Former Helius lead infrastructure engineer Miles Smith has accused Helius founder Mart Mutz of corporate misinformation, workplace poisoning, and has tried to vandalize his career after leaving helius in 2023.
In a long X article posted on January 30, 2025, Smith claimed, among other things that Mumtaz stole intellectual property from the winning team in 2023, the winning team in Hackathon, oral abuse on a corporate seller Doed, and used misleading strategy to incorrectly present the technical ability of Helius which increased its appearance. Finally, Smith said, Mumtaz constructed him and began to actively disrupt the later funds for his new startup.
According to Smith, the origin of his dispute with Mumtaz described as an “unconventional” corporate structure in Helius, where Mumtaz only without any pre-c-level experience to a C-team made of pre-coinbase and AWS engineers. hired out. He claims that when he suggested that more experience was needed, Mutz took it as a danger, and began to do ground work for his creative dismissal.
Intellectual property theft and workplace poisoning
In the article, Smith refers to infrastructure and equipment track Grizalathan2023 Solana Hacathan, where X-ray came second with its human-elective Solan Block Explorer. According to him, Mumtaz had already hosted the X -ray team and despite being funded, which should have been counted as the first conflict of interests, Mutz was allowed to vote, which gave the team to finish second. Held at least partially in helping.
He then said, “Mumtaz claimed X -ray as a helius product and informed the team that he had received payment for this due to the hackathon winners.” Smith also claimed that she later looked at Mumtaz Scream Abus in a female cloudflare sales rape as she was unhappy with the price of an enterprise package.
Corporate misunderstanding and post-winse career sabotage
Due to what he had played, there was a sub -policy policy to hire disabled AWS engineers, Smith claimed that Helius was falling low on many technical performance areas, and of services like Quicknode to perform real work Using was masking average performance. to do.
This matters because it is that helius has pretended to be the best uptime, when they actually have internal uptime and masks it by paying Quicknode to take Slack.
Finally, Smith said, his relationship with Mumtaz deteriorated at the point where he was fired by the lesson while participating in his son’s baseball game. Smith claimed that Helius took another 6 weeks to honor his final salary. Subsequently, Smith revealed, many of his funds for his startup have hit a brick wall once, who once expressed deep interest to investors for a reference for a reference.
In 2024, Helius raised a $ 9.5 million series A funding round to help 14 full -time employees to increase their head count by at least 18, including 4 new engineers.
