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NEO News: Week in review – April 30th – May 6th
NEO announces South America trip and visits European Parliament
The NEO team is coming to South America Antshares Neo Bitcointalk , marking its first visit to the continent. Core team members will attend the
Blockchain Summit Latam (BSL) in Santiago, Chile on
. NEO is a sponsor of the event. A hackathon is scheduled to address industry-based issues using blockchain, and developers on the NEO platform will be there to assist those who choose to build on NEO. 500 GAS will be rewarded to the team with the best NEO project.
. NeoResearch and Simplipay will provide presentations, whilst Malcolm Lerider (NEO Senior R&D Manager) and Tamar Salant (NEO Global Business Development) will make presentations to serve as an introduction to NEO.
Eariler in the week, representatives from the NEO ecosystem visited European Parliament on May 2 and 3, 2018.
in Brussels, Belgium to discuss blockchain technology with regulators. The Smart Economy Expo is a virtual organization backed by Neon Exchange (NEX) and City of Zion (CoZ). Da Hongfei (NEO) and Fabio Canesin (CoZ) participated on a panel that spoke with Parliament.
City of Zion (CoZ) Bounty Program: dBFT improvements
, which will consist of open development briefs. For the first software bounty, CoZ has asked developers to explore improvements to the dBFT protocol used on the NEO network, particularly alternative protocols like HoneyBadgerBFT, BFTRaft, or FastBFT.
reported a 63.3% accuracy in predicting BTC price rises
for their BTC Daily Forecasting bot algorithm. In April, the bot accurately forecasted a daily increase in BTC’s price 19 out of 30 days.
. The decentralized exchange also redesigned their transaction window, plans to upgrade for immediate trade confirmations, and announced a new deposit flow feature.
Parsec Frontiers, a blockchain-based space exploration games, will be
implementing a dual token structure with Ethereum and NEO
to operate their platform. The upcoming PRSC token sale and subsequent trading token will utilize ERC-20 standards, whereas the infrastructure ad PRSC assets will be based on NEO.
for April, highlighting branding and community efforts, product development, a new team member, an update to the roadmap and whitepaper, and the ACAT prediction engine.
and will soon to support token sales. The update included partnerships, recruitment of new team members, updates to the O3 Wallet, and events held throughout East Asia.
, which highlighted events attended, Antshares ICO refunds, dApp competition winners, decentralization and consensus node progress, and development updates.
with Shanghai Data Exchange, one of China’s largest big-data platforms. The partnership will allow APEX Network to test smart contracts connected to government-based validators.
with NAGA Group AG. NAGA is a publicly traded, German-based FinTech company that provides a platform to seamlessly integrate financial markets, virtual goods, and cryptocurrencies.
partnered with Fenbushi Capital and NEO Global Capital (NGC)
for their NEO Name Service (NNS) project. NNS will allow users to create “.neo” domains (instead of public keys) as a receiving address when making transfers.
for Asura’s upcoming public token sale. The gaming platform will utilize O3’s mobile wallet platform for their upcoming ASA token sale.
their pre-token sale due to issues with third party payment processes.
in an effort to promote the Aphelion desktop wallet that holds NEO, GAS, and NEP-5 tokens. 1,000 APH tokens will be given to 100 different users selected at random.
that ran from March 31 through April 21. The update corrected the distribution of CGE tokens to align with the model outlines in their whitepaper. Concierge minted a total of 61,571,086 CGE tokens, about 40 million of which will be distributed to the public.
to qualify for their token pre-sale, which include nOS codebase contributors and teams/developers. Participants will have until
to submit their projects for review, and these requirements only apply to the pre-sale.
NEP-5 LRN token, GAS Antshares Neo Bitcointalk , GAS, and SWH.
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