DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Apr. 25th, 2020

Welcome to the 15th 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
Avastars launched this week. Have you got your scroll on yet?
Artist Trevor Jones made crypto history this week. Jones sold his pieces โThe Bearโ and โThe Bullโ on KnownOrigin for 90 ETH collectively. The 55.55 ETH spent for โThe Bullโ NFT was more than the sales price of the original physical artwork, a first in the cryptoeconomy.
Welcome to the new Cent: the Ethereum-powered social network has relaunched with a fresh new look and system.
Pixel art Ethereum dapp PixelChain made its public debut on April 20th.
KnownOriginโs gallery opened in Cryptovoxels.
The Async Art masterwork of Pakโs โThe Tribeโ sold for 17.5 ETH to collector MetaKovan โฆ
"The Tribe", an intricate piece with 29 layers and countless possibilities. Thanks @muratpak for an incredible job on this piece. async.art/art/master/0x6โฆSOLD The Master of The Tribe for 17.5 ETH. Congrats @MetaKovan for winning this monument in time.Async Art @AsyncArtCryptoart platform SuperRare held its 2nd birthday bash in Cryptovoxels on April 24th. As part of the festivities, the platform held an โArtist Stimulus Packageโ auction to help SR artists amid the ongoing economic downturn. Artist and collector Artnome kicked off the auction by putting up the acclaimed โLockupโ by cryptoartist XCOPY for sale.
This week, the first Async Art secondary sale occurred when collector Basileus sold Osinachiโs โ4th Manโ for 1.18 ETH โฆ
Cryptoartist Josie Bellini is starting a new live stream chat dubbed โBehind the Artโ thatโs set to drop on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Official lease agreements are starting to kick off in virtual world Cryptovoxels.
The MetaFactory genesis auction concluded. The groupโs 40 inaugural members will help steer the decentralized fashion brand for years to come.
Somnium Space reached 4,000 ETH in trade volume on decentralized marketplace OpenSea.
You can now dig down two voxels deep in Cryptovoxels!
Artist Osinachi has โA Taxi Driver on a Sundayโ still available on Rarible for collectors.
๐น๏ธย Blockchain Games
Ethereum no-loss savings game PoolTogether released Pods, a new tool that will allow users to group their tickets together for better chances at winning the dappโs weekly Dai prize pool.
Gods Unchained 0.22 upgrade launched with over โ100+ bug fixes.โ
The Season 4 of Axie Infinity is off to a hot start โฆ
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
Dharma rolled out Social Payments, which allows users to send Dai stablecoin payments to anyone on Twitter โฆ


The attacker of the Chinese DeFi platform dForce returned the $25 million in crypto they stole from dForceโs Lendf.Me lending dapp.
U.S. crypto exchange powerhouse Coinbase launched the Coinbase Price Oracle for use by DeFi projects.
Synthetic on-chain assets project UMA is going for an Initial Uniswap Listing on April 29th.
Decentralized exchange dYdX rolled out a Perpetual Contracts Markets service, with the first offering being a bitcoin swap product.
๐ฐFresh Content
โComputers Do Not Make Art, People Doโ - Aaron Hertzmann
โPast, present, and future. An exploration of Axie Infinityโs adventureโ - Owl
โNFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - April 2020โ - Andrew Steinwold
โSeb & Nathan, The Sandboxโ - You Deserve a Drinยข
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 16th 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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