What a year! 2022 has certainly been one for the crypto history books. We’ve seen crypto markets tumbling back to earth following last year’s bull run — from multiple market failures and exploits to growing scrutiny from regulators.

At Neon Labs, we’re building the first EVM on the Solana Blockchain. Our platform, Neon EVM, consists of two parts: The EVM Contract: A Solana program that manages Ethereum contracts and saves data into Solana accounts. The Proxy Server: A proxy that converts Ethereum-like transactions into Solana transactions, and then…

TLDR: We’re launching Neon EVM to Mainnet on Dec. 12, 2022, making it the first EVM on Solana. Ethereum-based applications will now have access to Solana’s scalability and liquidity without any changes to their codebase. We’ve tested EVM performance through multiple use cases, and the platform now includes the infrastructure…

Over the last few months, Neon Labs has partnered with several organizations to test and deploy various protocols and projects on Neon EVM. Neon Labs’ most recent partnership with Zpoken has resulted in the successful deployment of the Compound protocol on Neon EVM. …

Halborn, a security engineering team, has completed a security audit of Neon’s Governance Programs. The audit began on April 27, 2022 and ended on May 8, 2022. This security audit was conducted in addition to Ackee Blockchain’s audit, which was completed on July 22, 2022. A final report was delivered…

The third and final article in our Deploying Neon dApps series explores how to deploy Solidity dApps using Hardhat. (We previously discussed how to deploy Neon with Remix and Truffle. Hardhat is a development and deployment tool for EVM contracts and applications. Of the three deployment tools explored in this…

Between June 27 and July 22, 2022, Ackee Blockchain conducted a security audit of Neon’s Governance contract. The Ackee Blockchain team is composed of auditors and white hat hackers who perform security audits and assessments including code review, testing, automated analysis, and local deployment/hacking. At the end of the 26-day…

As a developer, you know the importance of understanding how to deploy the smart contract code you’ve written onto the blockchain. Our Deploying Neon dApps article series provides this crucial information in a simple and straightforward way. This article, the second in the series, will show you how to deploy…

Neon Labs recently partnered with Robonomics Network to validate the readiness of the Neon platform for production using a complex workflow. The exercise involved deploying and testing Robonomics’ smart contracts to Neon EVM. The deployed contracts allow cyber-physical systems (robots) to perform certain actions based on technical-economic transactions. In the…