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Fast-Tracking EVM dApps to Solana on the Index Podcast!

Catch Neon Labs’ CTO Andrey Falaleev on @theindexshow sharing insights on Neon EVM's evolution to a seamless Solana Native Experience.

Key Highlights 💡:
⚡ Fully Solana-native execution with EVM compatibility.
🛠️ Familiar tools like Solidity, now paired with Solana’s unmatched performance.
🔗 Upcoming upgrades enable direct use of Solana wallets for a streamlined user experience.

📺 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/XDDBV70QFrM

🎄 Dear Santa, we’ve been good… now fix our dev docs! 🎅

Next week, we’re bringing the holiday cheer straight to your screens with an unmissable Space! 🎙️ Join @dariaagad and @0xfabs as they share all the hacks to level up your dev docs—from mastering the diátaxis framework to practical tips that work.

🗓️ When? Dec 27, 2 p.m. UTC

📍 Where? Click here to join

Set your reminders 🔔!

🌟 NEON EVM WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT 🌟

Hello, Neonauts! As we close in on the end of the year, we’re excited to share the latest updates, celebrations, and opportunities happening within the Neon EVM ecosystem. Let’s dive in

🔹 Fast-Tracking EVM dApps to Solana on the Index Podcast
Catch Neon Labs’ CTO, Andrey Falaleev, on The Index Show sharing insights into Neon EVM's evolution and its seamless Solana Native Experience.
Key takeaways include:
1. Fully Solana-native execution with EVM compatibility.
2. Familiar Solidity tools combined with Solana’s unmatched performance.
3. Upgrades enabling direct use of Solana wallets for a streamlined experience.
🎥 Watch the full episode here

🔹 Winners Announcement: Neon Holiday Meme Contest!
A big shoutout to our community for spreading holiday cheer and showcasing creativity during the Neon Holiday Meme Contest!
🏆 Winners:
1. Gixchii – $150 USDC + Exclusive Neon EVM Holiday Merch
2. DegenSete – $100 USDC + Neon EVM Holiday Merch
3. Gazi Nahid – $50 USDC + Neon EVM Holiday Merch
Thank you to everyone who participated—you brought laughter and highlighted Neon EVM as Solana’s Network Extension!

🔹 Upcoming X Space: Optimizing Dev Docs with Neon
Join our upcoming X Space to learn how to take your developer documentation to the next level with actionable tips and frameworks like diátaxis.
📆 Date: December 27
🕑 Time: 2 PM UTC
🔗 Set your reminder

🔹 Neon Holiday Forecast Game: Predict & Win!
Think you can predict the future? Join the Neon Prediction Challenge to forecast the BTC price at 12 UTC on December 31, 2024.
🎁 Prizes:
Top 2 Most Accurate Predictions – Exclusive Neon Swatch Watches!
📖 How to Participate:
1. Submit your predictions in the ⁠forecast-game channel on Discord.
2. The closest predictions will take home the prizes!
📜 Rules and details

That’s all for this week, Neonauts! Thank you for being with us throughout this journey. Wishing you a warm and festive holiday season.

Gm, Neonauts!

As we prepare to enter an exciting new year, let’s take a ride through Neon EVM activities in 2024.

Annual Highlights:

- Solana Network Extension: We became the ultimate fast track for EVM dApps to extend into the Solana ecosystem.
- Solana-native Framework: We released a new whitepaper and technical architecture to enhance the Solana environment experience for EVM builders (usage and liquidity).
- Solana Signature SDK: Newly launched Solana Signature SDK allows builders to add Solana wallet support to their EVM dApps while enabling users to sign from wallets like Phantom, Backpack, or Solflare.
- Neon Proxy Improvements and Gas Fee Innovations: On-chain mempool, controlled Neon txn execution, full parallel execution, EIP-1559 compatibility.
- Global Presence: Hackathons, meetups, workshops, and collaborations at ETHDenver, ETHGlobal, Solana BreakPoint, and 15+ events!

🛠 Developers, creators, gamers—2025 is your time to build on Solana with Neon EVM. Let’s continue shaping the future of blockchain tech together!

Dive into the full recap here

Here’s to an even brighter 2025! 🥂

Announcing a Town Hall with the leadership team

We understand the impact of these issues on network activities, and we will provide a space to address your questions directly: our Leadership team will host a townhall meeting on Discord this Friday at 4pm UTC to answer all your questions.

We’ve already collected many questions from the community channels, but to ensure we address as much as possible, but here is a special form where you can submit additional questions in advance.

Thank you and happy to see you all at Friday.

Hey everyone, happy Friday 🌞
The recap of our latest Town Hall “Community Updates & AMA” is now live!

