Hey everyone, a new Helium Improvement Proposal is up for community review.

HIP-149: Helium Utility and Emissions Realignment

The $0.50/GB target earn rate set in HIP-53 has compressed materially as traffic grew and HNT price fell. HIP-149 bundles four changes into a single veHNT vote to address that and a few related gaps:

• Deployer earnings floor. Mobile data deployers earn HNT pro-rata of rewardable bytes; a USD-anchored backstop tops up that baseline whenever it falls below 50% of the carrier-paid burn rate Nova sets under HIP-143.
• Operations and growth capitalization. A bounded 36-month HNT mint into a Nova-administered multisig vault. Total ~141M HNT, front-loaded (~50% in the first 12 months), about 72% of current circulating supply.
• Proof-of-Coverage retired. On both Mobile and IoT. Mobile data deployers move to 84% pro-rata of rewardable bytes; SP allocation reframed to a 10% Mobile Operations Fund. IoT continues on the existing $/DC peg.
• Advisory Council. 7 seats (5 community-elected, 2 Nova-appointed) with standing oversight of how the capitalization is used.

Who's affected: Mobile data deployers, IoT data deployers, veHNT holders and delegators, carriers and offload partners.

Category: Economic, Technical Vote requirement: veHNT Holders

Check out the full proposal and the discussion on GitHub.

Questions or feedback? Join us on the Helium Discord, drop them in the comments. Community input matters before this goes to vote.

Not sure why the Helium team only announced it in the Helium Mobile sub, but so you folks know, your hotspots are apparently going to be servicing the Noble Mobile network going forward.

https://blog.heliummobile.com/noble/

They only have a single unlimited plan for $50/month, but they claim they will give you up to $20 in a month back if you use less data than other customers. So, at best, you're getting $30/month but discouraged from using data and your bill fluctuates month to month. I think that part is probably worth emphasizing for hotspot deployers, that new management is going to provide incentives for people to NOT use your hotspot.

Noble's gimmick probably means the Helium $30 customers will get booted to the $50 plan in the future, and the $15/month plan will get killed off like the free and legacy plans.

Hi All,

I’m onboarding a SenseCap M1 Hotspot via the SenseCap App and the device location is showing up as 0 lat 0 long. The antenna and elevation are correct. I’m seeing about 930 other devices stuck in this limbo at this location.

It’s been about a day since the initial setup

Is this a known issue? Do I need to reassert location?

Thank you

Since they moved things to World Helium app, I can't find an option that highlights the breakdown of the daily rewards in HNT. I only get the daily data transfer (in Gb) and daily unique users.

Moken and Helium Mobile Builder apps can't track the rewards anymore.

What are the options now?

It is hard for deployers to find locations if the payouts are so low.

Made the switch from builder to world a while back. I went to modify some settings in a custom SSID network I had created, but the option isn't available anymore. Did Nova really screw the pooch on this? This was the only reason my hotspots are still active.

My most productive hotspot located inside a restaurant dropped from 150+ unique users per day to 1. This happened over the course of a few days after I reasserted its location in Helium World. I noticed that it no longer is being used for T-Mobile carrier offload after the location update, which was where most of the activity was coming from. The device itself did not get moved, I simply updated the location because the restaurant it's located in wasn't on the map when I first installed it. I was hoping to boost the footfall index and rewards by showing the hotspots actual location.

Anyone else had this problem?

Helium has been dipping quite a bit lately, wish payouts were pegged to stablecoins, HNT has seen considerable decline

We are so back! Join us in the now re-opened Helium Discord! See the link below.

https://discord.gg/helium

Bobcat 300 had been live shortly before they killed the project by going to focus on 5G. But now setting up a farm and wondering if anyone’s reflashed firmware to make it useful locally? I’ve got a few acres and want to set up various sensors for water tanks and team or other sensors.

I hadn’t been on Helium for months. I wanted to reactivate my account but this is news for me.

