Helium scales to 100K+ hotspots, cuts costs 1000x with Solana

Helium scaled from Raspberry Pi test rigs to 100,000+ active hotspots across 80 countries, powering the world’s largest decentralized 5G + IoT network  🛜 They process 576 TB of data in a single quarter for 124,000+ mobile subscribers, and they got there by rethinking everything from rewards to onboarding. The inflection point: migrating from their own chain (~10 TPS) to Solana (1600+ TPS). That shift: — Cut costs 1000x with compressed NFTs — Dropped transaction fees to fractions of a cent (a single Hotspot operator maxes out at ~$0.07 cents in fees, even claiming rewards daily — Made every hotspot composable with Solana’s entire onchain economy Read the blueprint for scaling your hardware or physical infrastructure with Solana. 📖 Full Helium technical deep dive case study: https://lnkd.in/gAxM3iAd 

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Abdulrahman Jibrin

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Thanks for sharing

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HNT, doing great things enhancing connectivity.

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Massive scale! Migrating to Solana wasn’t just technical — it was strategic. Helium is proving how physical infrastructure can plug directly into onchain economies. A true blueprint for scaling DePIN

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