Nova Labs

Nova Labs, Inc. is the company behind the Helium Network, a decentralized wireless network that replaces traditional carrier infrastructure with community-hosted Hotspots and is coordinated on the Solana blockchain and incentivized with the HNT token. Helium operates two networks: a global LoRaWAN network for low-power IoT devices and a cellular/Wi-Fi offload network for mobile connectivity (Helium Mobile). Nova Labs open-sources the network's protocol surface as gRPC/Protobuf service definitions (the helium/proto config, router, and proof-of-coverage services) and publishes a set of first-party client libraries, a command-line tool, and Rust crates for cryptography and protobuf types. This profile was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and enriched from Nova Labs' public developer surface; much of the legacy Helium IoT REST API tooling is archived following the network's migration to Solana.

Nova Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Wireless, IoT, LoRaWAN, and Connectivity.

Nova Labs’ developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, CLI, and 9 more developer resources.

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14.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyWirelessIoTLoRaWANConnectivityBlockchainDePINgRPCTelecommunications

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Composite quality — 14.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Protobuf

Protobuf

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nova-labs
name: Nova Labs
description: 'Nova Labs, Inc. is the company behind the Helium Network, a decentralized wireless network that replaces traditional
  carrier infrastructure with community-hosted Hotspots and is coordinated on the Solana blockchain and incentivized with
  the HNT token. Helium operates two networks: a global LoRaWAN network for low-power IoT devices and a cellular/Wi-Fi offload
  network for mobile connectivity (Helium Mobile). Nova Labs open-sources the network''s protocol surface as gRPC/Protobuf
  service definitions (the helium/proto config, router, and proof-of-coverage services) and publishes a set of first-party
  client libraries, a command-line tool, and Rust crates for cryptography and protobuf types. This profile was surfaced as
  an a16z portfolio company and enriched from Nova Labs'' public developer surface; much of the legacy Helium IoT REST API
  tooling is archived following the network''s migration to Solana.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nova-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Wireless
- IoT
- LoRaWAN
- Connectivity
- Blockchain
- DePIN
- gRPC
- Telecommunications
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  date: '2026-07-20'
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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- FN: APIs.json
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- type: Website
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- type: Documentation
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- type: DeveloperPortal
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- type: Blog
  url: https://www.helium.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
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- type: Protobuf
  name: Helium gRPC/Protobuf service definitions
  url: grpc/nova-labs-iot-config.proto
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nova-labs-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/nova-labs-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/nova-labs-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nova-labs-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nova-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nova-labs-well-known.yml