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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Mar. 28th, 2020

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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Mar. 28th, 2020

William M. Peaster
Mar 29, 2020
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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Mar. 28th, 2020

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Welcome to the 11th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around blockchain art, collectibles, and games. Subscribeย here.

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For this dispatch:

๐ŸŽจย 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 โ€œGet Out While You Stay Inโ€ 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 โ€ฆ cheers mate!

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

    Twitter avatar for @makersplaceco
    MakersPlace @makersplaceco
    ๐Ÿ”ฅOUT NOW! ๐Ÿ”ฅ New Collab by @katyarrington x @VansDesign_ The Forest makersplace.com/vansdesign/theโ€ฆ VR Girl makersplace.com/katyarrington/โ€ฆ Only accepting offers. Showing in VR till 3/31๐Ÿ‘‡ cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=SEโ€ฆ Learn more ๐Ÿ‘‡ medium.com/makersplace/kaโ€ฆ #raredigitalart #crypto
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    8:11 PM โˆ™ Mar 25, 2020
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  • Creative development studio Polygonal Mind hosted is first cryptoart meetup in Decentraland.

  • Artist XCOPY sold โ€œBritonsโ€ to TokenAngels for 10.5 ETH โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @XCOPYART
    XCOPY ๐Ÿด @XCOPYART
    PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: superrare.co/artwork-v2/briโ€ฆ @SuperRare_co #art #COVID2019
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    9:13 PM โˆ™ Mar 25, 2020
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๐Ÿ•น๏ธย 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 platformโ€™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.

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธย DeFi News

  • Popular decentralized exchange project Uniswap introduced its coming V2 system, and itโ€™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 โ€œpuntโ€ on the oracle problem for now, the project will rely on Chainlinkโ€™s ETH/USD price feed.

  • UMA Protocol rolled out โ€œpricelessโ€ synthetic tokens.

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Content

  • โ€œNFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - March 2020โ€ - Andrew Steinwold

  • โ€œSharing Human Stories with Digital Artist Osinachiโ€ - matthew.cent.eth

  • โ€œCypher::Prophet โ€” The punk origins of blockchainโ€ - hex6c

  • โ€œDistilledโ€ - andy.thebluebook.eth

  • โ€œCrypto Advice from a Poker Playerโ€ - Bankless by Ryan Sean Adams

  • โ€œIntroducing: Yul+ โ€” A new low-level language for Ethereumโ€ - Fuel Labs

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

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 12th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย this time next week, too. Cheers โœŒ๏ธ

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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer

Theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย is curated by me,ย William M. Peaster, a professional writer and editor whoโ€™s been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.

Iโ€™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. Iโ€™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 atย @wmpeaster.

If you enjoy this newsletter and want to support it, feel free toย subscribeย or have a like-minded friend subscribe as well. Donations accepted at writer.gimmethe.eth, too. Thanks kindly!


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