CanonHelium
Helium: paper, then practice.
Helium pays for proof of coverage. Radios that hear each other can satisfy the proof without carrying the traffic a customer paid for.
Amir Haleem, Andrew Allen, Andrew Thompson. 2018. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.
- The paper. The Helium paper for a wireless network built from independently owned hotspots. Coverage is the commodity. Proof-of-coverage is the paper's way of checking that a radio is where it says it is and that it can be heard. Later changes of purpose and token are not this document.
- DePIN.
- What changed.
- DePIN canvas.
What this chain does not claim
It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: Helium white paper.