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[Aug. 10 2017] Nikolai Kuznetsov , FORBES Contributor : NEO Co-Founder Banks On Blockchain To Build A Smart Economy [Article]

[Aug. 9 2017] INC. : NEO now a top 10 cryptocurrency. [Article]

[Aug. 8 2017] NEO Website is online!



[Aug. 3 2017] What is NEO: An Interview With NEO co-founder DA Hongfei

[Aug. 3 2017] NEO and blockchain-labo.jp | meetup in Tokyo, Thursday, August 10, 2017 [Event Detail]

[Aug. 2 2017] NEO and ELASTOS reaching strategic collaboration to further the development of the Smart Economy: [Article]


Read this blog post for dates and details of our Rebranding plan. [Related Article]

We've just held our first AMA on the NEO subreddit!!


NasdaQ: Antshares Rebrands, Introduces NEO and the New Smart Economy(also on Bitcoin Magazine. )

CCTV(China's predominant TV broadcaster): China's first original open source blockchain platform has launched. Watch here

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Design goals and Technical Advantages*





The main design goal of NEO’s predecessor (Antshares) was ‘Digital Assets for everyone’, to build a digital financial system bridging the real-world assets. With blockchain technology, the digitization of assets can be decentralised, trustful, traceable, highly transparent, and free of intermediaries.
Continuing from this original intention, NEO firmly believes that it is an irreversible trend that real-world assets become digital and programmable. To reach this goal, Antshares takes a very different underlying design:

• Use Digital Certicate to Guarantee Trust

       NEO supports digital certificates, solves the potential problem of untrustworthy nodes on a public blockchain. With digital certificates, one can legally issue assets on the blockchain and be protected by the regulations.

• Original Superconduct trade mechanism

       This mechanism makes a trustless digital exchange possible. Support decentralized digital assets exchange. Match between sellers and buyers will be handled without need for users to deposits anything on the exchange.

On the NEO blockchain, users are able to register, trade, and circulate multiple types of assets. Proving the connection between digital and physical assets is possible through digital identity. Assets registered through a validated digital identity are protected by law.


Digital identity refers to the identity information of individuals, organizations, and other entities that exist in electronic form.

For digital identities on blockchains to have rights, they need to be legally authenticated. The most widely accepted digital identity system is based on the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) X.509 standard. We will implement a hybrid trust mechanism supporting X.509 + Web of Trust. Our verification of identity when issuing or using digital identities includes the use of facial features, fingerprint, voice, SMS and other multi-factor authentication methods.


Smart contracts are automatically executed programs in the blockchain environment. A blockchain system that supports smart contracts makes it possible for any kind of contracts, rules or instructions to be automated.
The NEO Smart Contract 2.0 (NeoContract) includes the following features: high certainty, high concurrency, and scalability. The contract types include: validation contracts, function contracts, and application contracts.

• Write Smart Contracts in any language

       The difference between NEO Smart Contract 2.0 and Ethereum is that NEO is more intuitive: unlike the original Solidity language in Ethereum, the NEO smart contract can be used directly by almost any high-level programming language. Supporting languages such as C#, Java, Go, developers can quickly start developing smart contracts on NEO blockchain.

• NEO VM lightweight Virtual Stack Machines

       NEO uses a lightweight VM that has short booting time and takes up a small amount of resources. The instructional setup of the NEO VM includes a series of cryptographic instructions to optimize the execution efficiency of cryptographic algorithms in Smart Contracts. Both features are very much suitable for short programs such as smart contracts.

• Better Scalability: Distributed Storage Protocol - NeoFS

       When competing with traditional technology solutions, scalability is the handicap of blockchain technology. In order to have a censorship-immutable and trust-free system, blockchains such as Bitcoin compromises latency and throughput in its design.

        NeoFS is a distributed storage protocol that utilizes Distributed Hash Table technology. Large files will be divided into fixed-size data blocks that are distributed and stored in many different nodes. The old block data can be stored in NeoFS, so that most of the full nodes can release the old data for better scalability and at the same time, ensure the integrity of historical data.

        At the moment, the block generating rate is manually set at 15 seconds. With low enough latency in inter-nodes connection in the future, most blocks will be generated by every 1 second. With the bandwidth at 100Mbit/t and external cryptographic computing hardware, NEO Blockchain is capable of handling thousands, if no tens of thousands, of transactions per second.

