Coherence > Fragmentation Over 1.6B DOT (~$4.5B) will migrate from the Relay Chain to Asset Hub tomorrow. Balances, staking, governance all follow. This is the major step that unifies Polkadot’s core systems. Polkadot originally split functionality across specialized system chains. That made sense architecturally but created fragmentation and thereby friction. Now it folds them back into one surface for usability: simplify first, scale later. Relay Chain becomes invisible infra, serving only for consensus + security. Asset Hub aka Polkadot Hub becomes the town square, where users, liquidity, and devs meet. For builders, it’s easier to enter, access liquidity, reach early adapters, and iterate faster & cheaper. For users, it hides the fragmented parts and gives a coherent UX for the basics. For the market, there’s less to explain. After the move: → a new home for balances, staking data, Treasury, and referenda → existential deposit drops from 1 to 0.01 DOT → fees decrease by 10X and can be paid in any token → DOT, USDC, USDT and all other assets share one space → native bridging to Ethereum included You don’t need to do anything Your funds and staking move automatically. This migration clears the path for JAM, where the Relay Chain becomes silent infra and the network scales outward from a coherent core.