DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Feb. 8th, 2020

Welcome to the 4th issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around blockchain art, collectibles, and games. Subscribe here.

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For this dispatch:

🎨 Digital Art & Collectibles

• Art platform MakersPlace opened a new VR gallery in the Doom District of Cryptovoxels. Notably, Cryptovoxels overtook Decentraland in trading volume for the first time this week. The virtual real estate market is heating up!

• A buyer bought 37 adjacent Cryptovoxels parcels for 500 ETH.

  Nifty Report @NiftyReport

  A 500 ETH ($110k) @cryptovoxels sale! 37 parcels. Congrats spidymonkey!! #NFT

  

• Among plenty of other new purchases, NFT collector WhaleShark just grabbed their 4th piece from artist Reinhard Schmid. They also picked up the CryptoMotors first-generation VR Racer 2 for 6 ETH.

• The Known Origin team unveiled their newest artists. They also teamed up with Maker on an NFT sticker pack competition for 1,500 Dai.

• Jason Bailey just crossed the “25 pieces sold” mark in his excellent SAMOGAN series hosted by SuperRare. Artists on SuperRare have now collectively earned more than $600,000.

  

• The first DeFi loan backed by crypto art? It’s under consideration by the Rocket team.

• Enjin will be powering new digital collectibles for fan tokens project Socios.com.

• Generative on-chain art play Avastars launched this week.

  Avastars @AvaStarsNFT

  WOW - What an amazing start to Avastars! 10 Founders have sold for 10 ETH on Day 1! More Founders go up for sale over the next couple weeks every day on 24hr auctions starting at 1 ETH. Art and Metadata are 100% on-chain (if you didn't already know that) opensea.io/assets/avastar

  

• In music news, DAORecords has arrived.

• Want to get in touch with your inner crypto whale?Artist duo Hackatao has you covered.

  Hackatao @Hackatao

  Whales collect you? Now you can collect a whale. 23 Editions on @KnownOrigin_io knownorigin.io/edition/127900 #Whale #Cryptoart #NFT #BlueSea #blockchain #ethereum

  

• The OpenSea marketplace added support for Apple Pay.

• Twitter’s Archillect is now on SuperRare.

• A new era of art really is upon us …

  trent.eth @trent_vanepps

  Woah 👀 interest bearing NFTs "have you ever wanted your art to make money for you"x

  

  robsecord.eth @robsecord

  Any Solidity Devs willing to give feedback/constructive criticism on: https://t.co/LkQi8l76Zi Would be much appreciated! :)

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Ethereum no-loss lottery game PoolTogether just awarded its largest prize ever — worth $1,648 in Dai — to a player that only owned 10 tickets. Lucky!

  PoolTogether @PoolTogether_

  Wow! The winner of the largest prize ever only 10 Dai deposited! They won $1,648 Dai 🏆 A 1 in 69,738 chance of winning. Congrats to the little fish! �IE

  

• The Axie Infinity team just released a new update for their alpha and undertook their first “soft-ban wave.” Separately, users can now trade Axie’s Small Love Potion (SLP) tokens on the Leverj decentralized exchange. Check out the Axie Infinity Fight Night Qualifier, too.

  Axie Infinity @AxieInfinity

  We just released path 1.0.0K of the Axie Infinity Community Alpha. * Players can now view their friends battles live. * Bloodmoon Curse activated after round 10 in PvP - all Axies deal more damage every round * + Other improvements. Update links can be found on Discord.

  

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• The Ethereum community celebrated this week after the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi projects crossed the $1 billion USD mark for the first time.

  John W. 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇪🇸🇪🇺 @_JohnWhelan

  Like the 10,000 BTC pizza, this may be one of the defining moments in crypto that we look back on.

  

  Ciarán Murray @C1aranMurray

  Achievement unlocked. $1bn locked in #DeFi. https://t.co/MGVC1XtwU8

• Blockchain data website Blocklytics is auctioning ad space via an NFT on OpenSea.

• Gelato Finance activated an alpha version of their “Personal Ethereum Bot” for DeFi users.

• Investing in startups via DeFi? The San Francisco-based Fairmint is on it, having just launched a Continuous Securities Offering (CSO) platform.

• Running an Ethereum 2.0 node on mobile? Check.

  Mamy Ratsimbazafy @m_ratsim

  The #ethnimbus team is currently meeting in Brussels, playing with the first mobile #Eth2 testnet

  

• Decentralized lending and margin trading dapp Fulcrum is growing.

• Meet the collateral swap: built from the DeFi money legos of Maker, Aave, and Uniswap, this prototype tools lets users swap collateral in Maker Vaults within a single transaction.

• Decentralized exchange Uniswap isn’t messing around …

  Uniswap 🦄 @UniswapExchange

  💀 No funds are ever safe on centralized exchanges 💀 Use a decentralized exchange that allows you to custody your own funds. From now on we will be retweeting all centralized exchange hacks. Here's #1cS

  

  Altsbit @altsbit

  Dear users, Unfortunately we have to notify you with the fact that our exchange was hacked during the night and almost all funds from BTC, ETH, ARRR and VRSC were stolen. A small part of the funds are safe on cold wallets.

📰Fresh Reads

• If anyone can download the art file, why would I buy the NFT? - SuperRare

• Out of Left (Brained) Field #3: What’s in my cryptoart portfolio? - WhaleShark.Pro

• 1,000 True Fans? Try 100 - Li Jin

• Text Mining Crypto Art - Massimo Franceschet

• NFT Proof-of-Work Feb. 2020 - Andrew Steinwold

• MetaCartel Ecosystem Update 2020 - Peter ‘pet3rpan’

• How to accept crypto payments - Bankless

• Ganar Eth Jugando Axie Infinity, Si! es posible! - Araragi Koyomi

• Artnome Wants to Predict the Price of a Masterpiece. The Problem? There’s Only One. - Nona Tepper

• Ultimate Whale Jeff Bezos Excites Art World With Record Purchase - Bloomberg

🖌️Extra, Extra

• This week I was pondering the possibility of a hypothetical on-chain art collector group, or even just a gallery, that’s operated through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and secured by tools like the Gnosis Multisignature Wallet. What a time to be alive, right?

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 5th issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer this time next week, too. Cheers ✌️

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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer

The DeFi Arts Intelligencer is curated by me, William M. Peaster, a professional writer and editor who’s been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.

I’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. I’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 at @wmpeaster.

This particular newsletter is a labor of love, but if you enjoy the work and want to support it, feel free to subscribe, have a like-minded friend subscribe as well, or buy some of my crypto art on OpenSea! Thanks kindly!

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