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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - July 4th, 2020

William M. Peaster
Jul 4, 2020
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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - July 4th, 2020

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Welcome to the 24th issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around Ethereum art, collectibles, and games. Subscribe here.

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For this dispatch:

🎨 Digital Art & Collectibles

  • It’s official: artists on SuperRare have now collectively earned over $1 million 🎉

  • Programmable art platform Async Art is releasing a free smart TV app for displaying your favorite Async Art NFTs. This week also saw Fabin Rasheed’s generative and interactive Master work “Regalia” sell for 7.2 ETH on the platform.

  • On Nifty Gateway, Frenetik Void’s “Machinations” sold for $3,100 and Osinachi’s “The Creation of Steve” sold for $1,440.

  • The Cryptovoxels team is exploring “private spaces,” which would allow folks to try making builds for free. Additionally, you can now use ENS names in-world.

  • The Moonshot Crypto World Cup in Decentraland was a hit ⚽

  • One collector bought two mask-clad CryptoPunks, Punk 9625 and Punk 3383, for 10 ETH and 6 ETH respectively …

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  • Dapper Labs, the creators of CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, gave Avastars a nice shout-out this week.

  • 3D gold-staked NFT dapp Bullionix has integrated Chainlink's XAU/USD Price Reference Feed.

  • NFT investment firm Polyient Games will use the Chainlink VRF solution to ensure random distribution of NFT-based PGFK rewards. NFT minting platform Cargo announced it was embracing the VRF tool, too.

  • Polyient Games is kicking off its sale of PGFK tokens, which are capped at 20,000, on August 4th. The firm also unveiled the Polyient Games Marketplace, which will be a peer-to-peer NFT exchange and NFT auction house.

  • Virtual reality platform Somnium Space is making it easier than ever to world-hop among other VR projects like Cryptovoxels and Decentraland.

🕹️ Blockchain Games

  • For the second week in a row, fantasy ⚽ game Sorare has topped the NFT arena’s 7-day volume charts. The game brought in ~$350,000 in sales in June. Image below courtesy of NonFungible:

  • The minds at Axie Infinity are building Ronin, an application-specific Ethereum sidechain that will offer players of the game multiple user-friendly advancements.

  • Ethereum gaming world The Sandbox completed the final round of its MoonSale campaign.

♦️♦️ DeFi News

  • In a first, the total supply of the USDC stablecoin is now over 1 billion.

  • Meet Matcha, a new decentralized exchange aggregator from the 0x team.

  • Synthetix is now offering binary options.

  • Popular Ethereum wallet MetaMask has a big new update out.

  • Users can now draw out decentralized MakerDAO loans using KNC and ZRX as collateral.

  • Thanks to a governance vote, the Compound protocol is now basing COMP distributions on markets’ borrowing volume rather than interest rates.

📰Fresh Content

  • “The first $100m in NFTs” - Andrew Steinwold

  • “Behind the Art with Josie - Jim, Founder of Avastars” - Josie Bellini

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 25th 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.

If you enjoy this newsletter and want to support it, feel free to subscribe or have a like-minded friend subscribe as well. I have NFT pieces available for sale, too, or you can tip me at wmpeaster.eth. Thanks kindly!

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