Neo News: Week in Review – April 13 – April 19

General Updates

Neo Council approved a reduction in block time from 15 seconds to 3 seconds during a governance meeting on April 13, with 14 of 21 Council seats present. The long-discussed parameter change is expected to take effect in early May. However, a proposed 100x reduction to the execution fee factor was deferred after a tied vote, with the Council opting to wait for Neo SPCC’s dynamic opcode pricing solution in the upcoming Gorgon hard fork.

Neo co-founder Erik Zhang announced the formation of a temporary emergency committee composed of core developers and community leaders to assume NF operational functions. Zhang also launched a public page to continuously disclose all fund use promoted by or decided with the participation of the temporary committee, making spending records available for ongoing community oversight.

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei announced that March 2026 compensation to core developers has been disbursed, noting that the Neo Foundation and Neo Global Development have funded core developers, contributors, and community groups consistently since inception without a missed period.

A set of community-led initiatives were launched to support the governance reform debate, including a side-by-side comparison site for the competing co-founder proposals by NNT, a community alignment proposal led by COZ, and structured GitHub discussion topics for stakeholder feedback on specific themes.

Neo surpassed a new milestone for Neo 4, the RISC-V VM solution passed block-by-block state root verification against the full Neo MainNet dataset, confirming the design has moved beyond the conceptual stage. Zhang shared the milestone and described the result as validation that the approach produces identical state transitions to the existing system.

Neo X launched on LayerZero’s permissionless omni-chain infrastructure, enabling cross-chain interactions, liquidity flow, and composable applications across more than 170 blockchain networks.

OneGate warned users of impersonator accounts on X falsely claiming to represent OneGate, its customer support, or its team members, confirming that @OneGateSpace is the only official account on the platform.

NeoRedPill hosted an NRP holder giveaway that required participants to hold at least 300,000 NRP and submit a Neo wallet address; 10 winners were selected at random, each receiving 2 $GAS.

Frank Coin noted that World of Elements received a recent update and that multiplayer mode is in active development as the game’s next major milestone.

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

nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 166,348 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 445 $GAS.

SpoonOS announced the 12th installment of the AI Co-Learning Program, titled “LLM Agents, Skills, OpenClaw.” The guests will be Rubin Gao, co-founder & CEO at Encando AI, You Gu, co-founder of NeoCognition, Wei-Min Lw, founder of Actus AI Labs and MoPass, and Yuxi Lu, PhD at the University of Alberta. Participants will have the chance to win from a pool of 10 OpenRouter API keys.

Developer Updates

Neo SPCC released NeoFS gateway v0.43.1, which reduces metrics collection overhead and fixes an occasional CompleteMultipartUpload request failure.

Neo SPCC released NeoFS Panel v0.8.2, which fixed the obsolete PUT method for container creation.

Seven new mini-applications by R3E Network were listed on on nDapp and NeoMini: NeoPay (recurring $GAS and NEO payment streams), SelfLoan ($GAS borrowing service), FogPlay (oracle-backed coin flips), Daily Check-in (streak-based rewards), Red Envelope ($GAS envelope creator), GASBOX (lucky wheel), and LastSurvivor (growing prize pool).

COZ published a technical article on execution quality and wallet security in the context of Neo X’s protected execution environment, examining how every signature, transfer, swap, governance action, and contract interaction makes the Neon wallet a trust surface.

NNT Catch Up

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #92 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included an overview of the two NF restructuring proposals put forth by the Neo co-foudners, the similiarites between the two proposals, and other potential areas of growth for Neo.

Events

April 21: SpoonOS hosting AI Co-Learning Program ep. 12 on YouTube.
April 22: FLM.FUN hosting a live streaming event with a $500 giveaway.
April 24: NNT hosting CC & BB #93 on The Smart Economy Podcast official X account.