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Helium is often heralded as one of the largest success stories in the Web3 space, even landing a coveted article in The New York Times earlier this year. Since 2019, the decentralized wireless network service, which bills itself as a peer-to-peer network for the Internet of Things, has touted rideshare company Lime as one of its marquee clients, claiming the company uses its service to geolocate rentable escooters. There are numerous mentions of this partnership on its website, along with the presence of Lime's company logo, and in press coverage with various news outlets.

"Beyond an initial test of its product in 2019, Lime has not had, and does not currently have, a relationship with Helium." Lime senior director for corporate communications Russell Murphy said to Mashable.

How does Helium do this? By partnering with hotspot manufacturers who sell these devices, priced as much as $500 each, to budding investors and hopeful entrepreneurs. Helium's website provides visitors with a list of these devices, their manufacturers, and links to where they can buy one. The hotspots also act as crypto mining hardware and reward the owners of these devices with Helium's $HNT token, which it introduced in July 2019, when a user accesses Helium's network via their hotspot device. $HNT is currently valued at approximately $9.

As of mid-2022, Helium's wireless network appears to have very few actual customers. Instead, the vast majority of Helium's revenue comes from "hotspot onboarding fees," which Helium says are generally covered by the device manufacturers. Individuals purchase the hotspot devices in hopes that they will earn cryptocurrency when corporations, like Lime, utilize the Helium network service. Helium has used Lime's image to prove the network has major clients. But, Lime does not use the service.

According to Lime, The New York Times did not reach out to the company to confirm the partnership. Mashable attempted to confirm this but the Times said it does not discuss sourcing. Since the article's publication, Helium has continued to promote it extensively. Helium CEO Amir Haleem has even pinned a Feb. tweet about the piece to the top of his Twitter profile.

These claims about a supposed Lime partnership are made even more interesting by an August 2020 video webinar interview, uploaded to Helium's YouTube channel, with Lime's former central operations manager Eddie Li.

COO Mong, who was one of the three people featured on the video podcast along with Bruce and Li, then chimes in. Mong recalled how Li had told him in 2019, when Li was still working at Lime, how Helium's tracking device wouldn't work on Lime's scooters.

"Dude that's too big, we can't use that on a scooter," Mong recalled Li saying. Mong said that by the time Helium was able to get a device small enough for the scooter, Helium no longer had a contact at Lime as Li had exited the company.

"We still hope we can get back in with Lime," Mong said in the Aug. 5, 2020 video. According to Lime spokesperson Murphy, Li has not worked at Lime for over two years. And, even though the 2019 test fizzled, Lime remains a central part of Helium's marketing to this day.

"We have worked with Lime's operations team in SF and we are in discussions to expand," he replied. "They are a great group of folks! I'm guessing 'corporate' doesn't know about us because a lot of our original sponsors are no longer at the company."

While Helium was founded in 2013, its wireless network business model floundered until it introduced the crypto-earning aspect into the service. In July 2019, Helium would start minting its $HNT token and roll out its plan to sell hotspots in return for cryptocurrency rewards. One month earlier, in Helium's official blog, CEO Haleem would first begin mentioning a relationship with Lime. In one post from June 2019, he specifically categorized Lime as a "partner."

More than a year after that short testing phase in 2019, Helium's CEO would, once again, post about a relationship with Lime, this time on Twitter. In an Oct. 5, 2020 tweet, Haleem shared how Helium "acquired" Lime scooters off the street in Oakland, CA in order to equip them with the company's GPS trackers.

"before we started working with @limebike we had to get creative," Haleem tweeted, insinuating that the two companies' involvement, which never lasted beyond that initial trial, was still in existence more than a year later.

"Nova Labs worked with Lime operations out of their San Francisco HQ. They trialed Lime scooters with the Helium Network using LoRaWAN tracking devices to find lost or stolen scooters, and were impressed with the accuracy of the sensors and vast coverage. Lime has since restructured and the team members we worked with are no longer employed there."

