NEO (also known as AntShares before rebranding on June 22, 2018) was dubbed "China's Ethereum" and was China's first open source. Founded in 2014, NEO's mission is to reinvent the way trade is taking place. They believe that promote technology development and create future together. The driving force of this, NEO was created to change our traditional economy into a new era of smart economy.
The founder of NEO is Da Hongfei - the CEO of Onchain. After announcing NEO's brand and new strategy, Da Hongfei built on the future of blockchain technology, in which all assets will be digitized and programmed with smart contracts.
Neo uses a consensus mechanism that runs multiple nodes instead of one like Bitcoin
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