NEO Global Monthly Report

September 2019

NEO Global Monthly Report

Highlights

NEW REPORT

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MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS

September was a milestone month for NEO as it held its inaugural NEO Community Assembly, inviting representatives from NEO development communities to collaborate in Shanghai, from September 2nd through 6th. Leaders from community groups around the globe spent a week in intensive discussions surrounding topics such as NEO3 features, governance, and economic models.

A highlight of the event was the NEO Community Assembly press conference in which releases for NEO•ONE, NeoFS, and the NEO Blockchain Toolkit for .NET were announced.

In the weeks that followed, another big milestone was achieved with the launch of NEO3 Preview 1 and its accompanying preview TestNet on September 16th.

NEO also announced at the .NET Conference 2019 on September 24th that it has joined the Microsoft created .NET Foundation – making it the first blockchain project to join the organization.

Other general ecosystem progress was made with NEO announcing a new partnerships with Celer Network, a layer-2 solution provider with a goal of building towards better scalability and ecosystem growth, and MixMarvel, who announced “Ground Hunter,” a blockchain-based FPS game featuring NEO NFT assets.

The NEO Foundation also released its 2019 mid-year financial report, outlining its NEO and GAS holdings, investment funds, and other assets, while providing details about its expenditures.

A full breakdown of progress during September by NEO Global Development and its communities can be found below.

DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT

NEO3

NEO3 Progress
  • The NEO3 Preview1 and its TestNet was launched.
  • Discussions were moderated around topics such as NEO governance, NeoID, NEO3 migration, TPS enhancement, oracles, and NeoFS integration, during the NEO Community Assembly 2019.
  • The PoC demo for cross-chain protocol with Ontology was completed.
  • The voting system and incentive mechanism for NEO3 was designed following ongoing discussions.
  • The design of NEO3’s built-in oracle solution progress with ongoing discussions.
  • The development of a C# SDK for NEO3 reached 80% completion.
  • NGD assisted the developer community in developing a JS SDK for NEO3, reaching 60% completion.
  • Performance testing and enhancements.
  • 50 new unit tests for NEO3 added.
  • Celer integration, writing of eChannel module.

DEVELOPMENT

NEO 2.X

NEO 2.X Progress
  • Released neo-plugin-v2.10.3.
  • Published tutorials now available under “Technical Documents” on the official NEO website.

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

Overview

Highlights

The global NEO development community produced quite a lot in September. Not only did representatives from all major communities travel to Shanghai for the inaugural NEO Community Assembly, many groups achieved development milestones and releases.

NGD Seattle launched the preview release for its much anticipated NEO Blockchain Toolkit for .NET, while NEO SPCC released the internal NeoFS proof-of-concept to the development community, closely followed by the NeoFS TestNet and Send.NeoFS service demo launch.

NewEconoLabs deployed version 2.0 of the NeoRay debugger, including a full UX overhaul, and Neow3j released v2.3.0 of its Java SDK along with the first release of documentation.

On the academic side, NeoResearch published two scientific papers, one related to consensus and another one related to privacy on home chains, and NEXT community continued its online technical class series.

More updates from the various community groups can be read below.

NGD SEATTLE

Releases

  • Released the NEO Blockchain Toolkit for .NET preview release for download.

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.
  • Presented the NEO Blockchain Toolkit for .NET preview at the .NET Conf 2019.
  • Held an NEO F5 Experience Workshop at the IEEE Blockchain Summit in Washington DC, USA

NEO SPCC

Development

  • NEO2.X: NeoFS alpha version has been implemented with NEP-5 token to emulate GAS in NEO3.
  • NEO3: Contribution to the Oracles protocol proposal for integration with NEO3 in the smart contract.

Releases

  • Internal Proof-of-Concept alpha testing for NEO development community, 23rd Sep.
  • NeoFS Testnet launch, 30th Sep.
  • Send.NeoFS: service demo launch, 30th Sep.
  • NeoFS HTTP-gate alpha release.
  • NeoFS Proof-of-Concept (alpha) release, 4th Sept.

Events

  • Presentation and lecture of NEO SPCC about its projects (NeoFS, NeoGO) at Saint Petersburg State University, faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes, 27th Sep.
  • Discussion on potential collaboration between NEO SPCC and the faculty, open research problems proposal to university researchers.
  • Participated in the NEO Community Assembly 2019, including:
    • NeoFS presentation about the NeoFS architecture.
    • Demonstration of NeoFS SDK and NeoFS Proof-of-Concept release.
    • Participation at NEO Community Assembly press conference.

COZ

Development

neon-wallet

  • Implemented UI features including adding block height to sidebar component and adding public key to dashboard view
  • Automated test suite enhancements and code coverage improvements
  • Fixed a bug allowing users to attempt to claim GAS in “watch only” mode

neo3-preview-tracker

  • Product development and planning, research tech stack
  • Creation of mocks/wireframes for the entire project
  • Began creation of API endpoints on AWS Lambda
  • Started neo-cli DynamoDB publisher plugin
  • Built initial scaffolding and architecture of the front end application

neon-js

  • Initial support for NEO3 Preview

neo-scan

  • Refactored CryptoCompare API usage to avoid exceeding limits

neo-plugins-coz

  • Refactored existing plugins for latest plugin API
  • Added 7 new plugins

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.

