The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

Mark Philips (VP of Business Development) and Mario Di Dio (GM of Network) from Nova Labs join us to discuss their landmark network usage deal with telecom giant Telefonica via their subsidiary Movistar in Mexico.

We dive deep into this critical trial for the network and how it could spur growth with up to 2 million new subscribers roaming onto Helium.

Deploy Hotspots in Mexico: https://helium.com/mexico
Expansion Zones & Stats: https://world.helium.com

Follow Mark: https://x.com/pharkmillups
Follow Mario: https://x.com/didiomario

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
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• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

Coco Tang from Helium Mobile joins to discuss the world's first TRULY FREE phone plan and 2 other freshly launched plans.

Download the Helium Mobile app at https://onelink.to/ezw5cw and use code ARMAN for your $0 plan.

Check out Helium Mobile: https://hellohelium.com/
Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

JMF & triM join to discuss returning to a single token (HNT). Lean how we got here, why it's a critical move and how the HIP authors think it can be pulled off.

Read HIP 138: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0138-return-to-hnt.md
Follow James (JMF): https://x.com/JMFayal
Follow Matt (triM): https://x.com/thetrimdj

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman joins me to discuss one of the fastest-growing users of the Helium network, and explains how his long history in the mapping industry resulted in a Helium-like token model that quickly led to exponential dashcam adoption with drivers all over the world.

• Learn more about Hivemapper: https://www.hivemapper.com/
• Follow Ariel: https://twitter.com/aseidman

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

An all-star cast of Helium community members including Nik Hawks (gristleking), Ed Ballou, Winston Lazar and Gary from Australia join me to reflect on the network's current issues and explore the boundless opportunities that most are overlooking.

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

A discussion with founders and foundation members of Solana and Helium about HIP 70, the radical proposal to scale the Helium network. I moderate the panel and ask the community's most burning questions about what will change.

This is the most honest and compelling talk about HIP 70 yet, going deep into the root causes of why the Nova team thinks this proposal needs to happen.

00:00:00 Start
00:01:15 Intro & community recap
00:03:44 HIP 70 brief explanation
00:05:46 The road to HIP 70
00:12:52 Helium community skepticism about updates
00:16:35 Advantages of switching to a new L1
00:21:14 Difficulty of building L1
00:23:29 Importance of laser focus
00:26:41 Is Helium forfeiting its sovereignty?
00:30:33 Exploding community dev engagement
00:34:14 How long HIP 70 will take
00:42:17 How oracles affect decentralization
00:46:46 Validators unstaking timeline
00:57:04 IOT genesis snapshot timeline
00:58:00 IOT token launch timeline
00:58:54 Could HIP 70 be compromised?
01:00:16 Pros/cons of community governance
01:01:43 Why Solana, if it's unstable?
01:10:57 Better hotspot remote diagnostics?
01:14:23 How does veHNT work?
01:17:09 Impact on IOT/LoRaWAN routers?
01:21:51 Broken data packet accounting
01:22:50 Detailed breakdown of the L1 choice?
01:26:00 Closing thoughts

Check out the latest TL;DR on HIP 70 by Frank Mong: https://blog.helium.com/tl-dr-on-hip-70-hnt-ecosystem-would-expand-on-solana-abb123501765

And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium

• Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
• Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
• Follow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_Federa
• Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
• Follow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhiller

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

HIP 70 is a game changer for the scalability of the Helium Network. This episode is the ultimate educational resource about HIP 70, with commentary from both Helium founder Amir Haleem and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as the Nova Labs core dev team.

Learn more about the HIP on the Helium Foundation's blog: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team-proposes-to-migrate-to-solana-e7ea23a042e7

And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/helium

• Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
• Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

Helium DAO (HIP 51) is a proposal for a new, more flexible architecture to enable the Helium network's future growth. HIP 52-53 are the proposals for the IoT and Mobile subDAOs that fit under this umbrella.

In this episode, the authors of HIP 51, James Fayal, Abhay Kumar, and Tushar Jain, as well as Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem, join for a live discussion to answer the community's questions about these wide-reaching improvements.

For an intro to HIP 51-53, check out this Twitter space recording: https://twitter.com/helium/status/1524408694829551617

• Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem
• Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay
• Follow Tushar: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_
• Follow James: https://twitter.com/JMFayal

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

Light Hotspots have been live for a week. They arrived with growing pains, but the future is bright. The Nova Labs team, moderators, and community mentors join us to answer the community's questions about what comes next.

NOTE: It was mentioned on the call that a hotspot's connected validator would be shown on the explorer, which upon further investigation isn't possible. However, makers are looking to integrate this feature and it will be available on certain hotspot dashboards in the coming weeks. Check with your maker for more information.

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

On May 11, Light Hotspots will finally go live! Coco Tang, Director of Product at Nova Labs, joins me for an action-packed conversation about how Light Hotspots will benefit the network, what activation day will look like and more.

• Follow Coco: https://twitter.com/_cocotang

Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi
 

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hotspot-helium-network-blockchain-podcast/id1524379293
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOcsEvyb
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hotspotpod
• Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hotspot-Helium-Network-Blockchain-Podcast/dp/B08JJSSL57

Resources:

• Follow me: https://x.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Helium: https://x.com/helium
• Follow Helium Foundation: https://twitter.com/HeliumFndn
• Follow Helium Mobile: https://x.com/helium_mobile
• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade