A curated list of code and content from the Gear Protocol and Vara Network community.

Gear Protocol is an actor‑model smart‑program runtime that powers the Vara L1 network. Programs run in WebAssembly, use async message passing, and support fork‑less upgrades, enabling fast, parallelizable dApps.

• Overview
• Gear-Powered Networks
• Whitepapers & Books
• Tutorials
• Community
• Code
  • Standards
  • Frameworks
  • Examples
• Tools
• IDEs
• Wallets
• SDKs
  • Rust SDKs
  • TypeScript / JS SDKs
  • React
• Papers
• Videos
• Blog Posts
• Security

• Vara Docs Portal - Official documentation hub for building on Vara and Gear.
• Getting started in 5 minutes - Write, compile, and deploy your first program.
• Gear core repo - Node, runtime, core crates, CLI, and examples.

• Vara mainnet explorer - Subscan for Vara blocks, extrinsics, accounts, and events.
• Network activity - Live stats, top programs, and finalized blocks.

• Gear Protocol Whitepaper - Architecture, properties, and interfaces.
• Gear.exe Whitepaper - Off‑chain P2P compute layer design for WebAssembly programs.
• Technology overview - Actor model, persistent memory, and WebAssembly execution.

• Build on Vara - Developer guide index for programs and tooling.
• Sails‑JS overview - How to use sails‑js to interact with Sails applications.
• Sails Hello World - Minimal Sails program and client demonstrating build, deploy, and message flow end to end.
• Create a program with gstd - Step‑by‑step program creation flow.

• Vara website - Ecosystem, updates, and builder links.
• Gear Technologies - Company site and engineering posts.
• Discord - Official community server.
• X (Twitter) - News and updates.
• gear-tech on GitHub - Core organization for Gear code.
• gear-foundation on GitHub - Foundation repos and standards.

• gear-foundation/standards - Canonical VNFT, VFT, and VMT standards and service interfaces.
• Vara‑Lab/standards - Standalone variants with auto‑generated IDL and client.

• Sails - Higher‑level Rust framework for ergonomic program development on Gear.

• Vara examples index - Curated examples across tokens, auctions, multisig, and more.
• gear-foundation/dapps - Ecosystem dApps and reference implementations.

• gcli - Command‑line client for upload, init, message send, key management, and queries.
• sails-js CLI - Generate TypeScript clients from Sails IDL.

• Gear IDEA - Browser IDE to build, deploy, and interact with programs on testnet or local.

• Nova Wallet - Mobile Substrate wallet with Vara support and staking guides.
• SubWallet - Browser and mobile wallet for Substrate ecosystems including Vara.
• Polkadot Vault - Air‑gapped signing app and setup guide for Vara.

• gstd - Core program runtime API for Gear smart programs.
• gclient - Client library for interacting with Gear nodes.
• gtest - Integration testing utilities for Gear programs.
• gsdk - Utilities and helpers for Gear development.

• @gear-js/api - Primary JS/TS API for connecting to Gear/Vara nodes.
• sails-js - TypeScript library for interacting with Sails programs and generated clients.
• gear-tech/gear-js - Examples, utilities, and docs for JS integrations.

• @gear-js/react-hooks - React library that provides hooks used across Gear applications.
• @gear-js/wallet-connect - React library to connect Substrate-based wallets in a standardized and consistent way across decentralized applications.
• gear-ez-transactions - React library to provide gasless and signless transactions.
• create-vara-app/create-gear-app - A ready-made application template with a well-thought-out infrastructure for quickly turning the application on Gear blockchain.

• Inside the Vara Bridge - Technical breakdown of cross‑chain communication.
• The Actor Model & Why We Use It - Rationale for message‑passing in Gear.

• Vara Education Hub: Gear Protocol for Beginners - Intro video series.

• Development paradigm on Gear - Architecture, patterns, and dev workflow.
• Vara Network: pioneering the future of Web3 - Overview and design notes.

• Vara Anti‑Scam - Official verification and anti‑scam checks for community outreach.

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