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. As part of our observation of November's National American Indian Heritage…

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…

This is an interview between Dor Founder, Michael Brand, & Grants Program Manager, Clarissa Redwine. When we first prototyped our hardware, we were using ultrasonics. Ultrasonics use sound vibrations of frequencies greater than the upper limit of the audible range for humans — that is, greater than about 20 kilohertz…

This is an interview between IoT Off-Grid & Grants Program Manager, Clarissa Redwine. It was our first time testing our hardware at the Breakneck Ridge Trail. Breakneck Ridge Trail is located in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, overlooking the Hudson River Valley, a trail we had spent months researching and arranging to…

This Wednesday (9/28) the community met in the monthly Community Call. For those that don’t know, the Community Call is centered around all-things governance, mostly relating to Helium Improvement Proposals (HIPs) and ongoing committee work. The Helium community currently has two committees: the Grants Committee and the Manufacturing Compliance Committee. Why does the community meet on governance?

The Helium community spent the last week voting on HIP 70: a proposal to move Proof-of-Coverage and Data Transfer Accounting to Oracles, as well as migrating transactions and accounts from a sovereign Layer 1 to Solana’s highly performant blockchain. HIP 70 passed with 6,177 individual wallets voting, the most ‘For’…

HIP 70 proposes to move Proof-of-Coverage and Data Transfer activity to Helium Oracles, which will be verifiable and open-source. This change allows the Helium Core Developers to focus development efforts on building the LoRaWAN and 5G networks that back the HNT ecosystem. When the Helium network was launched, building a…

Announced today, HIP 70 is a proposal by the Helium core developer team to improve the operational efficiency of the Helium blockchain significantly. To achieve this goal, the core developer team proposes moving Proof-of-Coverage (“PoC”) and Data Transfer Accounting to Oracles, which simplifies the system architecture and allows for the…

The People’s Network is becoming the Network of Networks — The Helium network currently exists to provide LoRaWAN coverage to small, low-powered, low data usage sensors and devices. There are nearly 900,000 Hotspots spread across the globe that are rewarded HNT (Helium Network Token) for providing coverage and transmitting device data. HIP 51, recently approved by the community, creates a…