General Updates
TOTHEMOON completed an airdrop of 20,860,000 TTM NEP-17 utility tokens to users who hold Character NFTs from the New Moon or Waxing Crescent phases. The team also released information about upcoming staking opportunities for TTM tokens, and took a snapshot for a Moon Device NFT airdrop on Sep. 16. Moon Device NFTs unlock unique free mints of forthcoming special TTM NFT collections.
NudesToken extended its third meme campaign focusing on the Ethereum Merge. The first place submission will win a Nudes Army OG NFT and qualifying submissions will share rewards from a pool of US $2,000 in NUDES tokens. The NudesToken team also launched the Fun Facts and Data Tweet initiative, which will reward Twitter users with NUDES tokens for liking, commenting, and reTweeting NudesToken Tweets.
GhostMarket is conducting a bug bounty for improved platform security. The team is offering up to US $50,000 in rewards for security flaws, which will be distributed according to the vulnerability level of the exploits found. GhostMarket also hosted an AMA on Reddit, focusing on trading guidelines and policies for the NFT marketplace’s Incentives program.
GrantShares hosted a ShillYourProposal Twitter Space with Neo News Today editors Dylan Grabowski and Brett Rhodes. The topics discussed in the episode included the merits of anonymity for voting members, distribution of voting power, grant proposal timelines, sources of funding, and much more.
GrantShares proposals An Analysis of the Two Tokens NEO Economy (Milestone 1) and Citizens Assemblies for DAOs were executed and funds released. The AfricaN3: Building the African Smart Economy and Providing Value to the Neo Ecosystem proposal was put onchain and is awaiting an endorsement from a voting member.
Nash integrated Neo N3 into its non-custodial wallet, allowing users to purchase NEO through the application and claim GAS on the new network. Looking forward, the team intends to add three new protocols to Earnings in Sep. 2022 through a Beefy Finance integration. The new Earnings protocols include USD on Trader Joe, USD/EUR on Curve, and USD/ETH/BTC on Curve.
Forthewin Network announced the FTW Swap module surpassed $1 million in liquidity on the DeFi platform.
Blockchain Cuties announced plans to launch a version of the NFT-based game on the Neo N3 network in the coming week.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.99.3. The new version implemented most of the remaining refactoring work for the RPC client, which began in v0.99.2. The overhaul is designed to provide new APIs that can simplify backend code for applications.
NNT Catch Up
NNT released episode 13 of the Smart Economy Podcast, featuring Ace, co-founder of UFO Gaming. Topics include the role UFO Gaming’s community has in the direction of its project, airdrop events for NFTs and utility tokens, how UFO Gaming seeks to become the Steam platform for blockchain games, and much more.
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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