🗓 One month until The People’s Network launches nationwide

Our Block 13 newsletter is here with only one month left until The People’s Network launches nationwide! So, what does that mean? Come mid-October, we’ll be expanding beyond Austin and shipping the first batch of Hotspots to over 263 cities across the US.

With your help, we’ll deploy coverage magnitudes of times faster and at a fraction of the cost of traditional telcos. Not to mention, Hotspot owners will be pioneers in building the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless network and start mining Helium tokens early.

Get $50 off your Hotspot with PEOPLES50

We’re so thankful for your continued support and can’t wait until October when we kick off the next phase of this journey. Join the movement or expand your coverage with $50 off a Hotspot (or a few 😉) using the promo code PEOPLES50 at checkout here. Offer ends Sunday, September 22nd at 11:59pm PT.

📍Where to find Helium next

Austin, TX: Startup Week

We’re heading back to our first launch city for Austin Startup Week. If you’re in the area on September 24th, come hear a fireside chat with our COO, Frank Mong, alongside Kelsi Kamin of Silverton Partners to learn how you can develop a new class of devices on the network.

Chicago, IL: Voice of Blockchain

Next stop: the Windy City. On September 30th and October 1st, we’ll be participating in the Voice of Blockchain conference. Don’t miss our booth and panel on the economics of decentralizing internet access.

Raleigh, NC: All Things Open

Come explore All Things Open with Helium in Raleigh! We’ll be joining demo night hosted by our friends at RIoT on October 14th, followed by a presentation on October 15th with our Director of Product, Coco Tang, and Embedded Engineer, Louis Thiery.

🔜 Open Source and LongFi SDK

In addition to shipping Hotspots in October, we’ll be releasing a beta version of our LongFi SDK to enable developers to easily build devices on the network. If you want to help test the LongFi SDK, sign up on our Helium for Developers page.

✅ Improving Proof-of-Coverage

We’ve learned a great deal from analyzing how Proof-of-Coverage has been working in the wild and have come up with many desired improvements, including everything from how efficiently the paths are calculated and subsequently validated, to ensuring that the same location can’t be included in the same path multiple times. Stay tuned for documentation on these changes soon.

📱iOS and Android App Updates

Thanks to feedback from our users, we’ve squashed bugs and made significant improvements to the mobile app. Anyone can download the app today for iOS and Android to manage your Helium wallet, onboard Hotspots, and view the network coverage map.