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/pharkmillup...
Mar 12, 2025•49 min
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-n...
Feb 04, 2025•32 min•Ep. 1
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-...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 21 min
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 Podc...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 39 min
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...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 35 min
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:...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 29 min
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 ...
Sep 06, 2022•1 hr 38 min
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: ht...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 24 min
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 we...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 48 min
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 Spoti...
May 09, 2022•45 min
Nova Labs CPO Abhay Kumar and FreedomFi CEO Boris Renski join me to discuss the future of earning with Helium 5G hotspots. They share in-depth details on current progress and the latest cutting-edge development needed to make it all happen. Watch FreedomFi transmit 5G data on Helium testnet in May 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rhjeWiRK8 Follow Boris: https://twitter.com/zer0tweets Follow FreedomFi: https://twitter.com/Open5G Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay Hosted by Arman Dezfu...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min
I answer your Twitter questions on Helium Network supply issues, blockchain bugs, balloon math and more. Get started mining with FairSpot: https://www.fairspot.host/ 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 ...
Feb 25, 2022•17 min
This is a recording of a live Discord AMA I hosted on Feb 19, 2022 to clear the air about HIP 55 after considerable confusion in the community. Includes commentary from Helium core team members. VOTE on HIP 55: https://heliumvote.com/14Rjhhz1DXLVmSRdzappqWgD6rfgu6XYxmdaSCvWLyLH8ZWbciK Read HIP 55: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0055-validator-challenges.md Read more about Light Hotspots: https://docs.helium.com/mine-hnt/light-hotspots/ Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi More episodes of ...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The Helium core team hosts an open discussion about HIP 54 and 55, some of the final steps on the road to Light Hotspots becoming a reality. NOTE: madninja's audio wasn't working well so his part was removed as it was largely unintelligible Read HIP 54: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0054-h3dex-targeting.md Read HIP 55: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/main/0055-validator-challenges.md Read more about Light Hotspots: https://docs.helium.com/mine-hnt/light-hotspots/ Hosted by Arman Dez...
Feb 19, 2022•26 min
Ex-Verizon Wireless engineer Russell From explains what cellular networks are, what big telcos desperately need and how Helium 5G deployers can take advantage of the situation. Follow Russell: https://twitter.com/fromenator 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/5Wi2U6g7GWzrYzgOc...
Feb 02, 2022•59 min
A review of the latest Q&A by FreedomFi CEO Boris Renski. He dropped a lot of new, interesting info and I explain the context and motivations behind his answers. View the doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TN8zLwq3qNFy2lbsKskuf_p4mNi_XZflADe9-ORcHDk 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://ope...
Jan 26, 2022•17 min
A live conversation about HIP 42 (Beacon/Witness Ratio), authored by Anthonyra. HIP 42 is currently up for a temperature check vote at Helium Vote which ends on 2022/01/16. Check out the resources below to read this HIP and learn how to cast your vote. More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspot 0:01:09 - Anthonyra Intro 0:04:11 - HIP 42 Intro 0:12:15 - Helium Network P2P Issues 0:17:46 - Preventing Repeater Gaming 0:24:43 - Preventi...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 8 min
An interview with Frank Mong, COO of Helium Inc. Frank shares his thoughts on network scaling, 5G partnerships, how Helium is fighting against illegitimate hotspots gaming HNT rewards, and more. This episode is hosted by Nik Hawks a.k.a. Gristle King, a prominent Helium community member and winner of Helium's 2021 Noble award. Please show Nik some love by checking out his website and Twitter. 01:11 - Frank Intro 03:34 - Decentralization 08:38 - HST & Fundraising 10:54 - 5G Partnerships 17:12...
Jan 02, 2022•57 min
Boris Resnki, founder of FreedomFi, and returning guest James Fayal join to discuss making Helium an omni-protocol network (starting with 5G) and enabling Proof of Coverage for new protocols. This is an amazing discussion with tons of detail, including the 5G launch plan, carrier deals, possible exploits and more. Boris and James do an excellent job of answering the tough questions. 0:00:00 - Start 0:02:03 - What Helium Is & Could Be 0:03:06 - FreedomFi Intro & Back Story 0:06:59 - Heliu...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Two IoT industry experts join to discuss what Helium does differently to upend the antiquated way that IoT networks are traditionally built and sold. We also cover what types of devices actually use Helium and how they can make the world a better place. Follow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhay 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...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Abhay Kumar, Chief Product Officer of Helium Inc., joins us to discuss the imminent validator launch, share opinions on on-chain reward splitting and unveil some seriously beautiful NFTs that Helium is auctioning off for charity. 00:00 - Start 00:27 - Abhay Intro: From Mylar to CPO 06:30 - Is Validator Testnet Ending Soon? 09:53 - What's Left Before Mainnet Launch 13:47 - Bison Trails Unstake Cooldown Confusion 17:23 - HIP 24 (On-Chain Reward Splitting) Review & Opinions 29:31 - Zodiac NFTs:...
