General updates
neo‘s two founders, Eric Chan and Da Hongfei, have publicly clashed over governance and financial transparency. The dispute over X, which unfolded over the final days of 2025, centered on long-standing disagreements over financial disclosure and management of Neo Foundation assets. An official statement was posted on Neo’s official X account, assuring the community that these personal disputes “do not and will not affect the day-to-day operations of NF or NGD.”
moreover, neoZhang conducted an interview with PA News and disclosed transparent on-chain holdings of NEO and GAS across 21 consensus nodes and multisig wallets.
neo has shared a 2025 look back video that shares some images related to social media campaign highlights, technology updates, SpoonOS launches, partnerships and collaborations, events attended, and community activities.
neo This is how the holiday-themed game ended.Grumpy, Grumpy, Grumpy AI Christmas” and since no one could guess the correct answer, the prizes were divided equally among the players who submitted their answers.
neobox has released a bi-monthly update stating that the team is focused on building the foundation of NEOBOX and preparing the first playable version of the arcade platform powered by Neo and NeoFS. This milestone sets the stage for early design previews in Q1 2026 and a select game submission contest scheduled for February, as well as direct follow-up with the community to resolve open questions and improve communication.
neo red pill has concluded its holiday giveaway campaign, giving each user an NRP shirt, an NRP coffee mug, or a 10 euro gift card.
Developer updates
NeoSPCC We have released NeoGo v0.115 to bring our clients in line with the latest Faun preview updates, as well as usability and performance improvements across the CLI, RPC service, and Notary infrastructure. Key highlights include new governance and fee management, the introduction of native Treasury contracts, and early support for NeoFS state sync while maintaining compatibility with previous releases. Node operators should be aware of the MainNet system pricing updates and NeoFS sync checkpoint changes, but most users will not be affected.
NNT catch up
NNT Episode 104 has been released. smart economy podcast Featuring co-founder Brian Smokovich pistachio fia blockchain financial mobile app designed to make DeFi more accessible. Discussion topics include how liquidity fragmentation and gas costs impact real user behavior, why UX challenges such as seed phrases, authorizations, and gas remain barriers for non-technical users, and how PistachioFi This included how we approach gas-free wallet design, why crypto recovery can improve security without storage risk, and what gas-less cross-border transfers mean for more accessible on-chain finance.
event
January 9: NNT hosts CC & BB #79 on the official X account of the Smart Economy Podcast.
