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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Nova Labs the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Nova Labs scores 14.0/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Nova Labs
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nova Labs. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Nova Labs — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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