Neo News: Week in Review – September 28 – October 4

General Updates

Orbit launched on nDapp, offering a new rewards feature where Neo users can now earn $GAS simply by using dApps. The service tracks on-chain smart contract interactions automatically and distributes rewards proportionally, with no signup required. During an active round, participating dApps are marked with an Orbit symbol on their nDapp listing, and the nDapp homepage displays a dedicated Orbit section. The first round is live and running now through Oct. 21, with a pool of 140 $GAS spread across four supported dApps, including NeoFS, Neo Bridge, NeoNS, and World of Elements.

NeoPod distributed its September payouts, averaging US $16 per participant in $GAS on Neo X. The team is launching an October referral competition with an Ellipal hardware wallet for the top-ranked community member. The September distribution marks the second payout cycle since the platform relaunched its quest-based rewards program. The first round averaged approximately $15 per claimer.

Forthewin Network announced an upcoming airdrop that will merge the NEP token supply on Neo N3 with TOTHEMOON‘s TTM token on Base. NEP token holders on Neo have until Monday, Oct. 5, at 11:59 p.m. (UTC) to ensure their tokens are in their own wallets before a snapshot that will determine each holder’s allocation in the upcoming TTM airdrop on Base.

Frank Coin launched the World of Elements beta testing, allowing participants to earn $GAS by reporting bugs, contributing feedback, and participating in other general activity. Additionally, Frank Coin hosted a Telegram games session, awarding 100 FRANK to the top player and 40 FRANK each to 10 randomly selected participants.

nDapp reported the weekly N3 $GAS check-in. Network users claimed 78,864 $GAS this week, while on-chain activity burned 579 $GAS.

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

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC shipped coordinated updates to the NeoFS Node, SDK, and Panel on Sept. 29 – 30, introducing online storage reshaping, initial ReplicateV2 support, and S3 credential issuance from the web interface. The releases, NeoFS Node v0.57.0 “Bido,” SDK Go RC23, and Panel v0.11.0, continue a pattern of interdependent infrastructure updates, with Node v0.57.0 requiring SDK RC23 to build.

R3E Network released NeoRust SDK v3.4.0, introducing fluent ScriptBuilder and TransactionBuilder APIs alongside a completed security audit, while maintaining full backward compatibility with v3.3.x. The release, published on Sept. 28 as neo-primitives and neo-protocol on crates.io, focuses on developer ergonomics for both Neo N3 and Neo X.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 120 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Karl Floersch, co-founder of Optimism and chief scientist at OP Labs. Topics of discussion include the origins of optimistic rollups, OP Labs’ growing focus on enterprise use cases, the need for blockchain sovereignty and interoperability, why Floersch believes the broader market could eventually support millions of specialized chains, and more.