Since it was first held, NEO Blockchain Challenge has received positive responses from community members. Subsequent to the first challenge held in early June in Shenzhen which provided us with a high-quality solution of “quick search of NEO address and balance”, NEO held another one in the UK under the topic “NEO Network State Monitoring” on June 17, along with a meetup held a day before.

Prior to the event, we’ve got over 70 developers signing up for it. The candidates finally coming onsite exploited their brainpower and only spent a day in working out the solutions. At the end of the day, we got a diversity of solutions that employ different approaches.

“NEO Network State Monitoring” is designed to breed more node status minitoring solutions of high quality which may come handy in tracking the node status and efficiently evaluate its capability of maintaining the stable operation of NEO blockchain. NEO regards it as a critical step in the decentralization process.

The ultimate goal of our decentralization plan is token decentralization. We hope that more tokens can be rewarded to developers who have made contributions to NEO community. Therefore, whether in terms of its experimental or pratical significance, NEO London Challenge exceeded our expectation.

Even through the challenge lasted only one day, there were still many developers travelling to london from other European countries, which indicates the cohesion of NEO developer community.

Besides, we are amazed at the number of high-quality entries, which indicates that we have many talented developers in the community and encourages us to hold more challenges at more alluring incentives to stoke the passion of NEO global developer community.

We are proud to announce the prizewinners as follows

First prize: HappyNodes 600GAS

Second prize: State of NEO 375GAS

Third prize: Polymon 150GAS

Consolation prize: Kev 40GAS

Consolation prize: Infinity NEO 20GAS

These entries have many praiseworthy features, e.g. Memory Pool in the HappyNodes (First Prize Laureate); the P2P monitoring function of State of NEO, which we hold as an important indicator in our assessment, is up to our standard. Overall, State of NEO is a remarkable piece of work.

Peter Lin, NGD R&D Director is the convenor of NEO Blockchain Challenge — London.

“The challenge is a satisfactory and influential one,” he said, “on the one hand, we’ve got solutions we want; on the other, “Think, Learn, Create” — the keynote of the event has been played to the fullest. The challengers coming afar also indicates the liveness of the community. The challenge offered developers an opportunity to exchange ideas and brought the developer community closer to us. We’re honored to give back to the community by such means, which we deem as a healthy way to maintain the sustainability of NEO ecosystem.”