Jun 05, 2021•49 min
FairSpot is a company I started with a mission to deliver radically fair hotspot hosting. Learn why I started it, our mission and how we operate to empower hosts and support the Helium ecosystem. Follow FairSpot: https://twitter.com/fairspothelium 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.co...
Jun 03, 2021•23 min
Helium CEO Amir Haleem joins to discuss future work on Proof of Coverage and adding 5G to the network via a partnership with FreedomFi. 00:00 - Start 00:30 - Roadmap: Proof of Coverage 06:43 - Roadmap: CBRS & 5G 21:10 - Outro Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem 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 Spotif...
Apr 27, 2021•21 min
Helium CEO Amir Haleem joins to discuss future work on validators and light hotspots, which together form the future of the Helium blockchain and hotspot infrastructure. 00:00 - Start 05:12 - What Didn't Make It On The Roadmap 07:48 - Hiring More Engineers? 09:34 - Helium's Layer 1 Blockchain 11:35 - Roadmap: Validators 20:54 - Roadmap: Light Hotspots Follow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleem Hosted by Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast ...
Apr 20, 2021•33 min
Tushar Jain is managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a prominent investment firm and one of Helium's largest investors. He joins us once again to discuss his new article, The Helium Flywheel, and break down all of the components that ensure Helium miners will have a positive return on their investment through the next million hotspots and beyond. 00:52 - The Helium Flywheel Intro 02:23 - How The Flywheel Works 05:42 - Manufacturing & Supply Bottlenecks 07:56 - New Manufacturer Shipping Anno...
Apr 02, 2021•23 min
Mark Phillips is Helium's Vice President of Business Development and one of the company's earliest employees. Mark goes into great detail about the company's process for bringing new users and device manufacturers onto the network, outlines the company's strategy and helps me understand Helium's competitors and the challenges the network faces. He also shares some pretty awesome growth predictions for this year and beyond. 0:00:35 - Introductions 0:01:18 - Philly Blockchain Meetup 0:04:54 - Hots...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min
A conversation with para1 (aka Andrew). We go through the most recent Helium Improvement Proposals, HIP 21-26, and offer a basic overview as well as in-depth analysis, in addition to our opinions on whether or not we'd support them. 0:00:38 - Introductions 0:02:19 - HIP 15 + 17: Brief Recap 0:11:05 - HIP 21: PoC Link Layer Upgrades 0:27:58 - HIP 22: Anchor Gateways 0:48:36 - HIP 24: Reward Splitting 1:09:17 - HIP 23 + 25: Validators 1:19:54 - HIP 26: Payment Notes 1:26:58 - Closing Thoughts 1:30...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 30 min
An informal Q&A session with Steve Sellers, an engineer who's new to Helium and has some great questions about the network. We dive deep into hotspot earnings optimization, proof of coverage, cellular backhaul and more. 00:59 - Welcome, Steve's Background, Why We Like Helium 05:14 - HIP 19, Hardware Manufacturing 11:26 - RAK Shipping Delays, Swarm Keys, ECC Chips 14:43 - Proof of Coverage Explanation, GPS Spoofing 17:45 - HNT Rewards Explanation 22:55 - Rewards & Trust in a Post-PoC Era ...
Dec 22, 2020•53 min
A discussion with James Fayal and returning guest Tushar Jain about Helium's token economics and our new proposal, HIP 20. Follow Tushar: @TusharJain_ Follow James: @JMFayal Outro song: Sethu & Lil $adape - Hotspot 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...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr
Frank Mong, Chief Operating Officer at Helium, Inc. joins to discuss the new RAK Hotspot Miner, the perils of supply chains, Amazon Sidewalk and more. Fair warning, there's more profanity than usual in this episode. Follow Frank: @fmong 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/5Wi2...
Sep 22, 2020•56 min
