Helium outage history

Tonight’s rewards distribution is paused as a precaution while we respond to a security incident disclosed by Railway, one of our infrastructure providers. All rewards will be trued up once distribution resumes. Carrier offload and network coverage are unaffected, and no action is needed from Hotspot owners. Updates will be posted here.

Following the security incident disclosed by Railway, one of our infrastructure providers, the Helium team proactively took certain services offline to protect the network. Those services are back up and October 21 rewards are now claimable. Data from October 21 that wasn’t processed before services were paused will show up in October 22 rewards instead. Nothing lost, just shifted a day. Carrier offload and network coverage were unaffected. More updates to follow.

This incident has been resolved.

The network is experiencing an abnormally high reject rate from one of our carrier partners. We are actively working with them to resolve it.

The carrier partner has resolved the issue. We continue to monitor metrics.

This incident has been resolved.

HNT reward claiming has been temporarily paused as a precautionary measure while a potential exploit is investigated. This step was taken to protect the integrity of the network during the investigation. The team is actively working to resolve the issue and expects to share an update soon. Thank you for your patience.

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

This incident has been resolved.

Investigating connectivity issue affecting upstream carrier traffic with carrier 2.

Carrier 2 general outage. Awaiting resolution.

Monitoring and awaiting resolution.

This incident has been resolved.

We’re observing an increase in hotspot heartbeat issues and are currently investigating. We will continue to keep the community updated.

We've resolved an issue affecting network connectivity, caused by a certificate issue. The certificate has been corrected, and we've implemented additional monitoring to detect and prevent this type of issue going forward.

Some Helium Mobile Hotspots had an issue where devices could connect to WiFi but couldn’t actually use the internet, due to a problem on those specific units, while the overall network was working normally. A fix is being worked on for affected hotspots - if you experience this behaviour, restarting your hotspot is advised.

A performance issue is affecting Helium Packet Router performance in the Frankfurt region. This may affect IoT device message delivery in Europe. The team has identified the issue and is scaling resources to resolve the issue.

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

This incident has been resolved.

During the IMS-Prod upgrade, services experienced a brief outage of roughly 15–20 minutes due to a load balancer and DNS issue introduced during the update. This impacted the Hotspot dashboard and related IMS services. The issue was identified and resolved, and all systems are now fully operational.

An upstream service is causing some Hotspots to fail to load. The team is investigating the issue and will deploy a fix shortly.

This incident has been resolved.

Due to the current Cloudflare outage worldwide, some services are currently unavailable. We are monitoring the situation and will post updates here as they become available.

Cloudflare services have recovered.

We’re seeing reduced traffic from one carrier starting yesterday. Other carriers are unaffected. We are collaborating with the carrier to understand the behavior. We’ll update once we have more details.

The issue appears to stem from a recent software update on the carrier's side and we’re actively collaborating on a fix with our partner. Traffic from other carriers remains unaffected. We’ll share more updates as progress continues but we're not expecting any updates until Monday at the earliest.

The technical issue impacting service has been resolved. Carrier traffic has stabilized. We’ll continue monitoring to ensure everything remains nominal.

We’re currently investigating a Brownfield service degradation. The issue appears to be linked to a connection problem between RADIUS AAA instances following the latest radiator-rs deployment. Our team is working to identify and resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Further updates will be shared here once more information is available.

This incident has been resolved.

We are aware of an issue affecting access to the Helium Mobile Builder Dashboard. Some users may be unable to log in, while others who can access their dashboards are experiencing issues viewing hotspot telemetry data. This appears to be a visual-only issue and does not affect hotspot performance or reward earnings. The team is actively investigating the cause and working on a resolution. We expect to provide an update by end of day tomorrow (October 17, 2025).

Note that the issue may affect explorer statistics related to data transferred and daily active users. . We are continuing to investigate this issue.

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

This issue was resolved

Native token swap functionality in the Helium Wallet app is currently unavailable due to a downstream change with Jupiter's APIs. All users of current versions (v2.14.16 and prior) of Helium Wallet will have to use the dApp browser for swaps until v2.14.17 is implemented, deployed, and approved by App Stores.

The fix for native swaps (v2.14.17) is currently in App Store review on both Android and iOS. We’ll update once it’s approved and live.

Native swap functionality has been restored with the release of Helium Wallet v2.14.17, now live on both the App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android). Please update to the latest version to resume in-app swaps.

We are currently investigating reports of mobile onboarding failures. Affected users may see the following error when attempting to onboard: {"InstructionError":[2,{"Custom":6016}]} Impact: All new Mobile onboards are currently failing. Existing Mobile users are unaffected.

This incident has been resolved.

Following the recent Mobile Oracle infrastructure migration, the team has noticed that a subset of HMHs are failing to submit speed tests. The lack of speed tests will prevent a Hotspot from receiving Proof of Coverage rewards. A backend patch has been applied which will likely address the issue without operator intervention. However, if you notice your HMH is failing to submit speed tests, a simple reboot should resolve the issue.

A backend patch has been applied to address issues with Hotspots failing to submit speed tests. If you’re still seeing problems, a reboot should fix it. We’ll continue to monitor.

This incident has been resolved.

We are currently investigating reports of Error 522 (Connection Timeout) affecting some users during onboarding and hotspot updates. Impact: users may see a timeout or error message when attempting to complete payments or update antenna information. Scope: Issue appears intermittent and does not affect all devices. Current Status: Our engineering team has identified this as potentially related to recent application updates. A fix is being tested. We’ll provide updates here as we learn more. Thank you for your patience.

Resolved: Error 522 (Connection Timeout) We’ll continue monitoring to ensure stability. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this.

We are currently investigating an issue preventing FreedomFi AGWs from being onboarded as IoT Hotspots. We are assessing the impact and determining next steps, including restoring onboarding capabilities. Current Status: * FreedomFi AGW onboarding temporarily unavailable. * Root cause identified Further updates will be shared as the situation develops. Please reach out to support if you are affected.

This issue has been resolved

The core developers are investigating an outage in Hotspot rewards claiming in the Helium Wallet app. This appears to be due to a downstream dependency on an infrastructure provider that helps index Helium data for clients like the Helium Wallet.

Core developers have identified the downstream infrastructure provider and while they are working on a fix, we are also applying some mitigation. This will require an upgrade of the Helium Wallet app. We are starting the process to update metadata, the app, and submit it to the App Stores for review.

The downstream storage provider has resolved their outage and we are closing this issue. That said, a new version of the Helium Wallet app will be released in the next 24 hours (assuming app store reviews are expedited) that should prevent this particular impact in the future.

Due to Solana network congestion, transactions may fail or be delayed. For example, Hotspot reward claims may take several minutes to complete. Keep the wallet app open after hitting claim button or try again later.

The Helium Foundation has deployed additional Solana RPC infrastructure in order to support the growing Helium Wallet user base.