TL;DR — July was the first big month with our first two NEO Blockchain projects, Happynodes and NEO-Watcher. Happynodes: 202 users, 454 sessions, 500 nodes being tracked. NEO-Watcher: 33 users, 404 alerts.

Introductory Remarks

A month in blockchain and cryptocurrency is like dog years, everything moves so fast. Our understanding of the NEO blockchain has radically changed, and so much has happened too, it’s hard to capture it all down in one post, but here goes our best efforts:

NEO Co-founder, Erik Zhang, starts to publish a ‘live’ roadmap of NEO 3.0 in the form of Github Issues. These issues are a mix of bugs, feature improvements, and technical changes with economic impacts. A flurry of discussion erupts. People were expecting a whitepaper (i.e. a marketing PDF) but this is actually the way to get the most out of focused debate. We loved it but there was so much discussion, it was hard at times to digest it all.

NGD held it’s 2nd hackathon and first one in London on 17th June. F27 team members entered and created Happynodes which won! Video here: https://youtu.be/rhz1F6EB6LE?t=1m4s, News post here: https://neonewstoday.com/development/happynodes-neo-london-blockchain-challenge-winner/.

Happynodes secures support from NEO Global Development and moves its main repo to neo-ngd: https://github.com/neo-ngd/Happynodes.

F27 released Happynodes live to the world shortly after the Hackathon and then followed up with a series of Releases (more info below) that extends it beyond to the existing network monitor.

F27 member ~wy releases NEO-Watcher as an alpha to the community. Already, 33 users have signed up and received 404 alerts about their NEO and GAS balances.

Happynodes

Happynodes was a hackathon entry for the 2018 London NEO Blockchain competition run by NGD (NEO Global Development). Whilst it was a hackathon entry, we tried to write something that had the potential to be a viable project long term.