DeFi Arts Intelligencer - July 18th, 2020
Welcome to the 26th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around Ethereum art, collectibles, and games. Subscribeย here.
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For this dispatch:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
The Museum of Crypto Art (MโCโณ) purchased โRubikโs Artificeโ by Pak for 35 ETH on SuperRareโs secondary market โฆ
The Golem and SuperRare teams are running the Golem Monsters Art Contest, a 6 week competition seeking out monster-centric art. 4 winners will receive 1.5 ETH each.
NFTfi, a marketplace for NFT-collateralized loans, has facilitated its first 200 ETH in loans.
The Buy Art Save Kittens virtual event in Cryptovoxels helped raise $10,000 for Kitty Bungalow, a kitten rescue organization based in Los Angeles.
Avastars has a new set of scrolling bounties available โฆ
Aavegotchi, a new NFT project backed by Aave, published its first community update. Notably, Aavegotchiโs will be backed by Aaveโs interest-bearing aTokens.
The Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA) and NonFungible.com are collaborating on โtools to better address the evaluation processโ around NFTs.
Nifty Gatewayโs Drop 11 featured works from artists Jordy Kerwick, Darel Carey, and Lans King.
Art platform Rarible unveiled $RARI, the first governance token in the NFT space.
Async Art had some amazing releases this week, including โjฤหรคmษtrฤโ by Animatttic and โMemorial to the Victims of Fiat Money's Violenceโ by Carlos Marcial.
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
Chainlink published a primer on how randomized rewards in blockchain games can considerably advance the sector.
Fantasy football game Sorare raised a $4 million seed round that was led by e.ventures.
Axie Infinity held its latest Axie Community Cup on July 12th, and 500 Dai were up for grabs.
Immutable CEO James Ferguson, one of the leading minds behind the Gods Unchained trading card game, gave an overview of the gameโs journey to date and where itโs going from here.
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
DeFi โsuper usersโ grew by nearly 20% in Q2 2020.
The total supply of the Dai stablecoin is now above 200 million.
Decentralized trading protocol Uniswap is seeing its volume explode this month.
MTA, the protocol token of the mStable meta-stablecoin project, had its initial token sale event on July 18th through Gnosisโs Mesa exchange.
Ethereum Name Service is now relying on Chainlinkโs ETH/USD Price Reference Data to determine the ETH price of USD-listed ENS domains.
bZx released its governance token, BZRX, to the public on Uniswap.
Lending and borrowing protocol Aave rolled out new listings and features, including a fiat onramp powered by Transak.
๐ฐFresh Content
โWhy Online Merchants Should Accept Dai For Crypto Paymentsโ - MakerDAO
โHow To Create Evangelists (For Your NFT Project)โ - Andrew Steinwold
โWhat comes after yield farming?โ - Brian Flynn
โThe Game Of Life - Emergence In Generative Artโ - Jason Bailey
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 27th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย this time next week, too. Cheers โ๏ธ
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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.
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