General Updates
Neo launched a Lunar New Year giveaway campaign, where two lucky winners will each receive a gift box with a Neo-branded hardware wallet, a Gassy mascot toy, and a magic fortune altar. To qualify, participants need to follow the official Neo X account, re-tweet the announcement, and tag friends in the comments. The winners will be announced on Feb. 7.
Neo highlighted the various global affiliate communities, including Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Turkey, Vietnam, Nigeria, and the different Spanish-speaking countries worldwide.
Flamingo Finance concluded the Testnet Trading Competition, designed to facilitate testing its new block-based, on-chain OrderBook+ on Neo N3. Cumulatively, more than 50,000 trades were made across all participants during the two-week competition. The team noted that an elusive bug was identified during the campaign, which has yet to be reproduced and resolved. The team stated they’re working to locate the bug, and once identified, they’ll assess its impact to determine if an additional test phase is needed or if they can proceed with the planned Feb. 6 launch.
Meme2Earn burnt 6.5 quadrillion NEP-17 NUDES tokens (65% of the total supply) during the Community Fireplace AMA that took place on the official Meme2Earn Discord server. The team plans to burn another 4.42% of the total supply in the coming weeks.
TOTHEMOON has reduced the price for its Phase 4 Waxing Gibbous NFT mint, and is planning to migrate its NFTs and TTM token to the Base blockchain. It also announced that Forthewin Network would participate in the migration, converting NEP tokens into TTM.
nDapp.org added Colony Ants to its app and dApp discovery platform.
Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the NeoF1 Discord server, and distributed 3 GAS in rewards to participants.
GasPot re-launched its lottery game, allowing people to pay 1 GAS per ticket to enter a weekly prize drawing.
Neo Red Pill announced a final distribution event prior to the NRP NEP-17 memecoin being listed on a Neo-based non-custodial exchange.
Developer Updates
COZ added Ledger support for Neo X on the Neon Wallet.
Neo SPCC released dBFT v0.3.2, which fine-tuned the dBFT timer to make block production times more accurate and produce them almost exactly when scheduled. It also fixed minor bugs.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 82 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Zac Williamson, CEO and co-founder of Aztec Protocol, an L2 blockchain focusing on privacy. Topics of discussion included how ZK technology evolved from niche to mainstream, creating a new programming language for privacy, building decentralized sequencer networks, the evolution of Aztec’s network architecture, what’s next for blockchain privacy in 2025, and more.
Events
Feb. 7: NNT editors hosting CC & BB #49 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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