COZ has documented the distribution of 537 NEO across five contributions in its latest Proof of Working 2.5 rewards report. The round marks the sixth installment since the program’s relaunch and recognizes a new natural-language CLI assistant for Neo N3, a NeoFS media-streaming tool, AxLabs’ maintenance of the Neo Event Filter Plugin, and continued work on the Forge token framework and the NeonJS SDK.

The bi-weekly program rewards independent contributors for publicly delivered work in the Neo ecosystem. There is no formal joining process; COZ staff members are not eligible, all code must be open-sourced, and consistent contributors become eligible for COZ organization membership.

Neo AI Agent

ethArek’s Neo AI Agent, a new contribution, is a command-line assistant that lets users interact with Neo N3 through natural language rather than a manual sequence of wallet and contract operations.

It supports balance and history checks, GAS handling, contract interactions, Flamingo Finance swap flows with routing and slippage handling, and exposes an experimental REST surface for broader integrations. The agent uses OpenAI or Gemini to plan actions.

ethArek previously received rewards in Proof of Working 2.0 and Proof of Working 2.2 for Neo Analytics, a public dashboard of Neo N3 on-chain activity.

NeoFS Streaming

NeoFS Streaming (or nstream) is new this round. The platform offers support to stream media directly from NeoFS, the distributed object storage network for Neo, into applications such as VLC, and ships with a frontend for managing NeoFS containers.

Merl was previously credited for the TypeScript NeoFS SDK in Proof of Working 2.2 (jointly with AxLabs) and for NeoFS Mount in Proof of Working 2.4.

Neo Event Filter Plugin

The Neo Event Filter Plugin was also built by Merl, and is now maintained by AxLabs. The plugin is aimed at bringing a more EVM-like event-querying experience to Neo.

Forge

Forge Lean Token Architecture Upgrade, by AboimPinto, continues work first recognized in Proof of Working 2.4. The current phase introduces a new LEAN token template that, according to COZ, cuts deployment cost by roughly 11% to 12% while preserving compatibility with standard wallet flows through a split-architecture model.

AboimPinto is a multi-round recipient, having previously been recognized for HushNetwork in earlier installments alongside the Forge work.

NeonJS

NeonJS maintenance, by AboimPinto, was the round’s largest single focus. The work replaces an outdated cryptographic dependency, updates several supporting libraries, reduces audit risk, and improves long-term maintainability for the JavaScript SDK used across the Neo ecosystem.

On-chain verification and series total

COZ published a single award-proof transaction for the round. As in prior rounds, the post does not break down how the 537 NEO were allocated among recipients.

This round brings cumulative Proof of Working distributions since the program’s relaunch to 3,664 NEO.

The full report can be found at the link below:
https://coz.io/blog/proof-of-working-2-5/

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