Referendum #71 · bridge pauser · fact-checked

Rejected proposal to pause the Vara–Ethereum bridge

No original public title was captured.

Governance: Rejected · Not executed

Submitted 2026-08-04T09:08:33.000Z · 2026-08-04T22:35:00.001Z

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

What this referendum means

What was proposed?

This proposal would have paused the Vara-side Ethereum bridge pallet, but it was rejected without executing the call.

Why it mattered

Pausing the bridge temporarily stops affected cross-chain activity and is therefore an operationally significant safety action.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported pausing the bridge pallet.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed pausing the bridge pallet through this referendum.

What happened or is happening

The decoded proposal was the direct gearEthBridge.pause call. A later referendum, #72, successfully combined a bridge-pallet pause with a program-level pause message.

No pause call was executed because the referendum was rejected.

If approved, pause the Gear Ethereum bridge pallet.

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

Promised outcomes

Pause the Vara-side Ethereum bridge pallet if approved.

Verified outcomes

The referendum was rejected and did not execute the pause call.

Follow-up: verified-complete

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

Still unknown

The public record does not state why this standalone pause proposal was rejected before the replacement sequence.

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	0
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	0
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	0
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	0
Approval (%)	Unavailable
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	0
Support capital (VARA)	0
Top-one share (%)	Unavailable
Top-three share (%)	Unavailable
HHI (0–10,000)	Unavailable
Gini (0–1)	Unavailable

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2026-08-04T09:08:33.000Z · block 35168147
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2026-08-04T09:08:51.000Z · block 35168152
DecisionStarted · 2026-08-04T09:12:18.001Z · block 35168207
Rejected · 2026-08-04T22:35:00.001Z · block 35182607

Technical call tree

The decoded proposal was the direct gearEthBridge.pause call. A later referendum, #72, successfully combined a bridge-pallet pause with a program-level pause message.

{
  "call": {
    "callIndex": "0x6e00",
    "section": "gearEthBridge",
    "method": "pause",
    "args": []
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x6e00",
      "section": "gearEthBridge",
      "method": "pause"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

{
  "maxDeciding": 5,
  "preparePeriodBlocks": 60,
  "decisionPeriodBlocks": 14400,
  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 1,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 1,
  "decisionDeposit": {
    "planck": "3750000000000000000",
    "vara": "3750000"
  },
  "approvalCurve": {
    "linearDecreasing": {
      "length": 214285714,
      "floor": 750000000,
      "ceil": 750000000
    }
  },
  "supportCurve": {
    "linearDecreasing": {
      "length": 500000000,
      "floor": 100000000,
      "ceil": 100000000
    }
  }
}

Deposits

Governance deposits are not proposal spending.

{
  "submission": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "1500000000000000",
      "vara": "1500"
    }
  },
  "decision": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "3750000000000000000",
      "vara": "3750000"
    }
  },
  "outcome": "unknown"
}

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 35168147
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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