Helium Wallet 1.5.0 Prepare for the Helium migration to the Solana blockchain! This app update makes it easier for “blue app” users to successfully migrate to the Wallet app to manage their tokens. For those already on the Wallet app, migration will be easy. Just make sure your app is updated to the latest versions and your tokens will automatically be updated to use Solana. Support for Helium Hotspot Migration Adds support for incoming Wallets from Helium Hotspot App (blue app) checks if wallet being migrated already exists adds deeplink signing for transfer_hotspot and assert_location trans ..read more

The Nova developers have tagged a new 2022.12.13.0 Hotspot release for Original Helium Hotspots. This release prepares Hotspots for off-chain proof-of-coverage by updating the automatic beacon rate to every 6 hours, adds “jitter” to the beacon rate such that in the event all Hotspots come online at the same time, the PoC system is not overwhelmed with PoC. Plan We have been testing 2022.12.13.0 since December 13, 2022. Release for Original Helium Hotspots will be December 13, 2022 at 2:15pm PST. GA for other Hotspot Manufacturers is December 19, 2022 at 9:30am PST ..read more

What happened On Wednesday, 2022-10-26, at approximately 1:57 AM UTC, Validators stopped producing blocks at block 1,587,313, and a chain halt occurred. Consequently, two days later, at 3:57 PM UTC, a second chain halt occurred at block 1,589,496. Normal chain operations resumed approximately 32 hours later at 2022-10-30 1:32 AM UTC. Throughout the disruption, Hotspots were not able to fully participate in Proof-of-Coverage. All funds were safe, but pending transactions were delayed until the halt was resolved. Pending Transactions include adding a Hotspot, changing a Hotspot Location, transfe ..read more

New Features Burn HNT for DC from Console The Wallet app now supports burn transactions from Helium Console. To burn Data Credits for packet transfer, simply tap the “Send” button and the QR code in the top left corner and scan the QR code. Bug Fix Allow non-default wallets to sign transactions Fix max font size for smaller displays Fix payment screen if pin is off (but previously enabled ..read more

The core developers have tagged a new 2022.10.28.0 miner release. This release adds exponential back-off for Hotspots when requesting ledger information from Validators. This also ensures timely back-off when block times are too high and avoids too many Hotspots attempting to connect to a Validator. The pull request specifically addresses the blockchain outages over the past week from a Hotspot’s perspective. Related PRs #1839 add exp backoff to grpc client reconnects to vals Plan We have been testing 2022.10.28.0 on Mainnet since October 28 8:43am PT. GA is October 31, 2022 10:00am PT ..read more

What happened On Wednesday 2022-10-19 at approximately 2:20 AM UTC Validators stopped producing blocks at block 1,575,935 and a chain halt occurred. Consequently, at 5:55 AM UTC a second chain halt occurred at block 1,575,955. Normal chain operations resumed approximately 5.5 hours later at 7:49 AM. Throughout the disruption, Hotspots did not participate in Proof-of-Coverage. All funds were safe, but pending transactions were delayed until the halt was resolved. Pending Transactions include adding a Hotspot, changing a Hotspot Location, transferring a Hotspot, payments, and token burns. During ..read more

New Features Brand New UI The UI has been cleaned to show a chart based on $HNT oracle price, made voting more intuitive, and improved payments on subtokens. iOS Homescreen and Lockscreen Widget Support Check out the new widgets available for iOS! See the Oracle $HNT price ..read more

New Features Import CLI Wallet Do you have a CLI Wallet? Do you wish you had a user interface to use instead? Now you can! Upgrade your CLI Wallet to v1.7.6 to export your CLI Wallet private key and protect it with a passphrase. Scan the private key (as a QR Code) with the Wallet app, decrypt the wallet with the passphrase you set up, and easily import a CLI wallet into the app. Once imported, you can use the wallet like any other wallet within the Helium Wallet app (send, receive, vote). Multitoken Support The app now displays all tokens available on the Helium blockchain in a single place, i ..read more

The core developers have tagged a new 2022.08.17.1 miner release. This release disables peer-to-peer activity when the Hotspot is no longer syncing the chain. This improves overall performance for the peer-to-peer network for other participants and stability of the network as a whole. Other improvements include an update to HTTP2 process that the Hotspot uses to communicate to Validators (over GRPC), and a Kerlink-specific improvement that fixes the RSSI computation if the SNR is lower than zero to reduce the number of invalid Proof-of-Coverage challenges and receipts. Related PRs #1801 Disabl ..read more

What happened On Monday 2022-08-08 at approximately 19:34 PM UTC Validators stopped producing blocks at block 1,469,951 and a chain halt occurred. Normal chain operations resumed at approximately 08:00 AM UTC just over 7 hours later. Throughout the disruption, devices continued to transfer data and operate normally. There were no risks to Hotspot owners or HNT holders, but they did experience a halt in transaction processing, for example, adding and transferring Hotspots, asserting location, and completing payment and burn transactions. Cause The latest chain variable activation revealed a pre ..read more