Week in Review – December 29

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Basic Updates

Neo’s two founding figures, Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei, publicly clashed over governance and treasury transparency. The dispute, which unfolded on X over the ultimate days of 2025, centered on longstanding disagreements associated to monetary disclosure and management of Neo Basis property. A public assertion was posted on the Neo’s official X account assuring the neighborhood that these private disputes “don’t and won’t have an effect on NF’s or NGD’s day-to-day operations.”

Moreover, Neo‘s Zhang performed an interview with PA Information the place he publicly disclosed clear on-chain holdings of NEO and GAS throughout 21 consensus nodes and a multisig pockets.

Neo shared a 2025 year-in-review video that shared a number of photos related to social media marketing campaign highlights, tech updates, the launch of SpoonOS, partnerships and collaborations, occasions attended, and neighborhood actions.

Neo concluded the holiday-themed recreation, “Grouchy, Grinchy, Grumpy AI Christmas,” and distributed the prizes evenly among the many gamers who submitted a solution, since no one had guessed the proper answer.

NEOBOX launched a bi-monthly replace, which famous the crew targeted on constructing the inspiration for NEOBOX, getting ready the primary playable model of the Neo- and NeoFS-powered arcade platform. This milestone units the stage for preliminary design previews in Q1 2026 and a curated recreation submission competitors deliberate for February, alongside direct follow-ups with the neighborhood to shut open questions and enhance communication.

Neo Crimson Capsule concluded its vacation giveaway marketing campaign, rewarding one person every with an NRP shirt, NRP espresso mug, or €10 present card.

Developer Updates

NeoSPCC launched NeoGo v0.115, bringing the shopper in step with the newest Faun preview updates, alongside usability and efficiency enhancements throughout the CLI, RPC providers, and Notary infrastructure. Key highlights embrace new governance and price controls, the introduction of a local Treasury contract, and early help for NeoFS state syncing, all whereas sustaining compatibility with the earlier launch. Node operators ought to notice an up to date MainNet system price and a NeoFS sync checkpoint change, although most customers shall be unaffected.

NNT Catch Up

NNT launched Episode 104 of The Good Economic system Podcast that includes Brian Smocovich, co-founder of PistachioFi, a blockchain finance cell app designed to make DeFi extra accessible. Subjects of dialogue included how liquidity fragmentation and fuel prices affect actual person conduct, why UX challenges like seed phrases, approvals, and fuel stay boundaries for non-technical customers, how PistachioFi approaches mobile-first and gasless pockets design, why cryptographic restoration can enhance security with out custodial threat, and what gasless, cross-border transfers may imply for extra accessible on-chain finance.