If you don’t know how crazy the @Polkadot Asset Hub migration is, here’s how @BillLaboon put it:
“It’s like jumping from one airplane to another mid-flight — while carrying all your luggage.” 🪂
⌛️Countdown: 4 hours to go.
We’re about to make the jump — with everything on board! ✈️🔥
Everyone’s talking about the Polkadot Asset Hub migration, and for good reason. It’s one of the most complex live upgrades ever attempted on a blockchain.
Parity engineers have prepped hard for this moment, and after a successful rollout on @kusamanetwork, tomorrow, Polkadot will move approximately:
1.6 billion in DOT (~$5B)
50,000+ stakers
1.5 million accounts
2+ million storage entries
From Relay Chain >> Asset Hub.
All on-chain, live, and without downtime.
Why? To enable the Relay Chain to focus purely on security and interoperability, while the Asset Hub becomes the hub for assets, balances, staking, governance, and stablecoins.
For end users, nothing changes; balances, wallets, and features will update automatically.
But under the hood, it’s an engineering feat with zero margin for error. Database migrations in Web2 fail 70–80% of the time; Polkadot is doing it live, in production, across millions of accounts.
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