Neo News: Week in Review – October 30 – November 5

General Updates

The second Neo Community Assembly took place in Hong Kong, where more than 30 people from the global developer, researcher, and creator community came together to map the path of the Smart Economy. The event occurred on Oct. 29 and 30 at Le Meridien Hotel at Cyberport, Hong Kong’s government-founded digital technology flagship and incubator business park.

NGD announced a campaign to name the NeoEVM sidechain, which will officially launch the second week of Nov. and offer up to $20k in rewards.

COZ CEO Tyler Adams joined the Crypto Hipster Podcast to discuss COZ’s origins, NFTs, non-fungible items, and recent NFI activations.

Battle Hardened launched a campaign where community members can share memes in the #meme2meme channel of the Battle Hardened Discord server to win B tokens. The event will remain open until Christmas day.

The latest Neo Trivia Gleam competition is open and will run until Nov. 9. Participants have the chance to win one of five NeoVerse blind boxes by answering 10/10 multiple choice questions correctly.

Supernova listed an alpha version of the space exploration MMORPG on the Epic Game store, which will allow players to purchase characters and spaceships with LFC tokens. Currently, the game mostly supports BSC (i.e. LFC tokens accessible on Pancake Swap), but offers partial support for Neo, Ethereum, and Polygon.

Flamingo Finance shared stats on the top tokens traded by volume for Week 43 of 2023, which noted approximately US $11.75 million in bNEO, $10.2 million in FLM, and $10.1 million in GAS.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released episode 49 of the Smart Economy Podcast featuring Michael O’Rourke, co-founder of Pocket Network and CEO of Grove, to discuss how decentralized infrastructures empower both users and companies. Topics of discussion include the intricacies of the Grove infrastructure and RPC nodes and the need for decentralized systems to differentiate supply and demand, enabling businesses to operate beyond any single nation-state’s jurisdiction, the implications and potential impact of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks and Grove’s role in the DePIN ecosystem, O’Rourke’s experiences with Bitcoin, and how Ethereum smart contracts influenced his views on scalable, decentralized infrastructure.

Events

Nov. 6: Unlocking the Chain hosting Neo community X Spaces.

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