Additional context on their announcement regarding HNT — On Monday, March 13, 2023, Binance.US announced that it plans to delist the HNT/USD and HNT/USDT trading pairs on March 21, 2023 in advance of the Solana migration. For the safety of all the participants in the Helium ecosystem, Binance.US customers should consider taking custody of their HNT using the…

We welcome a new Board Director along with our first General Counsel hire. — Feb 28, 2023 I’m thrilled to announce Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi as the newest member of the Helium Foundation Board of Directors. Arman has been one of the most active community members since the 2019 Helium Mainnet launch in a governing capacity as well as an educational resource. He launched The Hotspot…

The Helium Foundation is broadening funding opportunities to reinforce community-driven innovation across the ecosystem. — The Helium Foundation grant program facilitates the growth and utility of decentralized wireless networks by providing access to funding, technical support, and community resources to promising individuals and teams. We’re reopening the program today with exciting new funding opportunities that unlock fresh approaches for growing and supporting the future of…

The Network migration to the Solana blockchain and deployment of Oracles represents the most significant upgrade to Helium Network scalability and reliability. — Editors Note: The title of this story has been changed to reflect the updated and final date for the Helium Network’s migration to the Solana blockchain on April 18th. Updated details are available in the March 16th story: https://blog.helium.com/an-update-on-the-helium-networks-migration-to-solana-4550e20552a9

When the Helium Network initially launched, one of the limiting factors to expanding coverage was relying on a single provider of Hotspots. HIP-19, upon its passage by the community, created a means for the Network to be served by a diverse range of providers, which rapidly scaled supply. …

The Helium Core Developers are excited to announce that Off-Chain IOT Proof-of-Coverage (PoC) is officially live! Activation took effect on February 2nd at 08:00 AM PST/4:00 PM UTC. The team extends heartfelt thanks to Validators for enabling Off-Chain Proof-of-Coverage. Off-Chain PoC has been many months in the making and is…

This article spotlights Helium Foundation grantee Kanda Weather Group and their climate resilience efforts across African universities. About the Helium Grantee Nicolas Lopez is the founder of Kanda Weather Group, working to build an entirely community-owned weather balloon network. They are dedicated to empowering African university students to become local climate change leaders. Lopez…

Interview between M3 Agriculture Technologies Founder and CEO Nathan Moses and Grants Program Manager Clarissa Redwine. This piece is a window into the work of Nathan Moses, a long-time Helium community innovator and member of the Colville Confederated Tribes. …

Abhay Kumar, former Nova Labs Chief Product Officer, is joining the Helium Foundation as CEO. The Solana engineering team from Strata has been acquired as part of the effort to migrate all protocol development to the Foundation. — gm Helium Community, Many of you know me as hashc0de in the Helium Discord. I’ve been involved in the community since 2019, authored my first HIP in summer 2020, and joined the core development team at Nova Labs as Chief Product Officer in the fall of 2020. I’m proud to…