General Updates
Neo supported a rooftop party for GM Vietnam 2025, alongside Bifrost, Orbiter Finance, and others. Additionally, Neo shared images of the ecosystem booth at GM Vietnam 2025.
Neo shared a preview of the “Where’s Waldo” style t-shirt that will be given away as swag at the Neo booth at the forthcoming Blockchain Rio.
AEON announced that Neo BD manager, Tony, is joining a Twitter Spaces entitled, Smart Economies, Real-World Payments, and PayFi. The conversation will be recorded and held at 12:00 p.m. (UTC) on Aug. 6.
SpoonOS extended Developer Call Season 1 an additional two weeks through Aug. 15. The team is offering rewards of up to US $1,500 per project.
Qdrant announced the release of its Web3-native AI research copilot built with SpoonOS. SpoonOS was leveraged to build a dynamic curiosity engine using Qdrant’s multi-vector search feature. The integration resulted in a 71% drop in latency, a 58% boost in interaction relevance, and a 22% increase in user retention.
COZ established a partnership with Blink Planet and will add a boss centered around the team to its game activation at Blockchain Rio. Blink Planet is a collaborative artistic studio with a curated trading hub and gamified engagement components. Throughout the Blockchain Rio activation, boss battles can yield participants more Flux points, which can be used to redeem for merch.
COZ also established a partnership with CoinEx to bring a guild of 500 BlockSpirits and four arena bosses to the Blockchain Rio conference. Participants can collect a CoinEx-branded AeroGlyph card at the COZ booth.
Flamingo Finance noted that Epoch 17 concluded, that the total payout was $6,096.61, and 181,697 FLM were burned. Flamingo Finance also released an article showcasing six ways in which users can earn value on the platform, including swapping, holding FLOCKS, borrowing and lending, and trading competitions. Finally, Flamingo Finance announced the Flamingo Ambassadors for July and distributed $170 in GAS rewards.
World of Elements added six new quests and two new locations to the RPG.
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
Neo SPCC released NeoFS node v0.48.1 patch, which includes fixes related to garbage bucket processing, IR node deadlocks, and a set of other changes.
Neo SPCC released NeoFS REST Gateway v0.14.0, which added the ability to control polling behavior for container operations, and other bug fixes.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 95 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Marc Tillement, Director of the Pyth Data Association, an independent entity pursuing decentralized financial data distribution through the Pyth Network ecosystem. Topics of discussion include how traditional financial data distribution is controlled by 5-6 companies generating $30B in annual revenue, why decentralized oracle networks are crucial for bringing real-world data on-chain, the strategic advantage of creating new financial data sources rather than just redistributing existing ones, how Pyth Network engages major trading firms and exchanges as data publishers, why running an independent app chain enables better oracle service across multiple blockchains, how privacy concerns are driving innovation in decentralized exchange infrastructure, and more.
NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #67 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included the SEC’s recent pro-crypto statement, the upcoming ITEM Systems and COZ activation at Blockchain RIO, the potential on-chain activity that the activation will drive to Neo, and the latest The Smart Economy Podcast episode.
In Case You Missed It
SpoonOS hosted the second episode of the AI Co-Learning Program, titled Post-Training Reasoning Models. The guest was Zhi Wang, who is currently pursuing a PhD in machine learning from UC San Diego. Participants had the chance to win $200 in GAS and OpenRouter API Keys. The co-learning program is designed to engage participants in AI programming topics and techniques. It will feature a series of live-streamed sessions over the coming weeks, giving attendees the opportunity to learn directly from AI professionals while completing practical assignments to reinforce their knowledge.
Events
Aug. 5 – 7: Neo will be a Titanium sponsor, and COZ a Gold sponsor, at Blockchain.RIO in Brazil.
Aug. 15: NNT hosting CC & BB #68 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
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