diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 66ebca02..92982021 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ MERIDIAN_MIGRATION_MIN_IMPROVEMENT_BPS=50
 # per pool before it can report a rate, persisted via UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL
 # / UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN above (falls back to an in-memory, per-process
 # store — not durable across serverless invocations — when those aren't
-# set). The live testnet vault still doesn't have migrate_adapter deployed
-# (see apps/docs/operations/migration-keeper.md, #514), so the keeper can't
-# actually migrate anything on testnet yet regardless of these.
+# set). The live testnet vault was redeployed with migrate_adapter present
+# and confirmed callable (see apps/docs/operations/migration-keeper.md,
+# #514, closed); nothing has actually exercised a real end-to-end migration
+# against it yet, but these vars are no longer blocked on a missing entry
+# point.
 MERIDIAN_ADAPTER_BLEND_ID=
 MERIDIAN_ADAPTER_DEFINDEX_ID=