Litentry Is Now Heima: LIT to HEI Migration Guide (2026)

Did Litentry rebrand to Heima?

Yes. Litentry became Heima Network and the LIT token migrated to HEI in February 2025. The community approved the change through Litentry governance Referendum 38. The rebrand also marked a product pivot: decentralized identity remains part of the project's history and the Litentry Foundation's remit, but Heima now presents itself primarily as chain-abstraction and cross-chain trading infrastructure.

Item	Current status
Project name	Heima Network; the Litentry Foundation remains an organization supporting the ecosystem.
Token name and ticker	Heima (HEI), replacing Litentry (LIT).
Migration ratio	1 old LIT to 1 new HEI.
Migration direction	One way. The official process burns the old LIT and sends HEI; it cannot convert HEI back to LIT.
New Ethereum contract	0xf8f173e20e15f3b6cb686fb64724d370689de083
New BNB Chain contract	0xf8f173e20e15f3b6cb686fb64724d370689de083
Old LIT contract	0xb59490aB09A0f526Cc7305822aC65f2Ab12f9723 on Ethereum and BNB Chain. Do not confuse it with HEI.
Maximum supply	100 million HEI, unchanged from LIT according to the migration announcement.

How to swap LIT for HEI

Major exchanges that supported the event took snapshots and converted eligible balances automatically. Bitget, for example, confirmed completion at 1:1 and stopped accepting the old token. An exchange that did not support the event may follow a different process, so contact that exchange before withdrawing or depositing anything.

For self-custodied Ethereum LIT, the project still exposes its official Heima swap portal. The interface shows Ethereum as the source network, LIT as the input, HEI as the output and a 1:1 ratio. The original project guide says the swap is irreversible and burns the LIT after conversion.

1. Navigate from the official Heima website or type apps.heima.network/swap yourself. Do not use a sponsored search result, direct message or copied lookalike URL.
2. Confirm the wallet is on Ethereum and contains enough ETH for both the approval and swap transactions.
3. Check the amount and recipient. Use your own address unless you have independently verified why a different recipient is required.
4. Before signing, confirm the transaction will receive HEI and that the destination token contract exactly matches the address above.
5. After confirmation, add the verified HEI contract to the wallet if the balance does not appear automatically. Never share a seed phrase or private key with “support.”

The portal currently displays only an Ethereum LIT input. Holders of legacy LIT on BNB Chain, a centralized exchange or the Litentry/Heima parachain should not improvise a bridge route. Ask the relevant custodian or use a project-published procedure for that exact network.

What changed from Litentry to Heima?

The archived article described a decentralized identity aggregator: users would connect identities across networks, validators would check identity data, and participants would earn or pay LIT through identity staking and matching. Heima's current documentation instead emphasizes four components:

• Heima Layer 1: a coordination and registry layer for cross-domain execution;
• omni accounts: one account abstraction layer intended to manage assets across supported chains;
• an omni-executor: intent routing for cross-chain swaps, transfers and other actions; and
• an agent hub: programmable agents intended to automate strategies and execution.

HEI is now described as a utility and coordination token for governance, gas-abstraction settlement and cross-chain liquidity. These are protocol-design claims, not a promise that HEI will appreciate, that every feature is available on every chain or that liquidity will always exist.

The Litentry name did not disappear completely. The current litentry.com site belongs to Litentry Foundation and describes a privacy-preserving, interoperable Web3 mission; Heima's documentation says the foundation supports development of Heima Network. This is why older repositories, legal names and links may still say Litentry.

HEI supply and unlock schedule

The January 2025 migration announcement set a 100 million maximum supply and said 66.45 million HEI would circulate at the swap. It accelerated the release of 29.3 million locked tokens: 22.1 million for the ecosystem over 20 months, 2.2 million for the foundation over 20 months and 5 million for liquidity at the swap. The remaining 4.25 million team tokens were to retain their original schedule.

