The DePIN Library
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How To Maximize GEODNET Staking
How can you make the most of the new GEODNET staking program? Staking allows anyone to signal that they want a miner deployed in a certain area. Staking also offers larger rewards for both the staker and miners than a normal deployment. I’ll assume for now you know what GEODNET is; if not, hit this…
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How To Use A Helium Integration
Let’s start with the basics: What the heck is a Helium Integration, and why would you even need one? An “integration” is what allows the raw data that’s coming from your Helium sensors to be actually used. Whether that’s showing a dashboard of soil moisture, or temperature, or if you’re tracking the number of people who…
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How To Use Helium for Parking Sensors
One of the great opportunities of a ubiquitous wireless network like Helium’s LoRaWAN is in monitoring parking. While parking may seem slightly less interesting than day-old oatmeal to most of us, the more you know about parking the more you wonder why we don’t pay far more attention to it. Let’s start with the business cases…
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Sunsetting Helium Console — The End of an Era
As any project progresses from a good idea to first implementations and moves closer and closer to commercial viability, the nature of access to the project will change. Typically you start off by giving away access for free, just so people can try the thing out. Helium’s LoRaWAN (as all DePIN projects do) went a…
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Gristle Crüe — Silencio Brief
A few of the Silencio team came on to brief us on the latest with their project, and we got to have a great Q&A with ’em! June 20th Thomas — CEO & bizden Theo — COO Christopher — marketing & biz dev Eric — CPO, engineer, created a crypto exchange Florian — youngest brother, software dev Notes…
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Citizen Science: The Next DePIN Frontier
Now that Helium has shown the world how to deploy a global network of physical devices at a low capex, and Hivemapper, GEODNET, and WeatherXM (among many others) following suit, what should we expect to see in the next year? My guess is we’ll see the rise of DePIN/CS, for Decentralized Physical Infrastrucutre Networks/Citizen Science. Many…
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Improving Chirpstack for Helium
The most important person reading this may be non-technical. While technical expertise is critical to accomplish the goals set out below, much of the initial work done will be “imagination work”, trying to figure out how we as a community want to work with, in, and around a new form of access into Helium. Let’s…
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Riding The Downlink — A Rough Guide To Browan Tabs
What is a downlink, why would you want one, and how can you use ’em? With Helium being a permissionless network, we’re going to have a ton of people who are not LoRa wizards trying to use a LoRaWAN, including downlinks. I thought I’d write up a few articles on how to solve some of…
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A Rough Guide to Chirpstack on Helium
At the beginning of Helium’s LoRaWAN, the ability to route a packet from a device through the Hotspot network to wherever you wanted it to go was a service provided either Helium Inc or eventually, the Helium Foundation. That routing happened through the Helium Console, which was a custom built LNS (LoRaWAN Network Server). An…
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Gristle Crüe — Group Catch Up
Checked in with the Crüe on what everyone is doing and we’re a busy hustling group! From soil sensors to MOBILE deployments to new LNS and announcing that Crüe will now have early access to DePIN State calls, we’re all going hell for leather in this land of giant opportunities! Roundtable check in — what…