# Nova Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nova-labs/  
**Website:** https://www.helium.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 17.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 28.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 8.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 15.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Nova Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Wireless, IoT, LoRaWAN, Connectivity, Blockchain, DePIN, gRPC, Telecommunications

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nova-labs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.