Neo News: Week in Review – May 20 – May 26

27.05.2024

General Updates

Neo released NeoCLI v3.7.4, which is now live on the TestNet and MainNet. The update is designed to facilitate third-party integrations via enhanced support for Koblitz- and Keccak256-based witnesses.

Neo is collaborating with the BugRap platform to reach more security experts that can help with the recently launched Neo X TestNet Bug Bounty Program.

Neo announced the results of its MelkDAO campaign. 50 winners were chosen to receive $GAS rewards for completing tasks on the learn-to-earn bot in the Neo Discord.

ITEM Systems announced an activation at Consensus 2024. Team members from ITEM Systems, COZ, The Smart Economy Podcast, and Wachsman will wear scannable items as part of the activation.

Pixudi updated its blockchain board game to introduce pets that help characters gain special bonuses. The update also included new adaptive features and bug fixes.

Flamingo shared statistics on the FLUND single-sided staking token for week 20 of 2024, noting approximately US $9.42 million in total value, $4.47 million in total minting rewards, and $824,871 in total trading fee rewards.

Developer Updates

COZ released Neon.js v5.6.0. The new version adds support for a new ‘findStorage’ RPC method, fixes a deserialization edge case for NEFs compiler field, and fixes incorrect parsing of `utf82base64`.

Neo SPCC released NeoGo 0.106.0, a milestone update that aligns with Neo v3.7.4. The release introduces a range of new features and bug fixes, with several native contract enhancements consolidated under the upcoming Cockatrice hard fork.

Neo SPCC also released NeoFS v0.42.0 to align with the Cockatrice hard fork. Other minor changes were also included such as the addition of the `storage list` command to neofs-lens and fixing a bug where the GETRANGE request may fail in certain cases.

AxLabs shared a video of its presentation, “Bridging EVM and Non-EVM Assets: A Practical Approach”, at this year’s Ethereum Zurich convention.

NNT Catch Up

Pixudi has announced its new tokenomic model and a partnership with DeQuest as it prepares to launch new cross-chain Metaverse collections. The move is hoped to enhance user engagement and platform reach as the game continues to mature.

NNT released episode 64 of The Smart Economy Podcast with Alejo Pinto, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Pontem, a product studio working toward global financial inclusion powered by blockchains. Topics of discussion included Pontem’s impact on the DeFi landscape, highlighting its suite of products that enable transactions across different blockchain layers and ecosystems, building for a multi-chain world, and much more.