Referendum #87 · general admin · fact-checked

Validator Grant #1: Ray0xNodes

No original public title was captured.

Governance: Executed · Dispatch succeeded

Submitted 2026-09-10T21:10:42.000Z · 2026-09-29T02:46:51.000Z

Verification date in this record: 2026-10-13. This is not a live chain status check.

What this referendum means

What was proposed?

Vara token holders approved a Gear Foundation-funded $18,000 grant supporting twelve Ray0xNodes validators for twelve months.

Why it mattered

The proposal supported independent validator infrastructure and demonstrated Vara holders using OpenGov to formally express the network's preference.

An Aye vote meant…

An Aye vote supported recording community approval of the stated validator grant and its terms.

A Nay vote meant…

A Nay vote opposed recording community approval of that grant proposal.

What happened or is happening

General Admin was used for the text proposal. The referendum's binding on-chain effect was the permanent remark; grant payment depended on the Foundation's stated off-chain commitment.

The chain executed system.remark containing the approval statement. It did not transfer funds, create spending authority or compel payment.

Record the referendum's validator-grant approval statement on-chain through system.remark. No funds or spending authority moved through the call.

Gear Foundation was expected to fund and administer the $18,000 grant separately from the on-chain referendum.

A system.remark records information or intent. It does not itself transfer funds or complete an external objective.

Observable on-chain result

Dispatch returned success.

Promised outcomes

Gear Foundation would fund $18,000 for twelve Ray0xNodes validators operating for twelve months.

Verified outcomes

The approval statement was recorded on-chain successfully.

Follow-up: partially-verified

Funding, validator deployment, uptime and twelve-month completion should be tracked separately.

Still unknown

The chain alone cannot establish when or how the Foundation paid the grant.
Ongoing validator operation and grant-performance reporting require off-chain verification.

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	20
Delegating addresses	0
Raw capital (VARA)	4111981.42
Weighted Aye power (VARA)	3090268.52
Weighted Nay power (VARA)	116660
Approval (%)	96.36225132
Raw capital / captured electorate (%)	0.04057468
Support capital (VARA)	3095321.42
Top-one share (%)	48.63835
Top-three share (%)	98.49266
HHI (0–10,000)	3609.59851
Gini (0–1)	0.868348

Proposal history

Referendum	Governance	Execution	Direct addresses

Timeline

Submitted · 2026-09-10T21:10:42.000Z · block 36105583
DecisionDepositPlaced · 2026-09-10T21:11:15.000Z · block 36105592
DecisionStarted · 2026-09-10T23:34:33.001Z · block 36107983
ConfirmStarted · 2026-09-27T18:00:54.000Z · block 36508179
Confirmed · 2026-09-27T21:36:09.001Z · block 36511779
Executed · 2026-09-29T02:46:51.000Z · block 36540579

Technical call tree

General Admin was used for the text proposal. The referendum's binding on-chain effect was the permanent remark; grant payment depended on the Foundation's stated off-chain commitment.

{
  "call": {
    "callIndex": "0x0000",
    "section": "system",
    "method": "remark",
    "args": [
      {
        "name": "remark",
        "type": "Bytes",
        "value": "0x5661726120746f6b656e20686f6c6465727320617070726f76652056616c696461746f72204772616e742023313a2052617930784e6f6465732c2031322076616c696461746f72732c203132206d6f6e7468732c205553442031382c3030302c2066756e646564206279204765617220466f756e646174696f6e2e"
      }
    ]
  },
  "nestedCalls": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "callIndex": "0x0000",
      "section": "system",
      "method": "remark"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": []
}

Historical track parameters

{
  "maxDeciding": 10,
  "preparePeriodBlocks": 2400,
  "decisionPeriodBlocks": 403200,
  "confirmationPeriodBlocks": 3600,
  "minimumEnactmentBlocks": 200,
  "decisionDeposit": {
    "planck": "750000000000000000",
    "vara": "750000"
  },
  "approvalCurve": {
    "reciprocal": {
      "factor": 222222224,
      "xOffset": 333333335,
      "yOffset": 333333332
    }
  },
  "supportCurve": {
    "reciprocal": {
      "factor": 49586777,
      "xOffset": 90909091,
      "yOffset": -45454546
    }
  }
}

Deposits

Governance deposits are not proposal spending.

{
  "submission": {
    "depositor": "kGgQqLXhVVMv85XDy1v5AE6HVBG1tkAwURrdmq1ewbmGMCaGH",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "1500000000000000",
      "vara": "1500"
    }
  },
  "decision": {
    "depositor": "kGhAjUA3Uke6UmWwMRRwFHuxisCgm7dab61sL1tKqA15NXQVX",
    "amount": {
      "planck": "750000000000000000",
      "vara": "750000"
    }
  },
  "outcome": "unknown"
}

Sources

subsquare · retrieved 2026-10-14T00:46:33.897Z · block 36105583
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.
independent-reporting · retrieved 2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z
UseVara report incorporating Gear Foundation's direct explanation of the call, funding source and track choice.

Corrections

No corrections recorded.

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