COZ distributes 667 NEO across five projects in Proof of Working 2.8

COZ distributed 667 $NEO across five ecosystem contributions in round 2.8 of Proof of Working 2.0, recognizing work on contract artifact management, community coordination, dApp onboarding templates, NeoFS storage tooling, and Python SDK maintenance. The distribution brings the cumulative total to 5,079 $NEO awarded across eight rounds since the program’s January relaunch.

The round features returning contributors alongside new entrants, continuing the program’s role as a grassroots funding pathway for open-source work outside traditional grant structures. Contributors submit completed work via COZ Discord, with weekly $NEO awards determined by the COZ Council.

Contract artifacts, community coordination, dApp templates

Pusharoo, developed by Vault Keeper, is a smart contract artifact workspace for organizing, inspecting, and comparing deployment artifacts before on-chain deployment. The tool supports .nef and manifest uploads, detailed manifest review, and version comparison highlighting added, removed, and modified functionality. Built with Angular 21, ASP.NET Core 10, and MongoDB via Docker Compose, it is designed to reduce deployment errors by improving artifact visibility before contracts reach live networks.

Neo Vision, developed by aziz168, is a community-driven Discord hub offering ecosystem news aggregation, educational resources, project discovery, and event hosting. The platform also features a World Cup 2026 prediction system with rankings and rewards. Aziz168, an active Neo community member who previously developed NeoRedPill and NeoUltimateShop, will be featured in an upcoming NeoPod AMA.

The neow3j-react-starter template, developed by fireche, provides a production-ready full-stack starter for Neo N3 dApps. It combines Java/Kotlin smart contracts compiled via neow3j with a React/Vite frontend, wallet integrations through NeoLine and WalletConnect, agent-ready documentation, and testing guidance spanning contract, unit, and end-to-end layers. Fireche has previously contributed other Neo tooling, including Gasetta and neovest.

NeoFS tooling, SDK maintenance

Merl received recognition for NFS, a command-line client and interactive shell for NeoFS decentralized storage workflows, alongside the neofs-sdk-zig v0.1.0 SDK. NFS supports one-shot CLI commands and an interactive shell with WIF, NEP-6 wallet, and WalletConnect authentication, as well as Model Context Protocol server support for integration with AI development tools. The Zig SDK provides gRPC client support, multi-node connection pooling, streaming uploads and downloads, and container and object operations. Merl is a returning contributor, previously recognized in round 2.2 for a TypeScript NeoFS SDK and in round 2.4 for a NeoFS FUSE mount tool.

CLAUS received funding for v0.3.0 of the NeoFS Python SDK, which introduces API compatibility updates for the latest NeoFS release, ranged GET support for partial object retrieval, updated session token handling, and a migration to SearchV2 for object discovery. The release also removed deprecated homomorphic hash support. CLAUS was first funded in round 2.3 for the SDK’s initial creation, replacing earlier wrapper-based approaches with a native gRPC implementation.

The full blog post can be found at the link below:
https://coz.io/blog/proof-of-working-2-8/