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Neo News: Week in Review – March 9 – March 15

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General Updates

Da Hongfei delivered a presentation on the “Humanless Blockchain” concept at the National University of Singapore, expanding on the AI-native blockchain strategy outlined in his recent strategy article.

SpoonOS distributed the first batch of $NFT rewards to participants in its Skill Capture Community Campaign on Neo X MainNet. The NFTs serve as social badges and eligibility indicators for future ecosystem rewards, following the campaign’s launch in late January via the Taskon platform.

GameShame completed Phase 1 development of Raijin Protocol, an on-chain PVP jet combat game built on the Neo X sidechain. The studio’s third development update, shared on March 11, outlines progress across core gameplay systems, an $NFT marketplace, and supporting infrastructure, with systems described as “live in development.”

GameShame submitteda Phase 2 grant proposal to GrantShares requesting 7,500 $GAS for game completion, alpha and beta testing phases, and initial marketing activities over an estimated six-month period. The proposal outlines remaining deliverables, including booster combat mechanics, shield and health systems, multiplayer stability testing, and integrated marketplace functionality.

Neo Red Pill hosted a Telegram-based mini-gaming event where the Top 3 winners each won 1 $GAS.

nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 61,737 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 357 $GAS.

NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round where participants had a chance to compete for a pool of 4 $GAS rewards.

Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on X, rewarding participants with 4 $GAS, and requiring each participant to prepare their own Neo N3 wallet address.

Developer Updates

R3E Network released a TEE-powered, privacy-preserving Oracle for the Neo N3 block explorer, Neo3 Scan. According to the team, the Oracle supports confidential data requests through built-in and custom providers with encrypted credentials, confidential computing functions including ZKP and FHE support, contract automation, and price feeds for assets such as NEO, $GAS, BTC, ETH, SOL, and gold.

Neo SPCC released NeoGo v0.118.0, introducing VM reference-counter optimizations and a range of SDK and CLI improvements. The update also includes new features for dApp developers, with full details available in the release changelog.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 108 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, an institutional staking and on-chain yield platform powering validator infrastructure for exchanges, custodians, wallets, and asset managers across the crypto ecosystem. Topics of discussion included why staking can continue growing during bear markets, how institutional staking infrastructure differs from retail validators, why stablecoin and Bitcoin yield markets may be expanding, how tokenized RWAs are entering on-chain finance, what on-chain vaults are and how they resemble asset management funds, how Railnet is aimed at connecting DeFi protocols and tokenized assets, why validator infrastructure matters for institutional security, and much more.

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #87 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included building OpenClaw agents with no prior developer experience, use cases for agents, the value of not quitting and the breakthroughs that follow, being a good Project Manager for your agent, and lessons learned.