Welcome to the 2nd 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

• Popular NFT artists XCOPY and Coldie sold their first collaboration, “DystoPunk 3D,” for 40 ETH.

• Art writer Jason Bailey took proceeds from his recent 75 ETH sale of “AI Generated Nude Portrait 1” by artist Robbie Barrat and created 165 micro-loans through Kiva.

  Jason Bailey @artnome

  Alright, all loans have been made! 165 loans from team Artnome made across 48 countries through @Kiva. Best I've ever felt. Thanks to @curiousnfts for his generous purchase of @videodrome Nude #1 which made this possible :-) kiva.org/team/team_artn…

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• The OpenSea marketplace embraced the dark side … night mode that is.

• Decentralized music streaming platform Audius is now live in the iOS app store.

• Fashion derivatives? Thanks Ethereum!

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Weekly “no-loss” lottery PoolTogether broke through 1,600 users and a 1,000 Dai prize pot for the first time.

• The first five cards of the “Artists Series” from the Marble Cards game sold for 36.88 ETH.

• Re: the recent Marble Cards community controversy, Ep. 30 of Wizards of Dapps is an informative entry point.

• NFT supply policies? Check.

• MetaGame is rising.

  Peter ($MAGIC) @pet3rpan_

  Working on some visuals for @MetaFam in collaboration with @zherring who is a sick illustrator 🙏c

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♦️♦️ DeFi News

• Signal DAO was rolled out; the project will allow entrepreneurs to propose projects and receiving funding accordingly.

• On-chain liquidity provider Kyber Network eclipsed $500 million USD in total transaction volume.

• Tokenize traders: Set Protocol has launched its “Set Social Trading” on Ethereum.

• CherrySwap V2 arrived: an automatic DeFi market maker offering interest rate swaps.

• Welcome Rho, another automated market maker effort related to on-chain interest rate swaps. More fixed interest rates in DeFi, anyone?

• Is StablePay cooler than Venmo? Oh yeah.

  DeFi Dad [formerly Crypto Dad] @DeFi_Dad

  Ever try @StablePay? StablePay is like a Venmo payment request but paid in DAI. 1⃣ Set price 2⃣ Who gets DAI (ie you or someone else) 3⃣ Share the link While this is experimental, I created a simple example. Try mine for 1 DAI or create your own! stablepay.io/me/1/dai2compo…

  January 24th 2020

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• DigixDAO is dissolving.

• Reuben Bramanathan, one of the cryptoeconomy’s most respected lawyers, has unveiled a personal token.

• Plant some trees through DeFi, will ya! rTrees has you covered.

• Uniswap now offers more than 2,000 token markets.

📰Fresh Reads

• “How to tokenize yourself” - from Ryan Sean Adams

• “Our Network: Issue #5” - from Spencer Noon

• “New Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better” - from Camila Russo

• “Expectations of launching your own Moloch DAO” - Peter “pet3rpan”

• “The Year in Ethereum 2019” - Josh Stark & Evan Van Ness

• “The Power of Permissionless Protocols” - from Ben DiFrancesco

🖌️Extra, Extra

• I sold my first NFT art for 0.1 ETH, yippee! ❤️ Cubism.

  

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 3rd 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. 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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