It's pretty wild that we'll be able to fire >1.7mm transactions to load the entire
@helium
network state into
@solana
in the span of a day based on devnet testing (~10 hours).
I'm excited to announce that on Friday, I'll be taking on the role of CEO of the
@HeliumFndn
and Chair of the Board. I'm incredibly humbled to be given this opportunity to serve the
@helium
community.
If you build software in the
@helium
ecosystem, make sure you're counted in
@ElectricCapital
's next Dev Report.
1. Check if you're listed here (Ctrl-F is your friend):
2. Also if you're writing solana programs within the ecosystem, check here:
Developer Report 2023 is coming SOON.
If you write open source code, include your work in this year's Dev Report by adding your repository to the open crypto taxonomy:
We are locking the data for repositories this week! ๐
DM me if you have qs.
For those who don't have $HNT to pay for data on the
@helium
network, we're excited to have tools like this from the
@solana
ecosystem. So that last tweet with an eSIM could have been paid in fiat as well. Excited to work with
@sphere_labs
and others to provide better onboarding.
Decentralized cell towers and $20 mobile plans, live today? Yes, you heard that right.
DePIN is finding a home on Solana.
Hear more from
@redacted_noah
,
@abhay
, &
@ScottSigel
, watch the full video, and discover how Solana has grown with
@helium
๐
Proud to represent
@helium
deployers and users on the Hill the last two days. Thereโs a lot of work to further educate the membership on the benefits of decentralized wireless and what it has enabled for their constituents.
Our community is trying out new deployment strategies for this
@helium
Hotspot using
@SpaceX
#Starlink
for backhaul. Just need to add solar power and we have a way to deploy IoT coverage in harder to reach areas. ๐ ๐ฐ
@Jason
The Postal Service was profitable in FY 2021 (and had a one-time windfall in FY 2022 because of Congressional support). It also wants the government to support a cut of its payments to the Federal retirement fund to reduce its projected FY 2023 losses by a quarter. The latter
The whole of Africa and neighboring islands can now support Helium on EU868, with the exception being the countries Uganda and Tanzania (AS923), Niger (IN865), and Lesotho, Libya and Sudan (not supported or undefined).
The
@helium
community is among many others affected by the the larger crypto markets. That said, we continue to be focused on building the most available, scalable, and affordable wireless network in the world.
I cannot imagine a better time for
@helium_mobile
to announce SIM Swap Protection. The hints they've been dropping on Discord have been really interesting.
Wen,
@amirhaleem
?
Huge morning for
@helium
today. First oracle for the the IOT network (Proof-of-Coverage) being deployed. Core devs and Validator community are monitoring on Discord on this massive milestone for the HIP-70 implementation.
Still surprises me that there isnโt a simple USDC based CashApp like product built on Solana and Octane covering the infinitesimal fees. What are the blockers today?
We've teamed up with
@Telefonica
to deploy
@Helium_Mobile
Hotspots in Mexico! ๐ฒ๐ฝ
This will extend Telefรณnica's coverage, enable the offloading of mobile data to the
@Helium
Mobile Network, and improve overall mobile coverage service for customers.
Learn more:
Much longer note on Discord but here's some quick hits about the
@helium
migration to
@solana
.
It's been an incredibly productive several hours since the start of the chain migration around 1600 UTC.
Setting up a
@WeatherXM
station is exactly what I hope the
@helium
IOT experience should be:
1. Open box
2. Plug in back up batteries
3. Align device
4. See local weather.
I didn't have to think about connectivity here. No putting a random device on my home WiFi, etc.
Pretty cool that there was minimal disruption to the
@helium
network through the
@solana
outage. Phones still worked. Devices still sent packets.
Some Hotspot owners couldnโt onboard but generally speaking a non-event for decentralized wireless.
Tomorrow is going to be a fun day. Before we get started, I wanted to take a moment to thank the entire
@helium
community of devs, sensor (and soon phone) users, Hotspot deployers, manufacturers across the world, and community at large.
๐ 1๏ธโฃ
We are 1 day away from launching on
@solana
mainnet.
Helium Community, this has been an incredible effort by all network stakeholders and YOU.
The Helium Blockchain will halt at 9 AM Pacific / 4 PM UTC. Here's some of what to expect ๐งต ,๐
1/3
The number of people coming back to the
@helium
ecosystem is really quite remarkable in the past few days.
If you like posts like this, check out someone else's Soundcloud in replies.
