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Transfers on Canary

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Token transfers on Canary have been activated on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 5pm UTC

Migration (the process of moving funds and processors from Canary to Mainnet) strictly happens between the exact same account on Canary as on Mainnet. If you want to transfer tokens or processors to different accounts you need to do that BEFORE the migration on Canary. Some limitations apply:

Transfer Processors​

Processors from one account can only be migrated as a whole from Canary to Mainnet and they will be assigned to the same manager account as before. It is possible to transfer all processors on Canary from one account to another, but only ALL processors at once and only to a fresh and unused Acurast Canary account. You cannot split up processors between accounts, you cannot "send" processors to existing accounts that already have processors or tokens.

Transfer Tokens​

Tokens from one account can only be migrated as a whole from Canary to Mainnet and they will be assigned to the same manager account as before. But before the Migration function is activated, token transfers have been activated on Canary. This means you can decide to split up funds between different Canary accounts BEFORE migrating them to Mainnet. Once the funds are migrated to Mainnet, they will be locked and cannot move again, until they are unlocked. See Conversion about the locking mechanism that kicks in after migration.

Transfers and Impact on Stakes​

Attention

Do not transfer your processors to a different account if you have an active stake. You risk being slashed. Unstake first, wait for the cooldown to end, then transfer processors.

You must unstake and wait for the cooldown to end, if you want to transfer your processors to a different account, the account with the stake will suddenly lose all of its compute and you will be exposed to staking penalties. It's the same as if you would suddenly cut your internet connection.

You must unstake and wait for the cooldown to end, before you can migrate to Mainnet. As the cooldown can take up to 48 hours, you should absolutely trigger unstake before the migration window of 90 days ends.

How to Transfer Funds on Canary​

There are two ways how you can transfer cACU tokens on Canary:

A) Use your Substrate based wallet

  1. Use your Substrate based wallet (e.g. Talisman, SubWallet)
  2. Make sure you see the token in your account (check Wallet page for how-to)
  3. Transfer as usual: select token, enter target address and amount, send
  4. Sign with your wallet

B) Use the transfer function on hub.acurast.com (e.g. using Metamask or walletconnect enabled wallets)

  1. Go to the balance section of the hub
  2. Click Transfer
  3. Enter amount and target address
  4. Click Transfer and sign with your wallet

Remember, tokens which are locked by staking cannot be transferred.

How to Transfer Processors on Canary​

DO NOT TRANSFER PROCESSORS IF YOU ARE STAKING! REALLY!

  1. Go to the Phones section on hub.acurast.com
  2. Toggle Advanced on top right
  3. In Processor Ownership click Transfer
  4. Carefully read what it says on the screen
  5. Enter your target address
  6. Double check your target address to ensure it's yours
  7. Click Transfer Ownership

Remember, you can only transfer processors to fresh unused accounts with 0 balance. Otherwise it won't work. You can also only transfer all processors at once.