Neo News: Week in Review – February 19 – February 25

General Updates

Neowill have a footprint at ETHDenver 2024, with members from the community hosting a side event and joining a judge‘s panel. TheSmart Economy Podcasthas a side event offering users free beer for interacting with Neo blockchain assets. The event is a collaborative effort between ITEM Systems, DENVER WALLS, Neo Global Development, and Ratio Beerworks. DENVER WALLS has released a video walkthrough of the campaign’s tap and redeem process. Also, COZCEO Tyler Adams has been selected to be a Community Judge of projects submitted during the ETHDenver hackathon.

NNTreleased an article highlighting NeoCast, a blockchain-agnostic communication middleware and the winner of the Infrastructure category at the Neo APAC Hackathon grand finale. The project is designed to allow services to access both off-chain and on-chain data. By integrating with dApps and other applications, NeoCast allows users to be informed via push notification whenever a relevant event occurs.

GhostMarketadded automatic contract discovery to its marketplace, meaning that all NFT collections on the Neo blockchain will be automatically added to GhostMarket for buying and selling rather than needing to be manually added by the team.

Carrot Swaplaunched a new incentivized TestNet campaign for users to participate and earn potential rewards on the launch of Neo Xs forthcoming non-custodial exchange.

Pixudiput its GrantSharesproposal on-chain for another round of funding for the board racing game. It also announced integration with the Core DAO blockchain.

Flamingoshared statistics on the top tokens by volume, which included bNEO with approximately US $3.2 million, FLM with $2.86 million, and GAS with $1.03 million.

NNT Catch Up

NNTs editors co-hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #7 on TheSmart Economy PodcastX. Topics of discussion included the new Uniswap revenue share proposal, the Avalanche network halt, The Smart Economy Pod side event for ETHDenver, tapping the DENVER WALLS NFI plaques for free beer, and Neo nearing its first 100k wallets on N3.

ITEM Systemsco-founder Tyler Adams‘ op-ed was featured on Bitcoin.com, highlighting non-fungible items and how the real-life, tangible asset cryptographically connected to a digital twin can bring new utility to Web3’s NFT vertical. Examples of real-world use cases include brand and post-purchase activations, customer experiences (unique access to events or clubs), proof of physical ownership, and streamlined verifications.