Neo News: Week in Review – July 20 – July 26

General Updates

COZ distributed 498 $NEO across six developer tooling contributions in round 2.9 of Proof of Working 2.0, the grassroots rewards program recognizing open-source ecosystem work outside traditional grant pathways. The round brings cumulative distributions to 5,577 $NEO across nine rounds since the program’s January relaunch. All six contributors recognized in round 2.9 have received awards in previous rounds, reflecting sustained engagement from the program’s developer community. The awarded projects span governance visibility, vesting usability, wallet integration, deployment workflows, local development environments, and real-time contract event monitoring.

COZ CEO Tyler Adams and R3E Network founder Jimmy Liao visited Neo co-founder Erik Zhang in Shanghai, China, for a discussion on the current and future state of the Neo ecosystem.

NeoRedPill concluded its NeoVision x SpoonOS World Cup 2026 prediction competition, with ten winners each receiving a US $10 Requesty voucher and two winners receiving 10 USDT each.

NeoVerse: Hero Defense successfully received GrantShares support to release 7,950 $GAS after receiving four votes in favor and two abstentions. The time lock concluded on July 26 and funding was released.

NeoPod hosted its fourth community AMA on July 26, featuring Frank, creator of FrankCoin and World of Elements. Frank discussed his journey from winning a forthewin.network meme competition to building one of Neo’s largest active communities, the ongoing multiplayer transformation of World of Elements funded by GrantShares, and the impact of Neo’s governance challenges on grassroots projects.

SpoonOS joined an X Space entitled AI x Crypto: Beyond the Hype, hosted by the Echobit custodial exchange.

nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 78,747 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 316 $GAS.

NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants competed for a pool of 4 $GAS rewards.

Developer Updates

R3E Network’s neox-rs, the Rust-based Neo X full-node client introduced last week, reached its first stable release at v2.4.3. The update fixes four consensus divergences from the reference Neo X Geth client, particularly around Anti-MEV Envelope handling, and has validated more than 7.21 million MainNet blocks with zero state-root mismatches. The non-validator full-node path is now qualified for production evaluation, though validator mode remains experimental.

R3E Network completed a major architecture overhaul of its Solidity-to-NeoVM compiler, now called neo-devpack-solidity. The project allows Ethereum/Solidity developers to compile contracts for deployment on Neo N3, not as EVM bytecode, but as native NeoVM artifacts.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 117 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Andrés Salcedo, head of business development at Etherfuse, a blockchain infrastructure company bringing tokenized sovereign debt and yield-bearing stable assets on-chain. Topics of discussion included how yield-bearing stable assets differ from traditional stablecoins, why blockchain is reducing friction in cross-border payments and financial infrastructure, why Latin America presents unique opportunities and challenges for crypto builders, and more.

Events

July 31: NNT hosting CC & BB #103 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account.
August 11: NeoPod hosting AMA with Nsaj from GameShame (Raijin Protocol).