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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - May 16th, 2020

William M. Peaster
May 17, 2020
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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - May 16th, 2020

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Welcome to the 18th 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

  • Big CryptoPunks trades this week: Punk 4513 sold for 60 ETH, Punk 2964 sold for 15.5 ETH, and Punk 344 sold for 15 ETH.

  • Collector Moderats purchased Hackataoโ€™s โ€œIโ€™ve got the powerโ€ on SuperRareโ€™s secondary market for 45 ETH ๐Ÿฅ‚

  • XCOPY has a new piece, โ€œBack to School,โ€ out. The artistโ€™s other new piece, โ€œN,โ€ sold for 5.5 ETH earlier this week.

    Twitter avatar for @XCOPYART
    XCOPY ๐Ÿด @XCOPYART
    ๐ŸŒˆ Back to School! ๐ŸŒˆ @SuperRare_co superrare.co/artwork-v2/bacโ€ฆ #cryptoart $ETH #art #schools
    Image
    9:20 PM โˆ™ May 16, 2020
    64Likes22Retweets
  • Avastars Series 1 sold out, and Series 2 is coming soon โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @j1mmyeth
    j1mmy.eth @j1mmyeth
    5,000 Series 1 Avastars SOLD! that's a wrap. @AvaStarsNFT Congrats @Barthazian on minting the last one! opensea.io/assets/0xf3e77โ€ฆ
    Image
    8:56 PM โˆ™ May 13, 2020
    54Likes7Retweets
  • Collector WhaleSharkโ€™s social currency $WHALE goes live on May 18th. Also, the specialists at NonFungible.com just completed their audit of the ~3,000 NFT assets in WhaleSharkโ€™s โ€œVault.โ€

  • Artist Momo Wangโ€™s 1-of-1, CryptoKitties-inspired โ€œKoshkatโ€ NFT sold for $10,500 on Nifty Gateway. The 100 editions of Wangโ€™s โ€œCatterinaโ€ sold out in 3 minutes as well.

  • Art platform Known Origin added its latest wave of artists.

  • Today MakersPlace held a virtual showing, โ€œThe Prelude,โ€ in Cryptovoxels for this yearโ€™s jam-packed Virtual Rare Art Festival, which ran from May 14th to May 17th.

  • Decentralized fashion label MetaFactory launched a series of custom facemasks designed by cryptoartists. For every mask sold, another will be donated to the Mask Match organization.

๐Ÿ•น๏ธย Blockchain Games

  • The Gods Unchained team introduced some major changes to the gameโ€™s โ€œRanked Weekendsโ€ format. Read all about them here.

  • Season 5 of Axie Infinity began, and the project also unveiled the first phase of the Mavis Hub launcher, a consolidated suite for app updates, news, and more. Moreover, Land in the gameโ€™s Quadrant 1 sold out this week.

  • DeFi lending giant MakerDAO partnered with Decentral Games, which will now support Makerโ€™s Dai stablecoin in its gaming ecosystem.

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธย DeFi News

  • 2020, Year of the Stablecoin: the total market cap of stablecoins is now over $10 billion, an unprecedented milestone.

  • Financial services powerhouse Visa filed a patent application for a digital fiat currency that could have an embodiment on Ethereum.

  • Rising crypto derivatives platform ErisX launched the first CFTC-regulated ETH futures products.

  • Top 20 website Reddit rolled out a beta Community Points system in two subreddits, r/Cryptocurrency and r/FortNiteBR, that relies on Ethereum tokens.

  • DeFi on-chain liquidity aggregator Kyber Network crossed its first $1 billion in trades.ย 

  • Ethereum privacy tool Tornado Cash completed its Trusted Setup Ceremony. Next stop: complete decentralization.

  • New bitcoin token project tBTC is now live on the Ethereum mainnet โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @mhluongo
    Matt Luongo @mhluongo
    I'm proud to share the first TBTC minted on mainnet ๐Ÿ˜Ž
    Image
    10:27 PM โˆ™ May 15, 2020
    162Likes38Retweets

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Content

  • โ€œKnown Origin Featured Artworks #2โ€ โ€” Guest editor Jason Bailey

  • โ€œ[Spotlight] Peeking Into the Process of Bryan Brinkmanโ€ - matthew.cent.eth

  • โ€œNFT Data Dump Sundays - April 2020โ€ - Andrew Steinwold

  • โ€œ$WHALE Launch and Renewed Tokenomicsโ€ - WhaleShark

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธExtra, Extra

  • I sold Bryan Brinkmanโ€™s โ€œImmolationโ€ on SuperRare this week for 1.2 ETH. Amazing to see him automatically get a royalty from the secondary sale! Thanks Ethereum ๐ŸŽ‰

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

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 19th 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. I haveย NFT piecesย available on OpenSea, too. Thanks kindly!


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May 18, 2020Liked by William M. Peaster

Beast! Loving this format-- thanks so much for doing what you do and congrats on the $whale grant!

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