Block 36: MOBILE, HIP 70, & Helium House NYC!
Since the last edition of the Block Newsletter, Helium has reached some impressive milestones: the Network celebrated its 3rd birthday, MOBILE rewards launched, Helium Improvement Proposal 70 went up for a vote, and the agenda for Helium House NYC was announced!
Catch up on all these updates and more ⬇️
🎂 Helium turned 3 years old
🎈 MOBILE mining launched
🆕 HIP 70 voting now live
🗽Helium House NYC in 1 week
🌐 948K+ IoT Hotspots deployed
📡 4K+ 5G radios activated
🎉 New users join the ecosystem
🤝 Nova Labs & FreedomFi team up
🗞 Latest news & content
MOBILE in 1K+ Cities
MOBILE, the reward for providing Helium 5G coverage, launched in August just in time for #cellularsummer ☀️. During the MOBILE Genesis period, approximately 100 million MOBILE tokens per day are distributed to all active Helium 5G Hotspots with compatible CBRS Small Cell Radios.
Over 4K Helium 5G setups have already been deployed across 1K cities since launch and we’re just getting started. Dive into this blog to learn more about MOBILE and how you can participate. You can also check out this twitter thread for helpful information about how to choose between indoor and outdoor setups.
HIP 70: Expanding HNT Ecosystem
Core developers released HIP 70, a proposal to scale Helium and provide benefits to the community, while maintaining the fundamentals of the Network and HNT. To achieve this, HIP 70 proposes moving Proof-of-Coverage and Data Transfer Accounting to dedicated Helium Oracles, and transitioning to a new layer one (L1) blockchain, Solana.
If this proposal passes, the ecosystem would benefit from:
- More rewards for Hotspot owners (2 million HNT)
- More consistent mining
- More reliable data transfer
- A better network overall
Voting for HIP 70 is open now until September 21st here. To learn more about this proposal, check out this blog, listen to Twitter Spaces, and join the conversation on Discord.
Join the Helium House NYC Party 🏠
Helium House NYC is around the corner on Tuesday, September 20th! Join us next week at The Altman Building in downtown NYC for a packed day of panels, community presentations, and special announcements.
The agenda just went live, so make sure to check it out here and don’t forget to RSVP to attend. The party will continue into the night at Jungle Bird for drinks and mingling with the community. See you there!
New Users
Communityfi is using Helium to ensure food freshness with refrigeration monitoring in local NYC food pantries, while also locating farm-to-pantry shipments with vehicle tracking. Watch an interview with their team to learn more about Communityfi’s mission to save 3 million meals.
Orkney LORA employs Helium to enable solutions, such as bike tracking for local charities and water level monitoring in ponds and marshes to help wildlife researchers on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands. Watch this interview intro and The Uplink to dive deeper on the use cases.
Content Central
Nova Labs & FreedomFi Team Up 🤝 Nova Labs, the founding team behind Helium, acquired FreedomFi to accelerate the deployment of mobile networks. Read the press release here, and check out articles from CoinDesk and The Register.
Semtech Podcast on Helium 🎙 A new episode of the The WAN Network Show from Semtech is now available. Hear about how Helium enables connectivity for IoT users in over 180 countries.
Community Kitchen Hacks 🍔 Community member Sashrika Das built her own stove monitoring device that runs on Helium. For a step-by-step guide on how she did it, check out this article about her Hackster Kitchen Sensor.
Hotspotty’s New Explorer 🔥 The team from Hotspotty just launched their own explorer with tons of cool information and stats.
Customer Feedback with Skiply 🖲 Collecting customer feedback is as easy as the press of a button with Skiply. To hear from Skiply’s CEO Jerome Chambard about how they use Helium, watch the interview.
Cloudy with a Chance of Rewards 🌦 WeatherXM is committed to building a decentralized weather network, and they reward users for sharing their weather data to improve accuracy of local forecasts. Check out The Uplink episode.
