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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 18th, 2020

William M. Peaster
Apr 19, 2020
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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 18th, 2020

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Welcome to the 14th 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:

๐ŸŽจย Digital Art & Collectibles

  • NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway held its first 2 auctions this week. Raรบl Corderoโ€™s โ€œIt Makes Us Strongerโ€ and Coldieโ€™s โ€œJulian Assange - Decentral Eyes (Gold Edition)โ€ 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 โ€œMetaverse Fashion Showโ€ in virtual world Decentraland on April 18th. The competitionโ€™s 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 โ€œStimulus Package Auctionโ€ 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 โ€œArchitects of the Futureโ€ 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 โ€ฆ

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    BlockCities ๐Ÿ™ @Blockcities
    The Brooklyn Collection is liveโœจ - 5 iconic classic buildings from BK - 50 freshly minted, 250 total supply - Today-Friday: Pre-sale auctions on @opensea opensea.io/category/blockโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ•น๏ธย 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 projectโ€™s new โ€œPlay-to-Earnโ€ Q&A series. This week, the GU team profiled the player GGian.

  • Dapper Labs, the team behind the CryptoKitties game, is collaborating with Facebookโ€™s Libra project to make Dapperโ€™s Flow programming language and Libraโ€™s Move language interoperable.

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธย 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 โ€ฆ

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    Ryan Watkins @RyanWatkins_
    Q1 2020 was stablecoinsโ€™ best quarter ever. Driven by a global flight to safety amidst the coronavirus pandemic, stablecoin issuance ballooned over $8 billion in the quarter. Stablecoins added nearly as much market cap in Q1 2020 as they did in all of 2019.
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  • Will Ethereum become the cryptoeconomyโ€™s preferred transaction layer soon? Possibly, especially as the value of Ethereumโ€™s daily on-chain transfers just matched Bitcoinโ€™s 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 arenโ€™t 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 โ€œre-entrancyโ€ attack vector against imBTCโ€™s ERC777 token design. Donโ€™t throw the baby out with the bathwater, though: ERC777 tokens remain extremely promising.

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Content

  • โ€œNFT Proof-of-Work - April 2020โ€ - Andrew Steinwold

  • โ€œTranslating the Art of Hackatao with Eleonora Briziโ€ - matthew.cent.eth

  • โ€œRather than Banning Stablecoins, Bankers Should Worry About Strengthening Their Own Currenciesโ€ - Camila Russo, The Defiant

  • โ€œLife in Quarantine #8: Day Five - Staying Healthyโ€ - WhaleShark

  • โ€œUpload to IPFS Directly from the ENS Manager with New Tool from Temporal Cloudโ€ - Brantly Millegan

  • "Can we do better? And the answer is: Yes, look at Avastars" - Nich.eth

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธExtra, Extra

  • This week, I bought โ€œImmolationโ€ on SuperRare for 1 ETH from artist Bryan Brinkman. I just found Brinkmanโ€™s work, but I feel like Iโ€™m already a fan for life. Itโ€™s a real treat to be a collector of his stuff this early on. Heโ€™s very talented, and Iโ€™m excited to track him on a personal level going forward โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @bryanbrinkman
    Bryan Brinkman @bryanbrinkman
    Both "Isolation/Immolation" are ๐Ÿ’ŽSOLD!๐Ÿ’Ž Thanks to @WhaleShark_Pro and @WPeaster for adding these art-siblings to your collections! ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ For those who missed out, here's some info on the pieces: beta.cent.co/+4zsois
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Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 15th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย this time next week, too. Cheers โœŒ๏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 whoโ€™s been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.

Iโ€™m 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. Iโ€™m 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 atย @wmpeaster.

If you enjoy this newsletter and want to support it, feel free toย subscribeย or have a like-minded friend subscribe as well. Donations accepted atย writer.gimmethe.eth, too. Thanks kindly!


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