DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 1st, 2020
Welcome to the 3rd 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
SuperRareβs newest artist ALGOMYSTIC sold their first tokenized piece, βA certain kind of happiness,β for 14 ETH.
Artist duo Hackatao sold the piece βNude Veritasβ to the collector WhaleShark for 23.69 ETH. In doing so, they returned to the top of SuperRareβs artist earnings leaderboard with 169.7Β ETH earned to date.
Want to learn how to build NFTs? OpenSeaβs Devin Finzer has you covered.
NFT Scribe has been upgraded. Powered by a smart contract, the service allows users to add on-chain annotations to ERC721 tokens. Itβs a great in-progress tool for NFT artists and collectors.
Mark your calendars if youβre in the New York area: the NFT.nyc event is coming up on February 20th.
The KnownOrigin NFT art marketplace is keen on embracing rDAI to generate interest for covering its usersβ transaction costs.
Tokenized fine wine will soon be available for trading on OpenSea.
πΉοΈΒ Blockchain Games
No-loss lottery game PoolTogether had a breakout week, hitting $1 million in underlying funds and a $1,400 weekly prize.
Earning Dai in Axie Infinity? The feature looks like itβs dropping soon.
Sometimes in life you just get lucky β¦
One mystic Axie just sold for 1.42 ETH.
β¦οΈβ¦οΈΒ DeFi News
50 million Dai are now locked in the Dai Savings Rate (DSR) smart contract system. Wow! Just over 100 million Dai currently exist.
The value of stablecoin transfers has flipped the value of ETH transfers on Ethereum.
Synthetix, the on-chain synthetic assets project, released its 2020 roadmap.
βImproving NFT market efficiency helps property digitalization,β said Alex Masmejean, one of the minds behind NFT collateral project Rocket, which just issued its first NFT-backed loan.
DeFi Dad offered a great list of resources for tracking big DeFi projects.
Bookmark all these, #DeFi Fam. Daistats.io mkr.tools DeFiPulse.com @ConsenSysCodefi Compare DeFi Score tracker.kyber.network/#/ Dashboard.synthetix.io Pools.fyi defistats.io/#/ TokenSets.comWhat are your favorite trackers/tools for keeping your finger on the pulse of Ethereum's overall network activity and growth (DeFi, DAOs, NFTs etc)?Anthony Sassano | sassal.eth @sassal0xGitcoin Grants Round 4 was impressive. If youβre an up-and-coming Ethereum project that needs more funding, keep your eyes on Round 5!
Happy birthday to the GΓΆrli testnet!
π°Fresh Reads
2020 Art Market Predictions - Jason Bailey
How to make money on digital art - Bankless
Axie Infinity Starter Guide! - The Jiho
On a Creative Trip With @ClayCal303 - matthew.cent.eth
What are you missing? Using basic machine learning to predict and recommend NFTs with OpenSea data - Takens Theorem
Burn Signal, Gitcoin Grants, and Finding Consensus Amid Evolution - me
ποΈExtra, Extra
My favorite possessions are now on Ethereum. This week I used OpenSea to buy a few pieces from Jason Baileyβs excellent SuperRare SAMOGAN series, which relies on a generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on Jean-MichelΒ Basquiat and a dash of The Simpsons.
The results have been sublime, and Iβm grateful to have found them; I wouldβve enjoyed them with no context, so the fact theyβre on Ethereum β and the ensuing possibilities around that β makes them that much more fascinating to me. They seem to stand tall at the threshold of a whole new era of art, in several ways. For instance, as Bailey noted in his β2020 predictionsβ piece listed above:
βIn addition to their concerns over climate change, Millenials/Gen-Zers are also the most technologically fluent generation we have seen. Given their interest and comfort with tech, I believe that the market for generative art β art generally created in code using autonomous, automated systems β will explode in the next two decades.β
That means there may already be masterpieces among us β¦ maybe β¦
SAMOGAN 10 by Jason Bailey
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ποΈ out for the 4th 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. 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.
This particular newsletter is a labor of love, but if you enjoy the work and want to support it, feel free toΒ subscribe, have a like-minded friend subscribe as well, or buy some ofΒ my crypto artΒ on OpenSea! Thanks kindly!
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βBay Dayβ - by me, generative/mixed media
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