DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 15th, 2020

Welcome to the 5th 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
Art duo Hackataoโs new series, โThe Whale,โ sold out in hours for right under 17 ETH.
SuperRare artist Pak sold โRubikโs Miseryโ to WhaleShark for 25.75 ETH ๐ณ
Are you an artist that wants to launch a gallery in Cryptovoxels? The aforementioned art collector and patron WhaleShark has offered rent-free CV parcels for yearlong leases to those interested.
Speaking of Cryptovoxels, its world is having its first charity auction on February 29th.
Osinachi has a beautiful new piece, โThe Thinker Gets Flowers,โ out.
Now live on @SuperRare_co : 'The Thinker Gets Flowers'. The Thinker gets what is supposed to be a surprise โ a bouquet of flowers. But is he impressed? superrare.co/artwork-v2/theโฆ #nft #eth #ankara #flowers #osinachi #rose #thethinker #ValentinesPiano Power, the 2nd album from the virtual Algorithmic Jazz Alliance group, has been released and with it a handful of commemorative NFTs to celebrate.
OpenSea hosted an epic ETHDenver 2020 Art Gallery Auction.
Cryptoart market rising: to date SuperRare pieces have generated 2,846 ETH in total volume (for a rise of 23% on the week), Known Originโs pieces 83 ETH (up 360% on the week), and MakersPlaceโs pieces 181 ETH (up 8 percent on the week). Per OpenSea, these platformsโ current average sales prices are 0.73 ETH, 0.32 ETH, and 0.21 ETH respectively.
According to NFT tracker site NonFungible, the projects with the most trade volume this week were Decentraland ($635k), The Sandbox ($181k), Gods Unchained ($76k), Cryptovoxels ($44k), and SuperRare ($37k).
Mintbase now has 300 markets.
The NFT space a leading indicator of crypto trends? Dapper Labsโs Brian Flynn thinks so.
Decentraland has a new naming system thatโs integrated with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS).
The Avastar project is off to a hot start.
Madrid-based Belgian artist Skeenee, creator of the $SKULL personal token, put out an awesome new series ๐
The binaryRefinery() series is mostly going to be a $SKULL exclusive available on @opensea : opensea.io/assets/binaryrโฆ Prices will start at 5000 $SKULL and will triple on each sale! 2 have already sold, tx guys!๐ Buy some $SKULL & grab a cheap NFT! @tryrollhq #cryptoart #ganF
๐น๏ธย Blockchain Games
Meet MetaClan: the first eSports DAO.
Gamers competing for rare digital items that gain, or are good for, Dai prizes? Itโs on the horizon!
ICYMI, โCharged Particlesโ = one of my favorite Token experiments atm - for example, this code could allow gamers to compete and win rare digital items that accrue interest through DSR (โchargeโ) / can be burned for $DAI Loot โก๏ธ๐ธVWish I were at #ETHDenver right with all of you but I'm still hacking away at home! New landing page up, thoughts? #ChargedParticles https://t.co/9U8Tk2AJyIrobsecord.eth @robsecord
The team behind the no-loss lotto game PoolTogether clarified how winners are selected.
Morrigan, Goddess of Death, is on sale for 10 ETH. Itโs the first mystic bird in Axie Infinity. Could be a good snag for the upcoming Leeky Cup ๐
Using the DeFiZap projectโs newest tool, users can easily become Uniswap liquidity providers for Axie Infinityโs Small Love Potions (SLP).
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
The Ethereum browser wallet Metamask crossed 1 million users.
tBTC, a trustless ERC20 version of bitcoin, is live on Ethereumโs Ropsten testnet.
A governance-minimized alternative to the Dai, Meta, has been proposed.
The opyn project now offers insurance for deposits on Compound.
Want to create Ethereum-powered React apps? Sablierโs Paul Berg has you covered.
Decentralized exchange Uniswap is shooting for the stars โฆ
MetaCartel Ventures, a community investment DAO, launched with support for an initial set of tokens, including MetaGameโs $SEED, Axie Infinityโs Small Love Potions (SLP), and personal tokens like $MAGIC and $PEW.
The new Authereum platform is bringing DeFi toward mainstream audiences.
An assailant executed a sophisticated market manipulation attack on the decentralized trading platform Fulcrum, apparently making off with some $350k in profit. The backers of Fulcrum are conducting a post-mortem and have said usersโ funds are safe.
๐ฐFresh Reads
โArt for Spaceโ - Massimo Franceschet
โOut of Left (Brained) Field #5: How I Buy My Artโ - WhaleShark
โMeet Osinachi, The Cryptoartist Fronting The Tokenized Artwork Movement In Africaโ - Collins Badewa
โTokens, Gaming, and Forking Gardensโ - Mareen Glรคske
โCrypto memes and adoptionโ - Linda Xie
โOptimistic Virtual Machine Alphaโ - Optimism PBC
โSuperRare Art Releaseโ - Micah Johnson
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
Three cryptoart collectionโs I admired this week: WhaleSharkโs, Platoโs, and First Editionโs. Worth checking out if you havenโt before ๐ฅ
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 6th 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.
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.
This particular newsletter is a labor of love, but if you enjoy the work and want to support it, feel free toย subscribe, have a like-minded friend subscribe as well, or buy some ofย my crypto artย on OpenSea! Thanks kindly!
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๐๏ธThings I tokenized on OpenSea this week๐๏ธ
Two ponds split like eyes
A crane walks between the gaze
Rain ripples the stare


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