Neo News: Week in Review – December 29 – January 4

Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: Neo News: Week in Review – December 29 – January 4 Original Link:

General Updates

Neo’s two founding figures, Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei, publicly clashed over governance and treasury transparency. The dispute centered on longstanding disagreements related to financial disclosure and control of Neo Foundation assets. A public statement was posted assuring the community that these personal disputes “do not and will not affect NF’s or NGD’s day-to-day operations.”

Additionally, Neo’s Zhang conducted an interview where he publicly disclosed transparent on-chain holdings of NEO and GAS across 21 consensus nodes and a multisig wallet.

Neo shared a 2025 year-in-review video that highlighted social media campaign achievements, tech updates, the launch of SpoonOS, partnerships and collaborations, events attended, and community activities.

Neo concluded the holiday-themed game, “Grouchy, Grinchy, Grumpy AI Christmas,” and distributed the prizes evenly among the players who submitted an answer, since nobody had guessed the correct solution.

NEOBOX released a bi-monthly update, which noted the team focused on building the foundation for NEOBOX, preparing the first playable version of the Neo- and NeoFS-powered arcade platform. This milestone sets the stage for initial design previews in Q1 2026 and a curated game submission competition planned for February, alongside direct follow-ups with the community to close open questions and improve communication.

Neo Red Pill concluded its holiday giveaway campaign, rewarding one user each with an NRP shirt, NRP coffee mug, or €10 gift card.

Developer Updates

NeoSPCC released NeoGo v0.115, bringing the client in line with the latest Faun preview updates, alongside usability and performance improvements across the CLI, RPC services, and Notary infrastructure. Key highlights include new governance and fee controls, the introduction of a native Treasury contract, and early support for NeoFS state syncing, all while maintaining compatibility with the previous release. Node operators should note an updated MainNet system fee and a NeoFS sync checkpoint change, though most users will be unaffected.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 104 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Brian Smocovich, co-founder of PistachioFi, a blockchain finance mobile app designed to make DeFi more accessible. Topics of discussion included how liquidity fragmentation and gas costs influence real user behavior, why UX challenges like seed phrases, approvals, and gas remain barriers for non-technical users, how PistachioFi approaches mobile-first and gasless wallet design, why cryptographic recovery can improve safety without custodial risk, and what gasless, cross-border transfers could mean for more accessible on-chain finance.

Events

Jan. 9: NNT hosting CC & BB #79 on The Smart Economy Podcast.