DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 11th, 2020
DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 11th, 2020
Welcome to the 13th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around blockchain art, collectibles, and games. Subscribeย here.
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For this dispatch:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
A round of applause for virtual world CryptoVoxels, which just completed its final Origin City land auctions ๐ Origin City parcel sales will now only be P2P, though additional island territories may be coming later โฆ
Art platform KnownOrigin notched its 2nd birthday ๐ Congrats on all the KO team and community have accomplished so quickly!
Artist Trevor Jones and KnownOrigin have a new collaboration. On April 21st, a private virtual preview event and ensuing live auction around Jonesโs exhibition โBulls & Bearsโ kicks off the opening of KnownOriginโs art gallery in Cryptovoxels. The exhibition goes public on April 22nd.
Scalar Capital co-founder Linda Xie noted the possibility of DAOs voting on the layer attributes of programmable pieces from Async Art.
Osinachiโs Async Art debut, โChoose the Man You Will Become,โ sold out. The masterworkโs final available layer piece, โ27th Man,โ was bought by collector Shayne Coplan for 1.4 ETH โฆ
The โMeme Meโ competition held around collector and patron WhaleSharkโs signature Avastar #63ย came to a close. The winner, Orson Hutch, took home a prize of 2 ETH and one LAND plot from The Sandbox.
The 1st collaboration piece between Coldie and Hackatao, โUAP - Unidentified Art Phenomenon,โ was released on SuperRare โฆ
There were some major estate sales in Decentraland this week: Estate ID 5 sold for 440,000 MANA ($11,800), Estate ID 1747 sold for 1.33 million MANA ($35,600), and Estate ID 134 sold for 1.37 million MANA ($36,350).
Decentraland charted the next steps toward the projectโs coming DAO.
The CryptoMotors team unveiled PixelChain, a dapp for creating on-chain pixel art on Ethereum.
๐น๏ธย Blockchain Games
The Gods Unchained team started a new Q&A series aimed at profiling notable GU players who have turned profits from the gameโs play-to-earn dynamics.
Axie Infinity has had some big sales in recent weeks โฆ
Here are this month's top Axie sales courtesy of Axieworld.com! 3 double mystics and two reptile mystics!
Ethereum-powered gaming platform project The Sandbox partnered with SkyPeople, the Korean firm behind the popular โFinal Bladeโ RPG.
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
Several mainstream Chicago-based trading firms have teamed up with decentralized finance projects like Compound in the collaborative Chicago DeFi Alliance (CDA) group.
Reddit is working on a โCommunity Pointsโ system built on Ethereum.
Automated asset rebalancer project Set Protocol saw a new daily purchase record of $2 million worth of Sets on April 8th.
Unisocks, limited-edition socks created by the team behind the decentralized exchange Uniswap, remain popular โฆ
If anyone was wondering $SOCKS trading on Unisocks.exchange is still alive and well: $88,000 traded since May 2019 $7,500 traded last month $30,000 in the liquidity pool ~50% of trades are fractional 100 SOCKS redeemed 199 still in the liquidity pool 201 in user wallets
Is the time of personal token agents, who scout and invest in talent in Ethereumโs rising social money scene, nearing? Alex Masmejean, who just launched an $ALEX token offering to raise $20,000, thinks itโs possible.
๐ฐFresh Content
โNFTs Will Introduce Crypto to the Mainstreamโ - Andrew Steinwold
โHow to Create a Bankless DAOโ - Bankless
โTop 10 Use Cases and Benefits of the Dai Stablecoinโ - MakerDAO
โ19th Manโ - matthew.cent.eth
โErasure Thesisโ - Joel Monegro
โArt on Ethereum: a Begginerโs Guide to Cryptoartโ - moi, guest post on defiprime
โnft42 Projects, Avastar updates, and how it all ties togetherโ - TokenSmart Podcast
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
On April 7th, art platform MakersPlace featured the piece โovercoming duality and the dostoevsky wayโ by sisirist, one of my favorite artists in the space. Bravo!
โจFeatured Creation: overcoming duality and the dostoevsky way by sisirist makersplace.com/sisirist/overcโฆ #digitalart #digitalartwork #empoweredcreator #artcollectors #artcollector #makersplaceco #rareart
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 14th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย this time next week, too. Cheers โ๏ธ
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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer
Theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย is curated by me,ย William M. Peaster, a professional writer and editor whoโs been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.
Iโm passionate about art and a DeFi optimist, so putting together this newsletter is both fun and informative for me. I hope others may find the content helpful, too. But be mindful, the information herein should not be construed as investment advice. Iโm not a financial adviser, and these are my opinions. Always take care to seriously consider the various layers of risk you face in participating in the still-maturing cryptoeconomy.
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