Featured in Solana Foundation's curated list of AI skills and tools for Solana development alongside other major protocols.

Migrated all customers to a new in-house billing system.

Doubled TypeScript and Rust SDK usage.

Participated in The Rollup Co's "Intents Day Special" on 2026-02-09 with Dash, NEAR Protocol, and Starknet.

Shipped Wallet API, enabling AI agents to generate keypairs, fund wallets, and obtain API keys through automated provisioning in beta.

Participated in the "Onchain Data Deep Dive" industry panel on January 29, 2026, where a representative shared insights on PropAMMs and DEX volume dynamics on the SVM.

Helius participated in NEAR Intents Day as a panelist discussing privacy alongside representatives from Dash, NEAR Protocol, and Starknet on January 22, 2026.

Listed as one of approximately 50 teams attending mtndao v9 event scheduled for 2026-01-31.

The team launches gTFA RPC method, addressing historical data challenges on Solana.

Helius Labs participates in "Liquidity After Dark" event with Jito, DFlow, and Ellipsis Labs.

Helius Labs secures #3 position in Solana validator rankings, with Figment at #1 and Jupiter at #2.

Helius Labs presents at Solana Breakpoint Abu Dhabi on December 13 at 2:45pm during community day, featured in the conference's top projects lineup alongside Jupiter, Firedancer, Backpack, Jito, and Arcium.

Helius Labs publishes research article titled "What Would Solana Need to Change to Become Quantum Ready?" covering quantum computing threats and technical migration strategies for Solana.

Orb Markets integrates DFlow's JIT Routing technology to power best-execution trading on Solana directly in the browser.

@robbie689 joins Helius team.

Orb Markets from Helius Labs debuts as a new product launch in the Solana ecosystem.

Helius joins multi-party partnership alongside 14+ projects including unruggable_io, Vybe_Network, IkonShopApp, GotSOLpay, and others in a collaborative initiative.

Helius expands into orderflow services with RWA (Real World Assets) as the initial focus, adding to its existing RPC, validator, and LST operations.

A new invest product launches tomorrow on the platform, enabling trading of recently listed assets including HYPE, ZEC, and MON.

Bitwise Solana Staking ETF reaches $500M in assets under management in first 18 days, powered by Helius staking technology, establishing position as largest U.S. Solana ETP.

A niche group of traders uses Helius shreds for profitable trading strategies, leveraging the speed advantage from high validator stake.

Helius' AirShip product facilitates successful RACER token airdrop for PrivacyBaldGuys project.

Approximately 7,990 SOL yield generated for BSOL investors through Helius-powered staking infrastructure.

Helius reaches 14 million staked SOL as a Solana validator.

Helius provides infrastructure for Bitwise BSOL, a Solana staking product targeting 100% of assets to be staked and managed in-house by Bitwise.

Integrates Solana Name Service (.sol domains) into Orb explorer, allowing wallet activity searches by name and displaying all .sol domains tied to wallets.

Launches getTransactionsForAddress, a new API method for querying historical Solana data.

Orb integrates with Glyde to enable easier Solana blockchain exploration.

Orb integrates with DFlow, bringing AI-powered transaction decoding, deep historical search, and real-time network analytics to DFlow's trading platform.

Launches Orb Markets, an AI-powered blockchain explorer with plain English transaction translation, historical search, fund flow tracing, and real-time network stats, including vesting contracts, token flows, and DeFi transactions.

Introduces Laserstream low-latency websockets and 40x faster gRPC client. Launched Gatekeeper, a low-latency edge gateway, now in public beta.

BSOL ETF becomes the most successful ETF launch by volume in 2025 with ~$300M staked on Solana.

Releases block explorer functionality.

Bitwise BSOL ETF accumulates $289M in assets under management and ranks as 16th largest crypto ETF, with staking operations at 82% of funds staked yielding 7%.

Introduces new getTransactionsForAddress API endpoint as part of redesigned Solana historical data system, making queries 1,000x faster with 10x lower latency and drastically fewer RPC calls.

Bitwise Solana Staking ETF ($BSOL) launches tomorrow with Helius as exclusive staking provider through Bitwise Onchain Solutions, targeting 100% of assets staked with 0% fees during waiver period.

Collaborates with Twinstake and Solana Company to expand DAT operations, now holding over 2.2M SOL ($396M).

Partners with $HSDT (Solana_Company) for RPC provider collaboration.

Platform experiences massive demand surge consuming one month of developer tokens in 12 hours, restricting access to just 10% of applicants.

Users being solicited to send 0.1 SOL to a specific wallet address for unclear "ionization meter" functionality with progress supposedly tracked through Helius login.

Actively hiring quants, frontend developers, designers, and rust engineers for team expansion.

All Helius and core Solana systems remain unaffected by today's AWS outage, with infrastructure running on thousands of redundant bare metal servers globally.

Validator now operates on DoubleZero infrastructure while claiming to produce the most slots without network delays, reportedly speeding up the network.

Helius powers Zcash trading and liquidity provision on Solana alongside Raydium Protocol.

Helius maintains #1 Solana validator position while Jupiter Exchange passes Binance to claim #2 spot.

Helius reclaims the #1 Solana validator position from Binance, with Jupiter Exchange holding the #3 spot.

CEO claims Helius handled the majority of Solana chain usage from ecosystem teams with zero issues during recent market conditions.

