About

Neo is a blockchain company and platform that offers features for decentralized application development. It supports programming languages for smart contract development and allows integration with other blockchain ecosystems. Neo operates a dual token model with the NEO token for governance and GAS for utility.

History

NEO, originally named Antshares and sometimes called the "Chinese Ethereum", is China's first open-source blockchain platform developed to facilitate the easy construction of a digital economy complete with digital identities, assets, contracts, and payments. Founders Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang aim to offer a more-easily scalable, versatile platform that supports a panoply of programming languages, which are compiled in a secure executable environment called NEO Virtual Machine (NeoVM).

NEO aims to compete with Ethereum and other projects that position themselves as developer-friendly decentralized protocols to launch a strong foundation for a future digitized "smart" economy. NEO also aims to implement features like quantum-computing resistance and inter-chain operability for the most competitive a distributed "smart economy" network.