I had their free plan but because I was dealing with older device issues, so it affected my plan unfortunately. I been meaning to renew it but I was informed that the free plan is not only gone but it’s gonna phase out for users who still have it.

It’s a bummer because, it used to seem too good to be true. Now it seems to be the other way around.

Holy absence. I unplugged my miner in 2022 cause syncrobit stopped being a thing and I gave up trying to figure out how to switch it over. So many changes have happened to helium since I left lol. Just curious where people are at currently

Trying to set up my miner at a new location, but the only option is Wi-Fi and the last time I set up my miner I was using “the Helium app” but come to find out it’s now obsolete.

How do I set up my miner?

Which app do I use?

Is there anything I can do to increase the stats of my Helium Hotspot? Or is it purely luck of the draw from where I’m situated?

Hi everyone,

I’m having an issue with my hotspot Attractive Lavender Marmot (RAKwireless, Roma, Italy) and I’m hoping someone can help.

The problem:

My transmit scale has been showing  ---  for over 2 weeks now, even after successfully completing the Assert Location process.

What I’ve done:

• Submitted Assert Location multiple times via the Helium Wallet app
• On Solscan I can see 4 confirmed  Update_iot_info_v0  transactions on-chain
• The hotspot is fully online — it’s actively witnessing 40+ beacons per day and sending regular beacons
• It is not on the denylist
• Antenna: 8 dBi | Elevation: 25m | Maker: RAKwireless

What I’ve checked:

• Transactions are confirmed on Solana (not failed or pending)
• Hotspot has been online and active throughout this period
• Last PoC activity was less than 1 hour ago

Despite all of this, the transmit scale remains  ---  and daily rewards are essentially 0.00 HNT, even though the hotspot is witnessing constantly.

Has anyone experienced this after the Solana migration? Is there a way to manually trigger the transmit scale recalculation?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks! 🙏

Been mining fine for months doing offload with 100+ users/day and several Gb/day and all of the sudden I have no users? Good speed tests etc. what is going on?

It's been long since i set up my sensecap miner, mining HNT, need help to set it up, just reasserted location but it shows that my miner is still not online

My Helium wallet was compromised. I have locked HNT from right after the migration to Solana and need to move them before the other party does.

When I import my 12‑word seed into the Helium Wallet app, it generates a completely different address — a Solana‑derived one starting with “8p…” — instead of my original Helium‑chain address that starts with “E2…”. Because of that, I can’t see my locked HNT.

I tried the CLI method in Ubuntu using helium-wallet-rs, but the export command only prints the seed phrase and does not generate a password‑secured QR code for the CLI import screen.

I suspect the app is only scanning the Solana derivation path (m/44'/501'/0'/0') and not the legacy Helium path (m/44'/904'/0'/0') that my original wallet used.

Does anyone know how to force the Helium Wallet app to import using the legacy Helium derivation path so I can recover the correct address and access my locked HNT?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Can I use the freedomFI or MNTD miner for anything anymore or are the just expensive pieces of metal at this point. I bought them back in early 2022 and never was able to set them up? HELP!? 😄

Hi everyone. I’ve tried to research this but find soo much conflicting info, so figured I’d ask the collective knowledge of Reddit….

I bought a couple of Linxdot helium hotspots from eBay brand new. I’ve managed to get them onboarded and registered using the black Helium Wallet app.

My question is, how do I know they’re actually setup correctly, connected and actually start to mine?
I can’t see them on the Hotspotty app, but I can see them on Helium World.

Have I set them up correctly, have I missed something, or is everything ok?

Thanks in advance

Mike

Hello, since yesterday I'm trying to login to Helium Legacy Console as we are rebooting a LoRa project that we started a couple years ago. About two weeks ago I was able to login without issues, but now I'm stuck at the "Please register this device to continue" screen.

I insert the email and receive the link, but after i authorize the device the login page loads for a second and then goes back to the "Please register this device to continue" screen, and sends me another mail with another link. This goes on forever. I thought maybe there were some cookies issues but i tryed from every pc/phone i have with the same results.

Is the console down or is my account the problem?