General Updates

Neo launched its Escape the Matrix experimental AI agent on the Neo X EVM sidechain and invites users to outwit its puzzle-solving mechanisms to compete for a piece of a US $30,000 prize pool. The AI agent is designed to protect the pool of GAS, and it’s the player’s job to convince it to part ways with the funds. The game launched on Jan. 9 and concludes on Jan. 14.

Neo updated the Neo X Grind Hackathon timeline, with community voting for hackathon projects opening on Jan. 13, the vote window closing on Jan. 20, and winner announcements on Jan. 21.

DogeRift founder Marko Silko (aka Zoxyi) announced that the team is indefinitely suspending any development on the 2D/3D play-to-earn game and its associated Bored Doge Club NFTs. Zoxyi stated the team will help compensate DOGER/DOGEF and NFT token holders with NEO. Silko’s statement was published in the official DogeRift Discord server.

Flamingo Finance announced an upcoming Testnet Trading Competition, designed to facilitate testing of its new block-based, on-chain OrderBook+ on Neo N3. The competition runs from 2:00 p.m. (UTC) on Jan. 13 to 2:00 p.m. on Jan. 27, offering participants the chance to win a share of a 200 GAS reward pool, valued at over US $1,000 at the time of writing.

Flamingo Finance conducted the LRB Fund distribution, where those who sent their LRB to the disbursement fund received their proportional FUSD. The LRB Fund was created to help make LRB token holders whole after the algorithmic stablecoin project shut down following the Terra-Luna collapse in 2022. It was initially seeded with NEP-17 token donations from projects across the ecosystem and earned 1% of the interest on FUSD created since June 2022.

GrantShares had a proposal put on-chain for a vote and another put forth for discussion. A proposal for expanding the Neo community in Vietnam was put on-chain for voting to distribute GAS for a community member to use for six months of monthly rewards for giveaway campaigns. At the time of press, the proposal has reached quorum with five votes in favor and one in dissent. Additionally, a proposal for a Neo dashboard in Alphaday was put forth for discussion.

nDapp added the DeXFun gamified perpetual futures exchange, the Nichome user participation incentive platform, and the Escape the Matrix AI agent adversarial game to its app and dApp discovery platform.

Developer Updates

COZ hosted a community poll, which determined that the team will implement support for the Polygon blockchain into the Neon Wallet.

NNT Catch Up

NNT editors and special guest Unlocking the Chain co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #46 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included the genesis of the Virtuals AI agent platform and Unlocking the Chain’s background in the ecosystem, building and launching agents on Virtuals, the Web3 verticals that AI agents service and represent, Edge’s experience launching an agent on Virtuals and the back-end composability, curating an AI agent token, Neo’s Escape the Matrix adversarial AI agent game, and more.

Events

Jan. 17: NNT editors hosting CC & BB #47 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.

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