Gravity Shuts Down Alpha Mainnet, Migrates to Layer 1 Chain

Gravity is shutting down its Alpha Mainnet, which has been in operation since August 2024. The team behind Galxe confirmed that Gravity Alpha Mainnet will stop settling transactions on November 1, 2026, and users who don't act before the deadline risk losing access to their funds permanently.

The migration is a chain migration, not a token swap or rebrand. Everything is moving to Gravity's own Layer 1 chain, where native G behaves like ETH on Ethereum, with no separate ERC-20 contract for native G on either network.

Users have several key deadlines to keep in mind: they must move every asset off Alpha Mainnet before November 1, 2026; the Galxe G staking portal will go offline on the same date; and native withdrawals of G, DAI, and WBTC through the canonical bridge carry a roughly 7-day challenge period.

The Gravity L1 migration process is now the single most important thing for anyone holding assets on the old network. The team behind Galxe has been explicit that this is only a chain migration: there will be no token swap, redenomination, or new token contract address change for the ERC-20 form.

Galxe's core services, including Quest, Passport, and Score, have already migrated to the new environment, which is exactly why the older L2 is being retired. The project has been built on a modified Reth stack, targeting over 12,000 TPS on ERC-20 transfers with roughly 200-millisecond block times.