COZ has completed the first round of renewed Proof of Working rewards, detailing the distribution of 440 $NEO across seven community contributions in its Proof of Working 2.0 transparency report.
Proof of Working is a COZ-led initiative intended to reward grassroots ecosystem work that may not align with traditional grant or sponsorship pathways. COZ revived the program to recognize tangible output such as tooling, research, analytics, and infrastructure, shared publicly with clear proof of delivery.
Award distribution
For this first Proof of Working 2.0 round, the COZ Council awarded 440 $NEO for completed, publicly accessible deliverables, with recipients ranging from security auditors to tool builders and data dashboard creators.
The awarded contributions were:
- Dora Security Audit (Red4Sec): A security audit of Dora’s backend infrastructure, which supports multiple Neo explorers and ecosystem services. COZ noted that identified defects were mitigated by the COZ Core Technologies team.
- Neo Governance Portal (Flamingo Finance): A community governance portal designed to discuss and signal support for Neo ecosystem governance topics.
- ngx-neoline (smartargs): An Angular service wrapper for the NeoLine N3 dAPI.
- neo-sc-audits (smartargs): A repository aimed at centralizing public smart contract audits to support secure Neo N3 development practices.
- n3-typegen (smartargs): A tool to generate TypeScript contract types (and optional client implementations) from a Neo N3 contract manifest or hash.
- Neo Analytics (ethArek): A public dashboard translating Neo N3 on-chain activity into a daily-updated view using transparent classification rules, including swap detection.
- HushNetwork (aboimpinto): An “AI-native social protocol” implementing NEP-11 and NEP-17 token standards with minting capability.
The transaction for the awards delivery can be found here.
Proof of Working’s “on-ramp” model
COZ positions Proof of Working as a lightweight contribution funnel: participants share completed work publicly, submit it via the COZ Discord, and if selected, receive weekly $NEO awards determined by the COZ Council. COZ has framed the program as an on-ramp that can surface emerging contributors and potentially lead to longer-term opportunities, including grants and sponsored engagements.
COZ also reiterated aspects of the organization’s contributor model, noting there is no formal joining process and that consistent contributors may become eligible to join the COZ organization, with submitted code required to be licensed under Apache 2.x.
The full announcement can be found at the link below.
https://coz.io/blog/proof-of-working-2-0/