NEO

NEO - An Open Network For Smart Economy

What is NEO

NEO is an open source project driven by the community. It utilizes blockchain technology and digital identities to digitize assets and automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts. Using a distributed network, it aims to create a "Smart Economy".
NEO was founded in 2014 and open sourced on GitHub in June 2015. Its MainNet was released in October 2016 and has been running in stable capacity for two years. Its vision of a "smart economy" was set up along with the project rebranding in 2017.

Digital Assets
The underlying infrastructure of NEO supports multiple types of digital assets. Users can register, transfer and trade assets at their own discretion on NEO.

Digital Certificate
Digital certificates are supported to build trust into the public chain. This provides full legal protection for all assets digitized through the NEO platform.

Transaction Mechanism
Facilitate P2P trustless exchange of digital assets. Buyers and sellers of digital assets and currencies will be matched peer-to-peer without the need for third party exchanges.

Smart Contract
Turing-complete smart contract, which has high certainty and finality, support concurrent operation, sharding and unlimited scalability when running in NeoVM.

Multi-language Development
NeoContract supports multiple programming languages such as C#, Java, and Python. Developers can rapidly develop smart contracts based on the NEO platform without learning a unique language.

NEO VM
Neo Virtual Machine (NeoVM) - NEO's lightweight stack-based virtual machine provides shorter startup times with efficient execution. Deterministic calling tree-technology allows NEO to achieve theoretically unlimited scalability.

dBFT
Consensus nodes use Byzantine Fault Tolerance Algorithm to reach consensus and ensure the finality of transactions. It also ensures that the system keeps its finality and availability as long as Byzantine fault occurs on less than 1/3 of the nodes.

Cross-chain Interoperability Protocol
Comprises Cross-chain Assets Swap Protocol and Cross-chain Distributed Transaction Protocol and can achieve atomic assets swap and guarantee the operation consistency of smart contracts executed on different chains.

Anti-quantum Crisis
Introduced Lattice cryptography-based signing and encryption technique to avoid quantum crisis by Turing encryption and decryption problem into the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), which cannot be solved by current quantum computers.

NEO Client

The NEO Team and community have created various wallets for different platforms. You can download the wallets or access the web wallets below.

Go to client page

If you are a developer

NeoContract supports multiple programming languages such as C#, Java, and Python. Developers can rapidly develop smart contracts based on the NEO platform without learning a unique language.

Go to developer page