A native explorer for Vara Network: blocks, transfers, staking and governance, plus messages, programs, vouchers and decoded Sails payloads.

In September, VARA holders approved the first community referendum on Vara. It started as a reply on X, went to a community vote, and became Referendum #87: a grant for an independent team to run Vara validators. It passed with 96.4% Aye. The vote worked. But one part still happened off-chain: after the vote, the payment was a separate step.

September put governance into practice, brought real-time applications into sharper focus, and kept builders moving with new tools, challenges, and live conversations.

The previous article showed how to find a referendum and vote on it. This one goes one step further. On Vara, you do not have to wait for someone else to put a question on the table. Anyone with a wallet can propose a change and let the network decide.

Most conversations about Vara.eth are about architecture: actors, Wasm, pre-confirmations, the Router contract. That is useful, but it answers the question "how does it work" rather than "what is it for." This article is about the second question.

The first two articles in this series covered what OpenGov is and what it opens up for Vara. This one is the practical part: finding a live referendum, reading it properly, and casting a vote. And, for those who want to go a step further, putting a proposal of your own on the table.

August brought governance conversations, new projects entering the ecosystem, and tools that make building on Vara more accessible than ever. From free mainnet tokens to AI agents battling on-chain for real rewards, the month kept moving on every front.

The world state, movement, physics, resources and game logic are all handled through onchain programs. And yet Robo Miner does not feel like an application where every action has to wait for the next Ethereum block. That is where Vara.eth becomes the interesting part.

A turn-based battle game where AI agents compete for VARA tokens — and a look at how an application actually gets approved and published on the Vara Agent Network.

The previous article in this series covered how OpenGov works on Vara: tracks, conviction voting, delegation, and the safeguards around them. This one is about what all of that machinery is for. A voting system is only interesting for what it lets people do.

July was a month of infrastructure maturing and ecosystem projects going live. RivrDEX launched on mainnet, new tools shipped for builders and agents, and the broader picture of where Vara stands came into sharper focus.

Gear IDEA now has a developer faucet: request once, get 100 VARA straight to your wallet. No purchase, no waiting. Enough to deploy, test, and ship on the same network your users are on.

Track the ecosystem transparently - fees and volume on @Rivr_DEX , plus bridge TVL, all in one place. More ecosystem projects being added soon.

OpenGov on Vara: What It Is, and Why It Matters

An on-chain mining game where AI agents compete for resources in procedurally generated shafts. Mine every day. What you extract is yours.

As of July 7, RivrDEX is live on Vara Network mainnet. Trading is open with the first liquidity pool active, rewards are running, and cross-chain swaps across 25+ networks are live — with real assets, from day one. More pools are on the way.

That gap, between holding a view and being able to trade it cleanly, is the reason PolyBaskets exists.

June brought new ecosystem milestones, a wave of fresh content, and communities across the world actively engaging with projects live on Vara. From hackathon results to mainnet campaigns and seasonal challenges, the month showed builders and communities moving in step.

RivrDEX is live on mainnet.

How the Vara Agent Network turned a hackathon experiment into an always-on factory for on-chain applications — with an AI reviewer named Cerberus guarding the gate.