Neo News: Week in Review – October 5 – October 11

15.10.2024

General Updates

COZ shared an interview with Sharon Connors, a DENVER WALLS patron who has attended both years of the mural festival and interacted with the non-fungible item plaques. Connors described the process of tapping the NFI plaques and teaching others about the technology.

nDapp.org added the My Wallet page to its Neo N3 and X dApp discovery platform. The My Wallet page allows users to track assets, manage council member votes, and perform token swaps.

DeXFun released the first mini-game on its Telegram-based dApp, which allows users to make paper wagers as to whether the price of BTC or ETH will go up or down. Users can earn FUN points for making correct guesses or lose FUN points for incorrect choices.

TOTHEMOON completed the snapshot for its second Moon Device airdrop at block height 6,169,910. To be eligible, users were required to hold three complete sets of Moon Creature NFTs from generations 1 through 3, totaling nine NFTs in all.

Neobox updated its roadmap on its website, noting plans to launch the Arcade Station in Q1 2025. The forthcoming arcade station will introduce various games and applications alongside those currently on the platform. Additionally, the team announced that it intends to generate NEOBOX NEP-17 tokens by Q4 2025 at the latest.

Frank Coin hosted a community quiz on the team’s official Telegram channel, where the top participant won 1 GAS, and ten random winners each won 0.5 GAS. The Frank Coin team also hosted a trivia contest on the Neo F1 Discord server.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 74 of The Smart Economy Podcast with JP Thor, founder of THORChain, a network that facilitates native asset settlement between Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Cosmos Hub, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. Topics of discussion include how THORChain is building a more interconnected DeFi ecosystem, the possibilities of cross-chain liquidity, SwapKit as a key to decentralized wallet integration, the RUNE token’s role in facilitating more secure and efficient cross-chain transactions, and more.

NNT editors co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #37 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics included takeaways from crypto conference Permissionless and the 22 Smart Economy Podcast interviews conducted, the weight of regulatory approval for decentralized networks, modularity versus monolithic approaches, the Trusted Execution Environment debate, recent nDapp releases, and recent US government regulatory actions.