Eddie Li, who has exited the tech industry altogether and is now a restaurateur, told Mashable that while he was employed at Lime he was instructed to "help lower depreciation of scooters and [find] a better way of tracking."

Li was introduced to Helium COO Mong through a mutual friend and colleague. He confirmed that he was involved in the June 2019 testing phase and did walk away thinking Helium's tracking tech was "unique" and "pretty accurate." His manager at Lime was aware of the testing, but he believes knowledge of the trial didn't go beyond his Central Operations department.

After June 2019, Li said he was moved to a new team within Lime and his contact with Helium ceased. He also confirmed that no contracts were signed and no payment was exchanged during the testing. Li said he's unsure why Helium would've put the Lime logo on its website.

In the Web3 space, Helium has been held up as a "unicorn," a common VC term to describe a startup company with a value of over $1 billion. The Web3 darling's founding company, Nova Labs, has raised around $250 million to date from venture capital giants such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Ventures at an over billion-dollar valuation.

Andreessen Horowitz called Helium the "fastest growing wireless network ever" when it invested in the company last year. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian through his VC firm, Seven Seven Six, is also an investor. In March, Helium rebranded the founding company's name to "Nova Labs" in order to differentiate itself from the Helium network service that it runs.

Earlier this week, Helium was thrust into the spotlight after a Twitter thread criticizing the company's business model by angel investor and Web3 skeptic, Liron Shapira, went viral. In the thread, Shapira makes the case that its $6,500 a month revenue shows that there is no customer base for Helium's wireless service. Instead, Shapira argues, the company's profit model is actually based around selling the hotspots to speculators who are trying to earn cryptocurrency, thus putting Helium's business much more in line with a multi-level marketing, or pyramid, scheme.

In order for those investing in the hotspot devices that Helium sells to profit, Helium needs clients to actively use its wireless service. Having a high-profile list of clients would likely entice those looking for a business opportunity to invest in. Though, having a high-profile list of corporate clients regularly using Helium's service would likely result in data charges amounting to more than $6,500 a month.

The Web3 wireless network once advertised Nestl on its website as it said the company's ReadyRefresh water delivery service utilized Helium. However, Nestl tells Mashable that it sold off the service along with its regional spring water brands last year. Helium has since removed Nestl's logo from its website. Salesforce, a corporation currently featured on Helium's homepage, did not reply to an inquiry from Mashable about its use of Helium.

"We have a bunch of announcements coming," replied Helium COO Mong. "New customers, new partnerships, and more! Thanks for your patience. Please sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Twitter @helium and @fmong for breaking news."

LIME allows you to build scalable, real-time messaging applications using a JSON-based open protocol. It's fully asynchronous and supports any persistent transport like TCP or Websockets.

You can send and receive any type of object into the wire as long it can be represented as JSON or text (plain or encoded with base64) and it has a MIME type to allow the other party handle it in the right way.

Besides that, there's a REST capable command interface with verbs (get, set and delete) and resource identifiers (URIs) to allow rich messaging scenarios. You can use that to provide services like on-band account registration or instance-messaging resources, like presence or roster management.

All envelope types share some properties (like the id - the envelope unique identifier - and the from and to routing information) but there are some unique properties of each one that allows the proper deserialization when a JSON object is received by the transport.

The Transport interface represents a persistent transport connection that allows the management of the connection state, besides sending and receiving envelopes. Currently, the javascript implementation provides a few official packages for Lime transport classes. These are publicly available on NPM and on our Github, but we plan on building more transport classes for node.js and the browser:

When two nodes are connected to each other a session can be established between them. To help the management of the session state, the library defines the Channel abstract class, an abstraction of the session over the Transport instance. The node that received the connection is the server and the one who is connecting is the client. There is currently only one specific implementation of this class for the client (ClientChannel), providing specific functionality for the client role in the connection. The only difference between the client and the server is related to the session state management, where the server has full control of it. Besides that, they share the same set of funcionalities.

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