ECOSYSTEM SCORE
ECOSYSTEM SCORE
The score reflects the overall worthiness of the blockchain's ecosystem, as determined by regular monitoring and collective reviewing of the ecosystem.
ECOSYSTEM SCORE
ALERTS
Scheduled Maintenance for Website - dashboard.helium.com on Jan 17 starting at 10 am Pacific
Scheduled Maintenance - The database that provides block information to http://dashboard.helium.com will undergo required maintenance on Jan 17, 2023 at 18:00 UTC.
The API is back and fully caught up on Dec 24, 11:35 UTC.
API Outage - Explorer, Apps are behind. Transactions were delayed on Dec 24, 2022 at 02:28 UTC.
API Temporarily Halted - Chain Moving Normally as of Nov 19, 2022 - 02:40 UTC
Blockchain Stall @ Block 1619546. A rescue block has been generated and issued by the core developers and the Helium Foundation have resolved this incident.
Helium API Service Scheduled Maintenance Continues. The API is still down.
Scheduled Maintenance on Nov 16, 2022. 5 AM UTC. This scheduled maintenance affects: User Apps (Helium Wallet App, API) and Explorer, Helium App.
Chain Halt @ Block 1,587,313 on Oct 27, 00:53 - 05:26 UTC . The chain has resumed normal operations as of now.
Blockchain - Major outage for 1 hrs 2 mins on Oct 19, 2022.
API - Degraded Performance on Oct 19, 2022
Helium Wallet App - Degraded Performance on Oct 19, 2022
Explorer - Degraded Performance on Oct 19, 2022
User Apps - Blockchain - Major outage on Aug 9, 2022 for 8 hrs 2 mins
User Apps - Blockchain - Major outage on Aug 8, 2022 for 4 hrs 25 mins
Explorer was Unavailable - 30min on Aug 23,2022
ETL Behind by over 100 blocks error has been resolved
ETL Behind by over 100 blocks error on chain
User apps blockchain is currently working fine
User blockchain Chain is on Halt,there was a ledger drift,resolved
REVIEW NOTES
Protocol review done on January 11, 2023.
Protocol review done on December 28, 2022.
Protocol review done on December 14, 2022.
Protocol review done on December 1, 2022.
Protocol review done on November 11, 2022.
Protocol review done on October 27, 2022.
Documentation score decreased due less understandability of docs for Node setup
Increasing Third party score manage API data has been added
Increasing grant score no of developers and grant data has been added
Increasing Foundation tool score because SDKs has been updated
Updaing Performence data because nodes count has been added
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
The score depicts the network's performance rating based on metrics like avg TPS, nodes, gas fees, and uptime.
PERFORMANCE
2,977 nodes
N/A
N/A
N/A
100%
PERFORMANCE MATRIX | VALUE | MONITORED AT |
---|---|---|
Uptime Percentage | 100% | |
Node Count | 2,977 nodes | |
Reddit Total Members Online | 1,100 members | |
Reddit Total Members | 101,000 members | |
Discord Total Subscribers Online | 14,763 subscribers | |
Discord Total Subscribers | 167,796 subscribers | |
Telegram Err | 0 err | |
Telegram Ppm | 0 ppm | |
Telegram Views Per Post | 0 views | |
Telegram Total Subscribers Online | 1,351 subscribers | |
Telegram Total Subscribers | 25,580 subscribers |
FOUNDATION TOOLS
FOUNDATION TOOLS
The score represents the development support the protocol offers to developers in terms of tools and resources.
FOUNDATION TOOLS
DOCUMENTATION
DOCUMENTATION
he score is derived by considering the documentation support offered by the protocol to help developers better understand the protocol's ecosystem.
DOCUMENTATION
Exists
Exists
Doesn't Exists
Exists
GRANT PROGRAM
GRANT PROGRAM
The score reflects the protocol's progressiveness in allocating funds to support the developers who are building on top of the blockchain.
GRANT PROGRAM
$40,000
$51,000
ADD-ONS
ADD-ONS
The score reflects how equipped is the protocol's ecosystem with add-on tools like code editors, IDEs and security
auditing tools.
