General Updates
Neo released a new holiday-themed game, Grouchy, Grinchy, Grumpy AI Christmas, inviting community members to recover a “mystery gift” by questioning an intentionally unhelpful AI. The web-based experience is available at xmas.neo.org and is powered by SpoonOS infrastructure.
Neo co-founder Erik Zhang detailed a set of protocol-level updates spanning Neo N3 and the upcoming Neo 4, focused on transaction fee control and native token infrastructure.
Neo core released a recording of the recent developer meeting, where contributors focused on simplifying the proposed custom contract fee mechanism NEP, evaluating a transaction-based approach for proving node liveness, and preparing governance and cryptography changes for upcoming releases. The session also brought additional clarity to the high-level architecture for Neo 4, centered on Neo N3 as the main chain with bridged sidechains.
SpoonOS announced the winners of the Scoop AI Hackathon Seoul Bowl. First place went to PRISM, a project that seeks to transform complex concepts into interactive, animated videos for instant visual understanding by replacing static text with AI-generated videos. Track winners went to GitGuardian, Med/DaaS, and Story World. GitGuardian is an AI-powered git recovery agent that safely resolves merge conflicts, rebases, and detached HEAD states. Med/DaaS is a privacy-aware medical data platform using semantic retrieval to support radiology education and medical AI training. Finally, Story World is an AI web-novel character chatbot platform. Track special awards went to HANDOFF, NandaGore, Flowly, CoWeave, Safety Lens, and RepoWrap.
SpoonOS hosted a Space titled How Multi-Agent Collaboration Becomes Real User Acquisition, joined by Xerpa AI marketing manager Lyn Zhang. Topics of discussion included how XerpaAI is improving team efficiency and empowering creators to ship higher-quality content faster in Creative Labs, and how the project enables multiple agents to co-work.
Neo Ultimate Shop concluded its Christmas giveaway, which required entrants to follow the Neo Ultimate Shop and Neo Red Pill X accounts, retweet the announcement post, and tag two friends in the comments. Two participants were selected, each winning 1 million NRP tokens and 10 NEO. One “mega winner” received a metal seed phrase card, an NRP T‑shirt, an NRP coffee mug, and 20 NEO.
GrantShares proposal Raijin Protocol Grant Proposal Phase 1 (Milestone 1 & 2) was put forth for an on-chain vote and passed with four votes in favor and one in abstinence.
nDapp released a weekly N3 GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 68,542 GAS in the past week, and that on-chain activity burned about 294 GAS.
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 Neon Wallet desktop v3.9 and mobile v1.11, which included additional language support, updated notifications, enhancements to performance and UX, and small bug fixes.
In Case You Missed It
NeoDashboard’s NDMEME token became the first non-native token to be approved for use on the Neo X Native Bridge, enabling transfers between the Neo X and Neo N3 networks. As a result of the listing, NDMEME is now bridgeable across both chains and tradable on CarrotSwap and Flamingo Finance.
Events
Dec. 30: Meme2Earn hosting Community Fireplace on official Discord server.
Dec. 30: Flamingo Finance hosting Community Fireplace on official X account.
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