General Updates
NeoPod launched a quest-based platform that rewards users with $GAS for completing social tasks and in-platform challenges. No sign-up forms or KYC are required to participate. Users start by connecting a wallet or registering with an email address and can begin earning $GAS on the Neo X blockchain.
Pixudi joined NeoPod‘s fifth community AMA, which covered Pixudi’s development history, its use of NeoFS for decentralized storage, the game’s free-to-play philosophy, and plans for an expanded multiverse of game boards.
World of Elements posted its second GrantShares update, describing new wallet login support and an NFT skin shop built with GhostMarket infrastructure. The skins are prefabricated via GhostMarket and are available for purchase on the test server.
Frank Coin hosted a Neo trivia contest on Telegram, rewarding the top player with 100 FRANK tokens and selecting 15 players at random to each receive 40 FRANK. Additionally, Frank Coin hosted a Telegram games session, awarding 100 FRANK to the top player and 40 FRANK each to 10 randomly selected participants.
SpoonOS integrated OpenViking, which helps power long-term memory for SpoonOS Agents. The integration lets agents recall relevant memories before each run, store conversation history and tool activity, and preserve context across sessions. Additionally, SpoonOS released a bi-weekly report noting a recap of its Arena World Cup event and the winners.
nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 52,526 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 70 $GAS.
NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants competed for a pool of 4 $GAS.
Developer Updates
NEXT shipped v5.9.2 of the NeoLine Chrome extension wallet, adding signing-transparency features for Neo X. Users can now see the spender address, approved amount, and expiry before confirming a permit request, along with estimated balance changes and flags for unlimited approvals.
Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.122.0, codenamed Vitalization. The update targets potential state differences between the Go and C# node implementations and delivers compiler improvements; it is fully compatible with the C# node v3.10 and does not require a resync.
Neo SPCC also released NeoFS S3 gateway v0.45.1, an update focused on faster and more efficient object storage operations. The release improves write performance and ranged downloads, and lets users apply access permissions when creating a container rather than in a separate step.
NNT Catch Up
NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #104 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included an introduction to blockchain-based payments, different payment services providers, how blockchain ecosystems integrate payment solutions, and potential use cases for the Neo ecosystem.
Events
August 14: NNT hosting Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #105 on the official Smart Economy Podcast X account.