Helium wallet

What is Helium (HNT)?

Helium's token no longer lives on its own chain. HNT was ported to Solana and now behaves like any other SPL token: it sits in a token account tied to your Solana address, and every transfer is paid for in SOL, not in HNT. If your wallet holds HNT but no SOL, nothing moves until a small amount of SOL is there to cover the fee. The first transfer into a fresh address also creates the token account, a one-off cost that comes out of SOL as well.

What the token is for is unusual. Devices and hotspots on the Helium wireless network do not pay in HNT directly. HNT is burned to mint Data Credits, a non-transferable unit priced in fixed dollar terms, and Data Credits are what actually buy network data. That flow only runs one way: credits cannot be turned back into HNT. For a holder, the practical meaning is that HNT in a wallet is a plain balance, while anything spent on the network leaves the token supply permanently.

Helium also has subnetwork tokens with their own tickers, so check the symbol on any transfer rather than assuming every Helium-branded balance is the same asset.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): Solana. Because HNT spends SOL to move, both can sit in one Tangem wallet and a transfer is signed by tapping the card against the phone - no cable, no charging, no separate device to keep alive. That combination suits someone who actually sends HNT rather than only watching it.