General Updates

GrantShares witnessed the submission of the proposal Vaulten – Escape Room Style Puzzle Platform on Neo. Vaulten is an on-chain puzzle and logic game inspired by escape rooms and cryptographic riddles. Players solve weekly and monthly challenges – from beginner-friendly tasks to advanced on-chain investigations – to earn unique NFT rewards and occasional GAS prizes. After four to five months of development and testing, the platform is 95% complete, live on the Neo TestNet, and nearing MainNet launch with final wallet integration and polish underway. Designed as a free, community-driven project, Vaulten aims to spark activity in the Neo ecosystem through fun, interactive learning experiences. The team is requesting 3,200 GAS for development work as well as hosting, infrastructure, maintenance, and marketing over the next two to three years.

SpoonOS introduced the LLM-Driven Crypto Analyst, an autonomous research agent built by a developer during Developer Call Season 1, which concluded on Aug. 15. The agent combines live data, AI reasoning, and automated decision-making, aimed at turning market noise into clear insights.

SpoonOS announced AI Co-Learning Program episode four, entitled Learning from Experience aka Reinforcement Learning. The episode will feature Dr. Yuxi Li and offer participants up to US $200 in GAS rewards and 10 OpenRouter API Keys.

SpoonOS established a strategic cooperation with Orochi, a verifiable data infrastructure aimed at addressing scalability, privacy, and integrity challenges by leveraging cryptographic techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs and a structured verifiable data pipeline.

Flamingo Finance noted that Epoch 19 concluded, that the total payout was $5,096.34, and 78,257 FLM were burned.

World of Elements announced that the development team is working on a new map, and once integrated, 50% of it will be playable.

Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the FrankCoin channel of the NeoF1 Discord server and distributed 3 GAS in rewards to participants.

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC released NeoFS Node v0.48.2, which included faster removal and a ban on locking for tombstoned objects, RPC client deadlock fix, and other updates. Neo SPCC also released NeoFS Node v0.48.3, which requires a metabase resync.

Neo SPCC released NeoFS REST Gateway v0.14.1, which includes fixes to panic in auth requests and updates a couple of dependencies.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 96 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital, a global blockchain and Web3 proprietary trading and venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments that accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology. Topics of discussion include what CMT Digital looks for in pre-seed and seed-stage startups, why Ethereum’s shift to a data availability layer could be both a superpower and a challenge, what modular blockchain design unlocks for institutional adoption and infrastructure composability, why stablecoins are the real killer use case in crypto, how U.S. policy is accelerating their global reach, and much more.

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #68 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included the ITEM Systems and COZ activation on the Neo blockchain at Blockchain.RIO, how it drove more than 25,000 on-chain transactions in two days, the conclusion of SpoonOS Dev Call Season 1, the upcoming Centre Point community meeting in Singapore, a new GrantShares proposal, and Flamingo Finance listing USDC.

Events

Aug. 22: NNT hosting CC & BB #69 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
Aug. 24: Neo Vibe Tokyo 2025 in Chuo City.
Aug. 25-26: Neo is a Gold Sponsor of WebX 2025 in Tokyo.
Aug. 26: Meme2Earn hosting Community Fireplace on the official Discord server.
Aug. 26: Flamingo Finance hosting Community Lagoon on the official X account.

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