• Innovative dBFT consensus mechanism

       Consensus nodes use Byzantine Fault Tolerance(dBFT) Algorithm to reach consensus and ensure the finality of transactions. The system is operable as long as less than 1/3 of the nodes are dishonest. It is also ensured that the system keeps its finality, meaning that once confirmations are final, the block can not be bifurcated, and the transaction will not be revoked or rolled back. (more)

• Cross-chain interoperability protocol -NeoX

       This protocol allows multiple participants to exchange assets across different chains and to ensure that all steps in the entire transaction process succeed or fail together.
It is possible by creating a contract account for each participant using the NeoContract function. Any chain should be compatible with NeoX as long as they are compatible with NeoContract or can provide simple smart contract functionality.

• Quantum-computer-proof technology: NeoQS

       The emergence of quantum computers creates a major challenge to RSA and ECC-based cryptographic mechanisms. For quantum computers can solve thses cryptographic prblems in an extremely short time. Using Lattice-based cryptograph signature and encryption technology, NeoQS can prevent the quantum crisis as Lattice-based cryptography provides encryption problems (e.g. SVP) beyond the capability of quantum computers.

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NEO Seed Project

NEO Seed is a project aimed at developers around the world. With this project, NEO hope to spread the knowledge on NEO blockchain and bridge the distance between NEO and community developers. We hope to see more developers taking part in new smart contract projects. In the meantime, we shall endeavor to promote new projects on smart contracts, construct the NEO ecosystem, and hopefully find out and foster outstanding projects and project teams.

λ            Blockchain Workshop

NEO will form a ‘Blockchain Workshop’, uniting the technical members of the community to establish a dedicated column on blockchain technology. This column will update the news about blockchain technologies and discuss about the application practices based on NEO. Technology volunteers will comprise this club. They can submit contents about their related technologies. The NEO team will check these contents before letting them go public.  

λ            Blockchain Programming Day

NEO plans to organize online open courses to help global developers open the gate to the smart contract application and development. For the developers with great ideas, NEO would provide technical assistance to help them develop their targeted blockchain applications.  

λ            Testing your NEO applications on the Testnet

If you are starting a NEO ecosystem application project, and need NEO or GAS in the test net, please fill in the following application form and send it . Once your application is passed, you will receive an email notification.

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Developer's Corner

Introducing directories on GitHub

/docs   Technical documents including the whitepaper. See the technical doc on /docs/index.md  ||  getting-started.md offers an introduction to the development of NEO.

/neo-compiler    Compiles Smart Contracts written in multiple coding languages like C#, VB.Net, Java, and Kotlin

/examples          A collection of smart contracts written in C# that can run on the NEO blockchain. You can reference these for the syntax and details on how to write smart contracts.
For more on writing Smart Contracts, please see /introduction.md

/neo     class library of the project

/neo-cli      Full Node with Command Line Interface, designed for developers.

/neo-gui     Full Node with Graphic User Interface, aka Client.
For more on nodes please see /node/introduction.md

/neo-vm  Visual Studio Virtual Machine

/neo-devpack-dotnet    Development Kit

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FAQs*

• What is the purpose of rebranding? What new things will the rebranding bring?

           NEO wants to be more professional, combining digital assets, securing digital identity and allowing users to write smart contracts in multiple coding languages like Javascript, C++ and Python.
            NEO is the use of blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, the use of smart contracts for digital assets to be self-managed, to achieve "smart economy" with a distributed network.
            Additional features will include NeoMessage that supports secure, encrypted peer-to-peer messaging and NeoFS, a distributed cloud storage. Smart fund investments, Online Networking and a Decentralized Exchange will also be implemented in the near future.

• When will the new NEO website be updated to fit the rebrand?

           NEO Website & Network will be released on August 8.

• What's the relationship between ANS and Neo?

           Neo is the new name of Antshares(ANS), Neo gas is the new name of Antcoins(ANC). Your ANS will become Neo automatically after the rebrand. Similarly, Your ANC will become Neo Gas as well.

• What's the relationship between NEO and NEO Gas?

           NEO is the ’shares‘ of the Neo blockchain system. As long as you possess NEO, NEO Gas will be generated automatically in the system according to generation strategy and you can claim your NEO gas as dividends. NEO stands for ownership of the system, NEO gas stands for the right to use the system.

• Where do I start?

           PC: Download the NEO client.
            MAC/Web: use the web app .
            You can find more information and apps on our reddit sidebar.

