Neo News: Week in Review – August 17 – August 23

General Updates

Neo co-founder Erik Zhang has added a draft CAIP-2 profile for Neo N3 to the Chain Agnostic namespace registry. The profile defines neo:860833102 as the standardized chain identifier for Neo N3 MainNet, supplying a naming-layer prerequisite for integration with CAIP-2-based systems such as the x402 payment protocol.

COZ distributed 303 $NEO across two developer contributions in Proof of Working 2.11, recognizing improvements to Python wallet tooling and a contract deployment workspace. Both contributors, CLAUS and Vault Keeper, are returning participants whose work has been recognized across multiple rounds of the program.

NeoPod ambassador Lockyer lobbied for the $NEO and $GAS ticker symbols to populate a chart on the X platform when using their cashtag symbols.

nDapp reported the weekly N3 $GAS check-in. Network users claimed 112,232 $GAS this week, while on-chain activity burned 456 $GAS.

Frank Coin hosted a Neo trivia contest, rewarding the top player 100 FRANK and 10 random participants 40 FRANK each.

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

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC shipped updates across three NeoFS tools between Aug. 15 and 18: the REST Gateway, the web management Panel, and the Send.NeoFS file-sharing application. The releases remove deprecated authentication endpoints from the REST Gateway, introduce private file sharing in Send.NeoFS, and migrate Panel to the replacement auth API.

NNT Catch Up

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #106 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics included crypto’s five killer use cases in 2026, the state of different crypto policies and regulation across the globe, and the impact of the crypto market on your blockchain ecosystem.

Events

August 28: NNT hosting Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #107 on the official Smart Economy Podcast X account.