A distributed network
of intelligent economy
A New standard for digital assets
new operation system of digital identity based on blockchain
new smart contract environment
NEO IS China's first
original public chain
NEO, former name—Antshares, is China's first ever original and open source public chain project, which was founded in 2014
and launched on Github in June, 2015. Ever since it was founded, NEO’s team has experienced many ups and downs in the
blockchain industry as well as digital currency market, and the government’s changeable/unclear policies. Nevertheless, we
believe that technology is the force that motivates the development of the world. Pushing forward by the tide, we will step into
a new era of “smart economy.”
A TRANSPARENT AND
FAIR WORLD
In this smart economy society, we will make a huge leap from “information internet,” to “value internet,” then to “order internet.”
Once substantial economy and digital economy connects seamlessly, all exchanges among assets could have perfect liquidity.
There wouldn’t be any trust issues in any exchanges of values and activities related to economics. The rules and policies of
the society and organizations would be transparent and fair. The world would become a much better place.
ExploreNEO
Explore the NEO ecosystem, get up-to-date statistics and track our progress as we move into the future.
324
NO. OF
FULL NODES
595
DAYS SINCE
GENESIS BLOCKS
1140939
real-time number
of blocks
269
days since main
net is launched
THE TECHNOLOGY
BEHIND NEO
Through technologies such as P2P network, dBFT consensus, digital certificate,
Superconducting Transactions and cross-chain interoperability, NEO blockchain enables one
to manage smart assets in a fast, efficient, safe and certified manner.
First Original Blockchain in China
Founded in 2014, NEO became open
source on GitHub in 2015. NEO is
the innovator and leading force in
numerous new blockchain
technologies. It is also the leading
public blockchain in China.
Underlying design supports
various digital assets
NEO’s Underlying design supports various
digital assets. One can register, spread,
trade and circulate assets all by oneself.
Digital Certificates solves problems
of 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 Superconducting
Transactions mechanism
This mechanism makes a trustless digital
exchange possible. One can order match
various types of digital assets without the
need to top-up.
Turing complete Smart Contracts
NEO smart contracts are Turing complete,
executes in the NEO VM and has
advantages including determinability, being
terminable, resource controllability, parallel
execution, ability to partition and limitless
performance scalability.
Smart Contracts in high level programming languages
Supporting languages such as C#,
Java, Go, developers can promptly
start developing smart contracts
on NEO blockchain.
NEO VM lightweight Virtual
Stack Machines
NEO VM has short booting time and
high execution efficiency, coupled with
‘certainty call tree’ technology, it can
deliver limitless scalability.
Innovative dBFT consensus mechanism
Consensus nodes use Byzantine Fault
Tolerance Algorithm to reach consensus and
ensure the finality of transactions. It is also
ensured that the system keeps its finality and
operability as longa as less than 1/3 of the
nodes are observing dBFT errors.
Innovative Cross-chain Operation Protocol
comprising of Cross-chain Asset Swap Protocol
and Cross-chain Distributed Operation protocol,
can achieve atomic asset swap and
guarantee the operation consistency of smart
contracts executed on different chains.
Lattice cryptology-quantum computer-proof technology
Use Lattice-based cryptograph
signature and encryption technology,
which can prevent the quantum crisis as
Lattice-based cryptography provides
encryption problems (e.g. SVP) beyond
the capability of quantum computers.
TIMELINE
& ROADMAP
June 2014
Antshares project initiated,seed-round fund received
June 2014
Weangel, Antshares front-end service platform launched
August 2014
Antshares team and operating company formed
June 2015
Antshares started on Github as an real time open source project
July 2015
8btc, btc38 covers Antshares with an article titiled "Be Uber of securities market,Antshares helps you transact ownership"
September 2015
Antshares blockchain whitepaper officially released
October 2015
First phase ICO with 2100btc funded in total, full report from Chinese main blockchain media 8btc and btc38.
November 2015
first phase ICO with 2100btc funded in total, full report from Chinese main blockchain media 8btc and btc38.
April 2016
dBFT-China's first orignial consensus mechanism released
May 2016
Antshares recruit more talents including Tony Tao, the current CEO
June 2016
Antshares sponsors 2016 Global Blockchain summit
July 2016
Anshares becomes Hyperledger's 3rd project
July 2016
China's mainstream financial media CCTV2 reported Anshares
August 2016
second phase of global ICO with 6119 btc raised
August 2016
antfans.org,the first Antshares' community organized by Antshares fans incepted
September 2016
KPMG released Top 50 fintech innovation companies in China, Antshares in on the list. Other companies on the list include Antfinance (of Alibaba),Webank(from Tencent).
October 2016
Mainnet of Antshares' blockchain launched!
October 2016
the first blockchain browser based on Antshares launched
October 2016
ANS available on yunbi,yuanbao,19800,bittrex
October 2016
Antshares is on list of the Top 10 blockchain platform, announced by a fintech conference in China
October 2016
Antshares built comprehensive and strategic cooperation with Wings. The two will jointly explore the market and blockchain technology.
November 2016
Whitepaper on general light-weight AVM(Antshares Virtual Machine) released
December 2016
Antshares built cooperation with Mngo VR, an game developer.An effort to explore game+blockchain
February 2017
otcgo.cn, the first smart contract assets transfer platform on Antshares.
February 2017
antchain.xyz, a new blockch browser on Antshares released
February 2017
Nestfund.io, the official website of Nest,an Antshares-based Smart fund launched
May 2017
2017.5Hold blockchain development competition" with Shanghai Science and Technology Committee and Innospace.
June 2017
New Antshares brand strategy release conference.
TEAM MEMBERS
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Tao Rongqi
Secretary General -
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You Xinfei
Media Relationship Maintenance -
Dong Guohua
Community Operations -
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Chen Qu
Community Operations -
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The community members mentioned above include the co-founder of NEO Da Hongfei, the other co-founder and core developer Zhang Zhengwen, the Secretary General Tao Rongqi, and other community developers, operators and contributors. Here, we sincerely and warmly welcome domestic and overseas talent to join us at any time to build the bright future of NEO community.
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NEO originates from the ancient Greek prefix, ‘νεο-’, meaning ‘new’, ‘modern’,
and ‘young’. We quite like the idea of an old word with the meaning of youth. It brings about the feeling of a gateway that brings us from the physical world to the digital.And apparently, one can also take the meaning from the protagonist of ‘Matrix’: Neo,The One who woke up and changed the world.