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NEO Community

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NEO/
Slack: https://neosmarteconomy.slack.com/
QQ: 23917224
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NEO_Bloackchain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NEOSmartEcon/
Blog: https://neo.org/Blog

You can access the latest developments and news on NEO on any of the platforms above. You can post your feedback and advice about NEO on these platforms well. We welcome the participation of volunteers from all over the world. Anyone with expertise and willing to help can get in touch with members of the NEO team. With your help, we hope to bring NEO to a bigger and better place.

you can choose a location to store your wallet file, and pick whatever name you like it to be.
then password x2 then there you go

guys it's similar to bitcoin you have to create a new wallet first....

relax, the ANS Claim Guide and Software User Guide are coming soon

Hi, everyone, check the OP, will be updating constantly in the coming hrs/days

thank you for your trust, I want to point out again here:
after the ICO termination, which was like 3 weeks ago, we
1)finished the client localization, and the development of the web wallet.
2)started the testing of the web wallet and localization
3)docked with exchanges in preparation for the incoming listing after the mainnet launch
4)hired 4 more devs for implementations in more languages

and all of these are just non-confidential tech-wise information, business-wise....I cannot finish in one post.

All I can say is, smart ppl know what they are doing when invested in Antshares.

The testnet had been running since Nov. 2015 with a bitcoin-core style client.

A new HTML5 client-only (light client) wallet is in the pipeline.

We are working on a HTML5 wallet, and it will probably be ready when mainnet launches. A HTML5 wallet is device/OS agnostic.

October is a reasonable estimation.

As of exchanges, yes we are talking with a few exchanges, both int'l and China-based. And the feedbacks are pretty positive.

According to the current develop progress, I'll say it will be launched no later than October.

The 50% for future development/eco-system will be locked for the 1st year after mainnet launch.

At 5482BTC so far, Antshares will probably be listed on coinmarketcap.com at #28. I think it is WAY UNDERVALUED.

We are executing a yet disclosed ambitious plan, and our target is to be ranked at the TOP X at coinmarketcap.com in the coming year.

We work closely with Microsoft China. The logic behind is that we are the flagship open-source blockchain here in China, and our code base is more mature than other int'l counterparties.

The first implementation of antshares core is written with C#, and golang will be the next, for the sack of sharing the developer community with ethereum and hyperledger fabric.

antshares core is running on windows and linux and can be deployed on VM or docker.

andshares SDK is written in java, python, javascript, C# and more is coming.

the underlying protocol was ready for quite some time. we are working on a html5 web wallet. I would say very likely the mainnet will be launched much earlier than December.

You will be able to register for refund anytime after the ICO deadline (Sept. 7) and before mainnet launch. The refund will be processed 30 DAYS AFTER mainnet goes live.

So if it is really urgent, you may want to sell your stake to someone.

These are PAID sockpuppets.

take a look at their ID:
http://8btc.com/thread-38193-1-1.html

The 2100 BTC from ICO1 is sold immediately at that time for 4.65 million CNY. We spent less than 50% as of today. All financial details can be found here:
https://www.antshares.org/zh-CN/Blog/Details/22

The boss Mr. Huang is a old friend.

Thank you loremipsum, some of the English materials are produced by our developers. It must contain mistakes.

loremipsum, can you contact "antshares" to do editing/proofreading for us?

antshares.org will be revamped after the ICO.

Thank you chichidori for your advice.

Security is always our first priority. For example, we immediately reevaluated our multisig setup after the bitfinex/bitgo hack, and decided to switch to a more conventional manual setup instead of relying on third-party multisig wallet which in some case may extend the attach surface.

just to let you guys know our progress, it's 3222.85 after the first 7 days. Not bad

“Certainty Bookkeeping w/o forks” means you know a transaction is valid as soon as there is one confirmation, as opposite to bitcoin's 6 confirmation. "Confirmed" is a probability expression under bitcoin, any transaction can be removed from the blockchain as long as there is a alternative history with more hashing power.

Joint mode means every block is validated by multiple parties, unlike a single node as in PoW/PoS/DPoS. You are right, joint mode enables finality with one confirmation.

"it requires nodes to authenticate themselves to achieve a weak trust from other nodes", authenticate here means approving it's own identity. Revealing one's real identity is a more economical way to get "trust" comparing to demonstrate(waste) hashing power. Although PoW is more suitable if anti-censorship is the prioritized design goal.