Move a token between chains

(Testnet06 — moves cost only gas, on both chains involved.)

Kadena is 20 parallel chains braided into one network. A Gallery token lives on one chain at a time — and can relocate natively, without wrapping, bridges, or trusted middlemen.

How it works

A move is a two-step, cryptographically linked operation:

1. Step 0 (source chain): you, the owner, initiate the move. The token is sealed on the source chain — from this moment it is not resident there.
2. Step 1 (target chain): a proof that step 0 happened (an SPV proof produced by the network itself) is presented on the target chain, which re-creates the token — same id, same royalty, same properties, same owner rules.

The Gallery site (or any tool) handles the proof for you; the wait between steps is a few minutes of block confirmations. There is no rollback: once step 0 is sealed, the only way forward is completing step 1. An interrupted move is never lost — anyone can complete step 1 later with the proof; the token is simply in transit until then.

The rules

• Listed tokens cannot move. Delist first. (A listing is a live offer on a specific chain; letting it travel would strand buyers.)
• Sale-only tokens can move only to their own owner. A cross-chain move to a new owner would be a change of hands without a sale — exactly the royalty bypass the sale-only property forbids. Transferable tokens may move to any principal (k:) account.
• The id keeps its birth chain. Token 1:sunset-01 keeps that name wherever it lives — the prefix says where it was born, not where it is. This also makes it impossible for an arriving token to collide with one minted on the target chain.
• Royalty terms travel intact. The creator’s royalty and payout account arrive on the target chain byte-identical. Moving chains never launders a royalty away.

Practical notes

• You need a little gas on both chains (the faucet can fund the same k: account on any chain).
• After a move, the token page and your collection show it on the new chain; the old chain remembers only that it left (the explorer shows the departure event).
• Selling on the new chain works immediately — fees route to the platform’s funding account on the chain of sale.