Akash Network's Solana migration portal is live. Holders of AKT, the token of Akash's decentralized cloud and GPU compute marketplace, can now move it from Akash's own Cosmos-based chain to Solana as SPL AKT. Akash announced the opening on 12 November 2026: the swap is 1:1, it only goes one way, and the portal stays open for two years.
The portal opened ten days after AKT stakers approved Prop 346, the vote we covered when it opened in October and when it passed with 97% support. Within minutes of Akash's post, Sunrise listed SPL AKT for trading on Solana. Staking on Solana and the date Akash's marketplace moves over are still to be announced.
How to migrate AKT to Solana: self-custody, exchanges and staked AKT
What you need to do depends on where your AKT sits. Holders who keep AKT in their own wallet use the portal at migrate.akash.network, which asks you to connect a wallet, review the one-way transfer and track its status. Each AKT becomes one SPL AKT with the same ticker and six decimal places, so total supply does not change.
You need no SOL to migrate, according to Akash's October blog post on the move, because a relayer pays the Solana transaction fees for holders who move.
The same blog post sets out the other cases:
- Exchange balances: exchanges move customer AKT through the portal "on their own schedule", so there is nothing for exchange users to do.
- Akash Console balances: these migrate automatically.
- AKT bridged to other Cosmos chains over IBC, such as Osmosis: bring it back to Akash's chain (akashnet-2) first, then use the portal.
Staked AKT takes longer. Akash's follow-up post tells stakers to unbond first and migrate once the 21-day unbonding period ends. Akash's own advice to stakers is to "stay put" for now: rewards keep paying on the Akash chain until the marketplace cutover, and details of staking SPL AKT on Solana are still to come.
Verify the SPL AKT mint before you connect a wallet
The official SPL AKT mint address, as posted by Akash, is:
5d3fjPDdkYbtYcAMR9PC2TANaEyhzuyP8JxTEwqjVgBZ
Sunrise posted the same address and called it "the canonical $AKT on Solana". Akash's own post ends with "Double check the mint before you confirm," and that warning is worth taking seriously.
Copycat tokens using the AKT ticker and the Akash Network name already exist on Solana. Solana Compass's token search returns several of them, some displaying market values in the hundreds of millions of dollars with almost no liquidity behind them. Only the address above, posted by both Akash and Sunrise, is the official SPL AKT.
Fake migration portals are the other risk. Akash's blog says there is one official portal domain, with monitoring for look-alike sites and takedowns planned from before launch. The safe route is to type migrate.akash.network yourself rather than follow a link from a reply, a direct message or a search ad, and to check that the token you receive matches the address above.
Our token data also shows how the official mint is set up. SPL AKT has no freeze authority, so no one can freeze holders' balances, and its mint authority sits with a program address rather than a personal wallet. That fits a token created by the portal as holders migrate.
Akash's blog describes per-epoch caps on minting and an automatic pause if supply on the two chains stops matching, and its plan called for two independent audits of the token and portal code before launch.
SPL AKT trading on Solana via Sunrise
Sunrise's listing post went up at 17:13 UTC on 12 November, five minutes after Akash's announcement, making SPL AKT tradable on Solana from the portal's first day. Sunrise handled the listing, and the token trading there is the same SPL AKT that Akash mints through its portal.
Trading is early and thin. About 1.6 million SPL AKT existed on Solana by 19:23 UTC on 12 November, against roughly $244,000 of pool liquidity, according to Solana Compass's SPL AKT token page. Most AKT still sits on Akash's own chain, and the Solana supply will grow only as holders and exchanges migrate.
What comes next for Akash: cutover vote, Solana staking and the L1 halt
The portal opening is the first step. The bigger moves still need votes and dates. The Prop 346 text on Akash's chain says the vote "does not set a cutover date and does not move the marketplace." By our calculation from that on-chain tally, yes votes made up 97.3% of all votes cast including abstentions, or about 98.7% of yes, no and veto votes alone.
According to Akash's blog, the remaining steps run in this order:
- A separate governance proposal sets the cutover date, the point at which Akash's compute marketplace starts running on Solana.
- A sunset upgrade goes to Akash's chain 21 days before cutover.
- Existing workloads keep running on the old chain for 90 days after cutover, and the old chain then halts.
No date has been set for any of these. Akash's blog says the cutover date is fixed only after the cutover proposal passes, and staking rewards on the Akash chain continue until cutover.
Akash is not the only Cosmos SDK chain on its way to Solana. ZetaChain holders voted on 7 November for a 9 December halt of their chain and a 1:1 move of ZETA to Solana. Both teams chose to stop running their own chains and settle on Solana instead. Akash's blog put the reason plainly: "Akash stops paying for a chain it does not use."
Things to watch: the cutover proposal and its date, the SPL AKT staking design, publication of the audit reports, and which exchanges move customer balances and when.
