Week in Review – February 16

Common Updates

COZ accomplished the primary spherical of renewed Proof of Working rewards, detailing the distribution of 440 $NEO throughout seven group contributions in its Proof of Working 2.0 transparency report. Proof of Working is a COZ-led initiative supposed to reward grassroots ecosystem work that will not align with conventional grant or sponsorship pathways. COZ revived this system to acknowledge tangible output corresponding to tooling, analysis, analytics, and infrastructure, shared publicly with clear proof of supply.

R3E Community launched a Purple Envelope app to have fun the Chinese language New 12 months, permitting customers to open fortunate purple packets on Neo N3 for an opportunity to win $GAS. The app’s present featured giveaway is funded with 100 $GAS, which is distributed throughout 100 declare slots. To take part, customers should fulfill a “$NEO Gate” requirement that checks for a pockets holding a minimum of one $NEO for greater than someday. The $GAS used within the giveaway was donated by NNT.

R3E Community launched a brand new blockchain explorer for Neo N3. The explorer is at the moment utilizing the OneGate for its backend, however is predicted to have improved efficiency after migrating to its personal infrastructure.

NeoUltimateShop added help for NeoRedPill’s NRP token as a cost methodology, enabling customers to buy merchandise utilizing the Neo N3-based asset at checkout. The group described the mixing as NRP’s first “real-world” utility, positioning the token as a spendable asset inside the NeoUltimateShop storefront.

Neobox launched a short replace noting AI integration on the roadmap, together with AI-powered sport creation, and no-code accessibility that may permit customers with out coding expertise to create video games.

nDapp launched a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that community customers claimed roughly 60,477 $GAS over the previous week and that on-chain exercise burned about 230 $GAS.

NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia spherical the place individuals had an opportunity to compete for a pool of 4 $GAS rewards.

Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the FrankCoin channel of the NeoF1 Discord server, rewarding individuals with 3 $GAS.

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC accomplished the next updates:

Launched NeoGo v0.117.0, which introduces help for customized SYSCALL-based witnesses for the notary service and a set of extensions to the scparser package deal for VM script reverse-engineering.
Highlighted an replace to its Tillich–Zémor hashing library with the tzhash v1.8.4 launch. The replace raises the minimal construct requirement to Go 1.25 and refreshes the golang.org/x/sys dependency to v0.41.0.
Launched NeoFS node v0.51.1, introducing new operational and admin tooling, together with the neofs-cli container coverage verify command and new neofs-adm mainchain instructions for replace and model. The replace additionally fixes a number of storage and community points, corresponding to unclosed compressed FSTree information, repeated makes an attempt to delete nonexistent objects, and configuration deal with adjustments not triggering netmap updates. Moreover, the discharge quickens metabase resync with batch operations and updates dependencies to NeoGo 0.117.0 and neofs-contracts 0.26.1.

NNT Catch Up

NNT launched Episode 107 of The Sensible Financial system Podcast that includes Olivia Vande Woude, head of tokenization at Ava Labs. Ava Labs is the software program firm supporting the Avalanche blockchain, a platform designed to allow personalized, high-performance blockchain infrastructure for establishments, enterprises, and client functions. Subjects of debate embody why tokenization bottlenecks are extra about distribution than know-how; what establishments truly care about when selecting blockchain infrastructure; why “distributed property” matter greater than headline tokenization metrics; and the way RWAs, personal credit score, and stablecoins are being utilized in follow, amongst different subjects.

NNT hosted Crypto Espresso and Blockchain Beer House #84 on the official The Sensible Financial system Podcast X account. Subjects of debate included the worth of Ethereum Boulder and entry to builders, the vibes on the bottom at ETH Denver, a short overview of the video interviews with attendees from each occasions, and discovering long-term builders to work with in crypto and blockchain.