DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 22nd, 2020

Welcome to the 6th 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
Virtual world Decentraland is live on the Ethereum mainnet, a development thatโs been years in the making. The public launch arrived on the heels of the announcement of Decentraland DAO, which will let users โshape the future of the Metaverse.โ
Collector WhaleShark purchased the piece โRaโred-eyed Frogโ 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.
Itโs pretty cool to see people starting to use Flawnt.me with their own assets - this is an amazing collection owned by โฆ@dappwizardโฉ #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? Itโs 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 ๐
๐น๏ธย 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 โฆ
SNEAK PEAK: PoolTogether_ has been working to enable transferable tickets. Whyโs this so rad?! ๐บ๐ปYou can send ๐โs to friends ๐บ๐ปPT can use @LinkdropHQ to allow new players to claim ๐โs (mass adoption) ๐บ๐ปPT is delivering on the #DeFi vision of 100% control of digitalnQaDZgGF
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย 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.
๐ฐFresh Reads
โArtist Spotlight: Osinachiโ - SuperRare
โExistence as Protest: Nigerian Visual Artist-Writer Osinachiโs Debut Solo Show Set for Kate Vasse Galerie, Zurich, with Foreword by Jason Baileyโ - Chukwuebuka Ibeh
โOut of Left (Brained) Field #6: How I Decide on Cryptoartโ - WhaleShark
โThe State of Optimistic Rollupโ - Daniel Goldman
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
For fun I tried out Flawnt.me, too: check out the selected SAMOGAN pieces Iโve collected from Artnome! The alpha is great already.
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 7th 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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