I wonder if anyone is paying attention to the fact that $HNT is
#3
/N in protocol revenue across *all* L1 chains over the last 30/60/90 days.
(Click "Blockchains (L1)" on this graph.)
While speaking at a conference this morning,
@pharkmillups
and I came to the realization that
@helium
Hotspots and $HNT may have introduced more individuals to mining a L1 token than any other blockchain. With 403K nodes on the network, we're just getting started.
After 10 months of being a โsilly dadโ to my two charming sons, helping friends at their companies, and a little bit of investing, itโs time to get back to some focused product and company building. Last week, I joined the
@helium
team as Chief Product Officer.
Today is a good day for
@helium
users
@Hivemapper
and
@DIMO_Network
.
Theyโre not done building, though. Neither is our community creating a ubiquitous and affordable network for all. ๐ค๐ฝ
Really glad that we were able to publish this after a lot of folks in the
@helium
community has been asking about a comparison of different chains that we looked at leading up to HIP-70.
๐ขHeliumโs officially sponsoring the
@solana
community's Sandstorm Hackathon!
๐Check out the โDeWiโ track and submit projects that utilize Heliumโs network, or further integrate real-world data on Solana.
โ Join the hackathon via
@LamportDAO
โs Discord.
I'm really excited about bringing voting and staking of
@helium
ecosystem tokens back to the native wallet apps. This is all powered by the veToken mechanics of the network and the new modular-governance tools we've been building at the
@HeliumFndn
.
Let's bring
@helium
IOT to Africa ๐!
The lack of a standard frequency plan across the continent is a mix of lack of regulatory clarity and some history but we can solve it. We've worked with local authorities and deployers of coverage and sensors to come up with this proposal
1/ Voting Now Open for HIP 100 to Deploy the EU868 Region Plan in Africa. ๐
HIP 100 proposes the provisional assignment of countries in Africa with unspecified and EU433 plans to the EU868 frequency plan.
๐ณ๏ธVote Now:
โDIP-10 is a proposal to โฆ produce new DIMO-compatible hardware that runs on
@helium
โs network. This Mini OBD Dongle will sell at a lower price point...โ
Exciting times for the
@DIMO_Network
Hotspot coverage ๐ค๐ฝ DePIN projects
Pretty unsurprising, but still delightful outcome of
@helium
moving to
@solana
are all the other protocol teams and builders reaching out to want to support but also those just building stuff and shipping it without telling anyone.
This is pretty awesome. In a few days,
@helium
network payers will have spent $0.5m on data traffic since moving to
@solana
. New stat in the dashboard!
Are you a Data Scientist who loves graph theory and a new way of deploying wireless networks?
Join the
@helium
team and work directly with core developers and the community to improve the Proof-of-Coverage incentive model of the network.
Proud to burn 604,908 $HNT out of circulation today. These tokens were owed to the
@helium
network for all the Hotspots onboarded up to early last week. Since then, all new Hotspots are onboarded with Data Credits burned from $HNT minted by the network.
About two weeks ago
@LoneStarTrackin
deployed oyster3 trackers on the
@helium
network to help catch a prolific hay thief. They caught him! This is just another use case for
@helium
and the versatile
@dmtelematics
oyster3!
Fresh News to Start Off 2024: Porto is Live!
After a busy end to the year we are proud to announce that we have officially partnered with the City of Porto, a historic city in Portugal known for its beauty and charm, to build resilience against floods and extreme weather events.
Solana friends. If youโre heading to Breakpoint, please stop bull posting your flight details, a picture of your baller business class seat with clear indication about arrival time, just in time pictures of where you are, etc.
Be safe out there.
In crypto, self custody is always best. For the
@helium
network, that means the mobile app and the Ledger wallet. Storing your HNT or MOBILE with a counterparty (like an exchange or custody provider) comes with access to their products but one should understand risks and DYOR.
There are a little over 8500 radios deployed on the
@helium
5G network and more to come but here's a fun way to use them today with an eSIM compatible phone.
Super cool to have an option outside of a public cloud provider to run a
@helium
validator. Nice job,
@akashnet_
team. Now someone needs to teach us how to take the $HNT rewards from block production and directly pay for the infrastructure via $AKT. Need some automation!
Our community is coming up with new ways to deploy Validators in preparation for Mainnet. We're thrilled that
@akashnet_
has announced their open-source $HNT staking solution with the decentralized cloud. Read more on the Akash blog: .
