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:

🎨 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 “Choose Your Own Adventure” by artist Coldie. The piece’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 “The Lost Vitalik - Decentral Eyes Genesis” for 20.24 ETH on SuperRare …

  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

  August 14th 2020

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• Artist Osinachi has two new pieces out on MakersPlace, “Agbomma” and “Nwanyi-Sunday.” 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 José Delbo sold “The Battle Below Sea” 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 👀

• Artist XCOPY sold Layer tokens 11-30 from “The Rabble” for 29.15 ETH on Async Art.

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

🕹️ Blockchain Games

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

• Check out “The Battle for HAUTclere,” 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.

• Aave’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!

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

August 15th 2020

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• $SAND, the native token of Ethereum gaming platform The Sandbox, is now trading on Binance.

♦️♦️ 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 “galloping unicorn” Uniswap gif …

  mikedemarais.eth @mikedemarais

  rare uniswap history: the iconic and beloved “galloping unicorn” 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 @conlan’s rad gif lives on 🤘

  August 15th 2020

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📰Fresh Content

• “Fly With Us: Traditional Painting Supercharged” - Reinhard Schmid

• “Can CryptoArt Really Change the World?” - David Moore

🖌️Extra, Extra

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

  1. Akkrin

  2. Begood

  3. CryptozNewb

  4. bergleeuw

  Congratulations! I’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 don’t miss future giveaways!

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 31st issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer this time next week, too. Cheers ✌️

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About DeFi Arts Intelligencer

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

I’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. I’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.

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