NEORESEARCH

Research

  • Two scientific papers were published by academic members of NeoResearch, one related to consensus and another one related to privacy on home chains. They will be presented in October at The International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD).
  • NeoResearch submitted a report related to on-chain governance, which is still under analysis. This report comments about novel strategies and incentives to increase the number of nodes while making network more open (decentralized) and stable.
  • NeoResearch began initial studies on zero knowledge methods, in particular, starting a partnership with the non-profit SciChain project, focused on promoting an environment for science on the Blockchain.

Development

  • Built an experimental NeoCompiler-Eco with a NEO3 privatenet running in 300ms per block. Further experiments are under analysis. An important achievement related to all improvements held on NEO3 and previous efforts for NEO to use Akka.Net.

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.

NEOW3J

Development

  • Implemented the getapplicationlog JSON-RPC method to enable users to read responses/results from the NEO blockchain.
  • First release of the neow3j documentation website (work-in-progress).
  • Released version 2.3.0

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.

NEXT

Development

  • Moved into testing phase for NEOLine mobile development.
  • Re-designed UX for asset selection and remaining balance for transfer.
  • Adjusted UI for wallet and transfer pages.
  • Bug fixes.

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.
  • Held the NEXT online technical class: Episode 32.
  • Held the NEXT online sharing session: Episode 8.

NEWECONOLABS

Development

  • Released NeoRay 2.0 with fixes and support for English versions.
  • Released Teemo 1.3.0, adding sendScript and deployContract.
  • Added blockchain browser support for NEO3 TestNet, with a new version to launch soon.

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.
  • Presented NEO-ONE at the NCA 2019 press conference.

NEO-ONE

Development

  • Announced upcoming release of NEO-ONE 2.0 with MainNet ready TypeScript contracts and updated documentation
  • Integrated with CodeSandbox to allow in-browser app development and facilitate the sharing of code snippets

Events

  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.

RED4SEC

Security

  • NEO2: Devpack, NEO-Compiler and NEO-GUI source code audits.
  • New updates on NeoStats and Neo-Resilience testing frameworks used to test how code changes affect performance.

Events

  • BTConf Workshop Barcelona Trading Conference.
  • Participated in NEO Community Assembly 2019.

MARKETING

MARKETING

Overview

Overview

NEO spearheaded a range of marketing activities in September, including the NCA 2019 press conference, featuring presentations by Da Hongfei, NGD Seattle, NEO-ONE, and NEO SPCC, and the “Blockchain in China” themed symposium featuring representatives from Bytom, VeChain, Ontology, TomoChain, Conflux, PlatON and NEO. NEO also participated in global events, including the 2019 .NET Conference and Consensus Singapore.

Regular online activities continued, with a range of new guests for LOVE NEO, and both the English and Chinese versions of NEO LIVE.

MARKETING

Offline Events

2nd - 6th

NEO held its inaugural NEO Community Assembly, inviting representatives from NEO development communities to join discussions and collaborations in Shanghai.

5th

NEO debuted NEO•ONE, NeoFS, and the NEO Blockchain Toolkit during the press conference of its inaugural NEO Community Assembly.

5th

NEO held a “Blockchain in China” themed Symposium. Leaders from 7 prominent public chain platforms came together for in-depth discussions on industry trends, blockchain mass-adoption, as well as government policies and regulations.

11th

NEO EcoGrowth director Wang Jiachao attended “Consensus Singapore” with the NEO team, and gave a speech on “Building a Flourishing NEO Ecosystem”.

18th

Nikkor Wang, NEO EcoGrowth manager was invited by Laya.FairyLand and HDKT to attend the inaugural “Stable Coin+Game Ecosystem Forum.” He also participated in a panel themed “Stable Coin and Blockchain Games.”

22nd

NEO JOY 2019 went to Chengdu, NEO Eco partners and projects joined the crowd to discuss the liquidity and security aspects of blockchain assets.

23rd - 25th

John deVadoss, Head of NGD Seattle attended .NET Conference 2019 to introduce NEO Blockchain Toolkit for .NET and NEO3.

MARKETING

Online Events

MARKETING

Community

TWITTER
FACEBOOK
REDDIT
DISCORD
MEDIUM
YOUTUBE
WECHAT
WIEBO

ECOSYSTEM

ECOSYSTEM

Ecosystem

Project Collaborations
  • Magnum wallet now supports the NEP-5 standard.
  • Ryu Games now supports NEP-11 and has released over 100 NFT assets.
  • NEO partnered with Celer Network to explore layer-2 solutions together.
New Projects
  • NEO-based digital gold project Novem stared China Roadshow during Shanghai Blockchain Week in Shanghai.
  • MixMarvel FPS game “Ground Hunter” to be launched on NEO. Pre-sale started in September with public testing starting soon.
  • After debuting during NEO GameCon in Japan in March 2019, the pre-sale website is officially launched for blockchain racing game “CryptoFast.” Development for NEO NFT wallets and NFT assets are also completed.

LIQUIDITY

LIQUIDITY

Exchanges