GM Neonauts,

July was yet another productive month for the team at Neon - despite the heatwaves across the world, we kept on building and spreading the Neon gospel. Read on for the highlights from the month.

📚 Product, R&D & Education

We published three new educational articles to help developers understand and navigate our product offering better:

• Reading Neon Blockscout: Your Go-To Explorer Guide
• Hardhat Keystore: Secure Private Key Management for Developers
• Neon’s Composability Libraries: Babel Fish for Blockchains

We also wrapped up the Neon Points Program - if you took part in it and want to learn more about it, head over to our Discord.

🌍 Events

Our team had extensive presence at ETHCC [8] in Cannes. As we reminisce about the many great connections we made at the event, we are happy to share that you can now watch the recordings from the talk and workshop we had at the ETHCC stage:

• Florian Munoz - Solana Native, Ethereum Familiar: Building Without Barriers
• Julia Gallen - Beyond the EVM: Triggering External Logic

If you are curious about the talk our DevRel Julia gave at ETHBelgrade, you can watch it on YouTube too:

• Neon EVM: Bringing Ethereum and Solana together

🏎️ Builders & Community

In July, we wrapped up the Neon Developer Bootcamp. With all projects and assignments submitted and all tests passed, our team was busy evaluating everything to prepare the final leaderboard for the bootcamp closing ceremony on July 31.

All active bootcamp participants ended this 10-week educational program with a certificate, new fellow builders, and most of all - a lot of new knowledge and skills.

The top 5 bootcampers also shared a prize pool of $5,000!

This, however, is not the end of this initiative: as we gear up for the next season of the bootcamp, we have also prepared a lot of activities for the first cohort of the bootcamp to remain engaged with Neon - stay tuned for more!

🗞️ Neon in the Media

The team at Mighty Academy has created a short introductory course on what is Neon and why should developers build with us. If you’re curious to watch it, take the course here for free:

🚀Build on Ethereum. Scale with Solana. Powered by Neon

Last but not least, author Zohara Jabeen wrote an article about network extensions, where he talked about Neon:Solana’s Network Extensions Redefine Blockchain Scalability

And that’s a wrap - thanks for reading through!

See you next month.

The Neon EVM TeamWhatever you’re building, bring it to Solana.

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