And in a key event of the smart economy platform, the much-awaited Neo X MainNet by NEO was officially launched today, November 3, 2025, which saw the native NEO token rise by 15% in an intraday upswing of a wider crypto market recovery.
Neo is trading at 6.08 as of 2:00 PM UTC, which is up day-on-day, and has initiated volumes of over 45 million in the first four hours, indicating early investor confidence in Neo’s vision for asset digitisation and decentralised applications.
As Bitcoin has settled at over 105,000 and Ethereum is edging around 4,200, NEO is leading in the competition in scalable China-compliant blockchain solutions.
Neo X upgrade, which has been developed over the years, will bring with it an increased level of interoperability, zero-knowledge proofs of privacy, and effortless cross-chain bridges to Ethereum and Polkadot. This follows the permanent closure of the old Neo blockchain at the start of this year, an action that simplified the operations and increased the efficiency of the network by 40%.
Movement of dApps has already started by developers and enterprises, and more than 150 new smart contracts are already in the test phase. With the global regulators looking at more transparent approaches to real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation, NEO, with its dual-token system, NEO to govern and GAS to transact, is one that is congenial to regulation.
Neo X Explained: The Upgrade that is Redefining Smart Contracts
NEO, also referred to as Ether China, has changed a lot since its establishment in 2014 under the name of Antshares. The Neo X MainNet is not a mere technical update, but an overall redesign to solve the bottlenecks of scalability that bedevilled previous releases.
Other notable characteristics are that it supports up to 100000 transactions per second with sharding, has native support of various programming languages such as Python and Java and uses an enhanced Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT) consensus mechanism, which brings finality times down to less than two seconds.
It is based on the recent ecosystem victories, including the October 26 release of a major update to the War on Bugs game a Neo-powered NFT arcade game, with redesigned menus and daily challenges that have been used by more than 50,000 users.
Likewise, with the launch of Boa v1.4.0 by the COZ team to support Neo N3, the group introduced missing native methods in contracts to reduce institutional developer barriers. Together with Neo X, the platform is now entirely connected with the Chinese network of Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) and opens the gates to billions of potential flows of RWA through tokenised real estate and supply chain holdings.
Community governance brings it on, as well. The owners of NEO overwhelmingly passed a proposal last week to divide 10% of the Neo Foundation’s treasury, estimated to be 5 million NEO, to finance Neo X grants.
This is in contrast to more centralised competitors, which encourage a rich developer base in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Early adopters have stated that there were no issues with the migrations, and code deployment with the aid of such tools as the Neo IDE was straightforward.
According to one of the developers during a recent AMA, Neo X is the operating system of Web3, which is versatile, secure, and prepared for the smart economy.
Tokenomics and Market Dynamics: Why NEO is Poised for Growth
NEO has maintained its economic model as one of the pillars of the appeal, which is the combination of scarcity and utility. The aggregate amount of supply is limited to 100 million tokens, of which half a million are in circulation, and the remaining half of these tokens are vested over time to avoid dumping.
The utility token, GAS, is earned by holding NEO and is used in network operations, which establishes a symbiotic relationship which is rewarded by staking long-term. Since its launch, GAS yields have soared up to 8% APY and yield farmers in DeFi hotspots such as Aave have taken an interest.
The pricing action today is an indication of market tailwinds. Although NEO has not been doing well in the third quarter of 2025, falling to $4.50 amid regulatory tremors in Hong Kong, analysts believe that the recovery has been driven by the physical upgrades of Neo X. The first hour trading of the Binance, the biggest NEO exchange pair, reached 15 million, which is more than the average in the previous week.
And on-chain data is promising, with active addresses increasing by 30% in the last week, and TVL in Neo-based DeFi applications, such as Flamingo Finance, growing to $120 million, owing to its new OrderBook+ and FLOCKS dividend system.
Yet, challenges linger. The threat of competition from Solana, with its blistering speeds, and Ethereum, with its dominance in Layer 2, forces NEO to meet the pledges of interoperability. Said short-term volatility came with the delisting of legacy tokens by exchanges such as Binance earlier this year, but purged a healthier N3 ecosystem.
NEO, which is trading at a very attractive price-to-sales ratio, is underpriced considering its developer activity, with its market capitalisation standing at just 350 million in comparison with the 8 billion it experienced in 2018.
Community Buzz and Expert Picks: Sentiment Shifts Bullish
Social media is trending with Neo X. On X, posts which use the hashtag NeoBlockchain have already surpassed 10,000 mentions since dawn, with users being very much impressed with the game-changing speed of the upgrade.
A separate discussion pointed out that SubQuery was also integrated as a data indexer, and it helped to speed up dApp queries and make analytical tools run within the increasing NFT segment of Neo. SubQuery upgrades raw Neo data into gold to devs – scalability has become real, read one of the most upvoted chains.
Experts echo this optimism. A recent podcast episode on “The Smart Economy” broke down the role of Neo X in bringing TradFi and DeFi together and predicting a 2x price increase if RWA adoption is expedited by the year 2026.
Similar venture firms, such as Fenbushi Capital, early NEO investors, have re-invested in ecosystem initiatives with a citation to the compliance advantage of the platform in Asia. The Fear & Greed Index, at 45 (neutral), is cooling off, and the r/NEO subreddit at Reddit is abuzz with news of Flamingo resolving the problem of its stablecoins depegging through FUSD upgrades.
There is, however, the possible risk of overhyping by critics. Others mention the historical centralisation issues at NEO, but the operations of Neo X, which disallow a node from doing what it wanted to do, reduce this. These have been head-on by Community AMAs, where founders have focused on open-source commits on GitHub, which surged 25% after the announcement.
The Future: RWAs, Interoperability, and Beyond
The path of Neo after Neo X is ambitious. Q4 2025 roadmap contains RWA pilots on Hong Kong tokenised deposit programs, which might free $500 million of on-chain assets. Expansions to Cosmos and Avalanche will also increase the liquidity, and AI integrations through SpoonOS would gamify the interactions with dApps.
On a long-term basis, the prices are expected to be lower, although they are expected to increase. Analysts look at $7.50-8.50 end-of-year and 2030 goals at 30-55 on long-term growth.
The environmental credentials support the argument that EO is energy efficient, which is in line with the requirements of ESG. The collaboration with BSN affiliates has the potential to engage Neo into enterprise supply chains, whether it is with Alibaba or state-backed pilots.
The regulatory headwinds are present, most notably the crypto position of China, but the connection of NEO to the BSN is a cushion. With the increased trade of EU stablecoins, the presence of Neo around the world, with 200+ nodes, leaves the coin in a position to be used borderlessly.
Summary: Renaissance in the Smart Economy Era of NEO
On November 3, 2025, NEO will take an ambitious first step back into the limelight, and Neo X MainNet will start a fire that months of cyclical market downturns have smothered.
Since its lows of $5.26 and highs of $6.08, the token represents a strong, innovative, and untapped potential of a $3.8 trillion crypto market. NEO is a utility, governance, and scalability unicorn that investors who are interested in unexploited gems may find difficult to ignore.
The smart economy is rolling out digitisation of identities, assets, and contracts; NEO is not merely doing this to it, but is designing it. It is by DeFi returns and RWA revolutions that the platform welcomes builders and true believers to earn their stake. At a time when the stock market is brewing a bull market, NEO is not done yet; it is becoming smarter.