Asset Hub Brainstorming Session - Call Notes and Discussion Continuation

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On a separate topic that was mentioned in the call: I just opened a thread discussing how the ecosystem should handle “the problem of multiple reserves” as evidenced by Asset Hub.

Managing SAs on multiple Reserve chains for same asset

Asset Hub as a DOT reserve Multiple parachains in the ecosystem are currently facing a dilemma: How to handle DOT reserves on chains other than PolkadotRelay? Nowadays in particular, handling Polkadot AssetHub as a reserve for DOT - which is seeing many new usecases. The main problem with “ChainX” allowing multiple chains as a reserve for DOT (or any asset for that matter) is that “ChainX” needs to balance its SAs (sovereign accounts) on the reserve chains so that when their users “claim” a re…