Developers behind the Helium network – a grid of medium-range wireless hotspots pitched as an alternative to hard-wired internet service – are proposing to migrate away from the project's own blockchain onto Solana, in pursuit of faster transaction speeds, higher uptimes and more interoperability with other blockchains as key reasons.
The Helium Foundation wrote in a Medium post this week that the new proposal from the Helium core developer team would improve the operational efficiency "significantly."
The proposal to move toward Solana and away from Helium's own blockchain, officially known as HIP 70, "addresses network speed, reliability and scalability," the foundation said.
According to the post, members had spent "countless hours keeping up unprecedented growth" and that reliable "proof-of-coverage activity" and "reliable data transfer activity" have "proven to be a challenge for users." The Helium Foundation said it "fully supports" the proposal, and that it had been under...
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