Neo News: Week in Review – June 15 – June 21

General Updates

Neo Core released Neo-CLI v3.10.0, laying the groundwork for the upcoming Gorgon hard fork, alongside new developer tools, wallet enhancements, and an official Docker image for simplified node deployment. The update will mark a significant step toward readiness for the C# reference node, which must complete its dynamic opcode pricing implementation before the fork can proceed. The release was published on June 11, deployed to the T5 TestNet on June 12, and is planned for MainNet on June 26.

Neo Global Development launched a “Rock Paper Scissors” game on the Neo X sidechain, allowing users to experience Neo’s anti-MEV features firsthand. The game offers two modes, and the difference between them is the lesson. Standard Mode advertises a 10x payout, while MEV-Protected Mode pays 2x. All $GAS that accumulates in the game, including rewards won by bots and rewards won by the house, returns to the pool so players can keep testing. The game is live and playable at rps.ngd.network.

Bane Labs reduced fees on the native bridge connecting Neo N3 and Neo X and, in a separate change, raised the caps on how much $NEO and $GAS can be moved across. The fee cuts took effect at the end of May, lowering most transfer costs by up to 90%, while the higher caps double the bridgeable $NEO limit to 200,000 and quadruple the $GAS limit to 400,000.

COZ distributed 223 $NEO across two ecosystem contributions in Proof of Working 2.7, recognizing continued work on speculative token launching and decentralized storage developer tooling. Paulo Aboim Pinto received recognition for continued development on HushForge, a token-launch tool for Neo N3. Merl released v0.1.0 of a native Zig implementation of the NeoFS SDK. The latest round brings cumulative distributions under the relaunched program to 4,412 $NEO since January.

NeoRedPill signed a listing agreement with cryptocurrency exchange BiFinance, marking the community project’s first centralized exchange listing. As part of the listing process, the NeoRedPill team assisted with technical integration work to integrate the Neo N3 infrastructure into BiFinance, where the Neo ecosystem was not yet fully supported. The token is expected to go live on BiFinance on July 1.

NeoPod announced its next AMA session will take place at 6:00 p.m. (UTC) on July 6 with grassroots community builder Aziz. Aziz is the developer behind NeoRedPill, a Matrix-inspired memecoin on the Neo N3 blockchain, and NeoUltimateShop, a web store for Neo-related merchandise. The text-based AMA will run in the #Proposal-Questions-AMA channel of the NeoPod Discord server.

Gasetta released a Neo N4 and Neo N3 development comparison feed on the AI-powered tracker for Neo core activity on GitHub.

nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 81,688 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 191 $GAS.

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

Frank Coin hosted a Neo trivia contest on Telegram, where the top player earned 100 FRANK tokens, and ten random players won 40 FRANK tokens.

Developer Updates

AxLabs built Venice E2EE Proxy, a local OpenAI-compatible proxy that encrypts requests and verifies responses when using Venice’s various AI models.

Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.120.0, which includes a fix for a set of vulnerabilities that might have affected node functionality and VM opcode optimizations, as well as minor bug fixes.

R3E Network released a new version of Neo3Scan, a blockchain explorer for Neo N3.

COZ released Neon Wallet v.3.11, which included new network support for Bitcoin and Stellar, UX improvements, and small bug fixes.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 115 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Anndy Lian, author of Web4: The Age of Autonomous Intelligence, the vision of a future internet powered by decentralized AI, autonomous agents, and community-owned infrastructure. Topics of discussion include how AI agents could transform governance, coordination, and digital ownership; why decentralized AI may become as important as decentralized finance; how governments evaluate blockchain technology behind closed doors; and much more.

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #100 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included how Argentina’s crypto story is inflated; stablecoins as wealth protection and not for buying coffee; DevRel becoming Agent Relations; Visa vs x402 for agentic payments; autonomous agents still needing a human in the loop; and that crypto isn’t dead, Crypto Twitter is.

In Case You Missed It

NeoPod hosted its first community AMA on June 10, featuring NNT writer and editor Dylan Grabowski, in a wide-ranging text-based Discord session covering Neo’s current state, the ongoing governance dispute between co-founders, and what the ecosystem needs in order to move forward. The event marks a new chapter for the NeoPod 2.0 refresh, which relaunched earlier this year with a focus on quality content creation and deeper community engagement.

Token Listings

NRP/USDT is now listed on BiFinance.