Coinbase will add support for Helium (HNT) on the Solana network (SPL token). Do not send this asset over other networks or your funds may be lost. Transfers for this asset are available on
@Coinbase
&
@CoinbaseExch
in the regions where trading is supported.
This is pretty awesome. In a few days,
@helium
network payers will have spent $0.5m on data traffic since moving to
@solana
. New stat in the dashboard!
The amount of energy around
@helium
last week at
@SolanaConf
may only be superseded by the real use cases being build on top of the network and highlighted at
@SmartCityexpo
this week.
๐ซก The Helium L1 halted and block production on the former chain stopped.
๐ The entire Helium L1 state was written to Solana!
๐ข The Solana programs were deployed as well. We found a few bugs along the way but most seem to be minor and are resolved.
It was great working with the
@sec3dev
team over the past few months. Appreciate this strong vote of confidence as the
@helium
community migrates in April.
1/ We're extremely excited to announce that we have formally completed a full Launch Audit for
@helium
smart contracts as part of their much anticipated Network Migration to
@solana
!
Appreciate
@amirhaleem
for setting the record straight. Some of this stuff happened before I joined the
@helium
community but the reason I keep building is that the original
@novalabs_
team continue to be advocates of a better way of connecting the world. Haters be damned.
I havenโt written much about this article, but now feels like a good time. this was a truly awful hatchet job on us from the Forbes team
- when we launched
@helium
the team had around 35 hotspots to start the network
- hotspots were delivered to the public in Austin 48 hours
Hotspot availability for all of the US will help us offer a nationwide $20 Unlimited Plan for those OUTSIDE of $5/month target counties (Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach) in the coming weeks.
Be the 1st to know about the nationwide plan:
The last epoch was the first since the migration where the MOBILE treasury mined more HNT than the IOT treasury. This is because of paid MOBILE usage from subscribers and more delegation from veHNT holders. It's going to be interesting to watch.
Help test
@helium
HIP voting! The devs have put together a simple straw poll site where you can burn a tiny amount of HNT to specify a preference for changes to the network introduced by Helium Improvement Proposals. Try it out this weekend!
#teamvanilla
It's always impressive to see folks building things on
@solana
that enables new things for
@helium
Hotspot owners (especially without ever really telling anyone, hah!)
I could see Hotspot makers/distributors offering this at the point of sale.
Your next phone bill could pay for itself with MOBILE rewards ๐คฏ
Starting today, you can use MOBILE rewards earned from Discovery Mapping to lower your phone bill to zero.
Learn more:
On-chain accounting giveth, and taketh away. This precipitous drop in hourly paid data on the
@helium
network was the effect of fixing a bug in packet routing.
Pretty excited to see this for the
@helium
community. What
@cubexch
is doing is very different than other folks out there. Their architecture is much closer to "your keys, your crypto" so for those of us who are more conservative, it makes a lot of sense.
Incredible that itโs been several weeks that
@helium
devs have tried to get a
@Ledger
firmware app released prior to our migration and we canโt get it done. The channel we have goes silent for days on end and then wakes up to a trivial change request and then silence again.
Very crude query but it's pretty cool to see that
@helium
wallets represent 7% of
@solana
unique signers in the last 4 weeks.
@JupiterExchange
added as a comparison metric.
When they tell you to โuse WiFi callingโ theyโre telling you that you have backhaul at home that theyโd like to use while they fix their LTE infrastructure. Totally fine but wouldnโt it be better if they paid you for the privilege? Thatโs
@helium
.
Coinbase will add support for Hivemapper (HONEY) on the Solana network (SPL token). Do not send this asset over other networks or your funds may be lost. Transfers for this asset are available on
@Coinbase
&
@CoinbaseExch
in the regions where trading is supported.
These transactions represent 730k+ accounts holding over 100mm HNT, 980k+ Hotspots, etc. We see this migration as a massive database move from the
@helium
purpose-built L1 to the highly scalable
@solana
network.
This reminds me a lot of early days at
@Square
. Being able to close a prospective merchant by handing over a reader and seeing them sign up on the spot was magical. I had a "spare" reader in the pocket of every pair of pants.
Lambda School "word of mouth" is unlike anything I've ever seen.
At our company retreat this week, we had members of the hotel staff ask how they could become students.
Feels like almost every conversation leads to a potential student (or an intro to a family member/friend).