DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 22nd, 2020
Welcome to the 6th 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
Virtual world Decentraland is live on the Ethereum mainnet, a development thatβs been years in the making. The public launch arrived on the heels of the announcement of Decentraland DAO, which will let users βshape the future of the Metaverse.β
Collector WhaleShark purchased the piece βRaβred-eyed Frogβ by the artist duo Hackatao for 13.39 ETH
Artist TwistedVacancy and decentralized fashion label MetaFactory are collaborating on an NFT project.
Per NonFungible, the top NFT trading volumes this week came via Decentraland ($347,000), Gods Unchained ($66,000), The Sandbox ($35,000), SuperRare ($28,000), and Cryptovoxels ($21,000). The tracker site also just released its epic yearly report for 2019.
Check out Flawnt.me: an alpha platform that lets you easily create customized NFT galleries. For example, one of the minds behind Avastars, Jim McNelis, just published an excellent gallery of his favorite pieces.
Itβs pretty cool to see people starting to use Flawnt.me with their own assets - this is an amazing collection owned by β¦@dappwizardβ© #flawnt your #nftAn index token for the cryptoart sector? CoinFund founder and First Edition collector Jake Brukhman said it should be so.
Italian soccer powerhouse Juventus joined forces with Ethereum fantasy football game Sorare to tokenize some of its star players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, into digital collectibles.
Want to get a loan to buy virtual real estate? The Rocket project is on it.
Streaming NFT ownership in real-time, second by second? Itβs coming, courtesy of the Sablier dapp.
Meet Polyient Games: a new investment firm focused explicitly on the NFT industry.
Make it new: artist Trevor Jones is using a 2,500-year-old artistic technique in conjunction with a new cryptoart project π
πΉοΈΒ Blockchain Games
Ethereum gaming infrastructure project Enjin activated its Enjin Platform on the Ethereum mainnet. The no-code tool makes it easy to create virtual, NFT-based economies atop Ethereum.
No-loss lotto game PoolTogether is working on transferable tickets β¦
SNEAK PEAK: PoolTogether_ has been working to enable transferable tickets. Whyβs this so rad?! πΊπ»You can send πβs to friends πΊπ»PT can use @LinkdropHQ to allow new players to claim πβs (mass adoption) πΊπ»PT is delivering on the #DeFi vision of 100% control of digitalnQaDZgGF
β¦οΈβ¦οΈΒ DeFi News
MakerDAO, the reigning DeFi champs, saw its community approve a 24-hour delay on governance actions. The move will help protect against bad actors interested in conducting a rapid blitz against the Maker protocol.
KNC, the native crypto of the Kyber Network token liquidity aggregator project, arrives on Coinbase Pro on Feb. 24th. That suggests a Coinbase.com listing could be nigh.
Debit card deposits on the mainstream-minded DeFi platform Dharma are now fee-less. That means average users can now easily deposit money into the Dai Savings Rate (DSR) in minutes at no cost.
The Synthetix project added ETH as collateral.
What might a DeFi financial crisis look like? DeFi Pulse has offered an excellent summary of an Imperial College London paper exploring the subject.
A tokenized advertising deal has occurred: the iearn.finance project paid 100 Dai to run a promotion for the y.curve.fi pool on pools.fyi.
π°Fresh Reads
βArtist Spotlight: Osinachiβ - SuperRare
βExistence as Protest: Nigerian Visual Artist-Writer Osinachiβs Debut Solo Show Set for Kate Vasse Galerie, Zurich, with Foreword by Jason Baileyβ - Chukwuebuka Ibeh
βOut of Left (Brained) Field #6: How I Decide on Cryptoartβ - WhaleShark
βThe State of Optimistic Rollupβ - Daniel Goldman
ποΈExtra, Extra
For fun I tried out Flawnt.me, too: check out the selected SAMOGAN pieces Iβve collected from Artnome! The alpha is great already.
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ποΈ out for the 7th 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, 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 atΒ @wmpeaster.
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