For those of you that don't know, Antshares (ANS) held a major conference today at the Microsoft office in Beijing. A few of the major announcements included:
-Rebranding
-Smart Contracts 2.0
-White Paper Release
Antshares will now be called NEO and their logo has been changed as well. It was announced that this change in branding will take effect in Q3 2017. Their website has already been updated to reflect the recent changes. The site is now neo.org. If you currently hold ANS, your shares will NOT be affected. The only thing that has changed is the name.
There seems to be a lot of questions about the team lately, specifically their lack of developers. Here is the list of their contributors:
Technical Members:
DA hongfei
CEO & Founder
Crypto-currency evangelist since 2011, key opinion leader in China's crypto-currency/blockchain community
ZHANG Zhengwen
CTO & Founder
Former key bitcoin developer at huobi exchange
LI Jun
Architect
14 years financial IT experience, incl. infosys & China Financial Futures Exchange
CHEN Zhitong
Developer
Former bitcoin developer at huobi exchange
LIN Pengtao
Developer
Former bitcoin developer at huobi exchange
FAN Shoushou
QA Engineer
Business Members:
TAO Rongqi
Business Strategy
Former marketing officer at BTCC with years of experience incl. Standard Chartered, China UnionPay, etc
YANG Wentao
Business Development
Left Morgen Stanley in Baltimore to join the antshares team, Master of Sci. in Finance at Johns Hopkins
WANG Tingting
Community
Social media marketing expert
LUO Tian
Business Development
Former BTCC marketing officer
ZHAO Xiaoling
Media
Graduated from the top journalism school in China, Fudan University
This seems to be a good team with a lot of support. I believe NEO has a lot of potential and I will be following them closely in the future!
Sources:
http://neo.org
https://cointelegraph.com/news/antshares-partners-with-microsoft-to-digitalize-real-world-assets-with-blockchain
