Mert Mumtaz

▸ 8B+ daily RPC requests processed

Co-founder and CEO of Helius — the definitive infrastructure layer for Solana. His RPC nodes and developer APIs process 8 billion+ daily requests and power the majority of high-frequency trading bots, DeFAI agents, and consumer dApps on Solana. Previously an early engineer at Coinbase.

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The definitive RPC and API infrastructure for Solana — processing 8B+ daily requests powering the majority of Solana dApps.

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Armani Ferrante@armaniferrante

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