Catch up on all the updates, questions, and answers from the session with full details here

Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Neon EVM community

Neonauts, Join Us Next Monday!

Catch our Space with @LaFamilia_so as we explore how local communities fuel Solana's dev scene, from tools to education.

- Speakers: @laemD8 and @AndriuJose20
- When: January 27, 1:30 p.m. CET
- Where: X Space

Don’t miss it— Set your Notifications🔔!

Level Up Neonauts for Neon EVM Mainnet Upgrade: January 24, 2025!

Today we announce an important upgrade on the Neon EVM Mainnet, opening a fresh paradigm for Ethereum-compatible dApps on Solana. This introduces features that bring us closer to a Solana-native future:

- ✨ Solana-Native Wallet Support & SDK: Seamlessly use Solana wallets like Phantom, Backpack, and Solflare for Neon EVM applications.
- 🔥 EIP-1559 Implementation: Manage transaction fees for greater predictability and fairness. This means YOU, the user, decide what you want to pay. Take control.
- ⏱ Enhanced block.timestamp: Full parity with Ethereum behavior for time-sensitive dApp ops.
- 💾 Save HEAP in Solana Accounts: Improved storage and memory optimization for Solidity contracts.
The time has come. Ditch the usual and just deploy your Solidity dApp on Neon EVM to fast-track your way to the Solana ecosystem.

Learn more about the Mainnet Upgrade here.

Thank you for being an integral part of our community!

🌟 NEON EVM WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT 🌟
Hey Neonauts! This week, we’ve got exciting updates, big milestones, and plans that are shaping the Neon EVM ecosystem. Let’s dive right in:

🔹 Ecosystem Highlights
🗺️ Exploring AI Agents and DeFAI:
We’re diving into the world of AI Agents and Decentralized Finance AI (DeFAI) to uncover how these technologies can revolutionize the Neon platform.
Check out our latest insights here.

🛩️ Planning for an Epic 2025
Our Marketing and Events Team is hard at work designing an action-packed calendar of events for 2025. From hackathons to meetups, we’re setting the stage for incredible community engagement.

🛠️ Major Mainnet Upgrade
We’re excited to announce a major Neon EVM Mainnet update, bringing:
1. EIP-1559 support for better transaction efficiency.
2. Solana Signature SDK for a seamless Solana-native experience.
Dive into the full details here.

🔹 Tech Updates: Building a Better Neon
🚀 Composability v2: One Step Closer
The Core Team has been finalizing tests for Iterative Composability (v2), squashing bugs (including critical fixes for Lumen), and preparing for an upcoming EVM release packed with exciting features.

💧 Faucet Revamp: Deployment Incoming
The devnet faucet has been completely rewritten by the Frontend Team and is now in QA. Deployment is just around the corner, bringing smoother onboarding for builders.

⚡ Tracer Team: Performance Boost on the Way
Progress continues with the integration of RocksDB on the devnet, promising better performance and reliability for all developers.

🔗 Zentop Transition Complete
The DevOps Team successfully transitioned to the Zentop Solana provider on the devnet, enhancing stability and creating a more seamless experience.

🔹 Shaping the Future
The Product Team is actively working on a new roadmap to outline Neon EVM’s next steps. Highlights include:
1. Collaborating with builders to test Solana-native features.
2. Focusing on priorities that will drive better developer experiences.

That’s a wrap for this week, Neonauts! Thank you for your continued support and for being part of our journey to innovate and expand the Neon EVM ecosystem.

💬 Stay connected with us on Discord, Twitter, and Telegram. See you next week!

New Live Space: Locked In! 🎙️

This Friday, join @dariaagad and @0xfabs as they dive into tech docs:
✅ What works
❌ What flops
💡 How to get it just right

🗓️ Jan 31, 11 a.m. UTC
📍 Set a reminder here!

Good docs = Happy devs. Don’t miss out! 🔔

Join the @catalyze_one Space today and share your Web3 networking experiences—the good, the bad, and everything in between! 🎙️

📅 Today | 🕒 Time: 4 p.m. UTC

👥 Featuring: @rlaracue, @girl_intheverse, @frogule, @JyroBlade, @LiftDataAI, @dariaagad, @Neon_EVM, @irinamarinescu, @atenyun, @buidlbox, @Rektormoon, @joinwebzero

Don’t miss the insightful discussion—tune in and share your journey as a Web3 developer. Set your reminders here

Weekly Community updates

🌟 NEON EVM WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT 🌟
This week, Neon EVM brought exciting updates, opportunities, and community highlights to the forefront. Here’s everything you need to know:

From Product perspective:

The CORE Team has successfully completed work on Iterative Composability. All changes have been merged into the develop branch. Stay tuned—an update for Devnet is currently being prepared! You can track all of the updates on our official GitHub

Documentation Team
The Documentation Team has rolled out several updates on docs.neonevm.org! The Transfer SDK documentation has been thoroughly revised to improve clarity and completeness. Check it out for the latest information.

