"Is the Hashport bridge still working?" — if you are asking that in September
2026, the short answer is no, and it will not be coming back. Hashport, the
bridge that for years carried most native-to-Hedera traffic, was permanently
decommissioned on May 31, 2026 at 12:00 UTC. Its own notice is blunt:
all bridging infrastructure is offline, wrapped assets are **permanently
unredeemable**, and no support, recovery, or successor service exists.
That leaves a lot of people searching "BSC to Hedera bridge" and landing on
stale guides. This post is the current-state answer: what shut down, what it
means if you still hold a wrapped Hashport asset, and which corridors are
actually live right now — including the BSC↔Hedera ASSET route this site
operates. Everything below was verified against primary sources in the first
week of September 2026.
Hashport launched in 2021 as Hedera's flagship public utility bridge, backed
by a council-grade consortium of network operators. For most of its life it
was the default answer to "how do I get [chain] tokens onto Hedera" — and the
default answer inside dozens of now-outdated guides.
Per the wind-down notice on hashport.network
(read directly for this article), the termination follows the project's
wind-down protocol:
waiting in the wings — unredeemable means unredeemable.
network ecosystem.
explicitly warns that *no other network foundations, ecosystem entities, or
external support teams* are equipped to provide technical assistance or
asset recovery for Hashport transactions.
This is the uncomfortable part, and honest guides need to say it plainly:
portal representations) can no longer be redeemed for the underlying asset.
The custodial machinery that would process that redemption no longer exists.
balances, "claim assistants" and fake support channels appear within days.
There is no legitimate recovery path — anyone selling one is extracting a
fee from you.
were never Hashport's liability and are unaffected.
There is no upside to sugar-coating this: the practical lesson is that
bridges are operational infrastructure with operational lifetimes, and
wrapped representations are only as good as the bridge that maintains them.
With Hashport gone, three corridors carry cross-chain traffic to and from
Hedera in September 2026. They solve different problems.
On February 24, 2026, Hedera announced that
Axelar connected Hedera, expanding its gateway to onchain finance. Axelar's
network connects Hedera to 60+ other chains, which makes it the broadest
general-purpose route now that Hashport is offline. If you need to move
supported assets between Hedera and arbitrary connected chains, this is the
main public infrastructure for it.
Not everything needs a bridge in the classic sense. Where a token exists
natively on both chains under the same issuer, the correct route is a
burn-and-mint design: destroy the token on the source chain, mint the native
token on the destination chain. No wrapped intermediary ever exists, so there
is no wrapped liability to strand if infrastructure later winds down.
This is the corridor we operate, and the reason this site exists. The
ASSET token — the utility token of iBird, the
decentralized social platform on Hedera — runs natively on both BSC and
Hedera:
0x6b471d5Ab9f3d92A600e7d49A0b135BF6D4c6A5b and NBM at 0x12Da2f2761038486271C99DA7e0FB4413e2B5E38 (BNB Smart Chain, PancakeSwap
liquidity).
0.0.1991880 (SaucerSwapliquidity).
The bridge between them is burn-and-mint, 1:1 for ASSET (and 1000 NBM = 1
ASSET for the NBM route). There is no wrapped asset on either side: tokens
burned on BSC are gone permanently, and native HTS ASSET is minted to your
Hedera account. The flow is deliberately simple — **Associate → Approve →
Burn** on BSC, then ASSET (HTS) is minted on Hedera, typically within
10–20 minutes. The full walkthrough is on the
Two things worth checking before you start: the
Burn Dashboard shows live
deflation stats (ASSET is ~59.4% burned from its 500B supply at the time of
writing), and the Whale Radar
shows large ASSET transfers as they happen on both sides. For trading on the
Hedera side, the SaucerSwap War Room
visualizes live order flow.
Hashport's shutdown stranded wrapped holders precisely because wrapped assets
are a claim on someone else's custody. The burn-and-mint model removes that
failure mode by construction:
while a wrapper circulates — the supply on each chain is the asset, and
the burn transaction is the transfer of custody.
corridor's infrastructure stops, tokens on each chain remain fully
functional and tradeable where they are; they just cannot newly cross.
the split between chains is visible on-chain — every token that exists on
Hedera exists because a corresponding BSC token was verifiably burned.
That is not a claim that burn-and-mint is risk-free — it depends on the
operator's infrastructure staying healthy — but the specific failure that
just hit Hashport holders (permanent unredeemability of a wrapped claim)
structurally cannot occur.
Is the Hashport bridge still working?
No. Hashport was permanently decommissioned on May 31, 2026 at 12:00 UTC. All
bridging infrastructure is offline and wrapped assets are permanently
unredeemable, per the notice on hashport.network.
Can I still redeem Hashport-wrapped (h) tokens?
No. Wrapped assets became permanently unredeemable when the infrastructure
went offline on May 31, 2026. There is no claim process, no successor service,
and no external team equipped to recover Hashport transactions.
What is the best BSC to Hedera bridge in 2026?
For general assets across 60+ chains, the Axelar gateway (connected to Hedera
in February 2026) is the main public option. For ASSET and NBM specifically,
the native burn-and-mint corridor at iassets.org/convert moves tokens 1:1
between BSC and Hedera in roughly 10–20 minutes.
How do I move ASSET from BSC to Hedera?
Use the Convert page: associate your Hedera
account with ASSET (HTS 0.0.1991880), approve the TokenBurner contract, burn
your BSC ASSET (or 1000 NBM per ASSET for the NBM route), and native HTS ASSET
is minted to your Hedera account — typically within 10–20 minutes. There is no
wrapped asset involved on either side.
Is there any way to recover assets stranded by Hashport?
No. The wind-down notice states that post-shutdown support is no longer
available and no other ecosystem entity can provide asset recovery for
Hashport transactions. Treat any "recovery service" as a scam.
The Hashport shutdown did not close Hedera to the outside world — it closed a
chapter of wrapped-asset bridging that ended with holders on the wrong side of
a wind-down protocol. What replaced it is a mix of a broad general gateway
(Axelar, since February 2026) and native-token corridors that avoid wrapped
claims entirely. For the BSC↔Hedera path specifically, the ASSET burn-and-mint
bridge has been running continuously, has burned ~59.4% of ASSET's 500B supply
on the BSC side, and needs nothing from Hashport's ruins.
Check the corridors' live status before every transfer — bridges, like every
other piece of infrastructure, deserve a fresh look each time — and never
trust a guide older than the bridges it describes.
This article is for information only, not financial advice.