Calling asset migration an upgrade experience always feels a bit imprecise. For those involved in the actual operation, it’s more like moving—first figuring out what you have, deciding which route to take, mentally preparing for things to slow down, and staying alert to avoid scams.

A series of actions during the official launch of the Dusk mainnet gradually led me to understand the entire process as an organized, orderly collective migration.

Let me share my own situation. Many people initially held DUSK not in its native mainnet form, but as ERC20 or BEP20 tokens. These tokens are common on exchanges and in wallets, and transfers are convenient, but they are not the source tokens. To participate in staking, run nodes, or connect to a more native application ecosystem in the future, migration is ultimately unavoidable.

Dusk officially published the complete process for migration and on-chain deployment, including explanations of the migration contract and mainnet contract mechanisms. Simply put: users lock their original ERC20 or BEP20 tokens, and the system triggers an event to distribute an equivalent amount of native DUSK to your specified mainnet address. A particularly critical detail here is the address and private key. Entering the wrong address is not just a loss of transaction fees but a problem with the entire asset. In a sense, the first test of migration is to make users more cautious about address management.

Recently (May 30, 2025), the official announced the launch of the bi-directional cross-chain bridge, which means liquidity and convenience have taken another step forward.