Development Team
The Development Team is actively working on several demo dApps showcasing the new Solana Native feature. Additionally, the redesign of neonevm.org is progressing smoothly. Stay in touch with upcoming announcements.

From marketing perspective, this week was full of events:

🎙️ Neon AMAs Keep Rolling!
Last Monday, we hosted a Space with @LaFamilia_so, exploring how local communities are boosting Solana’s dev scene—from tools to education. Missed it? Catch the full session here!

🚀 Welcome Vanina Ivanova!
A big shoutout to our new Head of Marketing, Vanina Ivanova! We’re excited to see what she brings with her experience and positivity.

💡 Another Great Tech Talk!
Last Thursday, our DevRel joined GenzioCo Space to share fresh insights on development and Networking Dos & Don’ts for Developers. Dive into the conversation here!

And today we hosted amazing space related to leveling up your dev skills. Listen it up here

To better understand where we are going, re-visit our thread on Solana Composability.

This is just a start! A lot of new cool things upcoming. So stay in touch.

New Community Town Hall Alert! 🔥

The marketing team has been cooking 👨‍🍳—now it’s time to dish out some updates, insights, and alpha. Those “busy” calendar slots finally make sense!

📅 Date: Feb 12th, 3 PM UTC
🎙 Where: Discord Town Hall Channel
🎤 Speakers:
NEON EVM CMO and marketing team + Head of Community

Don’t miss out—come hang, say gmeon, and catch up on all things Neon! 💡🚀

Got questions? Send them in here 👇📝
Ask your questions

See you there! 🔥

NEON EVM January Recap is Here!

Neonauts: January was packed with technical upgrades, AI, and community love. Here’s a quick recap of what’s new:

- Mainnet Upgrade: Devs shipped important updates, bringing Solana-native functionality to Ethereum dApps via the Solana Signature Wallet SDK. Now EVM builders can enable smooth onboarding for Phantom, Backpack, and Solflare users without Rust redeployment headaches! We also rolled out EIP-1559, ensuring predictable and efficient transaction fees with a priority gas-fees setting system.
- AI Research: We’ve been exploring elizaOS, an open-source framework for AI agents, with a Neon EVM plugin. While it’s early days, we are researching how AI tech stacks and EVM AI dApps can leverage these latest technologies.
- Community Actions: From our Town Hall to some cool-vibe Spaces with La Solana Familia, Genzio, and Conduit Network, January was all about collaboration with the web3 fam.

💡 Dive into details

🌟 NEON EVM WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT 🌟

On this week’s recap, Neon EVM delivered fresh updates, new opportunities, and notable community highlights. Here’s a rundown of everything you should know. Let’s dive in:

Technical Updates
🔹Frontend Team 🖥️
1. 📚 Completed documentation updates for the Transfer SDK and Solana Signer SDKv1
2. 🎥 Developed a demo showcasing the Solana Signature SDK v1

🔹Core Team ⚙️
- Resolved a known block. Timestamp issue, ensuring better accuracy.
- Diagnosed the root cause of transaction issues with Vibr and are currently assessing a fix.
- Conducted a code review for the new ERC20ForSPL contract and implemented fixes.

🔹Tracer Team 🔎
- Continued the infrastructure migration to RocksDB.
- Deployment for Devnet is already complete.

🔹TBA Team 📜
✍️ Deep in the trenches, writing the White Paper on Composability—exciting insights coming soon!

🔹Solidity Team 💡
1. 🔬 Researching Composability v2, pushing the boundaries of interoperability.
2. 📽️ Assisting with key demos to enhance user and dev experience.
3. 🛠️Modifying the ERC20ForSPL contract.


Marketing and Community Highlights

🔹Our January Recap was out!
TLDR: The devs shipped—time to build. 🏗️
- ✅ Mainnet Upgrades: Solana-native wallets, EIP-1559 & more!
- 👀Exploring AI agents + elizaOS plugin 📜 Full details here

🔹 Check out some of these Tweets— Toly: The Best EVM is already on Solana! and Solana

🔹 New Community Town Hall incoming!🎤
The marketing team has been cooking 🧑‍🍳 (those packed calendars finally make sense!)—join us for a chill chat and some alpha.

