DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 18th, 2020

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:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway held its first 2 auctions this week. Raรบl Corderoโs โIt Makes Us Strongerโ and Coldieโs โJulian 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 โMetaverse Fashion Showโ in virtual world Decentraland on April 18th. The competitionโs 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 โStimulus 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 โArchitects 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 โฆ
๐น๏ธย 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 projectโs new โPlay-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 Facebookโs Libra project to make Dapperโs Flow programming language and Libraโs Move language interoperable.
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย 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 โฆ
Will Ethereum become the cryptoeconomyโs preferred transaction layer soon? Possibly, especially as the value of Ethereumโs daily on-chain transfers just matched Bitcoinโs 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 arenโt 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 โre-entrancyโ attack vector against imBTCโs ERC777 token design. Donโt throw the baby out with the bathwater, though: ERC777 tokens remain extremely promising.
๐ฐFresh Content
โNFT Proof-of-Work - April 2020โ - Andrew Steinwold
โTranslating the Art of Hackatao with Eleonora Briziโ - matthew.cent.eth
โRather than Banning Stablecoins, Bankers Should Worry About Strengthening Their Own Currenciesโ - Camila Russo, The Defiant
โLife in Quarantine #8: Day Five - Staying Healthyโ - WhaleShark
โUpload 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
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
This week, I bought โImmolationโ on SuperRare for 1 ETH from artist Bryan Brinkman. I just found Brinkmanโs work, but I feel like Iโm already a fan for life. Itโs a real treat to be a collector of his stuff this early on. Heโs very talented, and Iโm excited to track him on a personal level going forward โฆ
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 15th 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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