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General Updates
Neo Council reduced the registration fee for Council candidacy from 1,000 GAS to 750 GAS, effective Thursday, Nov. 19. The decision – signed by COZ, Nash, Flamingo, Everstake, Neo SPCC, NEXT, Neo News Today, Neo Global Development, InfStones, and AxLabs – forms part of a broader governance initiative aimed at increasing accessibility, competition, and accountability within the Neo Council.
Neo founder Erik Zhang announced a new update to the N3 codebase, which gives the Neo Council broader authority to adjust execution fees. This includes the ability to reduce smart contract costs to as low as 1/10,000 of the previous minimum. The change introduces far more flexible fee policies that can improve developer onboarding and better support use cases that rely on ultra-low-cost execution.
Neo and SpoonOS announced the winning projects from the Scoop AI Hackathon’s Hanoi Bowl. The event, which took place Nov. 16, awarded US $6,000 in prizes, highlighting use cases in productivity, infrastructure, and autonomous markets. The top prize of $2,500 went to NeoZero, a website‑generation platform built by ViCoders. Second place, with a prize of $1,500, was awarded to Orbiton AI Agent, a market analysis tool that aggregates and interprets data from on-chain prediction markets. Third place, with $900 in prize money, was awarded to Neo DeFi MCP, developed by Brolab. Two projects received fourth-place recognition, each receiving $550. VibeKathon presented a multi-agent productivity tool that reimagines the email inbox as a command center for daily tasks, legal contract review, and finance management. The second, Moral Oracle, proposed a gamified platform for ethical reasoning.
SpoonOS hosted a Hanoi Bowl recap call featuring the first-place team, ViCoder; the runner-up team, Orbiton Labs; Lor BD manager Snow; and SpoonOS core contributor Nikk. Topics of conversation included the highlights, stories, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the hackathon.
Neo and SpoonOS hosted the Silicon Valley Bowl as the fourth stop in the Scoop AI Hackathon global series, a competition exploring the convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence. The event took place Nov. 22-23 at the Shenzhen Bay Innovation Center in Santa Clara, California, featuring a weekend of in-person development, panels, and collaboration among leading technology partners, universities, and infrastructure providers. Neo founder Da Hongfei was spotted at the event.
SpoonOS hosted a kick-off call for the Silicon Valley Bowl featuring Berkeley Emerging Technology Association co-founder Bruce Yen, SpoonOS core contributor Nikk, and NNT founder Dean Jeffs. Topics covered included how AI partners, VCs, and universities are powering the experience.
Flamingo Finance noted that Epoch 33 concluded, with a total payout of $11,786.93.
NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants had a chance to compete for a pool of 4 GAS rewards.
nDapp released a weekly N3 GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 54,013 GAS over the past week, and that on-chain activity burned about 3,292 GAS.
Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the FrankCoin channel of the NeoF1 Discord server and distributed 3 GAS in rewards to participants.
Developer Updates
Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.114.0, an update that resolves a TestNet state difference at block 11,074,661 and introduces a broad set of compatibility, performance, and feature improvements.
Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.41.5, which included updates to the NeoGo and NeoFS SDK dependencies.
Neo SPCC released NeoFS REST Gateway v0.15.1, which included updates to the NeoGo and NeoFS SDK dependencies.
Events
Nov. 25: Meme2Earn hosting Community Fireplace on official Discord server.
Nov. 25: Flamingo Finance hosting Community Lagoon on official X page.
Dec. 5-7: SpoonOS Scoop AI Hackathon, London Bowl.