General Updates
Neo Council and the Core Development group convened online on Nov. 25 to review progress across ecosystem initiatives, including several real-world integrations aimed at bringing on-chain activity to retail, entertainment, and large-scale commercial environments. The meeting also addressed governance upgrades, developer engagement proposals, and updates to fee-related technical enhancements.
Neo Core held a call where developers shared more about advanced testing for execution fee and whitelist changes, refined plans for Ethereum-compatible BLS support in the CryptoLib native contract, and evaluated a new governance mechanism for handling blocked funds. Meeting participants also explored options to ensure validator candidates operate real nodes, including staking- and slashing-based designs.
Neo and SpoonOS announced the winners from the Moscow Bowl Scoop AI Hackathon. First place went to Spork, a meta-agent designed to create smarter, faster agents. There were two second place winners. One second-place winner was an AI-powered DeFi liquidity manager that provides real-time insights and recommendations for optimal capital deployment. The other was banz.ai, an AI agent for automatic crypto portfolio rebalancing. There were also two third-place winners. The first, Spoon-Git, is an intelligent AI for exploring and explaining GitHub repositories. The second, Death God Team, is an automatic client discovery in Telegram that generates leads and sales without expensive ads.
Neo and SpoonOS announced the winners from the Silicon Valley Bowl Scoop AI Hackathon. The first-place winner was Slack-a-Vibe, a coding agent that resides in Slack and integrates with GitHub, SpoonOS, Jira, and other platforms. There were three second-place winners. The first, StreamSentry, transforms passive cameras into real-time AI guardians, detecting dangerous events and sending instant alerts. The second, Parallel, is an agentic AI network manager that coordinates distributed nodes, each representing a contributor, making teamwork smoother and development faster. And the third, Genius Loci, is a tool that turns physical locations into autonomous agent swarms with GPT-5.1 “eyes” and crypto wallets, posting bounties for visual data and instantly rewarding contributors. Finally, there were four third-place teams: Whisper AI, Jericho, OpenMedicine, and Research Bro.
SpoonOS shared a video recap of the Hanoi Bowl event, held on Nov. 16.
AxLabs founder Guil. Sperb Machado shared an overview write-up of the team’s footprint at Ethereum DevConnect and Filecoin Dev Summit in Buenos Aires. Key themes throughout DevConnect included interoperability, real-world adoption, and advances in privacy technologies. At the Filecoin Dev Summit, Machado shared the team’s work on Cha-Ching, a live pitch on CoinDesk, which was chosen as a top-3 Alpha Cohort project. Machado also noted that being in Argentina underscored the importance of stablecoins and decentralized infrastructure in daily life.
Flamingo Finance announced FLM.FUN, a new hyper-prediction market that offers users the opportunity to participate in fast rounds and make bold market predictions. The platform is tentatively set to launch on the Binance Smart Chain in 2026. Flamingo also hosted a Community Lagoon, where the lead maintainers discussed downsizing the staff and the team’s thought process behind launching FLM.FUN, and much more.
War on Bugs announced a giveaway in conjunction with NeoF1 server maintainer Boris. The teams are collaborating to conduct a giveaway of 20 Joker NFTs for the War on Bugs game. To qualify, participants must follow Dashboard Neo, Snakey Rob, and Boris on X, repost the announcement post on X, and comment with a Neo X address and the addresses of two friends.
GrantShares witnessed the Termination of GrantShares and Dissolution of Treasury proposal put forth, which was locked due to a breach of the terms of conduct.
NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants had a chance to compete for a pool of 4 GAS rewards.
nDapp released a weekly N3 GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 617,041 GAS over the past week, and that on-chain activity burned about 1,269 GAS.
Frank Coin implemented a small fix to World of Elements to repair a user experience bug and outlined proposals for the next game update. Additionally, Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the FrankCoin channel of the NeoF1 Discord server, awarding 3 GAS to participants.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC released NeoFS Node v0.50.0, introducing experimental erasure coding and changes aimed at improving performance, configuration clarity, and compatibility.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released Episode 101 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Sebastien Borget, co-founder and global ambassador of The Sandbox, the Web3 virtual world where players create, own, and monetize experiences. Topics of discussion include how The Sandbox evolved from a 2D mobile game to a leading decentralized virtual world, why creator monetization drove the adoption of NFTs and tokens, how long-term builders endure hype cycles and maintain community trust, what SANDchain is and why it focuses on creators and not just gamers, lessons on partnerships, brand collaborations, sustainable Web3 ecosystems, and more.
Events
Dec. 5-7: SpoonOS Scoop AI Hackathon, London Bowl.
Dec. 5: NNT hosting CC & BB #77 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
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