Dear Neon Community,

Yesterday we returned funds to every single person that contacted us with tx hash proving they got scammed on our Discord server due to one of our team member’s account being hacked.

Let's all take this as a lesson, we will do whatever we can to prevent this from happening ever again, and you do whatever you can from your end to stay safe.

If something similar happens in any of our channels in the future, make sure not to rush. The announcements about any activities, definitely any sales are prepared in a proper manner and made days or weeks before the start across all official channels. Please, always check the information before diving in, connecting your wallets, because Web3, unfortunately, isn't the safest place at the moment.

This is a time for us to come out of this situation stronger than we were before, and let's continue our work building a better future.

Yours,
Neon Team

Hey everyone! Our newsletter #9 is out! You can check it here:

https://neonlabsorg.medium.com/newsletter-9-99ebb2b54fcd

Hey everyone,

We invite you all to join us in celebration of our Alpha launch on Solana Devnet this Thursday!

We will discuss our offer to dApps, where are we in terms of product, and our future plans. Join us and listen to what our Head of Strategy James, Product manager Yuriy, CTO Andrey, and CEO Marina have to say.

We are closer than ever people, and we thank you once again for being part of this amazing journey with us!

We are looking forward to all of your questions!

🗓 - 31.03.2022, 16:00 UTC
🌐 - Twitter Spaces: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpKkZnZDAMxj

The time has finally come for our Alpha Launch on Solana Devnet!

We have a stable version of Neon proxy and The Neon EVM program that have been deployed on Devnet and are ready for battle testing by anyone. Our goal is to onboard dApps, and users and test the solution thoroughly during the next several weeks.

One of our first partners, Moraswap, will launch as the first AMM on Neon. NeonScan will take the role of our chain explorer and Aleph will provide an indexing solution. Pyth will be an oracle supporting Neon EVM and Nomad together with Connext will work as our first bridging solution.

The most important part is that the compatibility of Neon EVM with ETH is very high, there is only a small list of functionalities that isn’t supported:
https://docs.neon-labs.org/docs/design_proposals/accepted/unsupported_functions/

All the questions related to the deployment of dApps and usage of Neon Alpha you are welcome to ask in developer_support channel on our Discord, however, the technical bugs should be reported via a link in our github-reports channel.

We need your help in testing Neon. This product is for you and could be built and shipped to Solana Mainnet only with your help.

We recommend starting here: https://docs.neon-labs.org/docs/developing/getting_started

Regarding our Operator Program, nodes running on devnet will be run by Neon Labs initially and as we move into the next phase, we will release the criteria required to be selected to run an operator node. For all the questions regarding Operator Program please use the operators channel on our Discord and feel free to ask the team members for access in case you don’t have it already.

We are open for a talk with everyone wanting to launch on Neon Alpha, please provide us your pitch decks upon contact. If everything goes smooth we will be porting you from Devnet to Mainnet once testing has been completed.

In addition to all of this, we have updated our website and refreshed our documentation as well.

Yours,
Neon Team

Hey everyone,

Our biggest community contest yet is finally ready!

You are all invited tomorrow to participate in our Quiz hosted by Eggheads, your Neon knowledge will be tested to the maximum!

Won't be easy, but that is why rewards won't be small. 6 SOL in total is there to be won by the best 3 competitors!

Visit the following link and complete 2 free and simple prerequisites to be eligible to compete:

🌐 https://app.eggheads.live/contests/624dac6f567e4db75ea21420

⏰ 08.04.2022, 15:00 UTC.

Hey everyone!

Our last newsletter is available, you can read it here:

https://neonlabsorg.medium.com/newsletter-10-we-are-live-d2692205a26

Hey everyone,

Check out our latest article on Medium about Neon Proxy: Operator's Economy.

https://medium.com/neon-labs/neon-proxy-operators-economy-7f0b67c89f97

Hey everyone,

In case you missed it, here is our last article on medium: "NEON Token Balance Storage and Maintenance in Neon EVM"

https://neonlabsorg.medium.com/neon-token-balance-storage-and-maintenance-in-neon-evm-ec8648a07e36

Hey everyone,

Neon is holding its own event, “Neon Talks”, with speakers from Rarible, 1inch, ZK-Capital, Zerion and others.
We are going to discuss growth hacks for Web3 projects, VC funding, panels and have an amazing afterparty!

