Helium community votes to migrate to Solana, scores new T-Mobile partnership

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An overwhelming bulk of Helium’s (HNT) assemblage has voted to migrate the wireless web to layer1 blockchain Solana (SOL).

According to disposable information, the HIP 70 proposal received 6,177 votes (81.41%) successful enactment of its plan, portion 1,270 were against it.

The ballot ended successful the aboriginal hours of Sept. 22, and astir 15 cardinal HNT tokens were staked during the voting process.

Helium developers said the Solana migration would assistance standard the web and boost its adoption alternatively of expending resources connected managing their blockchain.

With the connection passed, Helium tokens — HNT, IOT, and MOBILE— would beryllium issued connected the Solana blockchain. The web volition besides update its wallet, and users tin usage Solana-based wallets for their HNT tokens.

Meanwhile, contempt the planned migration to Solana, the developers person said Helium’s blockchain past volition stay public.

Reports had revealed that the projected migration had divided Helium’s assemblage arsenic immoderate members requested that the web includes different blockchain networks successful the proposal.

Helium scores caller partnership

Helium developers Nova Labs announced a caller five-year concern with T-Mobile to make a caller 5G wireless work called Helium Mobile connected Sept. 21.

Reports revealed that Helium Mobile would beryllium targeted astatine dormant 5G spots successful the United States for wireless web users.

According to the developers, web subscribers could besides gain crypto rewards.

The task would beryllium launched successful the archetypal 4th of 2023, and subscription plans would commencement astatine $5 per month.

The Nova Labs squad said the caller Helium Mobile web could beryllium described arsenic a mobile virtual web relation (MVNO) oregon crypto carrier.

Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem said:

“Our caller statement with T-Mobile gives our subscribers nationwide 5G sum and enables america to connection mobile products and services that usage some networks.”