HNT emission halves on 1 August 2027.
HIP-20 gives the date, 1 August, not a time of day. The countdown runs to 00:00 UTC.
HNT minted per year
HIP-20 schedule, millions HNTMint and burn per day
Every Data Credit is made by burning HNT. The protocol re-emits burned HNT only up to the net-emissions cap of 1,644 HNT per 24-hour epoch. The halving cuts the scheduled mint; the cap and the HIP-149 supplement are not halved.
The three bars are the figures written in HIP-20, the Helium documentation and HIP-149. The net change is measured: the HNT mint's total supply on Solana now against 24 hours ago. Daily history
Supply read from the HNT mint on Solana · 3 min ago
HNT max supply: HIP-20 and HIP-149
HIP-20 projected about 223M HNT in 2020. HIP-149, approved in 2026, adds a separate, time-limited mint, so the ceiling moved. The halving schedule itself is unchanged.
What HIP-149 changes
- The halving schedule is unchanged. HIP-149 says so in its own text.
- ≈141M HNT over 36 months go to an operations and growth vault, about half of it in the first 12 months, outside the halving.
- Proof-of-Coverage is retired. Deployers earn from the data they deliver; the part of those rewards that comes from the HIP-20 schedule still halves.
Halving schedule
| Halving | Date | Chain | Before | After | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1First | 1 Aug 2021 | Helium L1 | 60M | 30M | Done |
2Second | 1 Aug 2023 | Solana | 30M | 15M | Done |
3Third | 1 Aug 2025 | Solana | 15M | 7.5M | Done |
4Next | 1 Aug 2027 | Solana | 7.5M | 3.75M | 259 days |
5Fifth | 1 Aug 2029 | Solana | 3.75M | 1.875M | Scheduled |
HNT scheduled by HIP-20 per year. The first halving ran on the Helium L1, later ones on Solana.
Halving history with price contextEmission schedule year by yearHIP tracker
Hotspot rewards after the halving
Enter what a Hotspot earned in the last 30 days. The part paid from the HIP-20 schedule halves on 1 August 2027; nothing else is assumed and no price is used.
100 % means every reward comes from the schedule. Under HIP-149 a deployer's rewards also include re-emitted burned HNT and a minimum top-up funded by burns; those parts do not follow the halving and cannot be known in advance, so lower the percentage if you know your split.
When is the next Helium halving?
On 1 August 2027, the anniversary of the network's genesis. HIP-20 halves net HNT issuance every two years on 1 August. The scheduled emission falls from 7,500,000 to 3,750,000 HNT per year.
Did HIP-149 cancel the halving?
No. The HIP-149 text says the HIP-20 halving schedule continues unchanged. It adds a separate, bounded mint of about 141 million HNT over 36 months for operations and growth, which raises the effective maximum supply from about 206 million to about 347 million HNT.
Why can supply rise faster while the emission halves?
Because two streams exist. The HIP-20 schedule halves every two years. The HIP-149 supplement is minted next to it and is not subject to the halvings; it ends by itself about 36 months after its start.
Does the halving change Data Credit prices?
No. One Data Credit costs a fixed $0.00001. Only the amount of HNT that has to be burned for it moves with the HNT price.
How often does Helium halve?
Every two years, on 1 August: 2021, 2023, 2025, 2027, 2029 and so on. The first two years of the network had 60 million HNT per year on the schedule.