That schedule creates dilution risk even though the swap itself did not increase the maximum supply. CoinGecko reported approximately 81.47 million HEI circulating out of 100 million on 12 August 2026. Supply trackers can differ across the native chain, Ethereum and BNB Chain, so use the figure as a dated estimate rather than an exact real-time balance.

Corrections to the original Litentry guide

• LIT is no longer the current token ticker; old exchange pairs and contracts were replaced by HEI.
• The legacy identity-matching architecture is no longer the project's main public product description. Heima now focuses on chain abstraction, cross-chain execution and agents.
• “Identity staking,” block rewards for identity stakers, matching fees and a market for identity buyers were proposed economic roles. They should not be presented as currently available HEI yield sources.
• The old claim that users would share in revenue generated from their data was aspirational and did not specify a current, enforceable payment right.
• A decentralized identity system cannot guarantee one person has only one account, eliminate airdrop farming or establish a complete DeFi credit history without application-specific attestations and rules.
• Using one account across chains does not eliminate private-key, smart-contract, bridge, oracle, relayer, TEE or execution risk.
• Counts of GitHub organization members and team roles in the archived article are stale and should not be used for current due diligence.
• Old Litentry documentation links for the architecture and token economy now redirect to missing pages in the Heima docs.

HEI and Heima risk checklist

• Verify whether a service supports native HEI, ERC-20 HEI or BEP-20 HEI before transferring; the same address text does not make networks interchangeable.
• Review contract approvals after migrating and revoke any allowance that is no longer needed.
• Treat chain abstraction as additional infrastructure with its own failure modes, not as the removal of cross-chain risk.
• Check token unlocks, circulating supply and market depth before trading. A 1:1 token count did not preserve any fiat value.
• Heima's website advertises a “60% annual yield” and generally controlled risk for an AI Earn strategy. Those are promotional project claims, not a guaranteed return or an independently verified risk limit; loss of principal remains possible.
• Never send LIT or HEI to a person claiming to run a manual migration. Official support will not need a seed phrase, private key or remote-control session.

Original Litentry article (historical archive)

The article below is preserved substantially as originally published. It documents Litentry's former identity-aggregation vision; current naming, contracts, token economics and product focus are explained above.

Litentry ($LIT) is a decentralized cross-chain identity aggregator, built on Substrate, that features an identity matching and identity staking mechanism.

In today’s world, personal data and identity are everything. Some companies in the conventional world make millions by selling user data. In the decentralized world, blockchain-based firms make losses.

For example, one user can create multiple accounts to take advantage of free airdropped tokens. Also, platforms powering decentralized finance (DeFi) have no way of tracking users’ credit history, making them charge higher collateral when issuing loans.

Fortunately, there’s a new way to keep track of identities in the distributed ecosystem securely. Powered by Litentry, we can see blockchain-focused platforms do more than just power token swaps. It’s now possible to scan through user’s deposit and withdrawal actions on Uniswap. Furthermore, a user’s activity can also be assessed on a community-governed blockchain.

Since the platform is so diverse, below, we look at the major highlights.

Background

Litentry is developed by a team of blockchain professionals based in Germany. Its founder was among the early contributors of Parity, a decentralized network. Notably, the project engineering team’s background is rooted in Ethereum.

The protocol is funded through a Web3 Foundation grant. On its Github page, the project lists eight team members with organization permission.

What is Litentry?

The project focuses on decentralized identity (DID), allowing user identities to be linked to multiple distributed protocols. Litentry acts as a DID aggregator where it collects, indexes, and distributes DIDs to blockchains.

More importantly, it performs all these activities in a decentralized and verifiable way. Notably, built on the Substrate network, the platform works towards the greater goal of eradicating identity redundancy in the Web3-powered application ecosystem.

The problem

In the current internet world, third parties take control of storing user passwords and data pertaining to their online activity. Unfortunately, internet users are coerced into accepting unfavorable terms and conditions, consequently lessening the grip on their personal data.

