Welcome to the 11th 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 SuperRare has now seen 5,000 of its 1/1 pieces collected. Congrats and godspeed, ye harbingers of new wonders!

• Acclaimed cryptoartist Coldie spearheaded a major “Get Out While You Stay In” VR party, running from March 27th to March 29th, in virtual world project Cryptovoxels. Moreover, Cryptovoxels continues to ship updates at a beastly pace.

• OpeanSea activated support for embeddable NFTs.

• Programmable art project Async Art has new masterpieces out.

• Newly relaunched NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway has its second wave of digital content dropping on April 2nd.

• Want to support NFT minting platform Mintbase? Be sure to check out their Gitcoin Grant page.

• Avastars creator Jim McNelis wrote new explainer posts on the rankings and pricings of Avastars and their associated combinations and traits.

• Happy birthday to the very industrious artist Trevor Jones … cheers mate!

• Cryptoart collector and patron WhaleShark bought two collab pieces made by the talented combination of Katy Arrington and Van …

  MakersPlace @makersplaceco

  🔥OUT NOW! 🔥 New Collab by @katyarrington x @VansDesign_ The Forest makersplace.com/vansdesign/the… VR Girl makersplace.com/katyarrington/… Only accepting offers. Showing in VR till 3/31👇 cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=SE… Learn more 👇 medium.com/makersplace/ka… #raredigitalart #crypto

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• Creative development studio Polygonal Mind hosted is first cryptoart meetup in Decentraland.

• Artist XCOPY sold “Britons” to TokenAngels for 10.5 ETH …

  XCOPY 🏴 @XCOPYART

  PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: superrare.co/artwork-v2/bri… @SuperRare_co #art #COVID2019

  March 25th 2020

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🕹️ Blockchain Games

• The Gods Unchained digital trading card game published a new marketplace analysis on Core cards.

• The team behind The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming platform, announced a partnership with Atari, the mainstream arcade games powerhouse. Separately, the platform’s next land presale begins on March 31st.

• Axie Infinity resource site Axie World unveiled a new sales explorer tool.

• No-loss Ethereum lotto game PoolTogether just saw its sponsored Dai pool jump from 200,000 Dai to 300,000.

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• Popular decentralized exchange project Uniswap introduced its coming V2 system, and it’s a true feat of engineering. Watch this DEX going forward!

• The Maker Foundation, the non-profit stewards of the Maker and Dai projects, officially transferred control of the MKR governance tokens to MKR holders in a decentralization-minded move.

• DeFi Saver released a simple dashboard for participating in Maker liquidation auctions.

• Coinbase Wallet launched direct integrations with DeFi lending projects Compound and dYdX.

• Conservative stablecoin project MetaCoin just released a new update. To “punt” on the oracle problem for now, the project will rely on Chainlink’s ETH/USD price feed.

• UMA Protocol rolled out “priceless” synthetic tokens.

📰Fresh Content

• “NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - March 2020” - Andrew Steinwold

• “Sharing Human Stories with Digital Artist Osinachi” - matthew.cent.eth

• “Cypher::Prophet — The punk origins of blockchain” - hex6c

• “Distilled” - andy.thebluebook.eth

• “Crypto Advice from a Poker Player” - Bankless by Ryan Sean Adams

• “Introducing: Yul+ — A new low-level language for Ethereum” - Fuel Labs

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 12th 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.

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