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Analysis: NEO – Will It Replace Ethereum as the World’s ICO Platform?

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/neo-one-replace-ethereum-worlds-ico-platform/

Google/Baidu, Facebook/WeChat, YouTube/Youku, Twitter/Weibo – China has long been making its own equivalents of Western technology staples. As cryptocurrency has become more mainstream, Ethereum has become one such staple, and true to form, China has made its own – NEO.

NEO was launched in December 2016 and has been steadily rising in price since July, collecting DApps as startups flock to it to launch their ICOs. It just finished hosting a conference in San Francisco which featured a lineup of new projects.

But while many are calling NEO the Chinese Ethereum, in reality this is only partially accurate. The two blockchains do have similarities, but also several fundamental differences.

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So what is NEO? Can it be seen as a competitor to Ethereum? This article is an attempt to unpack this subject.

Smart contracts/smart economy

Ethereum has been the second most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap for a long time now. While Bitcoin’s value is largely based on the fact that it was the first cryptocurrency and thus the most well-established, Ethereum’s success is a result of its unique utility – it allows users to write their own smart contracts on top of its blockchain.

A smart contract, or DApp, is a contract locked into code which requires a crypto-token to operate. It takes away the ability of people to cheat the contract, such as often happens in messy reality, because the contract when activated is permanent; the adjudicator is a computer.

Smart contract creation is something that NEO, née AntShares, has in common with Ethereum. Both are open source platforms, and both are more than simply holding systems for currencies, although both have cryptocurrencies with real value. NEO currently has 27 DApps listed on its website, offering services from WiFi sharing to courier services to bad weather insurance.

However, while Ethereum aims to “build a more globally accessible, more free and more trustworthy Internet” (official description), NEO aims to build a new economy entirely – a smart one.

Ethereum has gone some way towards achieving its goal, being as it is the base platform for almost all of the world’s ICO projects. It wouldn’t be fair to compare success stories just yet, because NEO is newer and has a much grander aim.

A smart economy is an entire economy based on smart contracts. In such a world, all physical assets would be represented digitally and all transactions and parties to those transactions registered with a digital identity.

A digital identity will be mandatory for participation in the blockchain, and will be set by that blockchain (according to the X.509 certificate, which has been the international standard since 1988). In fact, NEO has already partnered with a project called TheKey – a blockchain-based identification verification tool “which is exclusively authorized by government authorities.”

The word government brings us to another key difference between the two platforms.

Government
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First backup your wallet.db. Then install the new neo-gui, I think it is version 2.6. Then open up the wallet.db with the new neo-gui and it should prompt you to convert the database to a new type of file. Say yes, and you should be all set.

NEO was 114 for a moment @ Binance.

Neo is a great project. I wish I got in to it long time ago

No you don't. It'll send just fine with 0 gas claimed in a wallet.

VERY DISAPPOINTED
my GAS coin (all of my current founds) are stuck in a deposit to poloniex for 1 week. shows up on the blockchain tracker but poloniex is HOLDING the founds and not crediting to my account. this same issue actualy happening for allot of other poeple with NEO & GAS.

poloniex has a history of NOT replying to support tickets, email, social media outlets ect. so ive tryed reaching out to NEO team through similar venues only to be told every time "its on poloniex" Yes that may be so but IF we are Investing in your project should not the team want to creat safe access for their coins offering?? We as the customer cannot do anything to reach poloniex but its different for DEVELOPERS

you guys are buisness partners with the exchanges. you payed to list your coins & the exchange benefits from volume of your coin listing. So why cant NEO team contact the exchange and help us to properly recive our coins?

the more i look into this alot of ppl in recent week &weeks are having this problem and some people from a month or more Still waiting that is just isanely rediculous!! other exchanges have had the issue specialy Bitrex although ive herd they have been crediting some ppl back their deposits/withdraws.
 
I am saddened and disappointed in NEO's handling of this important issue and makes it hard for me to want to get behind them and belive in them as a project, product & community. I really hope they can please help us all to solve the issue allot of us and more & more everyday are having

What do you think about NEO? Will it raise to $600 by next months in your opinion?

In the same way, you are paying poloniex to trade (on each transaction you pay a fee). I understand your frustration, but instead of complaining about the dev team, you may stop using poloniex or take legal actions against them. If Poloniex is hacked and all your funds lost, it will be devs fault?

It really looks like change but we can not say with finality because every first quarter of the year the market always have challenges.

Do any of you took part in Zeppin ICO? It had a lot of bags, so seemed NEO wouldnt be very successful as ICO-platform.