The Helium team filed formal comments with the @FCC on the future of 911. Emergency interoperability should be built on open standards, not proprietary interfaces. The best available network that can carry emergency traffic should be able to help. Helium has already shown this in action. During Hurricane Helene, over 80% of cell sites in the hardest-hit parts of western North Carolina went offline and Team Rubicon built Helium beacons into its mobile recovery units. In Redondo Beach, carrier offload on the city's existing Wi-Fi reconnected a district that high-rise buildings had cut off for years. Helium delivered robust and reliable connectivity to that community, down to the police department basement with no new hardware or capital expenditure necessary. While not an emergency, Mardi Gras showed Helium’s capacity as the Network absorbed a 550% traffic surge and served over 100,000 additional users through standards-based handoff, with no carrier intervention required. That's what open interoperability looks like in the field. Major carriers route subscriber traffic through Helium infrastructure every day, and first responders can confidently rely on it when the tower network fails. Full filing:

@SpaceX can connect places towers never could. 🛰️ But there’s one massive gap: 70–80% of mobile traffic happens indoors, where satellite signals can struggle. That’s exactly where @helium is built to operate. 🎈 Satellites outside. Helium WiFi offload inside. Seamless handoff between the two. Imagine the possibilities if these networks eventually connect. solana:hntyVP6YFm1Hg25TN9WGLqM12b8TQmcknKrdu1oxWux could have a much bigger role in the future of wireless than people realize. 👀 @elonmusk

What the @SpaceX wireless plan gets right, and the 80% it leaves out... Satellite coverage closes gaps cell towers never could: across oceans, rural areas, supply lines. But 80% of mobile data lives indoors, where signals from space can fail. That's where Helium comes in.

With its people-built, decentralized Network already solving for indoor connectivity, Helium is THE intelligent layer between satellite, macro towers, and Wi-Fi networks. Read the full story 🛰️👇

With its people-built, decentralized Network already solving for indoor connectivity, Helium is THE intelligent layer between satellite, macro towers, and Wi-Fi networks. Read the full story 🛰️👇

What the @SpaceX wireless plan gets right, and the 80% it leaves out... Satellite coverage closes gaps cell towers never could: across oceans, rural areas, supply lines. But 80% of mobile data lives indoors, where signals from space can fail. That's where Helium comes in.

@SpaceX @Starlink The Helium way...🎈 Individuals, not just one corporation, deploy mobile coverage. They're the ones closest to the indoor connectivity demand. @SpaceX can handle the sky. Helium is earth-side, ready for the handoff 🌎.

@SpaceX @Starlink The Helium way...🎈 Individuals, not just one corporation, deploy mobile coverage. They're the ones closest to the indoor connectivity demand. @SpaceX can handle the sky. Helium is earth-side, ready for the handoff 🌎.

.@SpaceX just spent $19.6B on 65 MHz of spectrum and said it will build its mobile network with small cells on rooftops instead of towers, saying explicitly, “you deploy that as you need it.” Sound familiar? The most valuable private company in the world looked at the macro tower model and...passed. Their plan? Distributed radios on buildings, deployed incrementally, close to where people actually use data. It’s an endorsement of decentralized networks by the biggest challenger to traditional telco. Do satellites solve the universal connectivity problem? Not entirely on their own. Satellites are are good at covering things like oceans, highways, rural dead zones, and disaster areas. But what physics will not let them do is deliver capacity indoors, where most mobile data is actually consumed. Satellite signals do not pass through buildings, and 65 MHz stretched across a continent cannot carry a city at rush hour. Indoor connectivity has to be built from the ground up. Radio by radio, building by building, by people who are already there. It is the hardest part of wireless to replicate and the one part satellites fall short. So to @SpaceX @Starlink @Gwynne_Shotwell, welcome to decentralized wireless infrastructure! You handle the sky and when your customers walk inside, the @helium Network is already there for a smooth handoff 🤝. Source:

"Shotwell declined to talk about the capex for deploying a terrestrial network, saying that basically, the gear that holds a Starlink broadband dish could house “these little femtocells” around the country and “you deploy that as you need it.”" "You deploy as you need it" "You deploy as you need it" @helium deploys as it is needed

Be sure to catch the engaging and informative take @helium CLO, @SarahAberg1, has on the essential role the crypto asset market structure bill has within, and more importantly, outside of the crypto industry. #confidentlycrypto# #clarityact# #cryptonews#

📢 Governance Notice for veHNT Holders 📢 If you've delegated your veHNT position, that delegation expires tonight, August 1 at 00:00 UTC (or at your position's lockup end, if that came sooner). Once it expires, your position stops earning delegation rewards, and rewards for the days after expiry are never accrued to your position at all. They aren't held for you and can't be recovered later, so renew today. (Rewards you earned while delegated never expire; you can claim those whenever.) ➡️ Renewing is simple: it's a one-click extension, not a full re-delegation. Go to the Governance section on or the Helium Wallet app (iOS / Android), and hit extend on your delegation. That's it. No need to un-delegate or claim anything first. It extends in place and keeps earning through next August 1, 2027 (or your lockup end, whichever comes first). ➡️ If you miss tonight's deadline: The one-click extend won't be available anymore. You'll have to claim all outstanding epochs, un-delegate, then delegate again from scratch, and you'll permanently lose rewards for every day you're expired. Don't put it off. ➡️ Separately: check your proxy, but only if you use one. If you've assigned someone to vote on your behalf, that proxy assignment also expires tonight and needs to be re-assigned. This matters for rewards: each daily epoch's rewards are only paid if your position voted on at least 2 of the 4 most recent HNT proposals (votes cast by your proxy count the same as your own). A proposal that's still open also counts in your favor; you're only penalized for proposals you let close without voting. If your position falls below the threshold, that epoch's rewards are burned when claimed, permanently, not withheld. So either keep an active proxy or vote on proposals yourself. If you vote directly, you don't need a proxy at all. *⃣ A few practical notes: • Changes take effect at the next daily rewards epoch (UTC midnight), so allow up to ~24 hours before they show up. • Keep at least ~0.01 SOL in your wallet for transaction fees. • If you have "autoclaim" on and you don't vote, turn autoclaim off. "Autoclaim" claims each epoch shortly after it closes, and if your position is below the 2-of-4 voting threshold at that moment, the claim burns that epoch's rewards immediately. Claiming manually lets you vote on any still-open proposal first. Also, on smaller positions the per-claim crank cost can exceed the HNT claimed, so manual claiming on a longer interval may be cheaper regardless.

Carriers are cutting infrastructure spending. Demand keeps climbing. That gap is what Helium exists to fill: real people building coverage where carriers won't. Protecting what builders earn is what keeps it growing. Read more about the earnings safety net 👇.

“The gap between what carriers need to build and what they can afford to build the traditional way is widening every quarter. Helium is the only platform filling that gap at scale today.” Fresh off @Blockworks Q2 report on Helium 👇.