NEO
Neo Global Development (NGD) Seattle lead, John deVadoss, participated in The Road to Metamorphosis virtual event on May 9th. His presentation, Future of Money – Stablecoins as the New Moat, offered an overview of potential stablecoin markets in India.
Neo will be presenting at the upcoming Consensus: Distributed 2020 virtual conference taking place May 11th – 15th, 2020. Consensus is an annual event that attracts interest from across the blockchain ecosystem and has been touted as one of the premier industry events. Neo will be presenting on May 11th from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC-5) and will include presentations from Da Hongfei, John deVadoss, John Wang, and Stanislav Bogatyrev.
Neo co-founder, Da Hongfei, is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the Crypto Asia Summit virtual conference on Wednesday, May 19th, 2020. Da is expected to speak from 9:00 am to 10:00 am (UTC +9).
Road to Neo3
Neo News Today (NNT) released the next feature in its Road to Neo3 series, which examined the new exception handling mechanism under development for Neo3’s virtual machine. The addition of exception handling capabilities to Neo smart contracts is intended to make them more robust, behaving more like traditional applications that can recover from unexpected errors.
NNT Catch Up
NNT’s Colin Closser, interviewed 0xGames chief marketing officer, Alexander Fedorchuk, to talk about the company’s blockchain games, its business, and its future with Neo. 0xGames is the development studio behind 0xUniverse – one of the most popular blockchain games. It is also the creator of 0xWarriors and 0xRacers, both of which incorporate the Neo blockchain into their game worlds.
Poloniex exchange announced the listing of NEO markets on its exchange, while European-based Anycoin Direct provided updates to its platform aimed at improving the user experience of purchasing NEO.
Neo St. Petersburg Competence Center (Neo SPCC) co-founder and CIO, Stanislav Bogatyrev, participated in a panel alongside other blockchain projects such as Cardano, Waves, and Solana for the Binance Online Super Meetup on April 30th, 2020. The event was held entirely in Russian.
Developer Groups
Neow3j integrated support for Kotlin, which allows Kotlin developers to import Neow3j into their project.
NEXT released the six and seventh videos from its NeoTalk series, designed to get users familiar with its NeoLine mobile wallet. The sixth video offered a walkthrough of the Discover and News interface, while the seventh video discussed the My user settings interface. NEXT supplemented the release of these videos with a NeoTalk article that highlighted various transactions errors and their potential solutions.
Ecosystem
May 4th, Jarvis+ released its fortnightly report, which highlighted a customized price query function in its WeChat app.
May 7th, Neo Colorado participated in the Crytptorado Community: Lightning Innovation Sessions idea pitch and generation virtual event. The pitch for the event focused on Neo Poker, which aims to offer a decentralized platform for Neo community members to play poker and use NEO and GAS assets for user chip stacks.
May 8th, Guardian Circle released v3.5 of its mobile application. Following a period of exponential growth in user acquisition during the COVID-19 pandemic, Guardian Circle has implemented changes designed to streamline the onboarding process and improve the overall user experience.
May 8th, Nash released an article that explored how blockchain can be implemented into video games through in-game transactions and digital collectibles.
May 9th, QLC Chain released its biweekly report, which noted the delivery of a billing/settlement service to a client, an AMA with its chief architect, Allen Li, and the announcement of the upcoming launch of a new module with a DeFi marketplace in the QWallet app.
May 9th, TranslateMe announced a 1,000,000 TMN token reward campaign. To become eligible, users must retweet a promotional Tweet and tag five users in the replies. Each of the tagged users that supply their Neo address will receive 100 TMN tokens.
Token Listings
Nash exchange will delist Red Pulse (PHX) on May 11th.
Events
May 11th: Neo, NGD, Neo SPCC, NGD Seattle to present at Consensus: Distributed.
May 19th: Da Hongfei to speak at Crypto Asia Summit.
About The Author: Dylan Grabowski
Dylan is a reformed urban planner with a passion for covering the Neo ecosystem. His objective as a writer for Neo News Today is to report news in an objective, fact-based, non-sensational manner. When not behind a computer screen, he can be found in the mountains rock climbing. Find Dylan on Twitter (@GrabowskiDylan).
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