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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 18th, 2020

Welcome to the 14th issue of theΒ DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around blockchain art, collectibles, and games. SubscribeΒ here.
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For this dispatch:
π¨Β Digital Art & Collectibles
NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway held its first 2 auctions this week. RaΓΊl Corderoβs βIt Makes Us Strongerβ and Coldieβs βJulian Assange - Decentral Eyes (Gold Edition)β sold for $3,010 and $4,100 respectively.
Artist XCOPY created new pieces through Pixelchain that are available for sale on the OpenSea marketplace.
The DCL-Core group held a βMetaverse Fashion Showβ in virtual world Decentraland on April 18th. The competitionβs judges included NFT artist Josie Bellini, NFT analyst Andrew Steinwold, NFT collector WhaleShark, Axie Infinity team Axiegg, and Decentraland art director Martin Shibuya.
The latest charity auction hosted in Cryptovoxels raised more than $1,200 for the Humanity Road group.
Art platform SuperRare is holding a βStimulus Package Auctionβ around NFT artworks to help support SuperRare artists amid the ongoing global economic downturn.
Rocket DAO launched its first loan backed by ENS domain names.
Artist Matt Kane published βArchitects of the Futureβ on SuperRare.
The first edition of the First Edition NFT-focused newsletter arrived. Check it out!
The Meta Factory project unveiled its first bomber jacket auction.
BlockCities launched its Brooklyn Collection offering β¦
πΉοΈΒ Blockchain Games
Season 4 of the Axie Infinity Community Alpha begins on April 20th. Moreover, Axie traders are collectively close to having traded more than $1 million worth of adorable Axie monsters to date. ETH is money!
Gods Unchained, a digital trading card game on Ethereum, just released the second post in the projectβs new βPlay-to-Earnβ Q&A series. This week, the GU team profiled the player GGian.
Dapper Labs, the team behind the CryptoKitties game, is collaborating with Facebookβs Libra project to make Dapperβs Flow programming language and Libraβs Move language interoperable.
β¦οΈβ¦οΈΒ DeFi News
Stablecoins on Ethereum reached a collective market cap of $8 billion in Q1 2020, a new all-time high for the stablecoin sector β¦
Will Ethereum become the cryptoeconomyβs preferred transaction layer soon? Possibly, especially as the value of Ethereumβs daily on-chain transfers just matched Bitcoinβs for the first time ever.
Popular lending dapp Compound launched its COMP governance token.
Ethereum project Gnosis just rolled out the Gnosis Protocol, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol that scores high on liquidity
Overstock.com subsidiary tZERO is working to tokenize $300 million worth of real estate atop the Tezos smart contract platform.
Atomic Loans introduced its decentralized protocol, which allows users to collateralize bitcoin against automated stablecoin loans atop Ethereum.
Meet reflex-bonds: a Metacoin-backed effort that is seeking to bring about stablecoin-like low-volatility assets that arenβt pegged to a precise valuation, eg. $1 USD.
The Uniswap liquidity pool of the bitcoin-pegged imBTC token was drained to the tune of $300,000. An attacker exploited a so-called βre-entrancyβ attack vector against imBTCβs ERC777 token design. Donβt throw the baby out with the bathwater, though: ERC777 tokens remain extremely promising.
π°Fresh Content
βNFT Proof-of-Work - April 2020β - Andrew Steinwold
βTranslating the Art of Hackatao with Eleonora Briziβ - matthew.cent.eth
βRather than Banning Stablecoins, Bankers Should Worry About Strengthening Their Own Currenciesβ - Camila Russo, The Defiant
βLife in Quarantine #8: Day Five - Staying Healthyβ - WhaleShark
βUpload to IPFS Directly from the ENS Manager with New Tool from Temporal Cloudβ - Brantly Millegan
"Can we do better? And the answer is: Yes, look at Avastars" - Nich.eth
ποΈExtra, Extra
This week, I bought βImmolationβ on SuperRare for 1 ETH from artist Bryan Brinkman. I just found Brinkmanβs work, but I feel like Iβm already a fan for life. Itβs a real treat to be a collector of his stuff this early on. Heβs very talented, and Iβm excited to track him on a personal level going forward β¦
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ποΈ out for the 15th issue of theΒ DeFi Arts IntelligencerΒ this time next week, too. Cheers βοΈ
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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer
TheΒ DeFi Arts IntelligencerΒ is curated by me,Β William M. Peaster, a professional writer and editor whoβs been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.
Iβm 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. Iβm 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.
If you have a DeFi tip or lead, questions or comments, or would be interested in commissioning me for a writing gig, you can ping me at wmpeaster@gmail.com or on Telegram atΒ @wmpeaster.
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