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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Aug. 15th, 2020

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DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Aug. 15th, 2020

William M. Peaster
Aug 15, 2020
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Welcome to the 30th issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer, your weekly source for key happenings around Ethereum art, collectibles, games, finance, and more. Subscribe here.

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For this dispatch:

๐ŸŽจ Digital Art & Collectibles

  • Art platform SuperRare topped the NFT economy this week with +$180,000 in 7-day volume. More than 8,000 artworks have now been collected through the dapp.

  • On Async Art, Master and Layer token auctions kicked off for โ€œChoose Your Own Adventureโ€ by artist Coldie. The pieceโ€™s Master promptly sold for 35 ETH to collector quick-witted-klee-1993. Layers and all, the auctions fetched 78.15 ETH!

  • Coldie also sold โ€œThe Lost Vitalik - Decentral Eyes Genesisโ€ for 20.24 ETH on SuperRare โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @Coldie
    Coldie @Coldie
    SOLD! 20.24 ETH Congrats to Perceptive on the purchase of the very first artwork in my Decentral Eyes portrait series, a 3D anaglyph portrait of Vitalik Buterin. This artwork also comes with a signed pair of 3D glasses. Thanks to everyone who bid that was exciting! @SuperRare_co
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    5:49 PM โˆ™ Aug 14, 2020
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  • Artist Osinachi has two new pieces out on MakersPlace, โ€œAgbommaโ€ and โ€œNwanyi-Sunday.โ€ These signature works are inspired by Igbo hairdressing traditions.

  • Generative art project Avastars rolled out Scroll to Earn, in which users can consign Avastars to the newly created Global Feed and profit if other collectors buy them.

  • Renowned comic book artist Josรฉ Delbo sold โ€œThe Battle Below Seaโ€ to collector Arctic for 25 ETH on MakersPlace.

  • Interested in booking some ad space in Cryptovoxels? Metaverse Billboards has you covered.

  • The Graph just made it a whole lot easier to query data about NFTs ๐Ÿ‘€

  • Artist XCOPY sold Layer tokens 11-30 from โ€œThe Rabbleโ€ for 29.15 ETH on Async Art.

  • Artist Pak has now racked up over 584 ETH in all-time sales on SuperRare.

๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Blockchain Games

  • Ethereum trading card game Gods Unchained rolled out its Direct Challenge mode.

  • Check out โ€œThe Battle for HAUTclere,โ€ a BattleDAO competition that lets Axie Infinity players compete to win shards of the legendary Hautclere Axie. Note: the competition was temporarily postponed.

  • No-loss savings game PoolTogether now has more than 10,000 unique addresses participating in its weekly and daily pools.

  • Aaveโ€™s Aavegotchi project is a really interesting up-and-comer at the crossroads of DeFi, NFTs, and gaming. Look for similar melds to follow in its wake!

Twitter avatar for @ljxie
Linda Xie @ljxie
I've been interested in ideas combining DeFi + NFTs. I think what @aavegotchi is doing with gamification of DeFi is really neat. Each Aavegotchi represents DeFi collateral earning yield on @AaveAave but you can also battle them, level them up & equip wearables that change traits
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4:18 PM โˆ™ Aug 15, 2020
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  • $SAND, the native token of Ethereum gaming platform The Sandbox, is now trading on Binance.

โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธ DeFi News

  • Per DeFi Pulse, lending protocol Aave is now the second-largest DeFi dapp with more than $1 billion in assets under management.

  • Trading protocol Uniswap is the largest 30-day consumer of gas on Ethereum right now, according to ETH Gas Station.

  • The total supply of the Dai stablecoin is now over 450 million.

  • Interesting DeFi history nugget: Async Art founder Conlan Rios created the โ€œgalloping unicornโ€ Uniswap gif โ€ฆ

    Twitter avatar for @mikedemarais
    mikedemarais.eth @mikedemarais
    rare uniswap history: the iconic and beloved โ€œgalloping unicornโ€ loading gif was first introduced to the universe by @conlan, a community member who built the first iteration of uniswap.info the .info app has been totally overhauled but @conlanโ€™s rad gif lives on ๐Ÿค˜
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    11:11 AM โˆ™ Aug 15, 2020
    30Likes3Retweets

๐Ÿ“ฐFresh Content

  • โ€œFly With Us: Traditional Painting Superchargedโ€ - Reinhard Schmid

  • โ€œCan CryptoArt Really Change the World?โ€ - David Moore

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธExtra, Extra

  • By random drawing, the 4 winners of the DeFi Arts Intelligencerโ€™s $WHALE-WHALES giveaway are as follows:

    1. Akkrin

    2. Begood

    3. CryptozNewb

    4. bergleeuw

    Congratulations! Iโ€™ll have your $WHALE over soon!

    Lastly, be sure to check out the new structure of the $WHALE community, and keep up with the Intelligencer so you donโ€™t miss future giveaways!

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

Keep an ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ out for the 31st issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer this time next week, too. Cheers โœŒ๏ธ

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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer

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

Iโ€™m 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. 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 at @wmpeaster.

If you enjoy this newsletter and want to support it, feel free to subscribe or have a like-minded friend subscribe as well. I have collected NFTs open for offers, too, as well as my own art NFTs available on OpenSea. Tips also accepted at wmpeaster.eth. Thanks kindly!

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