DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Oct. 3rd, 2020
Welcome to the 37th 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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For this dispatch:
๐จย Digital Art & Collectibles
A zombie and beanieโd CryptoPunk just set a new CryptoPunk sales record of 185 ETH โฆ
Ethereum art platform SuperRare saw its monthly volume reach a new all-time high of $777,000. The platform also just completed its audit with Quantstampโs venerable smart contract auditors.
NFT marketplace OpenSea saw its monthly volume break a new all-time high of $2.75 million.
The Untitled NFT Hackathon is running from Oct. 8th to Oct. 27th. The event is sponsored by Avastars, MetaCartel, Matic Network, and the xDai project.
The LAO co-founder Aaron Wright said: โNFTs and other tokens will begin to eat the estimated $6 trillion intellectual property market in the US over the upcoming decades.โ
Kai published โAvastars: A Practical Guide to UB Scores.โ Kaiโs a genius, donโt miss this read!
I wrote TokenSmartโs first Humpday Report. In it, I covered the Pranksy takeover: the prolific NFT collector and flipper Pranksy just released $COZOM, collaborated with NFT-centric Meme Protocol, and more.
The first Pranksyland bundle was sold: Coldieโs โProof of Workโ Cryptovoxels parcel sold to collector Astelier for 28.5 ETH.
๐น๏ธย Blockchain Games
Donโt miss out on the Axie Infinity Obsidian Cup this week!
CryptoKitty #1 sold for 200 ETH this week.
My WARCHEST proposal for NFT yield farming was a runner-up in the Gods Unchained DeFi Challenge! Woohoo!
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธย DeFi News
MetaFactory, a decentralized fashion label, launched its $ROBOT governance token โฆ
Support Ethereum for payments. Just do it โฆ
More people should support ethereum for payments. The nice thing about supporting ethereum is that you're not just accepting ETH, you also get support for MKR, UNI, WBTC, and every stablecoin for free. And there's already like three working layer-2 scaling solutions on mainnet.No one will ever be able to convince me that @Square refusing to support Ethereum (in addition to Bitcoin) isnโt dumb. Itโs the most head-scratching crypto strategy weโve ever seen from a big corporate, and thatโs saying something...Spencer Noon @spencernoon
๐ฐFresh Content
โQuick Overview of the NFT Ecosystemโ - Andrew Steinwold
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 38th 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.
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