Neo News: Week in Review – April 20 – April 26

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General Updates

Neo Council activated three-second block times on Neo N3 MainNet after a governance transaction signed by 13 of 21 Council members was executed on-chain, reducing block intervals by 80% from their previous 15-second times.

AxLabs launched the Neo Bridge Indexer, a public dashboard that tracks the live status of the native bridge between Neo N3 and Neo X, with both the frontend and backend codebases open-sourced on GitHub under the bane-labs organization. The tool gives users, developers, and dApp operators a validator-independent way to confirm whether the bridge is operating normally, delayed, or stuck, covering all three bridge types supported on the native connection between the two chains.

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei participated in a panel discussion at the Bitfire Day: 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Wealth Management Summit Forum, addressing the current state and structural challenges of the crypto industry, including Bitcoin’s development trajectory.

COZ published a positional essay arguing that Neo’s foundational design had an implied transition period from founder-led origins toward community stewardship. However, according to COZ, the transition has never been completed, and the only legitimate basis for the ecosystem’s future is a broader, more durable distribution of stewardship across the community.

Flamingo Finance published an open letter alleging that Neo Global Development and the Neo Foundation failed to deliver promised assets and operational support during the platform’s most challenging stretches to date. The Flamingo maintainers argue that Neo’s flagship DeFi dApp has been left structurally dependent on two entities that have refused to act on calls for help. The article catalogs grievances the team says it raised internally through late 2025 before escalating the dispute publicly.

SpoonOS launched Season 1 of its Community Contribution Program, a two-month points-based initiative running through June 20, that rewards members for chatting, completing tasks, contributing code, and sharing AI content, with the top 10 contributors receiving exclusive community rewards.

NeoLine launched its Web dApp at app.neoline.io, a unified interface for managing Neo assets that supports viewing assets, sending and receiving tokens, bridging assets, and participating in governance voting.

GameShame released Raijin Protocol v0.0.3a, revealing the game’s first map and making it available for download at gameshame.studio.

FLM.FUN hosted a live streaming event with 500 USDC in prize money available to participants.

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 87,061 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 271 $GAS.

Frank Coin hosted a Telegram Game Event on April 24, awarding 100 FRANK to the top player and 40 FRANK each to 10 randomly selected participants.

Developer Updates

AxLabs announced GitMyABI, a tool designed to bring CI/CD-style management to smart contract interfaces (via application binary interfaces), replacing manual distribution through Slack, Discord threads, and documentation repositories.

Neo SPCC released NeoFS REST gateway v0.17.1, fixing a pair of bugs and introducing V2 session token validation at the gateway level for auth APIs.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 111 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Greg Osuri, founder of Akash Network and CEO of Overclock Labs, a decentralized cloud platform designed to connect unused compute supply with growing global demand. Topics of discussion include why decentralized cloud infrastructure may help address growing AI compute demand, how Akash Network connects unused global compute supply with developers and enterprises, why energy availability could become a bigger bottleneck than hardware for AI, how distributed training is evolving beyond large centralized data centers, and more.

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #93 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account. Topics of discussion included the top 5 crypto and top 5 non-crypto hacks in 2025, why AI is empowering rampant malicious activity, and how to protect yourself as both a crypto user and a regular tech user.