Neo News: Week in Review – March 24 – March 30
General Updates Neo announced it will be a secondary exhibition sponsor for the upcoming Hong Kong Web3 Festival, which will take place April 6 – 9 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This marks the festival’s third consecutive year of operations, with Neo maintaining a presence at each. Founder Da Hongfei said, “Thrilled to introduce Neo X and our MEV-free feature at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025.” Neo established a partnership with TradeOS, a decentralized escrow trading infrastructure. The inaugural Centre Point event was announced and will take place May 2 – 4 in Dubai alongside the TOKEN2049 conference, marking the launch of a new initiative designed to foster deeper collaboration amongst builders across the Neo ecosystem. The participant-driven event is aimed at convening ecosystem contributors to share ideas, align on priorities, and cultivate relationships that advance Neo’s growth. Anyone can attend the gathering, submit a proposal for discussion, and apply for a travel grant. Flamingo Finance launched FLOCKS, a multi-asset, dividend-bearing token designed to succeed FLUND on Neo N3. The initial FLUND to FLOCKS migration period ran one week through March 31. Afterward, Epoch 1 began, with new epochs running approximately every week and concluding with the distribution of weekly collected rewards to FLOCKS holders. The initial migration process enabled existing FLUND holders to exchange their holdings for FLOCKS at a 1:1 FLM-to-FLOCKS ratio. No exit fee was applied during this first migration phase, which typically carries a 2% cost for FLUND exits. Alphaday integrated support for Neo on its customizable multi-chain dashboard for monitoring Web3 ecosystems. Users can now access a real-time overview of the Neo ecosystem directly within the Alphaday platform, including key metrics such as transaction data, network activity, and community updates. The integration results from a successful GrantShares proposal, in which Alphaday requested 200 NEO to fund the development of its Neo-focused dashboard. GrantShares extended the RFP submission period for new DAO voting members to Friday, March 28. In total, five submissions were put forth for discussion. Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the NeoF1 Discord server and distributed 3 GAS in rewards to participants. Additionally, Frank Coin hosted a Telegram game event, where the Top 10 players won 30 FRANK tokens and one random player won a GAS token. Developer Updates Neo SPCC released Neo Exporter v0.13.0, which introduced new metrics, disabled node sampling, and included a Go v1.23 upgrade along with a set of dependencies updates. AxLabs announced its plans to sunset the 1ClickNode service, which was launched as a way for developers to easily deploy Web3 nodes. A decision to sunset the service was made after 1ClickNode failed to attract the expected number of users. As of March 31, new node deployments will no longer be possible using 1ClickNode. NNT Catch Up NNT released Episode 86 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring David Hoffman, the co-founder and host of Bankless, a cryptocurrency media brand and community that focuses on educating and empowering individuals to navigate the decentralized financial landscape. Topics of discussion include building a media business while maintaining ethical standards, the firewall between Bankless Media and Bankless Ventures, how content strategy evolves with shifting market interests, managing community expectations and misunderstandings, and more. NNT editors co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #55 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included EVM garnering the majority of new developer activity in 2024, the upcoming Centre Point community gathering in Dubai, GrantShares DAO activity this week, RWAs as crypto’s next killer use case, the potential significance of US stablecoin legislation, plus more. In Case You Missed It Neo SPCC released updates to NeoFS OAuthZ and introduced Archive.NeoFS, a new web application for generating offline node synchronization packages. As with all Neo SPCC web applications, both Archive.NeoFS and Send.NeoFS are fully hosted on NeoFS itself. Events April 4: NNT hosting CC & BB #56 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account. April 6 – 9: Neo at Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025. Tags: Alphaday, AxLabs, CentrePoint, FlamingoFinance, FLM, FLOCKS, FLUND, FRANK, GAS, GrantShares, NEO, NeoSPCC