DeFi Arts Intelligencer - Oct. 31st, 2020

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃 Welcome to the 41st 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

• Acclaimed artist beeple absolutely stormed Nifty Gateway on Friday, selling out his non-auction NFT drops in one second flat …

  IV Gallery LA @ivgalleryla

  Sold out in one second!!!!! Congrats to @beeple breaking records on @niftygateway. 2 auction pieces still Available til 7pmET tonight

  

• Artist Micah Johnson unveiled “sä-v(ə-)rən-tē,” a powerful programmable Async Art piece that’s about taking hold of your dreams and self-empowerment through tools like bitcoin …

  Async Art @AsyncArt

  2/3 @Micah_Johnson3's #AsyncArt "‘sä-v(ə-)rən-tē" hopes to change all that. With the power of #ProgrammableArt, join us for a decade of supporting equity, diversity, & inclusion. ✊ Learn More on @Cent: beta.cent.co/asyncart/+w6ov… Featured on Async: async.art/featured/micah…

  

• Artnome donated “Take a Seat” by Nigerian artist Osinachi to a SuperRare charity auction, with 100% of the proceeds earmarked for the End SARS movement seeking to end police brutality in Nigeria. The piece sold to collector Eric Young for 5 ETH …

  SuperRare 💎 @SuperRare_co

  Auction for "Take a Seat" by @osinachiart ends TODAY at 5pm EST! Donated by @artnome, 100% of this sale will go directly to help #EndSARS Current High Bid - 3 ETH from @untitledxyz_ Join the action: superrare.co/artwork-v2/tak…

  

• Foundation just launched its first NFT collection, spanning pieces from 25 contemporary artists …

  Foundation @withFND

  When cultural visionaries get in on transformative tech, everything changes. ✨ 25 heavy-hitters—most of them new to NFTs—just dropped digital art on Foundation. The future just got a little closer. Be there early → foundation.app/digital

  

• Featuring music from DJ Lucy Snake, the Halloween Week Costume Party just kicked off in Decentraland’s Vegas Plaza …

  Decentraland @decentraland

  Not long now before the high-energy beats from DJ Lucy Snake rattle the foundations of Vegas Plaza. Strap on your dancing shoes for the Halloween Week Costume Party to end all parties! events.decentraland.org/en/?event=abfe…

  

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Axie Infinity stole the show this week with the announcement of Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), the coming governance token of the Ethereum’s most widely played game.

• Speaking of Axie Infinity, crypto research firm Delphi Digital — which helped design the AXS token — just published its “Why We Spent $159k On Digital Battle Pets” report.

• No-loss lottery savings game PoolTogether saw its first V3 system winner take home $1,600 in Dai, as well as +25 other tokens and 5 NFTs …

  PoolTogether @PoolTogether_

  🚨 We have a winner! 🚨 - 246 Tickets - 1 in 3,983 odds of winning 🤩 $8,750 won! 🤩 And no one lost! Congrats!

  

• Global fantasy soccer game Sorare and OpenSea teamed up on auctions for 27 “Liquid Dream” special cards.

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• Lending protocol Aave is handing off governance to the project’s community.

• DeFi project Harvest Finance (which automatically generates yield for users) got blitzed by an attacker this week for millions of dollars’ worth of tokens. It’s another reminder to us all: be cautious in this space and never invest more than you can afford to lose in any crypto venture.

• Roll, the social money startup built on Ethereum, successfully raised another windfall of $1 million from investors.

• Rai, a sounder and more simplistic alternative to the Dai stablecoin, is on the verge of arriving in DeFi.

📰Fresh Content

• 📰 “DAI vs. ETH - Should Non-Fungible Token Markets Adopt Stablecoins?” - Andrew Steinwold / Zima Red

• 📺 “Non-Fungible Token Value Drivers” - Andrew Steinwold / Zima Red

• 📰 “He Let Strangers Raid His Private Wallet for Art” - Camila Russo / The Defiant

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 42nd 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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