
DecisionStarted · 2025-05-19T12:00:15.001Z · block 22652587
ConfirmStarted · 2025-05-26T17:15:18.000Z · block 22860471
Confirmed · 2025-05-26T17:25:18.000Z · block 22860671
Executed · 2025-05-26T17:35:18.000Z · block 22860871

Technical call tree

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    "section": "whitelist",
    "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "call",
        "type": "Call",
        "value": {
          "callIndex": "0x0d0a",
          "section": "staking",
          "method": "increaseValidatorCount",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "additional",
              "type": "Compact<u32>",
              "value": 1
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x1503",
      "section": "whitelist",
      "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "callIndex": "0x0d0a",
      "section": "staking",
      "method": "increaseValidatorCount"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

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  "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 22651987
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 22860871
Historical Staking.ValidatorCount comparison: 58 at the parent block and 59 at the execution block.
subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T18:25:38.101Z
Named referendum #51 used the same proposal hash 0x58fb35e67cf17648a4e963d61d77e49292ce62099080a67a9ada90fa7dd3945b and described it as adding one active validator slot.

Corrections

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