ADD-ONS
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
The score reflects the protocol's ability to provide third-party services such as Oracle integration, API management, and cloud services.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
PROTOCOL SUPPORT
PROTOCOL SUPPORT
It reflects how well the protocol's support system works in terms of communication tools, DAO rating, development community size, and stack exchange, among other things.
PROTOCOL SUPPORT
ADOPTION
ADOPTION
It indicates how widely the protocol has been adopted in the industry, taking into account aspects such as the
number of developers that are using it and the number of transactional values.
ADOPTION
2,176
156
94
12%
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY
The score depicts the protocol's overall responsiveness toward its members in online communities like Discord,
Telegram, Slack, Linkedin, etc.
COMMUNITY
Overview
Helium a is a decentralized wireless network built around WHIP on a purpose-built blockchain with a native token. At the basic level, Helium is a cryptocurrency-powered decentralized wireless network for "internet of things" devices. Decentralization in software-level networks is scaling up fast, but physical networks are taking long to adopt decentralization because they often require specialized hardware to function. The Helium network is a solution to this. It represents the decentralization of physical networks, which are more complicated to decentralize.
About the Helium Network
The Helium network encompasses a blockchain, a protocol token and a wide-area wireless networking system. The blockchain runs on a new kind of proof, called Proof-of-Coverage and a consensus protocol called the Helium Consensus Protocol. The key components of the network include:
Proof-of-Coverage
Proof-of-Coverage allows miners to prove they are providing wireless network coverage.
Helium Network
The helium blockchain network is designed specifically to service WHIP and provide a system for authenticating and identifying IoT devices, providing cryptographic guarantees of data transmission and authenticity.
Helium Consensus Protocol
Helium Consensus Protocol is a novel consensus protocol that combines an asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol with identities presented via Proof-of-Coverage to create a high throughput, permission-less, censor-resistant system.
WHIP
WHIP is an open-source and standards-compliant wireless network protocol designed for low-power IoT devices across large areas. WHIP protocol runs on existing commodity radio chips available from dozens of manufacturers and doesn't require any proprietary technologies or modulation schemes.
Proof-of-Location
Helium employs WHIP to outline a system for interpreting an IoT device's physical geolocation. This eliminates the need for expensive and energy-intensive satellite positioning hardware. This configuration enables proof-of-location, in which IoT devices can make immutable, secure, and verifiable claims about their location at a given point in time, which are recorded in the blockchain.
DWN
DWN represents a decentralized wireless network (DWN) that provides wireless access to the Internet for IoT devices by way of multiple independent miners. Within this network, the devices are the hardware with a radio chip and WHIP-compatible firmware. The network's miners provide wireless coverage to the network by bridging the WHIP with routers and the internet applications. In exchange, the miners receive HNT tokens. Devices spend the HNT tokens to pay the Miners, who send data to and from the Internet. Devices' private keys are stored in commodity key-storage hardware, and public keys are stored in the blockchain.
Helium's Consensus Mechanism
Helium network uses a combination of proof-of-coverage and proof-of-serialization. Proof-of-Coverage proves the veracity of miners in a physical space, and proof-of-serialization ensures that miners are accurately representing their time in relation to others on the network. Then this proof is used to achieve consensus on a blockchain network.
Key Features
It connects to anything.
The Helium Network is the world's largest and most rapidly expanding contiguous wireless network in history.
Open Source
It is based on open source technology and is run by an open alliance.
Scalable and cost-effective
It is a way to avoid paying for expensive cell contracts. A sensor on Helium can cost cents to run for a year.
LORAWAN-compatible
For streamlined development, it supports thousands of existing sensors, chipsets, and MCUs.
Use Cases
Enterprise solutions
The network provides secure, ubiquitous, and affordable wireless connectivity to enterprise devices connected to the network.
Roaming
LoRAWAN networks can use the Helium network to increase coverage density without the cost of additional gateway infrastructure. They can combine coverage and provide more connectivity for compatible sensors and devices.
Helium-powered vertical solutions
The network ecosystem hosts a range of vertical solutions built on Helium across use cases like smart agriculture, smart cities, environment monitoring, smart water monitoring, supply chain and logistics.
Founder
Amir Haleem, CEO & Co-Founder at Helium. Previously, he has served as CTO & Co-Founder at Diversion, Inc.