Helium vs TWZRD Agent Intel

Helium's original Layer-1 blockchain was retired in an April 2023 migration to Solana, and the network's chain data now ships only as bulk Postgres/CSV snapshots over torrent or a requestor-pays S3 bucket rather than a queryable API. The one remaining live HTTP endpoint is the free Entity API, which returns a Hotspot's owner, asserted (H3-obfuscated) location, and on-chain asset IDs by wallet public key. It carries no uptime guarantee and is meant for light lookups, not production traffic.

TWZRD is a Solana-native trust layer that AI agents call before and after making an x402 micropayment, returning a signed reputation receipt for a given wallet instead of gating access behind a signup-based API key. A free sample receipt and verifier endpoint let integrators test the signing scheme before spending real USDC on a live trust lookup, priced at $0.05 per call. Its JSON responses carry no CORS headers, so it's built to be called server-side or by an agent, not from a browser.