TL;DR We are progressing toward launching our smart contract platform that can execute PVM and EVM contracts on Kusama in October and on Polkadot in December. The PVM preview is live on Kusama and the Revm integration, which enables EVM compatibility, is advancing quickly. Our developer tooling is e…

That’s an incredible development, contgratulations! I’m delighted that you’re taking this pragmatic and welcoming approach with REVM. I want to deploy on Polkadot an existing protocol written in Solidity for EVM and I’m relieved that I won’t need to port it to PVM. That being said I see that you’re …

I have good news for your questions. Polkadot Hub is an abstraction and the concrete chain won’t matter for the end user. The low level answer: it will be a union of system chains, particularly the Asset Hub. The underlying address space consists of the standard 256 bit addresses common in Polkado…

The Polkadot Hub is indeed an abstract concept within the Polkadot system. However, for front-end, such as wallet, it must be a concrete concept with a unique name and chainid. It may appear similar to chains like “Arbitrum One,” though their essence is different. Therefore, Polkadot developers need…

Sure, that’s where we need to talk low level. Smart contracts will execute on the Asset Hub and it will have a unique name and chain id of course.

Good direction and progress on it, thanks for the updates. If the team needs extra hands for testing or precompiles work, please touch base - we’ve done a number of things for PVM already, and are one of the rare teams that’s done a lot on precompiles. Otherwise, as soon as you have the Revm on the…

Thanks, I appreciate it and will come back to this offer.

I don’t agree, that’s like saying a Web2 app needs a single cloud server instance. While a Web2 app might have a single IP address as an entry point, it has the logic to route requests to many backend services. Likewise, Polkadot Hub is a collection of many services in the Polkadot network and is no…

I agree that the Polkadot Hub isn’t a chain, but as an EVM-compatible wallet, we focus on the RevM/PVM as the primary, user-recognizable entry point, abstracting away everything else. We also hope the Polkadot Hub will offer richer content, but we don’t want to spend more time educating users about …

I understand that Ethereum-based wallets require this chain ID, but it’s always going to depend on the context in which you’re using Polkadot. Since Asset Hub will be the first chain that supports Ethereum compatibility, in this case you would use that chain ID. But more generally, if your app wants…

I agree with your point. It’s not difficult for wallets to correctly connect to Polkadot’s system chains or other services, hidden from users. However, we use the “asset hub” as the main entry point, using xcm/precomile to connect to parachains/system chains. To users, the “asset hub” is the “Polkad…

Smart Contracts on Polkadot Hub: Progress Update

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torsten December 18, 2025, 11:04pm 16

See this post for an update about our launch timelines: "Revive" Smart Contracts: Status Update

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