Neo Colorado Timeline

Neo Colorado was announced at the Colorado Blockchain Townhall in 2018. The first event was held in November 2018.

The History of Neo Colorado event can be found below, starting with the most recent to the initial meetup.

2022

October 2022

Neo Colorado hosted its come-back event in Los Angeles, California, while participating in Neo’s Decoding Web3 USA Campus tour. The informal meetup was held at Angel City Brewing, and was joined by members from the Neo community and students that were met on the tour.

Meetup invitation.

2020

May 2020

On Thursday, May 7th, 2020, Neo Colorado participated in an idea pitch and generation event for the Crytptorado Community: Lightning Innovation Sessions virtual event. The event sought to offer a forum for developers, business-minded individuals, and general blockchain enthusiasts to deliver brief pitches on their ideas, followed by a question and answer session to flesh through the concepts.

Concept pitch – Neo Poker

Media:

Neo Colorado coverage.

Neo Poker pitch deck.

February 2020

On Wednesday, February 12th, Neo Colorado hosted its first event of 2020, which took place during BUIDL Week in the lead up to ETH Denver, the “world’s largest web3 hackathon.” Other event hosts at the venue included representatives from Tezos, Radar Relay, Cosmos, and projects within the Ethereum ecosystem. At the end of the event, NEO was distributed to event attendees, 80% of whom had never used the Neo blockchain or Neon Wallet before.

Media:

Neo News Today Coverage.

“Why Neo” presentation slides.

2019

2019 Year in Review

Neo Colorado hosted or participated in 14 events in 2019, which included workshops, conferences, co-hosted meetups, and informal meet-and-greets.

Media:

Neo News Today coverage.

November 2019

Ideas and Microgrants

For its November event, Neo Colorado hosted “Ideas and Microgrants,” which served as an idea generation event with to funnel into COZ microgrants.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage.

October 2019

Global Blockchain Summit

Neo Colorado delivered a presentation at the fifth Global Blockchain Summit in Colorado.

Media:
Presentation slides

September 2019

Informal meetup

Neo Colorado hosted “Neo and Beer” at River North Brewery. The event was an informal meet and greet that attracted general interest community members, investors, and developers.

Media:
Neo News Today announcement
Coverage on Medium

Neo Global Community Presentation

Neo Colorado delivered a presentation to the international Neo ecosystem at the Neo Community Assembly 2019 that took place at Neo HQ in Shanghai, China. The presentation outline the events hosted and local outreach since Neo Colorado’s inception in 2018.

Media:
Slides

August 2019

Community Meetup

Neo Colorado co-hosted a meetup with Rocky Mountain Blockchain and Denver Blockchain. The event primarily focussed on an “in-depth 101-level” presentation outlining the basics of the NEO blockchain.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

July 2019

Meet and Greet

Neo Colorado hosted a meet and greet in Boulder, where ecosystem developers were on-hand to chat about the Neo blockchain and their ecosystem projects. Tyler Adams, COZ and Moonlight co-founder, and Alex Fragapane, NEO-ONE developer, were in attendance at the informal gathering, which garnered more than a dozen attendees. The informal meet and greet aimed at offering a forum for connecting people working within the Neo ecosystem to the local Colorado community.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

June 2019

Workshop

May 2019

Panel

Neo Colorado co-hosted a fireside chat alongside EOS Denver and Ethereum Denver, which was moderated by Denver Blockchain. At the event, panelists shared their experiences in the Neo, Ethereum, or EOS ecosystems, and highlighted similarities and differences between the public blockchains.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

April 2019

Workshop

Neo Colorado hosted its first developer-oriented workshop in Denver, Colorado. Alex Fragapane of NEO-ONE was the instructor for the evening and delivered a presentation on the structure and design of a simple token smart contract.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

March 2019

Meetup

Near the end of Q1 2019, NEO Colorado hosted Tyler Adams, co-founder of COZ and Moonlight, as a guest speaker. Adams discussed his experiences developing Moonlight, open source development opportunities with COZ, and local impacts of the Colorado Digital Token Act.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

Community Presentation

Neo Colorado participated in Decentralize Colorado‘s twelfth Colorado Community Lightning Talk. The ten-minute presentation outlines the various tools available to developers in the Neo ecosystem.

February 2019

Meetup

Neo Colorado hosted a local community meetup, with a presentation highlighting the second NEO DevCon that took place in Seattle, US. The presentation began by acknowledging an unanswered question from the previous meetup, covered many topics, and concluded with a brief overview of some of the projects that emerged in 2018.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

Blockchain Day at the Capitol

The Neo Smart Economy had a presence at the Blockchain Day at the Colorado State Capitol. In addition to 16 local companies, Neo Colorado and Moonlight co-founder, Tyler Adams, staffed tables and spoke with event attendees. The event took place to help Colorado legislators better understand blockchain and its impact on the local economy.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

January 2019

Meetup

Neo Colorado hosted its second meetup in January of 2019, where the focus of the presentation was Neo’s path to network decentralization. The presentation provided an overview of types of decentralization, Neo’s careful approach to decentralization, the consensus node application process, and an overview of O3 Labs, a consensus node candidate.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage

2018

December 2018

Community Meetup

Neo Colorado participated in Decentralize Colorado‘s tenth Colorado Community Lightning Talk. The talk is an abridged version of the Intro to Neo presentation from the month prior.

November 2018

Inaugural Meetup

This was Neo Colorado‘s inaugural meetup in Denver, Colorado. The event was oriented to be an “in-depth 101-level discussion,” as prior to the event many local blockchain enthusiasts conveyed they had minimal knowledge of the Neo blockchain. The meetup was held at Enterprise Coworking, a venue that was offered through coordination efforts with Colorado Blockchain.

Media:
Neo News Today coverage