How the Helium network migrated to Solana (feat. Noah Prince)

For this special episode, we are joined by Noah Prince. One of the Solana devs behind the massive effort of migrating the Helium Network to Solana.

Noah shares some of his background and how his brother, founder of Metaplex, convinced him to start developing on Solana.

He also shares a high level, but still technical overview of how the Helium network works. From the oracles to physical hotspots as compressed NFTs.

Noah also explains the process of how the Helium L1 blockchain will be “lazily” migrated to its new home on Solana using compression. Allowing Helium to migrate to Solana in an incredibly efficient and secure way without causing a massive amount of congestion on Solana mainnet.

PS: Huge shout-out to all the Grizzlython hackathon winners, especially our previous guests: Scammo and Qudo, creators of the xray explorer.

Show Noah some love on the internet:

• Noah on Twitter @redacted_noah

Links from the show

• Submit a PR to Noah’s Strata code base to get it back running
• “Jarry” was mentioned several times: this is Jarry Xiao (aka “the Professor” and former Solana Labs employee)
• Discover the Helium Network in their docs

Learn about State Compression on Solana

Nick has been diving deep into creating content for State Compression and compressed NFTs. It is all live! Check out these resources to get up to speed on compression:

• Current Solana docs on State Compression
• Solana Spotlight video on State Compression, with Noah Gundotra from Solana Labs, (one of the primary devs behind the compression program)
• Quick intro videos on minting compressed NFTs
• Quick intro video on reading and transferring compressed NFTs
• Written developer guide for compressed NFTs (also in the Solana docs)