What about NEO?

[Abiky]

For once, NEO was the hottest Blockchain project in the crypto space. Prices were well above $100 per coin, and there was a lot of excitement among people within the mainstream world. With quick transaction speeds and ridiculously low fees, NEO stands up against other popular smart contract platforms like ETH and EOS. An advantage of NEO relative to its competitors is that smart contracts can be developed in various well-known programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, and Python. In the case of ETH, you'll have to learn a new programming language (Solidity) that's not as tried and tested as other languages within the mainstream world. On other hand, EOS uses WebAssembly but this language is relatively new. Mainstream developers might find it easier to develop new dApps within the NEO blockchain than either ETH or EOS.

Most recently, NEO has announced that it will be upgrading to NEO 3.0. The cryptocurrency has been rather silent since Bitcoin began decreasing in price back in 2018. This improved version of NEO might attract a lot of people into it. But the cryptocurrency needs a lot of marketing/promotion to be able to gain traction within the mainstream world.

What do you think about NEO? Will it survive? Or will fade from existence over time?

[CjMapope]

i think NEO should survive, i like the way you described it by highlighting that smart contracts can be developed in other languages, i think thats its biggest selling point
does it still give GAS as PoS mechanism? i always liked that about it too, as far as chinacoins go, NEO is a dece one i think
it was a good ICO (as ANS) too, i regret selling all mine when it hit ath there a while ago, the GAS was nice to collect

[Abiky]

i think NEO should survive, i like the way you described it by highlighting that smart contracts can be developed in other languages, i think thats its biggest selling point
does it still give GAS as PoS mechanism? i always liked that about it too, as far as chinacoins go, NEO is a dece one i think
it was a good ICO (as ANS) too, i regret selling all mine when it hit ath there a while ago, the GAS was nice to collect

Agree. The diversity in programming languages is NEO's biggest selling point yet. Unfortunately, people are focused on the big players which rely on newer programming languages that have not been tried-and-tested over the years. NEO makes smart contract development easier by making use of existing programming languages for the benefit of developers in the mainstream world. Not to mention, NEO's dBFT consensus algorithm allows for quick transaction speeds and cheaper costs for smart contract execution. With enough marketing/promotion, NEO could've been a huge contender of popular blockchain platforms like Ethereum and EOS. So far, people can earn "GAS" by simply "hodling" their NEO on a wallet. That's not possible with ETH, while EOS has a much more complicated process (resource lending) for people to start earning money right away.

With the upcoming version of NEO 3.0, things could become interesting for the cryptocurrency in the long run. We might be able to experience a "FOMO" among people in the mainstream world, as the improved version of NEO becomes a fierce rival of existing blockchain platforms (like the ones mentioned earlier). Time will tell us if investing in NEO is truly worth it or all the other way around. Just my thoughts

[Rcoinmoon]

I can remember when I came into this space in 2016 NEO was one of the few coins I used to trade on bittrex exchange and because of that I was following up the project closely, but I don't know wassup with them lately.

[Yudhisthir]

There too were some ICOs launched over NEO blockchain but NEO has failed to tap the market. The blanket ban from China might have affected NEO to some extent but they are not growing at all. The team is still active in conferences and meetups but I haven't seen any update on the blockchain or it's token platform for quite a time now.

[PrissMCclen]

For me this Coin is one of the strongest coin in this space that has stood the test of time and I strongly believe that if the devs should put little more effort into the project this Coin can compete with coins like Ethereum and bitcoin.

[DarkDays]

NEO is practically dead, and that sucks.

I invested in this project when each NEO was around $120 per coin, sold out when it dropped under $90, and now I can see that it's less than $10/ea.

As far as I'm aware there are almost no Dapps running on NEO, and both Tron and EOS have come along and stolen its spotlight as a competitor to Ethereum.

I don't think it will recover, simply because it hasn't managed to achieve anything yet, while several upstarts have already gained ground on Ethereum.

If it has failed so earlier, then the future looks bleak for NEO.

[Tipstar]

NEO was not able to take the benefit of the struggling blockchain of Ethereum while it was the only viable competitor. Now NEO is being lost among the competitors. After all these years, every dapps you see on NEO blockchain are their own home apps. No developer or project are interested in using NEO. NEO is an example of failed project.

