Helius is a Solana developer infrastructure platform that provides high-performance RPC, APIs, and trading infrastructure for internet finance applications. Helius's Twitter Score is 227 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,851 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Helius was co-founded by Mert Mumtaz, Nicolas Pennie, and Liam Vovk, and has built what it describes as Solana's leading infrastructure and developer platform. Founded in 2022, the company offers high-performance RPC nodes, webhooks, data APIs, and validator and staking services. Helius claims to process billions of daily requests and maintains a stated uptime of 99.99%.
Helius closed a $9.5 million Series A funding round led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Founders Fund, Haun Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Chapter One, Reciprocal Ventures, Propel, Balaji Srinivasan, Anatoly Yakovenko, Raj Gokal, and Kyle Samani. The platform runs a SOC 2 Type II-compliant validator service and issues hSOL, a Liquid Staking Token. Bitwise Asset Management has selected Helius as the sole SOL staking provider for its Solana ETF, marking an active institutional staking relationship.
Helius has been active on Twitter since 2022 and has accumulated 74,417 followers as of August 2026 across 3,125 posts. The account has been mentioned by 138 accounts, with 211 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Helius include 789 founders, 179 angel investors, 450 influencers and 15 VCs. Among them are Toly, Solana, Ansem, Laura Shin, Mert and Robert Leshner.