DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Nov. 7th, 2020

Welcome to the 42nd 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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The DeFi Arts Intelligencer has its next sponsor! It’s Async Art. Ethereum’s premier programmable art movement and platform, Async Art centers around artists’ 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 Johnson’s masterful, just-released charity work “sä-v(ə-)rən-tē," which uses bitcoin donations to help black youth, and Trevor Jones + Alotta Money's much-anticipated Nov. 15th EthBoy art drop.

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For this dispatch:

🎨 Digital Art & Collectibles

• As one of Async Art’s first artist advocates, I’m honored to start off by representing the talented and visionary artist Bård Ionson. This week I wrote a profile of Ionson, “Distortion Genius,” in celebration of his newly minted Async Art masterpiece, “The Gate.” Keep your 👀s open for a deeper review I’ll be publishing on the richly-layered work soon …

  

• Remember how I mentioned artist Micah Johnson’s ambitious new piece “sä-v(ə-)rən-tē” above? Collector Metapurse.eth placed a 175 ETH bid on the work this week! 🥂

• Now that we have President-Elect Biden, Beeple’s “CROSSROAD” piece (as dropped on Nifty Gateway last week) officially shifted into its “Biden win” state …

  Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) @MuseumofCrypto

  

• Nigerian artist Osinachi 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 “Moment i Fell in Love” to collector Eric Young on Nifty Gateway for $25,000 …

  FEWOCiOUS @fewocious

  “Moment i Fell in Love” SOLD for $25,000 1/1 sold to @etyoung on @niftygateway

  

• NFT-collateralized loans platform NFTfi just saw its biggest loan yet in a 33 ETH Decentraland estate deal …

  NFTfi.com @nftfi

  NEW RECORD: Earlier today @HPrivakos listed a 32 land Decentraland estate on @nftfi, looking for a 33 ETH ($14.5k) loan. Less than 2 hours later he had got what he asked for. @decentraland taking the crown from @CryptoKitties on biggest loan as well. #NFTs #NFTfi #Decentraland

  

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• The Metalympics are live! Be sure to catch next week’s festivities if you missed Nov. 5th’s kick-off event …

  matthew.cent.eth @niftytime

  The best WIP Meetups are that perfect balance of weird, fun, and the unexpected. Today was one of those WIPs. What a way to kick off the @metalympics too. WIP fam for the win.

  

  

• The community of Ethereum “no-loss lotto” savings game PoolTogether is currently voting on whether to increase the numbly of weekly winners.

• Axie Infinity’s 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 …

  Chief @Chief_TDzzl

  The Last Lunacian is live! This @AxieInfinity tournament series brought to you by @CommunityGaming is about to be FIRE🔥🔥🔥!!! -1250$ in prizes $AXS and $Dai💸 -Hair and Hype on the mic @AxCatchum 💥 -HOURS OF HYPE!!👏 Stream- theta.tv/chieff dlive.tv/Chiefff

  

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• PieDAO released its DEFI++ index, which is composed of a 70/30 split between the group’s “large-cap” DEFI+L index and its “small-cap” DEFI+S index.

• DeFi lending protocol Aave now has its own limited-edition land item up for grabs in the Axie Infinity universe …

  Axie Infinity @AxieInfinity

  👻We’ve created a limited edition @AaveAave NFT! This NFT can only be earned for the next month, and anyone that holds at least .65 AAVE can qualify! Register 👇 axieinfinity.com/aave

  

• Fractionalized NFT trading platform NIFTEX raised $500,000 in its first funding round.

📰Fresh Content

• 📰 “How to protect your Ethereum wallet” - me in Bankless

• 📰 “TokenSmart Humpday Report #6: Beeple Brings the Boom to Nifty Gateway” - me for nft42

• 📰 “DeFi Indexes Explained” - me in defiprime

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 43rd 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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