Helius

Solana infrastructure firm Helius has acquired Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy. The acquisition occurs during a period of consolidation in the crypto industry and a renewed interest in onchain privacy.

Helius has upgraded its getTransactionsForAddress API, increasing capacity by 10x and reducing costs by 5x, providing faster access to Solana transaction data. The upgrade delivers up to 1,000 full transactions per request at 10 credits per 100 transactions. This update benefits developers with cost-effective access to transaction data.

The article discusses why Phantom wallets fail during times of high volatility, while bots are able to extract liquidity. This is due to inferior access points and public RPC nodes rate-limiting requests. The blockchain itself works perfectly, but retail infrastructure is not built for high-volume transactions.

Manual strategies for landing swaps on Jupiter or Raydium are being outperformed by custom engines due to dynamic fee estimation issues. Users are switching to direct node execution for better results. The default UI values are too slow for current block density.

A user requires total SOL/SPL inflow and outflow data in USD for ~50 wallets over a fiscal year but faces limitations with Solscan's UI and paginated exports. They are using Helius with RPC calls but seek an indexed API to query transfers with pre-attached USD values for streamlined reporting.

Helius has launched LanaAI, a conversational AI platform that replaces traditional block explorers for Solana blockchain. It allows users to perform natural language queries on wallets, tokens, transactions, and on-chain actions via https://www.lana.ai.

Blankdotbuild, a Solana-based launchpad, is now live and focuses on post-launch token management. It offers integrated solutions for tokenomics, vesting, staking, community engagement, and updates, addressing gaps in existing launchpads. The platform features a 2% trading fee structure, customizable tokenomics templates, and on-chain staking with variable rewards.