General Updates
OneKey integrated support for the Neo X EVM sidechain into its hardware and app wallet. OneKey is an open-source wallet provider that sells hardware wallets and seed phrase protection devices. Neo and OneKey are also currently collaborating on a hardware wallet giveaway campaign.
DeXFun launched on the Neo X EVM sidechain. Users can now claim access to the dApp’s FUN tokens and create long or short trades for GAS, BTC, or ETH. To celebrate the launch, DeXFun is hosting a trading competition. The Top 10 traders, ranked according to their profit-and-loss performance, will share from a prize pool of 2,000 USDT.
Comet Protocol integrated Neo X into its Instant Gas feature, a tool designed to facilitate quick and cost-effective swaps into small amounts of tokens necessary for paying gas fees across various blockchains. The Instant Gas feature enables users to convert fixed amounts of US $1, $5, $10, or $30 from Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, MANTA, Optimism, and Scroll into tokens on over 15 other supported chains.
Flamingo Finance opened testing for its updated on-chain limit order solution, OrderBook+ 2.0. OrderBook+ 2.0 provides a CEX-like trading experience, offering limit and market orders while remaining completely on-chain. After its MainNet release, all swap functionality on Flamingo will be routed through the orderbook, unifying liquidity and trade execution, and allowing GAS costs to be better optimized.
Flamingo Finance shared the team’s area of focus going into 2025 on its official Discord server, primarily centered on OrderBook+ 2.0 and the FLOCKS token. In the next month, OrderBook+ 2.0 will see the addition of new tokens with 6 or 18 decimals and pairs with notably high or low prices to test the system in varying market conditions. The team aims to launch the FLOCKS smart contract and module on the platform in January 2025.
Cassette released v0.2.0 of its decentralized storage application, introducing several new features aimed at enhancing user experience and expanding functionality. Built on NeoFS, Cassette provides a Dropbox-like solution with blockchain-native capabilities.
TOTHEMOON kicked off its Phase 4 Waxing Gibbous NFT mint. To support the event, TTM launched the Bountyful Holiday campaign which will give away 300 NFTs as an extra incentive for participants who mint NFTs. The holiday campaign began Dec. 16 and runs through Dec. 31.
Neo established a partnership with SaltApp, a decentralized, all-in-one trading platform that aims to make trading across blockchain networks easy and secure. The app claims to offer a user-friendly interface, support multiple blockchains, and prioritize security and transparency.
nDapp integrated the ability to view a wallet’s unclaimed GAS into the Neo application and dApp discovery platform.
Unlocking the Chain released a video offering an overview of the new NeoPod ambassador program launched by Neo Global Development.
COZ joined the Neo Dashboard NDMEME Advent Calendar Event to increase the Christmas Day prize pool for participants to win up to 100,000 NDMEME tokens.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC released NeoFS v 0.44.4, which includes a fix for an issue that could prevent the node from starting due to incomplete metabase migration.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 79 of The Smart Economy Podcast with Jacob Phillips, co-founder of Lombard, a project integrating Bitcoin with decentralized finance and offering solutions such as its flagship product LBTC—a yield-bearing, cross-chain, liquid Bitcoin backed 1:1 by BTC. Topics of discussion include how Bitcoin’s market capitalization could be an ideal solution for DeFi liquidity, the mentality of deploying Bitcoin as an asset into DeFi versus deploying other assets like Ether, building on the Babylon staking protocol, upcoming Lombard releases, and more.
NNT editors co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #44 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included digging around the Neo Core and experimenting with lower block times, outlook for GAS as an asset in 2025, enterprise users in 2025, where blockchain innovation actually happens, a new wave of users amidst new Bitcoin all-time high prices, the need to focus on customer service and users in 2025, and the forthcoming launch of Flamingo Finance’s OrderBook+ 2.0.
Events
Dec. 24: Meme2Earn hosting Community Fireplace on the official Discord server.
Jan. 3: NNT editors hosting CC & BB #45 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
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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