Free the Bird goes live on Neo N3
Free the Bird launched on Neo N3 MainNet this week. The exchange is live for trading, staking, and governance. It also opened an FTB token claim for former Flamingo Finance users across 5,233 eligible wallets. The project is keyless and oracle-less and non-custodial. It was built by Neo community member Xatoxi as a response to Flamingo Finance’s August exploit and the protocol’s later limbo status. That’s perhaps the most direct reaction to the incident so far.
Two GrantShares proposals enter discussion
GrantShares saw two new submissions. One is a browser dungeon game on Neo X that asks for 2,586.2 GAS. The plan covers a ten-room game, a beta launch on Neo X MainNet, and transaction fees for players. The other is Neo Payment Watcher, a non-custodial payment service for Neo N3 and Neo X. It asks for 1,400 GAS and would fund BTCPay Server and WooCommerce plugins for merchants. Neither proposal has gone on-chain for endorsement yet. Both are still in discussion, so the outcome is open.
Developer updates and agent work
Neo released DevPack v3.10.2 for .NET. This is the official toolkit for writing Neo N3 smart contracts in C#. Its compiler, nccs, turns C# source code into NeoVM bytecode and produces a contract manifest. COZ released onesig, an open-source JavaScript library. It derives a deterministic session wallet from a single owner signature. That lets developers create agent wallets for autonomous on-chain operations without backend infrastructure. Neo SPCC shipped NeoFS S3 gateway v0.48.1. The patch fixes a PostObject panic on malformed multipart forms and stale object-name cache entries for deleted objects. The object-name cache is now disabled by default. Jimmy Liao, R3E Network founder and Neo core developer, said he is building an AI agent into neo-rs at the consensus layer. The agent monitors consensus state, finds problematic transactions during repeated view changes, and drops them from the node’s own consensus round without human intervention.
Campaigns, rewards, and network activity
SpoonOS launched its Arena trading campaign. Participants set up an AI agent on predict.spoonai.io to trade Premier League prediction markets on Predict.fun. The campaign runs through Nov. 18. It offers a 500 USDT loss coverage pool, covering up to 10 USDT in eligible losses per person, plus a bonus pool of up to 30 USDT per participant for sharing the experience on X. SpoonOS also rewarded eight community testers from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. Frank Coin hosted a Telegram games session, giving 100 FRANK to the top player and 40 FRANK each to 10 random participants. Neo HODLers distributed launch event rewards from a 250 GAS pool for the top 10 participants. nDapp reported 60,514.07578267 GAS claimed in the weekly N3 check-in, while on-chain activity burned 502.48991905 GAS. It also listed Mempolis, a virtual city app on Neo, in its dApp directory. The Smart Economy Podcast hosted Spaces #113 with Pistachio founder Brian Smocovich, covering DeFi vault yield, the Pistachio non-custodial dApp, privacy plans, and Ethereum’s outlook. Spaces #114 is set for Nov. 13 on the official X account.
