Get Started with Neo

We believe in supporting anyone and everyone who discovers Neo. The list below is a great way to get started with Neo and you can always ask us questions over on our Discord.

1.

Generate a wallet

There are a large selections of wallets available for different types of users and applications. When creating a new Neo wallet, remember to back up your private key. Your private key is the only way to control your Neo assets.

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  • Neon Wallet is an open source cross-platform light wallet for the Neo blockchain available on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • The NeoLine Chrome Plugin-Wallet is an open source, multi-functional wallet
  • The O3 Wallet offers a cross-chain wallet that support Neo N3
2.

Buy NEO (and GAS)

NEO is used to establish ownership and management roles in the blockchain. Holding NEO gives the owner the right to vote in elections to determine Neo Council members and the right to claim GAS, needed to perform transactions on the Neo Network.

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  • NEO and GAS are both available to buy from Alchemy Pay and Nash
  • Utilise the Flamingo Finance on-ramp to buy NEO and GAS seamlessly using any Mastercard debit or credit card
  • Binance is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that offers fiat to NEO purchases
3.

Convert NEO to GAS

GAS cryptocurrency is one of the two tokens that power the NEO blockchain. The purpose of GAS is to enable the seamless execution of transactions on the network. In other words, you need to use GAS cryptocurrency to pay the fees for using the NEO blockchain.

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  • Flamingo Finance is a DeFi platform that helps you convert tokens, provide liquidity, and earn yield through staking
  • Gleeder allows users to swap NEO to GAS utilising a NeoLine wallet
4.

Vote for Neo Governance

NEO holders participate in governance by voting in a Neo Council to manage the Neo Blockchain. The Neo Council will consist of council members and consensus nodes who provide services, maintain the liveliness of the network, and adjust critical blockchain params. GAS rewards will be distributed to both NEO votes and council members.

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  • Visit Neo.org to explore the principles of Neo Governance
  • Use the GAS calculator at N/DAPP to help determine GAS returns for voting for council candidates
  • NeoBurger can help users earn GAS by voting for Neo Council members on their website
  • NeoCompounder auto-compounds your NEO by converting GAS rewards into more NEO
5.

Engage with the community

There is an extensive global community to engage with when exploring Neo.

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6.

Supercharge your Neo life

Elevate your experience with Neo by diving deeper into the ecosystem.

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  • Built on Neo N3, NeoChat is a messaging platform for users to simply and instantly message each other, address-to-address
  • NeoNS is a decentralized .neo domain name service for next-gen internet web applications
  • Have an idea of something to develop on Neo? GrantShares is a decentralized and transparent grants program for the Neo ecosystem
  • NeoBurger lets you convert your NEO to bNEO, making it divisible and earning more GAS
  • Harness Blockchain and Web3 Fundamentals with Linkd Academy's Blockchain Fundamentals course. Look out for Neo Blockchain Development coming soon
  • For everything NFT-orientated, GhostMarket is the perfect place to start. Lending and borrowing your digital assets is possible with RentFuse
  • Do you love memes? Now you can get paid to browse, create, and vote on them at Meme2Earn
  • Forthewin (FTW) is a multi-dApp platform that allows users to create their own NEP-17 tokens and access a NEO-based staking application
7.

Build with Neo

Neo is revered by developers across the world. Join them by building the next generation of digital interfaces using one of the below.

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  • Explorers are essential when developing on Neo, and there a number available; Dora, NeoTube and OneGate
  • Neopython suite is a powerful suite of tools that harnesses the full potential of Python on Neo N3 and includes a NEO Python SDK (mamba) and smart contract development (boa)
  • The ultimate JavaScript SDK for Neo is available via Neon.js
  • Smart contract development is available in Go and C#
  • Extensive resources and tooling are available from Neo.org
  • A N3 TestNet Faucet is available for testing purpose. The faucet allows 50 GAS and 50 NEO per one N3 wallet address, and one IP address every 24 hours