General Updates

Rise In hosted its 24 hour Neo X Grind satellite hackathon event in Gurugram, India. Over 170 attendees and 40 teams competed for a US $10,000 prize pool. Rise In is a Web3 coding bootcamp platform that offers intensive learning programs, mentorship, and networking opportunities to budding developers.

The Graph developer relations representative Marcus Rein delivered a presentation on building custom subgraphs, querying Web3 data, and optimizing indexing on Neo X for the Grind Hackathon. The discussion focused on setting up APIs and creating and disseminating subgraphs.

Flamingo announced the forthcoming relaunch of the Poly Network bridge and released a slew of updates. The updates include an Action Center to migrate f- and p-assets affected by the recent Poly Network hack, FLM token emission changes, and new collateral tokens and interest rates for Flamingo Lend.

Flamingo released a recording of September’s Community Lagoon, which noted the migration of tokens from legacy contracts impacted by the Poly Network exploit to the new contracts, reduction in daily FLM minting and its impact on liquidity pool rewards, the on-chain data and transparency differences between FUSD and USDT, trading experience on Neo TestNet with OrderBook+, decreasing FLM emissions and putting the saved liquidity into the OrderBook+ AMM, and more.

Asteroneo launched a leaderboard, where users can track the points they’ve earned in the Airdrop Points System, which launched last month. Additionally, the team released a guide to help users learn how to use the platform effectively and earn points.

NeoLine released a guide on bridging assets between Neo X and Neo N3.

Stadle launched its liquid staking program, where users stake GAS, contribute to a liquidity pool, and share reference links to earn STD tokens on Neo X.

Frank Coin hosted a community quiz on the team’s official Telegram channel, where the top three participants each won 80 FLM, and ten random winners each won 40 FRANK tokens.

Developer Updates

COZ released Neon Wallet v3.1, which adds anonymous login with a Ledger device, export options for private keys and mnemonic phrases, beta access to the Linux build, performance improvements when waking up Neon, and much more.

COZ shared a video highlight of the BlockSpirits activation at Neo’s TOKEN2049 booth, showcasing the experiences of two of the four raffle winners from the event.

COZ CEO Tyler Adams was featured in a Crowdfund Insider article to discuss sensible blockchain and cryptocurrency legislation in the US. The article highlights Adams’ entry into the blockchain space, the importance of self-custodial solutions, the considerations that went into building Neon Wallet, and more.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 73 of The Smart Economy Podcast with Fabian Gompf, Chief Executive Officer of the Web3 Foundation, an entity created to nurture and steward technologies and applications in decentralized web software protocols. Topics of discussion include Polkadot’s early days, practical and impractical uses for blockchain technologies, modular versus monolithic blockchains, why enterprise giants are eyeing Polkadot, the recent uproar about the Polkadot ecosystem’s treasury spending, and much more.

NNT editors co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #35 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included TOKEN2049 Neo booth experiences and conversations during the BlockSpirits activation, the following Neo community leader meeting, NGD relaunching the Poly Network bridge, Neo ecosystem updates on DeFi projects, the second DENVER WALLS festival and COZ non-fungible item tech integration, and Grind Neo X hackathon updates.

Events

Oct. 3 – 5: DENVER WALLS 2024 featuring COZ NFI technology.
Oct. 4: NNT and COZ co-hosting CC & BB #36 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
Oct. 6: Neo X Grind Hackathon phase one concludes.

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