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Helium

HNT

  • IOT
  • Decentralized Wireless
  • DePIN
Established Year
2013
Headquarter
United States
Operating Status
Active
Ecosystem
Solana
Helium is a decentralized network of wireless Hotspots that create public, long-range wireless coverage for LoRaWAN-enabled IoT devices. Hotspots produce and are compensated with HNT, the native cryptocurrency of the Helium blockchain. Today, the Helium blockchain and its hundreds of thousands of Hotspots provide access to the largest LoRaWAN Network in the world.

Organisation

Subsidiary

Financial Portfolio

Funding

Series D
8 Investors
$200 M

Investment

Strata
Strata
M&A
N/A
FreedomFi
FreedomFi
M&A
N/A

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What Is Helium (HNT)?

Helium (HNT) is a decentralized blockchain-powered network for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Launched in July 2019, the Helium mainnet allows low-powered wireless devices to communicate with each other and send data across its network of nodes. Nodes come in the form of so-called Hotspots, which are a combination of a wireless gateway and a blockchain mining device. Users who operate nodes thus mine and earn rewards in Helium’s native [cryptocurrency](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-are-cryptocurrencies) token, HNT. Helium’s goal is to prepare IoT communication for the future, identifying inadequacies in current infrastructure from its birth in 2013.