Amsterdam, Thursday 21 2022 at 10:30 AM (CEST).

For attendance, fill in the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdm1_1U0L0oCVNhbX5D0h1Yh892HADs4tCKzohhK9AAqUcWQg/viewform

If you are outside the Netherlands, have no fear!
Stay tuned for an announcement across our Twitter and Discord channels, and watch #NeonTalks live!
It's going to be a fabulous event; hurry as the venue isn't made of rubber and has a limited capacity. 😊

Neon Talk Programme:
http://Neon-labs.org/neontalks

Hey everyone,

For those who wish to read and learn more about us, our latest article has been published on medium:

https://neonlabsorg.medium.com/neon-evm-access-solana-accounts-with-solidity-using-the-queryaccount-library-fa1d2aa816b1

Dear Neon Community,

Are you a developer in India, or you have your own cool Ethereum dApp?

If so, join us online for the Neon dApp Race, where you will work with your team against the clock, deploy your dApp on NeonEVM and test it to win a whole range of prizes.

Sign up here 👇
http://neon-labs.org/neonrace

Hey everyone,

As mainnet is coming up and our developers are making the final adjustments, why not have some fun in the meantime?

Let's have a memes contest! Starting now and ending this Sunday at 16:00 UTC on our official discord server.

Any crypto-related memes are to be posted to the #memes channel, bonus points if you include Neon in any way.

Prizes:

🥇 Meerkat #3241 NFT + Neon Champion role

🥈 Discord Nitro + Neon Champion role

🥉 Discord Nitro + Neon Champion role

http://discord.com/invite/neonevm

Hey everyone,

We will be hosting a space tomorrow with Kanaswap to discuss Neon EVM, challenges, and opportunities for developers.

The discussion will be led by our very own Ivan Loboda.

Don’t miss out!

⏰: May 13th - 3 PM UTC
🌐 Twitter spaces: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbNODZOdKX

Dear community reminder that our AMA with Kanaswap starts in about 30 minutes.

Note that this will be a bit more of a technical, development-focused AMA. Still, if you can join, looking forward to seeing you there 🙂

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbNODZOdKX

Hey everyone!

Our Newsletter number #11 is out, you can find it here:

https://medium.com/neon-labs/newsletter-11-bf3cfbf2ac8c

Hi everyone, just a reminder that our AMA with NeonScan will start in exactly 1 hour (1PM UTC) on our Discord in the Neon Stage channel.

We hope to see you all there and look forward to share many exciting news with you.

👉 https://discord.gg/6DtqjPcA 👈

Hey everyone,

Our latest article is available on medium.

If you would like to read it, please visit our medium page:

https://neonlabsorg.medium.com/neon-evm-a-primer-on-the-indexer-6e037bc1e6dc

Hey everyone!

We continue with big news for this week! Another AMA here on our Discord, this time with Pyth!

We will cover a lot of topics, including:

-What is the NeonEVM x Pyth relationship and what does it mean in practice
-Is there already another infrastructure tooling available on Neon EVM
-What does each tool brings to the Neon environment
- What are the remaining tools to deploy for a full Neon suite
-More

Hope to see you as many as last time there!

🗓 Thursday, June 9, 2022, 2 PM UTC

Yours,
Neon Team

Hey everyone!

We have published a new article on medium

You can find it here if you wish to read it. 👇

https://medium.com/neon-labs/neon-proxy-tracing-api-fdb3842a80fa

Hey everyone!

Our Newsletter number #12 is out, you can find it here:

https://medium.com/neon-labs/newsletter-12-61b84a875e32