COZ distributed 223 $NEO across two ecosystem contributions in the seventh round of Proof of Working 2.0, recognizing continued work on speculative token launching and decentralized storage developer tooling. Both recipients are returning contributors who have been recognized in multiple previous rounds.
The latest round brings cumulative distributions under the relaunched program to 4,412 $NEO since January.
HushForge adds direct speculative token creation
Paulo Aboim Pinto, a COZ contributor with Neo ecosystem involvement dating to 2017, received recognition for continued development on HushForge, a token-launch tool for Neo N3. Aboim Pinto has been recognized in six of the seven rounds since the program’s relaunch.
This round’s work introduced a streamlined path for launching tradable tokens on Neo N3. Previously, users had to deploy a token through a multi-step process before it could be traded on HushForge’s bonding curve. The new workflow lets users create a token and immediately begin trading it in a single flow, lowering the barrier for launching experimental or speculative tokens on the network. The feature has been validated on a local private Neo N3 chain, with TestNet deployment positioned as the next milestone.
Aboim Pinto also opened a Neo standards proposal for a multi-fungible token interface, which would allow a single deployed contract to expose multiple independent fungible token identities. The proposal addresses the cost gap between deploying individual NEP-17 contracts at approximately 13.96 $GAS each versus a shared registration model at roughly 0.44 $GAS.
Additionally, HushForge introduced two automated trust indicators: a Forge Audit Index, which scores contract transparency factors such as owner controls, mutability, and supply caps on a 0–100 scale, and a ForgeScore, which reflects market activity based on trading status, trade count, and curve depth.
NeoFS SDK for Zig reaches v0.1.0
Merl, previously recognized in round 2.4 for a NeoFS FUSE mount tool and in round 2.2 for a TypeScript NeoFS SDK, released v0.1.0 of a native Zig implementation of the NeoFS SDK. The release targets Zig 0.15.x and is aligned with the official Go SDK.
The SDK provides gRPC client support, multi-node connection pooling, container and object operations, streaming uploads and downloads, search functionality, session management, and ACL helpers. It also includes NeoFS placement logic with QL policy parsing. The release ships with pinned protobuf definitions, cross-language test vectors, Docker-based integration testing, and runnable examples.
The SDK is aimed at lowering integration barriers for systems-level and performance-oriented developers working with Neo’s decentralized storage network.
Submissions for the program remain open via the COZ Discord.
The full report can be found at the link below:
https://coz.io/blog/proof-of-working-2-7/
