Neo News: Week in Review – June 17 – June 23

25.06.2024

General Updates

Neo has partnered with SubQuery, with the network’s decentralized data indexing and RPC solutions currently available to developers on the Neo X TestNet. SubQuery seeks to make typical Web3 dApp infrastructure available to application builders by offering integration tools, including an open-source SDK, documentation, and a developer support channel. SubQuery’s managed hosting service free tier will also support Neo X.

Neo has also partnered with Phoenix, a decentralized AI infrastructure provider. The two entities will collaborate on exploring how AI can accelerate blockchain technology and drive mass adoption on Neo X. Neo’s partnership announcement notes that the two organizations will explore various use cases utilizing Phoenix’s solutions, including AI computer power services, AI content generation, and AI trading signals for decentralized exchanges in the Neo ecosystem.

Cassette announced its rebrand from Greenfinch and launched a new version of the Dropbox-like dApp, which will have a similar appearance to the design of the first iteration of Greenfinch. However, the platform’s code has been entirely rewritten from the ground up, and is intended to make Cassette much easier to build on top of and iterate on moving forward.

Neo hostedan X Space entitled Neo Eco-Talk: Builder Insights on Web3 Gaming, which featured Pixudi and Neobox CEO Alex Scoresby, MetaCollabWin Community Leader Fraga, and Supernova Shards Founder Serge Kopov. Topics of discussion included observations on Web3 and gaming, the next wave of Web3 game launches in 2024 and 2025, and much more.

BeWater’s AI x Crypto Hackathon concluded with Assisterr winning the Tokenized AI and Incentives track and the Neo Bounty Prize of US $2,000. Assisterr is building a network of community-owned small language models, enabling communities to collaborate, monetize, and aggregate their expertise in niche subjects by developing and deploying these SLMs. The team’s solution was built on the Neo X EVM sidechain for the hackathon.

Upbit Korea custodial exchange added trading support for NEO and GAS, both of which are paired against BTC and USDT.

Frank Coin hosted a Telegram game on the official Frank Coin server, a quiz day on The Frank Coin channel of the Neo F1 Discord server, and a livestream to showcase Web3 games in the Neo ecosystem.

Neobox announced that the pre-sale of the NEOBOX NEP-17 token will conclude on July 16.

Flamingo shared statistics on the FLUND single-sided staking token for week 24 of 2024, noting approximately $7.72 million in total value, $4.01 million in total minting rewards, and $732,000 in total trading fee rewards.

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.106.2 supporting the Domovoi hard fork. NeoGo v0.106.2 is fully compatible with the latest NeoCLI C# v3.7.5 and doesn’t require a database resync following the upgrade.

Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.30.1, which included newly supported binaries for ARM64 and Darwin, an updated object split scheme, and a set of bug fixes.

Neo SPCC released v 0.12.0 of the Neo Exporter, which added a version metric, fixed panics on RPC reconnection failure, and made other minor changes.

NeoLine announced that the Chrome extension wallet will support the Neo X EVM sidechain.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 66 of The Smart Economy Podcast with Pavel Sinkelnikov, developer relations lead at ZKM, a network focusing on zero-knowledge virtual machines for universal settlement. Topics of discussion include lessons learned in Ethereum’s growth and applying them to Bitcoin, the importance of the co-existence of Proof of Work and Proof of Stake consensus mechanisms, the different types of L2 rollups, the ethos of decentralization and how ZKM applies that to its sequencer network, how ZKM offers sustainable yield generation, ZKM’s decentralized sequencer network and the security that it offers, and much more.

NNT editors hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #22 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included account abstraction and open-source versus closed-source solutions, the normalcy of market cycles and downturns, the Hamster Kombat tap-to-earn Telegram game, the SEC ending the investigation into Ethereum and Consensys, the CertiK and Kraken saga, and Neo holding rights to Shadow Brother Sunday.

Events

June 25: Meme2Earn hosting a Community Fireplace on the official Discord server.
June 25: Flamingo Finance hosting a Community Lagoon on the official Discord server.
June 28: NNT editors hosting CC & BB #23 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.