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feel free to take this with a grain of salt. I’m a former team member, early deployer, and still personally advising the team. there's been a lot of discussion and some pointed but productive questions about the latest HNT proposal. here's my (hopefully equally thoughtful) read on the main ones. one worry is that selling the carrier to noble strips the network's best cash flow out of the protocol. that assumes the cash flow was ever inside it. the only part that was is carriers burning HNT to pay for offload. the arpu, the churn, the sg&a of running an mvno, none of that ever touched the token mechanically. and on its own terms, the carrier burned cash. cutting it took a real cost off the books, which is good for the network and for the focus of the core team. noble pays for offload like any carrier. so do the next 10. pointing HNT at offload across every carrier, instead of levering it to one consumer brand, is the right next step for the network. the durable part is the offload the community enables, and that stayed. second, the 72% dilution headline. it's actually a gated, metered authorization over 36 months with community oversight. authorized isn't minted, and minted isn't sold. it also prices off a baseline that doesn't exist. the network was already emitting HNT every day through PoC, an open formula paying anyone running a radio, used or not. the HIP retires that. yes, it's dilution, and the tokens still flow out to deployers and ops. the question is what the dilution buys. PoC bought coverage, used or not. a governed treasury can buy usage and growth that drive burn. that's the real debate third, the burn cut. the bear case holds volume fixed and drops price, so burn falls. burn is price times volume. 50c sits above market and caps adoption. lower the toll, grow the road, more cars. if volume more than 5x's, burn goes up. that's a usage bet, which is the right kind to make. the fair ask under a lot of this is governance that aligns network growth with holder value. that's what the proposal is: a 7-seat council, 5 community seats, quorum to terminate. more holder control over the network, and the seats are community-nominated. if that's the bar, come help set it. so the bet is pretty simple imo: do we believe, as HNT holders, that mario and the team are the best equipped to further build out the next 5x and more on demand for network usage (and thus HNT burn)? although the devil is always in the details and there are always (as with anything ambitious and multi year) a lot of paths that end in failure, i think the answer is simply: yes. they are the right, focused, team.

The @blockworksres team has dug into every onchain, oracle, and hidden dashboard API metric they got their fingers on to provide the most comprehensive view of the @helium ecosystem. This is probably a better dashboard than we have on Dune. Time to deprecate and redirect?