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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Aug. 1st, 2020

William M. Peaster
Aug 1, 2020
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Welcome to the 28th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around Ethereum art, collectibles, games, and more. Subscribeย here.

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For this dispatch:

๐ŸŽจย Digital Art & Collectibles

  • NFT marketplace OpenSea just passed the 20,000 user mark. Bravo!

  • Artist Trevor Jones officially crossed over $100,000 in total sales volume on Nifty Gateway ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  • Collector WhaleShark purchased Jose Delboโ€™s โ€œThe Last Son of Krypton Fights for Humankindโ€ for 27 ETH, which set a new sales price record for art marketplace MakersPlace.

  • Artist Jason Bailey of Artnome started a new 3-part โ€œChromatophoreโ€ series on SuperRare โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @artnome
    @artnome @artnome
    Congrats to @Billy_Whistler who now owns both Chromatophore #1 and SamoGAN #1. Thanks for your support! I'll probably put out one or two more Chromatophores over the next weeks (for those who asked). superrare.co/artwork-v2/chrโ€ฆ
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    4:34 PM โˆ™ Jul 29, 2020
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  • Artist Carlos Marcial had his Nifty Gateway debut this week for Drop 13. Cheers Carlos!

  • On Async Art, bidding is now live on artist Fabin Rasheedโ€™s โ€œChromology,โ€ a โ€œgenerative, participatory, and interactive artwork intended to create a collaboration between the artist and the audience.โ€

  • Avastars has a new community update out (by me ๐Ÿ˜Š). Notably, the project just notched the ~$500,000 mark in all-time volume to date. Also, some particularly high-scoring Primes have been minted in the ongoing Gen1 Series 2 release so far, like Avastar #7694, whose score is 88/100, pictured below. Nice OpenSea hat!

  • This week art marketplace KnownOrigin highlighted the work of one of my favorite rising artists, Ann Ahoy. Check out some of her pieces!

  • lil bubble of โ€œAll Time Lowsโ€ fame was on the lookout for NFT experts โ€ฆ

  • The grand opening of the Nifty Pride Centre for the Arts took place on July 28th in Cryptovoxels ๐Ÿณโ€๐ŸŒˆ

  • The NFT markets data team at NonFungible.com announced an indefinite delisting of market history for the Rarible art marketplace โ€œdue to massive wash trading efforts.โ€ For context, Rarible recently started distributing $RARI tokens to buyers and sellers on its platform. โ€œWe are blocking wash traders from [the] marketplace every day,โ€ Rarible responded. โ€œItโ€™s tough to be [an] open platform.โ€ Still, NonFungible.com is standing firm in the meantime.

  • Artist duo Hackatao sold โ€œTHE archetypeโ€ to WhaleShark on SuperRare for 20 ETH โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @SergueiV
    powerSurgeโšก๏ธ @SergueiV
    Top #crypto #art sale of the day is is โ€œTHE archetypeโ€ by @Hackatao. Sold for $6,400 (20 eth) on @SuperRare_co to @WhaleShark_Pro
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    9:00 PM โˆ™ Jul 30, 2020
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๐Ÿ•น๏ธย Blockchain Games

  • Fuel Labs, the team behind the Fuel optimistic rollup implementation, has revived the โ€œEthereum Plays Pokemonโ€ game project with, you guessed it, Fuel support. The move comes as Fuel v1 is now live on Ethereumโ€™s Rinkeby testnet. Scaling is coming! Scaling is coming!

  • Axie Infinity co-founder Jeffrey Zirlin, a.k.a The Jiho, was a guest on the Into the Ether podcast this week. Donโ€™t miss this one! I was particularly interested when the convo turned to Ronin, the Ethereum sidechain the Axie team is building.

  • As of this week, fantasy soccer game Sorare had 25% more active wallets than CryptoKitties or Axie Infinity.

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธย DeFi News

  • Uniswap facilitated $126 million in trade volume between July 29th and July 30th ๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿฆ„. As Qiao Wang put it on Twitter: โ€œThis is 1/3 of Coinbase. 1/2 of Kraken. More than Gemini, Polo, and Binance US combined โ€ฆ Pretty incredible TBH.โ€

  • The Synthetix protocol is now under the control of 3 separate DAOs: grantsDAO, protocolDAO, and synthetixDAO.

  • DeFi lending giant MakerDAO now secures over $1 billion dollarsโ€™ worth of assets.

  • MANA, Decentralandโ€™s native token, is now a supported collateral type in the MakerDAO.

  • MakerDAOโ€™s Dai stablecoin is now the โ€œexclusive stablecoinโ€ of Polyient Gamesโ€™s upcoming $PGFK NFT sale.

  • Augur V2 launched. The decentralized prediction marketplace now supports Dai-denominated markets among other improvements.

  • Lending project Aave is looking to pivot to Aavenomics, a program to decentralize the Aave protocol and update its tokenomics.

  • Decentralized brand factory METAFACTORY rolled out first-edition YFI SUPPLY hoodies.

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Content

  • โ€œExploring Non-Fungible Token Business Modelsโ€ - Andrew Steinwold

  • โ€œSuperRare Weekly Art Market Report 8โ€ - An Rong

  • โ€œInterview with Collector: Cao Yinโ€ - SuperRare

Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 29th 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. I haveย NFTsย open for offers, too, or you can tip me at wmpeaster.eth. Thanks kindly!

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scobot
Aug 3, 2020

Thanks for the latest issue! I really like quick, digestible "don't bore us, get to the chorus" bullet point format. Keep up the good work.

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