CEO Mert confirms Solana "worked great" during a recent market dump that he states was greater in magnitude than the COVID crash, highlighting the network's infrastructure stability under extreme market conditions.

CEO directly solicits staking with Helius, revealing competitive challenges in capturing staking market share against a dominant competitor despite offering higher returns.

CEO Mert actively promotes Zcash token on X, with this cheerleading activity associated with Zcash's price rise to $165 on Monday.

CEO Mert publicly states that Solana is "embarrassingly behind on stables and perps", highlighting infrastructure gaps in the ecosystem.

CEO Mert speaks at TOKEN2049 Singapore infrastructure panel "LONGITUDE SG: Building Trillion Dollar Infra" alongside founders from Aave and EigenLayer, discussing blockchain infrastructure development.

cosmo_jiang appears on CNBC's The Exchange to discuss HSDT strategy and vision, focusing on Digital Asset Tokens and Solana market access.

The project is participating in Token2049 conference discussions focused on the rise of Digital Asset Tokens (DATs), featuring HSDT alongside industry participants from Fundstrat.

Native stakers have millions in unclaimed MEV rewards that require manual collection through a harvest site.

Pengu and Doodle Token Generation Events airdropped tokens to Helius stakers as part of partnerships with these projects. The platform is positioned as one of only 2 Solana native teams among the Top 30 validators.

Team member cosmo_jiang appears on CNBC Crypto World to discuss Pantera's $HSDT launch.

Funding establishes the Solana Treasury Company, with leadership appearing in an upcoming industry panel alongside Pumpfun, Axiom, and Forward representatives.

A $500 million funding raise is announced, with congratulations directed to a key team member associated with the project.

Pantera Capital launches $HSDT, their first public access investment vehicle providing Solana exposure through Helius, described as access to their largest position.

New payments platform Grid opens to public, leveraging Helius RPC and indexing capabilities to support fintech and developer infrastructure on Solana.

Launches new 'Sender' product for transaction routing with recent TPU improvements showing better latency and congestion performance than other RPCs, with traders reporting positive results.

Transaction processing achieves 70ms end-to-end latency through shred optimization, significantly faster than 400ms block times.

New proprietary AMMs achieve $1B+ daily volume with active liquidity pools and enhanced oracle updates.

Maintains highest stake position on Solana network, enabling fastest data delivery through shred propagation mechanism.

New developer incentive program offers free trips to Breakpoint Abu Dhabi for open source contributors.

New LaserStream product delivers fastest Solana data streaming through global node infrastructure.

Startup Launchpad program provides 70 teams with 8-month free RPC plans, technical support, and partnership connections to accelerate ecosystem growth.

Payment For Order Flow (PFOF) support implemented, enhancing transaction infrastructure and economic model.

New MEV reward system launches, enabling users to earn from their Solana transactions while improving market efficiency.

Helius claims #1 validator position from Binance on Solana network.

New frictionless voting mechanism implemented using memo transactions with snapshot verification system.

Aggressive hiring expansion with competitive compensation packages up to $300K for technical and business leadership roles.

Engineering team expansion signals infrastructure scaling with high-compensation leadership role.

Notable tech investor Peter Thiel revealed as early investor in protocol.

Ecosystem report reveals 83% YoY increase in Solana developers (7,625 new devs) with $551M peak Real Economic Value and 162M+ daily transactions, indicating significant infrastructure scaling demands.

Institutional SOL staking service launches on BitGo with 0% commission and direct MEV capture.

Documentation site integrates AI assistant for answering developer queries about platform and Solana development.

Enhanced indexing system allows traditional database integration, reducing complexity of multi-step queries to single operations.

LaserStream launches with gRPC implementation for block and transaction data streaming, featuring global coverage and zero node setup requirements.

New LaserStream system releases this week, promising 10x developer experience improvement with global availability and disconnect tolerance.

Three major releases planned this month to enhance Solana developer experience.

New infrastructure partnership with Privy launches combining wallet solutions, gas sponsorship, and onramps for Solana developers.

ZK compression solution launches for efficient token airdrops; Farcaster adopts technology for upcoming Solana token distributions.

New SOL staking pool launches, featured alongside major DeFi protocols.

Free $DOOD allocation announced for top 5,000 stakers.

RPC code separation from Solana validator completed, resulting in significant performance improvements.

Senior product role opening to lead SVM ecosystem development initiative, reporting to leadership.

Validator infrastructure upgrade to v2.1.18 enables turbo mode functionality.

Currently hiring remote positions in North America for Rust Engineers.

Considering launching a token, mentioned in tweet but no specific details provided.

Currently hiring Senior Software Engineer for remote position in Canada/US.

Started when Solanart was larger than Magic Eden, initially scraping data manually before Solana data sites existed.

Validator charges 0% fees on issuance or MEV, offering over 10% APY for SOL staking

Mentioned as cloud infrastructure company facing mortgage rejection issues for employees due to crypto involvement.

Mentioned in context of raising early funding rounds, where VCs passed citing concerns about market size and Solana ecosystem.

Operates validator with no cut on issuance or MEV rewards. Offers hSOL liquid staking token with 10.28% APY. MEV rewards accrue automatically.

Promoted as Solana-first RPC provider with best landing rates compared to EVM RPC providers.

Development team focused on optimizing Solana apps for speed and cost reduction.