📅 Feb 12th, 3 p.m. UTC
📍 Discord
🎙️ Featuring @inks, @hypnogaba, @hughlechevalier, @Ginnymmm. Come say gmeon and be part of the conversation! 💙

And that’s a wrap for this week, Neonauts! We appreciate your ongoing support and participation in our mission to push the boundaries of the Neon EVM ecosystem. Stay tuned for more innovation ahead! 🚀

Stay connected with us on Discord, Twitter, and Telegram. See you again next time!

Town Hall Recap: Featuring Our Marketing Team!

A huge thanks to everyone who joined last Town Hall session. Here are the highlights. If you missed them, catch up with the audio recording below!

1. Introductions and Technical Fixes:
An extensive introduction from the new Head of Marketing! With extensive crypto experience across Ethereum & Solana, she’s excited to drive Neon’s strong product-market fit on Solana.

2. Social Media and Community Engagement:
Telegram: Addressed bot activity—common challenge, but we’re on it!
Twitter: Increased engagement with major Solana DeFi projects and Ethereum developers, experimenting with content to better serve the community.

3. Influencer and Partnership Outreach:
Focusing on genuine influencer partnerships over superficial promotions.
A collaborative approach with our product, integrations, BD, and events teams is key to building lasting partnerships.

4. Marketing Initiatives:
Planning a robust ambassador program (think training academy) to empower long-term supporters.
New promotional campaigns on YouTube & Twitter are coming soon—plus, expect fun community events, quests, and Neon swag!

5. Events and Future Collaborations:
We’re set to attend EthCC and are eyeing DevConnect, Breakpoint, hackathons, conferences, and meetups.
Open call for partnership ideas—let’s build a vibrant ecosystem together.

6. Technical Updates and Roadmap:
Developers are testing Neon’s Solana Native features on DevNet, with early success stories like the ELISA protocol deployment.
An official roadmap is on its way—stay tuned for more details.

Final Thoughts:
Your feedback and enthusiasm keep us moving forward. Join the conversation on Discord and social media, and don’t miss our next Town Hall!
[🔗 Audio Recording and Full Recap Links - Part One and Two]

🌟 NEON EVM BI-WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT 🌟

Welcome to our Bi-Weekly Community Update Neonauts. This week, Neon EVM rolled out dynamic updates and showcased some interesting community highlights. Here’s an all-inclusive rundown of the latest developments—let’s jump in!

Technical Updates

🔹Core Team ⚙️

- The team completed the Devnet update, including multiple bug fixes.
- Verified the fix for the block. Timestamp issue.
- Identified and resolved a bug with ERC20 tokens that caused an extra account to be added on Solana.
- Fixed an issue with scheduled transactions using Solana Signature.
- Prepared the Mainnet update, scheduled for Monday.


🔹Product Team 📦🛒

- Initiated work on a new developer journey to enhance onboarding and engagement.
Solidity Team
- Tested new use cases that enable the creation of liquidity pools on Solana from an EVM protocol.

Marketing & Community Highlights

🔹Want to know everything about EVM-Solana interoperability👀?
Check this excellent thread about it and understand how to fast-track to Solana's unified liquidity and users without fragmentation.

🔹 We are Hiring!
🖼️ We’re hiring a visual designer to join our team. Do you know anyone who might be a perfect fit? Tell us all about it. Use this link!

🔹 We gave some love and got some love back 🎁.

Some of our community members were gifted with beautiful Neon EVM swag, just look at these beauties. Here is another one 💙

🔹 Last Town Hall Recap: Featuring Marketing Team – Recording Available! 🎙️

Missed the previous Town Hall? No problem! You can go through the key highlights and the concluding part attached and catch up on everything we discussed. You can also check out the full audio recording here: NEON Town Hall Full Recording!

And that's all for this fortnight, Neonauts! We genuinely value your unwavering support and engagement in our quest to redefine Neon EVM ecosystem. Stay tuned for additional groundbreaking innovations on the horizon. 🚀

Connect with us on Discord, Twitter, and Telegram to stay informed. We look forward to engaging with you again soon!

Crypto moves fast - your DevRel playbook must, too. 🏃

This week, @dariaagad & @MatthewFoyle spill the secrets of scaling DevRel at every stage: from first hires and early community building to long-term growth.

🗓️ Feb 27, 5 p.m. CET
📍 Join here

Don’t miss it! 🔔

Neonauts: On the latest Solana Weekly, Davide Menegaldo delves into how Neon is bringing EVM to Solana:

- What network extension really means
- Solana-native features that change the game
- What's cooking next in our development roadmap

Catch the full episode! 🎧

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy2WTd35MkM