General Updates
World of Elements shared a progress update on the game’s transition from a single-player RPG to a fully multiplayer experience, reporting a working MMO foundation built in one month of development. The update, posted to the GrantShares proposal thread on July 1, follows the unanimous approval of 1,200 GAS in funding for the project’s multiplayer expansion.
BiFinance listed the NeoRedPill NRP/USDT trading pair on the custodial exchange, marking the community project’s first centralized exchange listing.
NeoRedPill submitted a GrantShares proposal for NeoVerse: Hero Defense, a community-driven mobile tower defense game built around the Neo ecosystem. Players defend against blockchain-inspired threats such as scammers, bots, and FUD while unlocking heroes inspired by Neo ecosystem projects and community members. The game is being developed for Android and iOS with seasonal leaderboards, community rewards, and optional cosmetic integrations through Neo Ultimate Shop using NRP or GAS. The proposal is requesting 7,950 GAS and is currently open for public comment.
NeoPod hosted its second community AMA on July 4, featuring NeoRedPill founder Aziz. Topics of discussion focused on the NeoRedPill and NeoUltimateShop projects, the current strengths and opportunities within the Neo ecosystem, building a Turkey-based community, goals for the NeoVision community, and much more.
nDapp released a weekly N3 GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 134,958 GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 387 GAS.
Frank Coin hosted a Neo trivia contest on Telegram, rewarding participants with 100 FRANK tokens for the top player and 40 FRANK tokens for ten players selected at random.
NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants competed for a pool of 4 GAS rewards.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC released the following:
- NeoFS Node v0.54.0 “Ando”, delivering a new atomic container-with-eACL creation feature, significant erasure coding performance optimizations, and seven bug fixes across storage node and Inner Ring components. The release requires no migration from v0.53.0.
- v0.18.0 of the NeoFS REST Gateway, its REST API for interacting with decentralized storage. The update improves GET performance and adds support for non-ASCII object attributes through a new base64-encoded header, alongside refreshed dependencies including neofs-sdk-go and neo-go. It also removes RANGEHASH support and adds new object-type and origin-token handling for developers building on the gateway.
- NeoFS S3 gateway v0.45.0, its S3-compatible interface for decentralized storage. The release adds bucket namespacing and broader session-token support while modernizing the codebase by updating the NeoFS SDK and removing legacy features like object ACLs and older token formats. Operators upgrading from v0.44.0 should note that access tokens need to be regenerated and some bucket settings migrated.
AxLabs previewed Ax402, an upcoming payment layer for APIs, content, and protected resources built on the x402 standard. The tool is designed to enable machine-native payments, allowing builders to charge per API call, charge per piece of content, protect and monetize resources behind paywalls, and settle in stablecoins or other supported tokens. AxLabs described Ax402 as being close to a full release.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 116 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Christian St. Louis, partner at Ethereal Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in blockchain, crypto, and emerging technologies. Topics of discussion include why founder conviction matters more than ever in an AI-driven startup landscape, why stablecoins may be one of crypto’s most important adoption stories, why blockchain adoption is becoming increasingly invisible to end users, and much more.
NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #101 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included Flamingo Finance’s FUSD over-collateralized stablecoin losing its peg, the Open USD consortium, the depth of USDC and USDT’s liquidity, and the necessity of stablecoins in new and emerging blockchain networks.
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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