is led by CTO and former Facebook engineer Lei Jin, along with COO and BTC8 partner Zongchen Li. The addition of MatPool takes the number of entities hosting nodes on the NEO TestNet to six with KPN, COZ, Swisscom and NEO Global Development (NGD) hosting a node each, and the NF hosting two.

NGD hosted NEO JOY 2019 in Shanghai on Saturday, May 25th. The theme of the half-day event was NEO Blockchain Games and speakers included:

Sharlyne Lee, senior manager of NGD marketing

Yongxin Liu, co-founder of NewEconoLabs (NEL)

Master, founder of Cardmaker

Chaoyi Qian, founding partner of DGameMaker Games

Edison, co-founder of NEO-NEXT

Rudy Rong, founder of Magic Cube

Yiyi, co-founder of MixMarvel

NGD announced it is seeking to hire a Technical Lead to manage software engineering in its Shanghai office. The position will involveworking with NEO founders Da Hongfei and Erik Zhang in the Shanghai office. Further, the job will include building and leading a software engineering team of “30 to 50” people, while also coordinating with marketing and ecosystem growth teams. The tech lead will also liaison between NEO core developers and NEO community developers.

NGD Ecosystem Growth director, Lili Zhao, was invited to join a panel discussing the future of crypto assets by the Swiss National Bank. The SNB-CIF “Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation” will be held at the Swiss National Bank in Zurich on May 31st. The conference has been organized as a collaborative effort between members of the Swiss Nation Bank and the University of Basel’s Center for Innovative Finance.

NGD published meeting minutes from the fifth Digital