DeFi Arts Intelligencer - May 2nd, 2020
Welcome to the 16th 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:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
Cryptoart platform SuperRare released a big update that makes its marketplace system even more user-friendly. The platformโs โArtist Stimulus Packageโ campaign also concluded with 25 ETH raised.
Collector WhaleShark is launching a social currency, $WHALE, with help from the Roll and NonFungible.com teams. The token will be underpinned by the rare cryptoart and digital collectibles held in โThe Vault.โ
Avastars is running a meme competition through May 3rd. The generative art projectโs also now on Product Hunt.
Virtual world Cryptovoxels has islands incoming.
NFT maestro Pranksy is turning their 35 Cryptovoxels plots, dubbed Pranksyland, into a cryptoart hub in collaboration with artists in the ecosystem.
Artist Alotta Money is auctioning โThe Voxel Hotelโ on OpenSea.
Artist Osinachi listed a new piece, โTennis Player,โ on MakersPlace ...
In a new update, NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway noted around 70 percent of its buyers to date have been โnew to the NFT space.โ
Check out InfiNFT, a new token minting platform aimed at securing NFTs in perpetuity.
Artist Twisted Vacancyโs piece โMotel for Cosmic Debrisโ saw a secondary sale on SuperRare for 7.4 ETH โฆ
The upstart PixelChain project is approaching the milestone of 2,000 mints.
Decentralized fashion label MetaFactory held a sudden death 24-hour auction for its final two membership slots.
๐น๏ธย Blockchain Games
MetaClan DAO launched on the Ethereum mainnet.
The Gods Unchained team analyzed recent top-selling GU cards across the Genesis and Core sets.
Axie Infinityโs Season 4 concluded on May 2nd.
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
Bitcoin-pegged Ethereum token tBTC started its public roll out.
The LAO, a decentralized venture fund thatโs a combination of a DAO and a Delaware-based LLC, went live.ย
Meet Gnosis Safe apps, an easy way for Gnosis Safe multi-sig users to interact with Ethereum dapps.
The Decentraland community has applied to have the MANA token approved as collateral within MakerDAOโs Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) system. Separately, Maker stakeholders voted to add the bitcoin-pegged WBTC token to MCD on May 1st.
DeFi synthetic assets projectย UMA Protocolย listed 2% of the total supply of its $UMA tokenย on the Uniswap decentralized exchange. The tokenโs early price action caused some controversy.
DeFi lending dapp Compound now supports the Tether (USDT) stablecoin.
Ethereum privacy project Tornado.cash began its Trusted Setup Ceremony.
The ENS name crypto.eth sold for 60 ETH on OpenSea.
๐ฐFresh Content
โThoughts on Virtual Eventsโ - matthew.cent.eth
โNFT Art - Secondary Sale Valuationโ - Andrew Steinwold
โAsync Artist Spotlight: Osinachiโ - Async Art
โrhyolight galleryโ - Alan Smale a.k.a. Puffin
โCan Machine Learning Predict the Price of Art at Auction?โ - Jason Bailey
โBuilding on Ethereum in 2020โ - Austin Griffith
โHow to Make Your Own DeFi Protocol Without Writing a Smart Contractโ - Authereum
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
I have a couple new pieces up on OpenSea โ๏ธ
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 17th issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencerย this time next week, too. Cheers โ๏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 whoโs been tracking the Ethereum and Dai beats in recent years.
Iโm 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. Iโm 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.
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