General Updates
Flamingo Finance launched a new ambassador program for community members. Beginning in June, users can share in a pool of US $500 in rewards, distributed each month in return for their independent community-building efforts. The initiative was designed to encourage platform growth and further development of the DeFi sector on Neo. Additionally, Flamingo released statistics on the top three tokens traded on the non-custodial exchange by volume, including approximately US $5.1 million for bNEO, $2.8 million for FLM, and $1.5 million for fUSDT. Flamingo also released a copy of the community lagoon, which highlighted Flamingo’s participation at the Neo booth at Consensus 2023, an upcoming presence at Web3 Berlin with plans for onboarding new users into the Neo ecosystem at an afterparty event, the team’s focus on completing the Order Book over the summer, marketing initiatives, constraints advertising with Web2 entities, and more.
Quirky Soul College announced the addition of a Neo News Today skin to the Vending Machine feature of the Neo-powered game. QSC’s Vending Machine allows users to obtain a unique skin that can be equipped on a Quirky Soul NFT if the wallet also holds a ValeNNTine’s NFT. The NNT skin will be available beginning Monday, June 5. Additionally, QSC conducted an airdrop to Wave 1 Quirky Soul NFT holders, comprising either a shard to upgrade character traits or a new skin, depending on how many Wave 1 NFTs the wallet held at the time of the snapshot.
GrantShares hosted the seventh episode of Shill Your Proposal with Professor Nicola Dmitri. The purpose of the interactive session was for Professor Dmitri to communicate the goals and desires of a grant proposal to fund the second half of his research on the academic publication entitled “The Neo Two-Token Blockchain: An Economic Perspective.” Additionally, the GrantShares proposal Pixudi with NeoFS integration. Milestone 1: Launching collection & the game with NEO was put onchain and is awaiting an endorsement from a GrantShares member before it can be put to vote.
Perlin Finance announced that the lending protocol will launch in June 2023 and shared a simple way for users to qualify for an airdrop.