Neo News: Week in Review – March 25 – March 31
Neo Global Development Head of Ecosystem Growth John Wang participated in a panel discussion at the WOW Summit World of Web3 conference in Hong Kong.
Neo collaborated with Web3 Labs Club to organize a meetup in Seoul, South Korea, alongside the eight projects in the Web 3.0 Global Acceleration Program. This meetup was part of the 5-day Seoul Acceleration Tour, which aimed to equip teams with the necessary knowledge and skills for success in the blockchain space.
Neo announced its participation in the Hong Kong Web3.0 Spring Summit and the Web3 Festival Hong Kong in April. These events will highlight the activity in the sector and emphasize the region’s openness to adopting blockchain technology.
Proposals for ecosystem marketing by MarketAcross and the copyright protection platform Tunestamp were submitted for discussion in the GrantShares community.
Quirky Soul College revealed that the third and final mint wave of QSC character NFTs will begin on April 20. This wave will be available for a limited time, after which users will have to buy the NFTs from secondary markets.
Flamboyant Flamingos conducted a pre-sale for the upcoming FLAI memecoin launch.
Frank Coin NFT holders received an airdrop of 20,000 HD memecoins using the Forthewin Network batch transfer tool.
ITEM Systems co-founder Guil. Sperb Machado was featured in a Metaverse Post article to discuss non-fungible item technology, its implementation in the fashion industry, and the upcoming Paris Blockchain Week. Additionally, Tyler Adams, co-founder of ITEM Systems, shared a Twitter post about the activation at Paris Blockchain Week taking place at the Neo booth.
COZ co-founder Tyler Adams was interviewed in-depth for an article titled “Conversation with CEO of COZ: a philosophical perspective to the immortality of physical objects when bound with code on the blockchain” on the TechFlow Substack. In the interview, Adams discussed his entry into the Neo ecosystem, the longevity of blockchain networks, building non-fungible item technology, previous NFI activations, and more.
Flamingo provided statistics on the FLUND single-sided staking fund for Week 12 of 2024, reporting a total value of approximately $12.5 million, total minting rewards of $5.9 million, and total trading fee rewards of $1.08 million.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC launched the NeoFS Panel, a webpage that enables users to create storage containers for hosting files, documents, and other data on the decentralized file storage network.
NNT Catch Up
Episode 60 of The Smart Economy Podcast featured Andreas Brekken, the founder of SideShift, a non-custodial exchange dedicated to seamless onboarding and user privacy. Topics of discussion included the evolution of exchanges, Brekken’s crypto journey, the rise of SideShift, user privacy, building a blockchain company, recent successes, and more.
On Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #12, the NNT editors discussed various topics, including the Neo N3 milestone, building data dashboards for Neo, fee markets on Solana, and Sam Bankman-Fried.
Several memecoins have recently launched on the Neo blockchain and can be swapped on the Forthewin Network DeFi platform. The popularity of memecoins on Neo reflects current trends on other networks like Solana and Ethereum.
AxLabs lead engineer Michael Bucher will give a presentation titled “Bridging EVM and non-EVM Assets: A Practical Approach” at the upcoming Ethereum Zürich conference. The talk will leverage lessons learned from AxLabs’ contributions to the native bridge development for Neo N3 and Neo X.
Events
April 4 – 5: Neo is a sponsorship partner of the Hong Kong Web 3.0 Spring Summit conference.
April 5: Neo will exhibit at Oak Grove Crypto 2024 in Hong Kong.
April 5: NNT editors will host CC & BB #13 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.
April 6 – 9: Neo will have a booth at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2024.
April 7: Da Hongfei will speak at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2024.