DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Nov. 7th, 2020
DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Nov. 7th, 2020
Welcome to the 42nd issue of theย DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around Ethereum art, collectibles, games, finance, and more. Subscribeย here.
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The DeFi Arts Intelligencer has its next sponsor! Itโs Async Art. Ethereumโs premier programmable art movement and platform, Async Art centers around artistsโ Master tokens and Layer tokens, the latter of which can be used by collectors to collaboratively affect the appearance of the former. This month Async Art has two major events to watch: Micah Johnsonโs masterful, just-released charity work โsรค-v(ษ-)rษn-tฤ," which uses bitcoin donations to help black youth, and Trevor Jones + Alotta Money's much-anticipated Nov. 15th EthBoy art drop.
For this dispatch:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
As one of Async Artโs first artist advocates, Iโm honored to start off by representing the talented and visionary artist Bรฅrd Ionson. This week I wrote a profile of Ionson, โDistortion Genius,โ in celebration of his newly minted Async Art masterpiece, โThe Gate.โ Keep your ๐s open for a deeper review Iโll be publishing on the richly-layered work soon โฆ
Remember how I mentioned artistย Micah Johnsonโs ambitious new piece โsรค-v(ษ-)rษn-tฤโ above? Collector Metapurse.eth placed a 175 ETH bid on the work this week! ๐ฅ
Now that we have President-Elect Biden, Beepleโs โCROSSROADโ piece (as dropped on Nifty Gateway last week) officially shifted into its โBiden winโ state โฆ
Nigerian artistย Osinachiย launched a liquidity mining campaign around his new $OSINA personal token.
Illustrator Jose Delbo is holding 4 auctions on Nifty Gateway tonight, which you can watch along with live at the first NFT Auction House Show in Decentraland!
Artist FEWOCiOUS sold โMoment i Fell in Loveโ to collector Eric Young on Nifty Gateway for $25,000 โฆ
NFT-collateralized loans platform NFTfi just saw its biggest loan yet in a 33 ETH Decentraland estate deal โฆ
๐น๏ธ Blockchain Games
The Metalympics are live! Be sure to catch next weekโs festivities if you missed Nov. 5thโs kick-off event โฆ
The community of Ethereum โno-loss lottoโ savings game PoolTogether is currently voting on whether to increase the numbly of weekly winners.
Axie Infinityโs new AXS governance token is now live on Uniswap and Binance.
The latest installment of the Last Lunacian Axie Infinity tournament series started today, with players duking it out for AXS and Dai prizes โฆ
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธ DeFi News
PieDAO released its DEFI++ index, which is composed of a 70/30 split between the groupโs โlarge-capโ DEFI+L index and its โsmall-capโ DEFI+S index.
DeFi lending protocol Aave now has its own limited-edition land item up for grabs in the Axie Infinity universe โฆ
Fractionalized NFT trading platform NIFTEX raised $500,000 in its first funding round.
๐ฐFresh Content
๐ฐ โHow to protect your Ethereum walletโ - me in Bankless
๐ฐ โTokenSmart Humpday Report #6: Beeple Brings the Boom to Nifty Gatewayโ - me for nft42
๐ฐ โDeFi Indexes Explainedโ - me in defiprime
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 43rd 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 DeFi beats in recent years.
Iโm passionate about art and a DeFi/NFT 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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