The post Helium eyes a potential path to deflationary tokenomics appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. The decentralized wireless company Helium is planning to funnel 100% of Helium mobile subscriber revenues to HNT token burns, co-founder and CEO Amir Haleem tweeted yesterday. It’s not clear if Helium plans to buy HNT on the open market or simply burn tokens from its treasury, but the initiative is going into effect “this week, barring any weird logistics,” he said. In any case, that’s an estimated $2.3 million in monthly gross revenues offchain that otherwise would have gone to Helium’s parent company, Nova Labs, now being redirected to HNT token holders. HNT is Helium’s native SPL token, which migrated to Solana from its own L1 appchain in April 2023. When users pay USD to use Helium’s network, it’s swapped under the hood to HNT, which is then burned for a consumable fixed-price token of $0.00001 known as “Data Credits.” Today, Helium has about 1.1 million daily users across 108,850 hotspots. The majority of Helium’s revenues is driven primarily by WiFi carrier offload, rather than its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).  When users of big telcos like AT&T or T-Mobile are near a Helium WiFi spot, they can shift that data onto Helium’s network automatically and pay Helium on a per-demand basis. This way, major carriers avoid additional CapEx while still managing to improve coverage for customers in hard-to-serve or obscure locations. Earlier this month, Helium also went through its biennial emission halving, halving annual HNT emissions from 15 million to 7.5 million. Source: Blockworks Research Both mechanics in tandem — an emission halving and circulating supply burn — could create a net deflationary effect for the HNT token. Blockworks’ Nick Carpinito told me: “Amir’s announcement creates immediate deflationary pressure on HNT by burning tokens equivalent… The post Helium eyes a potential path to deflationary tokenomics appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. The decentralized wireless company Helium is planning to funnel 100% of Helium mobile subscriber revenues to HNT token burns, co-founder and CEO Amir Haleem tweeted yesterday. It’s not clear if Helium plans to buy HNT on the open market or simply burn tokens from its treasury, but the initiative is going into effect “this week, barring any weird logistics,” he said. In any case, that’s an estimated $2.3 million in monthly gross revenues offchain that otherwise would have gone to Helium’s parent company, Nova Labs, now being redirected to HNT token holders. HNT is Helium’s native SPL token, which migrated to Solana from its own L1 appchain in April 2023. When users pay USD to use Helium’s network, it’s swapped under the hood to HNT, which is then burned for a consumable fixed-price token of $0.00001 known as “Data Credits.” Today, Helium has about 1.1 million daily users across 108,850 hotspots. The majority of Helium’s revenues is driven primarily by WiFi carrier offload, rather than its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).  When users of big telcos like AT&T or T-Mobile are near a Helium WiFi spot, they can shift that data onto Helium’s network automatically and pay Helium on a per-demand basis. This way, major carriers avoid additional CapEx while still managing to improve coverage for customers in hard-to-serve or obscure locations. Earlier this month, Helium also went through its biennial emission halving, halving annual HNT emissions from 15 million to 7.5 million. Source: Blockworks Research Both mechanics in tandem — an emission halving and circulating supply burn — could create a net deflationary effect for the HNT token. Blockworks’ Nick Carpinito told me: “Amir’s announcement creates immediate deflationary pressure on HNT by burning tokens equivalent…