Neo News: Week in Review – July 8 – July 14

General Updates

Neofounder Da Hongfei regained control of his X account after it was hijacked by a hacker. The hacker posted about fraudulent airdrops in an attempt to steal funds from token holders.

Neohosted an X Space entitled Neo Eco-Talk: Exploring the Intersection of AI and Web3, hosted by Neo Global Development business development manager Carolyn. The guests included Assisterrco-founder and CEO Nick Havyrliak, DSCecosystem builder Cedar, TrendXCOO Mahmoud Farouk, and Gaianetcommunity lead Oz.

Neolaunched a new Galxe Quest social media campaign in collaboration with ecosystem partner Tria. The campaign offers an equivalent of US $200 in rewards – $100 in GAS provided by Neo, and $100 in OG/Early NFTs (on the TGE blockchain) provided by Tria. The GAS will be airdropped to winners after Neo X MainNet launches, and the Tria team will distribute the NFTs in October.

Forthewin Networksuspended the ftwNEO and NEP token bridges between the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains after a community white hat hacker reported a critical bug in the infrastructure. The team noted that all assets were safe, and the bug was identified and addressed. The EVM-to-Neo bridge has been repaired and is back in working order.

Pixudis team launched the XGuild,a new initiative aimed at helping game developers build and launch games on the Neo blockchain. XGuild provides comprehensive support, including marketing, development assistance, and financial incentives. The first projects to join XGuild include Pixudi, World of Elements, and the Neoboxapp store.

Neo Dashboardlaunched a new website that includes an address watch list of N3 NEO held on the top centralized exchanges and a moving 7-day change of NEO held on or moved off the tracked exchanges.

Frank Coinhosted a community quiz on the teams official Telegram channel, where the top three participants each won 70 FLM, and ten random winners each won 60 FRANK tokens. Frank Coin also hosted a quiz on the official Frank Coin Discord server with the same prize reward structure. The founder also hosted a stream to discuss Neo ecosystem news.

Flamingoshared statistics on the FLUND single-sided staking token for week 27 of 2024, noting approximately $5.41 million in total value, $2.83 million in total minting rewards, and $526,000 in total trading fee rewards.

Developer Updates

COZand Neo SPCCannounced an agreement to integrate NeoFS with the Dora blockchain explorer. Transactions and accounts on the NeoFS TestNet and MainNet will be transparently and publicly available on the explorer.

Red4Secco-founder Álvaro Díaz Hernández was featured in an interview on Safety Detectivesentitled 4 Online Scams You Havent Heard Of. The interview focused on unique attack vectors against individuals and businesses in the cryptocurrency space.

AxLabsupdated 1ClickNode to support Neo-CLI v3.7.5, which is available on the DigitalOcean marketplace.

NNT Catch Up

NNTeditors hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #25 on the official TheSmart Economy PodcastX account. Topics of discussion included chain abstraction between Neo X and N3, attracting and maintaining new users in ecosystems, the product ideation-to-VC pipeline and its role in ecosystem growth, NEO migrating off major exchanges, and good OpSec and avoiding scams.

Events

July 19: NNT editors hosting CC & BB #26 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.