General Updates
Neo has partnered with Inflectiv, a company specializing in transforming datasets into tokenized, tradeable, and revenue-generating assets. This collaboration is aimed at leveraging AI-empowered tools to improve data management, drive ecosystem growth, provide data markets, and utilize quantum-resistant encryption.
The Neo Foundation’s Neo Bond program reached the 5 million NEO contribution cap on April 9. Participants will receive their contributions plus rewards 30 days after they made their deposits to the address. In total, 5.02 million NEO were deposited from 553 unique addresses over 836 transactions, and the average deposit was 6,005 NEO.
Unlocking the Chain released a new video offering an overview of the Neo Bond program.
Neo shared video highlights of the team’s footprint at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival on April 6 – 9. Neo Smart Economy Japan also shared a video of the ecosystem’s presence at AI Expo Spring in Tokyo.
XBO.com listed GAS on its custodial exchange, which, according to CoinMarketCap, reported approximately $24.35 million in 24-hour trading volume on April 13.
Several projects, including Flamingo Finance, Pixudi, and COZ, have signaled their intent to join the Centre Point community meeting this May around the TOKEN2049 conference in Dubai.
Flamingo Finance released a FLOCKS calculator that allows users to toggle various scenarios (i.e., FLM entry price, price in 1 year, volume) to generate future estimates for APY rates. Flamingo Finance also re-integrated Swapping into its non-custodial exchange, offering a simpler method to trade tokens as compared to using the OrderBook+. Lastly, Flamingo Finance noted that more than 100 million FLM have been burnt to mint FLOCKS tokens.
GrantShares proposals for Centre Point funding received the necessary votes in favor of distributions, including Pixudi, Unlocking the Chain, and Cassette. Voting for new DAO members concluded with the NEOF1 team receiving 7 yes votes, and the Neo Dashboard team receiving 3 yes votes and 4 abstain votes. The Neo Red Pill online marketplace for Neo received 1,581 GAS in funding for its development. The Raihno – AI Aided Workout Tracking proposal was put forth for discussion. And the NEO Blockchain Co-Working Space Hub and NeoX Token for Medical Diagnostics in the Ghetto proposals were put on-chain for voting, but have not received any endorsements.
nDapp’s GasBot is now listed in the Discord App Directory, which allows users to search, browse, and explore thousands of apps to customize their servers.
Neo Dashboard hosted a lottery-based game, Jackpot Junction, on its platform allowing users to join pools of various sizes (i.e., 5,000 or 10,000 NDMEME ticket entries) and potentially win NDMEME token prizes. The games were seeded with 50,000 NDMEME tokens that were up for grabs.
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
COZ released its corporate roadmap, detailing the organization’s structure, achievements in 2024, and strategic direction for 2025. The developer community is currently running an AMA on the Neo subReddit, which will field questions from anyone through April 18.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 87 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Ingo Ruebe, the founder of Kilt Protocol, a decentralized digital identity solution serving enterprises, governments, and consumers. Topics of discussion include why Web2 identity is fundamentally broken, the difference between identity and identification, building resilient systems for defense and enterprise, the power of user-owned personal data, bridging traditional industries with blockchain tech, the future of AI agent identification, and more.
NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #57 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account with guest co-host COZ CEO Tyler Adams. Topics of discussion included lessons learned being a long-standing Web3 developer community from 2017, how COZ has expanded roles beyond developers over time, tips for first-time attendees navigating crypto conferences, cross-chain swapping data in Neon Wallet, the successes of the Neo Bond program, how COZ plans to support vibe coders, and more.
In Case You Missed It
Neo SPCC released updated versions of the NeoFS S3 Gateway and Send.NeoFS service. The NeoFS S3 Gateway, which provides an API compatible with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage solution, was modified for compatibility with standard Neo FS nodes running version 0.45.0 or later. Neo SPCC later released S3 Gateway v0.36.1, which fixed a performance regression caused by an incorrect settings cache and an incorrect status code given on failed object placement due to missing access permissions.
Events
April 18: NNT hosting CC & BB #58 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
April 30 – May 1: Neo at TOKEN2049 in Dubai.
May 2 – May 4: Centre Point community meetup
May 14 – 16: Neo at Consensus in Toronto.
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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