Welcome to the 38th 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

• DJ RAC and artist Reisinger Andres broke the SuperRare all-time sale record with a 70 ETH sale for “Elephant Dreams” …

  SuperRare 💎 @SuperRare_co

  Huge congrats to @RAC & @reisingerandres who just broke the all-time USD sale record on SR for their first ever💎 70 ETH ($26,187) to collector maxstealth 🔥 Congrats to All 💎 superrare.co/artwork-v2/ele…

  October 10th 2020

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• Bryan Brinkman’s Pranksyland parcel is auctioning off for 10 ETH …

  Pranksy @pranksyNFT

  BREAKING NEWS: @bryanbrinkman @ #pranksyland, The Frankfurt Candy Shoppe 24 hour auction has been TRIGGERED, with a 10 $ETH bid! opensea.io/bundles/bryan-… #NFTs #metaverse #candy

  October 10th 2020

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• Programmable Ethereum art platform Async Art helped mainstream auction house Christie’s sell Robert Alice’s “Block 21” NFT for +$131,000 this week.

• Meme Protocol opened a new HQ in Decentraland.

• Larva Labs rolled out CryptoPunks bounties, be sure to check it out!

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Axie Infinity pushed out Alpha Version 1.0.0v, which improves the gaming app’s stability and adds PvP energy.

• Axie Infinity also hit 10,000 Axie-holding addresses and 10,000 Discord members this week.

• Welcome the Wrapped Origin Axie (WOA) token, which represents an ERC-20 stake in a pool of Origin Aquatic, Beast, or Plant Axies.

• Ethereum trading card game Gods Unchained released a balance update that buffed some of the “lowest winrate and least used Trial of the Gods cards.”

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• Index Cooperative, a project for community-managed crypto indexes, launched.

• Alpha Finance Labs released Alpha Homora, a protocol for leveraged yield farming.

• Shell Protocol launched a new stablecoin automated market maker (AMM).

• Wrapped CryptoKitties are starting to take off.

📰Fresh Content

• “Wrapped NFTs: The next phase in crypto-collectibles” - Kai

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 39th 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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