Polkadot Confirms Smooth Asset Hub Migration — 1.63B DOT and 1.5M Accounts Shifted Without Downtime

Polkadot has attested that its Asset Hub, which is a significant infrastructure upgrade, has been fully migrated on November 4, 2025. In a feat spearheaded by Parity Technologies and the Polkadot Technical Fellowship the operation transferred 1.63 billion DOT with only 1,526,324 accounts in 8 hours and 39 minutes. This was an on-chain migration which demonstrated the strength and upgrading capacity of Polkadot.

Technical Implementation Tests Network Stability

The migration that occurred according to the announcement of Parity involved 283 MB of chain data. 53,407 active stakers, and also represented one of the largest blockchain activities ever to execut without interrupting the network. The process also moved the logic of staking, assets and governance to the Asset Hub parachain offloading the core chain of unnecessary tasks. The above enhancement will enable the Relay Chain to specialize in consensus, security, and inter-chain routing, making the network to be faster and reliable. It is the shift that will make Polkadot become a complete blockchain framework of a modular nature. The migration will result in lower transaction costs and a broader range of optionable assets, as confirmed by Parity Technologies, which made similar findings on the successful Kusama migration in October 2025.

Community Organization and Continuous Government

After the migration, the Polkadot Digest by @DrW3RK praised Parity Technologies, the Technical Fellowship and those that contributed to ecosystem teams. The next referendum on the upgrade of the Asset Hub and Relay Chain to version 2.0.1 is currently in the voting phase, as well as OpenGov deposit refunds and Kusama parity updates. Polkadot has a robust community-based form of governance. It is on support by the transparency of the migration.

Establishing a New Standard of Live Blockchain Upgrades

The success of the migration makes Polkadot the leader of the competitors such as Ethereum and Cosmos in scalability. Developers already use such tools like ParaSpell and API Sidecar to take advantage of new Asset Hub features. The sentiment in the community is still very favorable, as of November 5, 2025, with the builders and validators extolling the smooth transition.