Referendum #63 · whitelisted caller · fact-checked

Reduce the Vara–Ethereum bridge fee to 500 VARA

No original public title was captured.

Governance: Executed · Dispatch succeeded

Submitted 2025-11-17T08:46:06.000Z · 2025-11-19T00:35:03.000Z

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 reduced the Vara-side Ethereum bridge fee from the previously established 1,000 VARA to 500 VARA.

Why it mattered

The fee directly affects the cost of sending messages through the Vara–Ethereum bridge.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported setting the bridge fee to 500 VARA.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed that fee change.

What happened or is happening

The encoded fee was 500,000,000,000,000 planck. At 10^12 planck per VARA, that equals 500 VARA.

The dispatch returned success and called gearEthBridge.setFee with 500 VARA.

Dispatch as the bridge governance account to set the Gear Ethereum bridge fee to 500 VARA.

The call did not itself operate off-chain relayers or Ethereum infrastructure; those components remained separately operated.

Observable on-chain result

Dispatch returned success.

The dispatch returned success and called gearEthBridge.setFee with 500 VARA.

Promised outcomes

Set the bridge fee to 500 VARA.

Verified outcomes

The referendum dispatch returned success.

Follow-up: verified-complete

This review verifies the encoded action and referendum dispatch result, not continuous bridge-service availability.

Still unknown

The proposal materials do not explain the economic reasoning for selecting 500 VARA.

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	15
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	1251002500
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	125100250
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	0
Approval (%)	100
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	12.51037477
Support capital (VARA)	1251002500
Top-one share (%)	12.43803
Top-three share (%)	37.3141
HHI (0–10,000)	916.48166
Gini (0–1)	0.2885683

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2025-11-17T08:46:06.000Z · block 27858495
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2025-11-17T08:46:30.000Z · block 27858503
DecisionStarted · 2025-11-17T09:16:06.000Z · block 27859095
ConfirmStarted · 2025-11-19T00:15:03.000Z · block 27905869
Confirmed · 2025-11-19T00:25:03.000Z · block 27906069
Executed · 2025-11-19T00:35:03.000Z · block 27906269

Technical call tree

The encoded fee was 500,000,000,000,000 planck. At 10^12 planck per VARA, that equals 500 VARA.

{
  "call": {
    "callIndex": "0x1503",
    "section": "whitelist",
    "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "call",
        "type": "Call",
        "value": {
          "callIndex": "0x0803",
          "section": "utility",
          "method": "dispatchAs",
          "args": [
            {
              "name": "asOrigin",
              "type": "VaraRuntimeOriginCaller",
              "value": {
                "system": {
                  "signed": "kGi1Ui7VXBFmN1H8Xd64YYVMiA4z5J1CaqdxCf1Y9DSMXSDR6"
                }
              }
            },
            {
              "name": "call",
              "type": "Call",
              "value": {
                "callIndex": "0x6e03",
                "section": "gearEthBridge",
                "method": "setFee",
                "args": [
                  {
                    "name": "fee",
                    "type": "u128",
                    "value": "500000000000000"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x1503",
      "section": "whitelist",
      "method": "dispatchWhitelistedCallWithPreimage"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "callIndex": "0x0803",
      "section": "utility",
      "method": "dispatchAs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "callIndex": "0x6e03",
      "section": "gearEthBridge",
      "method": "setFee"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

{
  "maxDeciding": 100,
  "preparePeriodBlocks": 600,
  "decisionPeriodBlocks": 403200,
  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 200,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 200,
  "decisionDeposit": {
    "planck": "1500000000000000000",
    "vara": "1500000"
  },
  "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": "1500000000000000",
      "vara": "1500"
    }
  },
  "decision": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "1500000000000000000",
      "vara": "1500000"
    }
  },
  "outcome": "unknown"
}

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 27858495
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

No corrections recorded.

Learn the terms

OpenGov · Referendum · Proposal · Preimage · Proposal hash · Runtime call