DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Oct. 17th, 2020
DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Oct. 17th, 2020
Welcome to the 39th 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:
๐จ Digital Art & Collectibles
This weekโs 7-day volume toppers among collectibles projects per NonFungible: SuperRare (~$394k), MakersPlace ($271k), CryptoPunks ($173k), CryptoKitties ($77k), and Avastars ($44k).
Artists Jose Delbo and Trevor Jones made +540 ETH in sales in their latest Batman-themed collab drops on MakersPlace. The highest single-edition sale was a whopping 302.5 ETH (~$111k) for โGenesisโ ๐
Acclaimed songwriter and music producer Boys Noize released Pฬทฬฬอฬผอฬ ฬฬ ฬอฬVฬทNฬถXฬท, the artistโs first NFT on SuperRare. The pieceโs standing high bid is 7.5 ETH โฆ
Avastars Gen1 Series 2 ended, and Series 3 kicked off. Whatโre you waiting for, get to scrolling!
The WIP Season 3 premiered on Thursday, featuring guests Skeenee, pet3rpan, Jake Brukhman, and more.
This weekโs Decentraland Fashion Show 2.0 featured 15 collections from talented metaverse creators. We also just saw NFT marketplace Rarible launch its gallery in Decentraland โฆ
Nifty Gateway has drops lined up from amazing cryptoartists this week, including works by Goldweard and Giant Swan on Oct. 19th. and by Metageist on Oct. 22nd.
NFT marketplace OpenSea has introduced a new category functionality for sectors like art, virtual worlds, trading cards, and more.
Rarible held its first community call on Thursday.
Cargoโs Gems arrived, and with it the tokenโs unique NFT staking model. The projectโs already seen more than 840,000 Gems staked in Cargo NFTs.
Matt McKegg put on another epic synth performance in Cryptovoxels โฆ
Bluekirby.eth came to DeFi + NFTs, saw, conquered, scammed, and then maybe returned again? If youโre as confused as everyone else about the episode, be sure to check my new TokenSmart Humpday Post primer on the saga.
๐น๏ธ Blockchain Games
Season 12 of the Axie Infinity PvP Arena is now live.
According to State of the Dapps, Axie Infinity is currently the fifth most-used Ethereum dapp with over 1,100 daily active users.
Italian artist duo Hackatao and a team of collaborators designed Hack the Tao, a game created through The Sandboxโs Game Maker engine.
WhaleSharkโs eSports apparel brand E1337 commissioned artist Daniel Ignacio to create a series of Cyberpunk-inspired pieces to commemorate the enterpriseโs launch.
Ethereum global fantasty football game Sorare has partnered with fan engagement project Socios. The tldr? Stake fan tokens to earn the chance to win rare Sorare cards.
CryptoMotors teased two awesome-looking new maps โฆ
โฆ๏ธโฆ๏ธ DeFi News
Tokenized bitcoin project WBTC was listed on Coinbase Pro.
Popular charts service TradingView has added support for Uniswap, DeFiโs reigning trading protocol.
Speaking of Uniswap and ERC-20 bitcoin, thereโs now ~29,000 tokenized bitcoin โ roughly 0.15% of the entire BTC supply โ sitting in Uniswap liquidity pools presently.
I just showed Bankless readers how to migrate their LEND to AAVE for Safety Module staking. In other words, defend Aave to earn AAVE!
The smart contract specialists at OpenZeppelin and Quantstamp are booked up for the foreseeable future as the ongoing DeFi boom has the spaceโs few auditors in huge demand.
Heath Tarbert, Chairman of the U.S. CFTC, said of DeFi this week:
โThe whole idea of DeFi really is, number one, itโs obviously revolutionary, and I think at the end of the day could lead to a massive disintermediation of the financial system and the traditional players.โ
๐ฐFresh Content
๐ถโPranksy Part 1 - How He Made Half A Million Dollars Trading NFTsโ - Andrew Steinwold with Zima Red
๐ถโPranksy Part 2 - How He Made Half A Million Dollars Trading NFTsโ - Andrew Steinwold with Zima Red
๐ฐโNon-Fungible Token (NFT) Farmingโ - Andrew Steinwold with Zima Red
๐ฐโWeekly Top 10 Picksโ - SuperRareโs An Loremi
๐ฐโTop 10 NFT sales of the week, October 4th โ 11thโ - OpenSeaโs Hamish Barnes
๐บโBehind the Screens with Ann Ahoyโ - KnownOrigin
๐ถโ[Special Interview] Katy Arrington, Crypto Artistโ - The Matthew and Rizzle Show
๐ถโEP45: OpenSea with Devi Finzer 2020 Editionโ - Wizard of Dapps
๐๏ธExtra, Extra
SuperRare is looking to hire a full stack engineer โฆ
Thanks for reading, and stay creative on- and off-chain!
Keep an ๐๏ธ out for the 40th issue of the DeFi Arts Intelligencer this time next week, too. Cheers โ๏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 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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