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Helius

Solana-focused infrastructure company providing RPC nodes, APIs, webhooks and developer tools, plus a staking validator; also publishes Solana research.

Known aliases

  • Helius Labs

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

France's €100,000 crypto wallet reporting rule is absent from the budget text the Assembly now debates

France's Assembly finance committee adopted a rule making holders of €100,000 or more in self-custody crypto report it or face fines up to €10,000. The same committee then voted 31 to 3 against the budget's revenue section, and the government's original text contains none of its crypto amendments.

Publishers:decrypt.co

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives40
Confidence55
investConfirmed4 publishers

Solana's first binding vote cancels 18.9 million SOL of scheduled issuance

Solana's validators voted to slow token issuance by cutting their own reward stream. The margin was thin enough that one custodian's late change of mind settled six years of the network's monetary schedule.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 42%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence68
buildOne report1 publisher

The mint-creation opt-in decides which Solana tokens can ever go confidential

Helius's Rings demo runs on devnet and can hide the transaction graph; the Token-2022 extension has been live on mainnet since June and hides only the amount. Which one you can use is settled by the token issuer.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption18
Hype gap−20
Incentives42
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Solana's 4,096-byte transactions break the tools that only read blocks

The September 9 format change is optional for senders and mandatory for anyone parsing blocks, and the Jito bundle data Anza used to size it says a 4,096-byte ceiling absorbs between half and two thirds of the workloads that needed a workaround.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption38
Hype gap+15
Incentives58
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Solana's rent cut is 90% off for new accounts and a 10x premium frozen into the old ones

SIMD-0437 walks the per-byte deposit from 6,960 lamports to 696 in five gated steps. It is not retroactive, so pre-activation accounts refund ten times what their replacements will.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption28
Hype gap+31
Incentives82
Confidence31
investOne report1 publisher

Bitwise's tokenization test moves the register, not the product

Bitwise and Superstate would leave BSOL's rights and purchase channels untouched and change only who keeps the ownership record. That is the version of a tokenized fund that can plausibly clear compliance.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption14
Hype gap+18
Incentives74
Confidence41