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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 22nd, 2020

William M. Peaster
Feb 23, 2020
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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 22nd, 2020

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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:

๐ŸŽจย Digital Art & Collectibles

  • Virtual world Decentraland is live on the Ethereum mainnet, a development thatโ€™s been years in the making. The public launch arrived on the heels of the announcement of Decentraland DAO, which will let users โ€œshape the future of the Metaverse.โ€

  • Collector WhaleShark purchased the piece โ€œRaโ€™red-eyed Frogโ€ by the artist duo Hackatao for 13.39 ETH

    Twitter avatar for @Hackatao
    Hackatao @Hackatao
    And after 304 km of leaping, our Ra'red-Eyed Frog enters the Whale's Womb! We're glad she's found a home in your collection @WhaleShark_Pro @SuperRare_co #Eth #NFT #Cryptoart
    Image
    12:42 PM โˆ™ Feb 21, 2020
  • 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.

    Twitter avatar for @thirdmandesign
    Gareth Bedford @thirdmandesign
    Itโ€™s pretty cool to see people starting to use Flawnt.me with their own assets - this is an amazing collection owned by โฆ@dappwizardโฉ #flawnt your #nft
    Image
    1:25 PM โˆ™ Feb 20, 2020
    13Likes1Retweet
  • An 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? Itโ€™s 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 ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

    Twitter avatar for @trevorjonesart
    Trevor Jones ๐ŸŽจ @trevorjonesart
    ๐Ÿ Encaustic painting is a 2,500 year old technique using beeswax and pigment. This is layer 6 so far and #EthBoy is just getting started. It's a 140 x 110 cm canvas so really time consuming and my arm is sore but my God it's starting to look good! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ #crypto3MGl
    Image
    6:25 PM โˆ™ Feb 20, 2020
    63Likes10Retweets

๐Ÿ•น๏ธย 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 โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @DeFi_Dad
    DeFi Dad - defidad.eth @DeFi_Dad
    SNEAK PEAK: PoolTogether_ has been working to enable transferable tickets. Whyโ€™s this so rad?! ๐Ÿ•บ๐ŸปYou can send ๐ŸŽŸโ€™s to friends ๐Ÿ•บ๐ŸปPT can use @LinkdropHQ to allow new players to claim ๐ŸŽŸโ€™s (mass adoption) ๐Ÿ•บ๐ŸปPT is delivering on the #DeFi vision of 100% control of digitalnQaDZgGF
    Image
    5:22 PM โˆ™ Feb 21, 2020
    76Likes17Retweets

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธย 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.

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Reads

  • โ€œArtist Spotlight: Osinachiโ€ - SuperRare

  • โ€œExistence as Protest: Nigerian Visual Artist-Writer Osinachiโ€™s Debut Solo Show Set for Kate Vasse Galerie, Zurich, with Foreword by Jason Baileyโ€ - Chukwuebuka Ibeh

  • โ€œOut of Left (Brained) Field #6: How I Decide on Cryptoartโ€ - WhaleShark

  • โ€œThe State of Optimistic Rollupโ€ - Daniel Goldman

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธExtra, Extra

  • For fun I tried out Flawnt.me, too: check out the selected SAMOGAN pieces Iโ€™ve collected from Artnome! The alpha is great already.

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

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 7th 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 subscribe or have a like-minded friend subscribe as well. Thanks kindly!


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