[electronicash]

NEO was not able to take the benefit of the struggling blockchain of Ethereum while it was the only viable competitor. Now NEO is being lost among the competitors. After all these years, every dapps you see on NEO blockchain are their own home apps. No developer or project are interested in using NEO. NEO is an example of failed project.

for a token to have a price of $9.62 each, its a successful coin still despite how few dapps created under it. the GAS for its stakers i guess are the ones that makes this project holds the grip. its sort of an easy money for them that comes into their wallets without risk. to be honest i haven't tried any dapps using NEO, not even once. maybe because its in chinese which made it a failure as you point out. but for the rest like TRON and EOS, its becoming a regular for me.

[Febo]

For once, NEO was the hottest Blockchain project in the crypto space. Prices were well above $100 per coin, ...

And then they baned crypto in China and all went to hell

Luckily now no one in china is allowed to call NEO blockchain a scam anymore   So at least NEO organisers that got rich by selling tokens in ICO can walk proud in China.

[timmmers]

NEO is not dead, but it is not a coin that is mentioned in every crypto news portal like Tron. They slowly work on the decentralized smart-finance ecosystem. But, with recent situation in China investors are now more cautios and that is the reason why NEO is very cheap and not attractive for newcomers. We will see what happen after NEO 3.0 release.   

[disconnectme]

With the way things are for this project, it seems the Whales driving the price are gone, the Chinese Ethereum playbook seems to be over. People were holding it then because of the feeling people are going to migrate to the platform for ICOs but the ICO market is over so I don't know what would drive the price up again. It will just be there until the price dumped to zero finally

[dataispower]

NEO was one of my major holdings and I sold 60% of my entire holdings at 180$ hoping it might keep going up in price. Even though things fell apart for NEO with regards price, I don't regret my investment there, it was profitable. However, I've been following NEO and I'm impressed with their development so far, although the astonishing aspect is that it doesn't reflect on the price. I believe with more cool strategies, NEO will do well in the long run.

[magneto]

I think that it'll do just fine.

However, long term I really don't see any sort of major developments especially when you consider that it, being a Chinese project, has competitors that do somewhat of the same things that have started to come about in recent days in TRON and whatnot.

So yeah, I'm not super bullish nor am I that pessimistic. I think it'll be one of the coins that just sits in the middle of the pack during this bull run, honestly.

[StephenieDuong]

I think Neo is a good project from the beginning, but not a good coins to invest for now. Neo tech has not too much special, they also have not much users, dApp using their blockchain. These reasons make this project become less attractive than ETH and EOS. I think they should be active in marketing, teach developers how to use their chain, what benefit from use Neo. If this project not too active to try these things, i believe Neo will become zero soon.

[Lagduf]

If you remember last time around there was a lot of fud around neo when they upgraded from their previous version to newer one and the price was struggling for months before it pumped to massive new highs, this time around i see similar pattern and im optimistic that neo is not going anyway it will grow overtime and it is here to stay.

Basically, a big upgrade is not needed when the developer was very skilful. We have so many options to fix the problem just like using the offchain solution or something else. This coin looks dead coin but it's still alive caused by speculators are not taking the development progress of the NEO correctly.
I don't even think if this coin is worth to invest as lack of the update, news and to re-structure the whole blockchain is not a good solution.
Remember so many platforms are doing so many improvements through use improvement proposal. that's why this coin is getting dumped.

[Ferris419]

Sadly NEO is not doing well in the market since 2018 to now, which is not good news at all. NEO was a pure gem, there was too much positive hype on this coin, Therefore NEO is known as a second Ethereum, it has great technology with great partners! Many coins like Ontology, Spot coin launched on NEO network! But NEO coin price is not growing at all, I held it for almost one year but did not get a single profit. I hope in the next bull run, NEO will find its base once again and will hit a higher and stable price.

[nutriagrigia]

in fact, I think NEO is not a super interesting project. at that time when he was so popular, all the projects which tried to become competitors for ETH raised a lot of money because people thought that all such projects brought them thousands of profit %, but as it turned out it wasn’t. and now only those people who still did not sell it are talking about NEO

[bakasabo]

Can someone refresh my memory and remind which successful milestones NEO achieved in 2019? Maybe some can remember any good project on NEO or an update in already working one?

[FaithInCrypto]

NEO was popular years back and even though I haven't checked it out lately, I guess it does all it can to stay in the game of altcoins even if its lowkey nowadays.