Litentry brings the change by returning the control of user data to the users by powering a user-focused internet using blockchain technology. As such, the revenue emanating from using users’ data gets the users to share in the profits. Before Litentry, these profits went to third parties managing the user data.

Key Features of the Litentry platform

Apart from using decentralized ledger technology (DLT), the platform has other critical features that help it bring the much-needed revolution to the blockchain sector. Key among them include:

1. Identity management – The platform is all about identities, and their management sits at the protocol’s core. This feature powers anonymous and independent identities emanating from applications and or services used by the user.
2. Distributed storage – After collecting the data, the protocol stores them in a decentralized manner to enhance access from all corners of the distributed world.
3. Identity staking – This is a unique feature. Just like staking tokens and earning rewards, Litentry enables users to stake their identities and be rewarded.
4. Decentralized contributors – Instead of creating multiple accounts to use different platforms or services, the project allows users to use one identity to interact with various services anonymously. Interestingly, the user doesn’t have to provide passwords or any other registration details.

Litentry Architecture

To bring all the above features to life, the protocol uses a layered architecture. On the top layer is the Litentry Runtime, which sits on Substrate. The Runtime layer is a Parachain of Polkadot and employs offline workers when generating identities.

The second layer is the User Side. Here, users flex their muscles when it comes to data under their control. Note that user data that comes from applications are anonymous, stored in a decentralized way, and cryptographically-separated.

On the Litentry Authenticator layer, we have the mobile data hub. The hub can be used to manage a user’s different identities. Additionally, the hub can be connected to various IoT devices that the user wants.

Next is the Litentry SDK enabling developers to fire up their creative juices to create completely decentralized applications and/or services. In addition, the Litentry IPFS data center offers users a chance to check the data attached to their identities.

The middleware layer comprises services such as off-chain catching and query servers. It is also made up of a client-side SDK library that helps connect front-end apps with decentralized networks.

Litentry Tokenomics

The incentive mechanism on the Litentry platform takes into account different participants such as an identity staker, validator, external storage, node, and data buyer.

1. Identity staker — This is the person who has an identity record and has a stake in the identities pool.
2. Identity validator — An identity staker becomes a validator of new blocks when their identity has been confirmed.
3. Storage — Stores all data about an identity in a decentralized manner.
4. Node — The node is a critical component of the Litentry platform. Its work is to perform functions such as invoking off-chain workers to validate identity correctness and connecting with external decentralized storages.
5. Data buyer — This is any entity on the blockchain that requests identity validation.
6. Data generator — These are entities generating data and can include applications, users, or services offering migration services.

Litentry Native Token (LIT)

Litentry’s base asset is called LIT. The network uses the asset to reward identity stakers in the identities pool. Two types of rewards the stakers get are the block reward and the matching fee.

Apart from stakers, validators are motivated to truthfully verify the correctness of data. On the other hand, data generators enjoy benefits from the Litentry Foundation in the form of grants.

External storage operators earn a section of the fee paid by users interfacing with the service. Others who are incentivized using LIT tokens are nodes.

Those who pay using LIT tokens include identity buyers. Observe that these entities only have access to the winning identity or identities during an identity matching process.

Conclusion

The identity problem is two-pronged; users can create multiple entities to defraud a company. On the other hand, malicious actors aggregate user data and sell it to the highest bidder without profiting the real data owners.

Fortunately, Litentry uses a layered approach to comprehensively tackle the problem to the benefit of both identity owners and decentralized platforms. Here’s to another promising project with a unique approach to solving some of the most crucial problems that often go overlooked.

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Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Official January 2025 Litentry-to-Heima rebrand, contract and migration announcement
• Litentry governance Referendum 38 approving the rebrand
• Official Heima LIT-to-HEI swap interface
• Bitget confirmation of the completed 1:1 swap and HEI contract
• Current Heima documentation
• Heima documentation for current HEI utility
• Heima Network website, product descriptions and 2026 roadmap
• Current Litentry Foundation website
• Litentry and Heima public GitHub repositories
• CoinGecko HEI circulating-supply snapshot

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