Welcome to the 31st 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

• Artist XCOPY sold the Master token of “The Rabble” on Async Art for 32 ETH. Total sales for the piece’s Master and Layer tokens brought in +85 ETH …

  powerSurge⚡️ @SergueiV

  Master layer of “The Rabble” by @XCOPYART is topping #crypto #art sals for today. Sold for $14,000 (32 eth) on @AsyncArt to @TokenAngels

  August 17th 2020

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• Speaking of Async Art, artists on the platform are going beast mode: 6 artists brought in +197 ETH across 100 Master and Layer token sales last weekend.

• Acclaimed comic book artist José Delbo is collaborating with artist PR1MAL CYPHER on a new MakersPlace piece …

  Jose Delbo @Jose_Delbo

  I am very excited to announce my next drop on @makersplaceco including a collaboration with @primal_cypher! Coming 8/27! rare.makersplace.com/2020/08/21/upc… Featuring this guy:

  MakersPlace @makersplaceco

  🔥UPCOMING DROPS Get ready for the latest from comic legend @Jose_Delbo including a collab w/ @primal_cypher! The battle against COVID continues, this time in the darkness of the night, in the big city Take a peek👇 https://t.co/LSnoYY6GcY Learn more👇 https://t.co/nCsUfqABCM https://t.co/yeAhoh7Ffw

  August 22nd 2020

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• Art platform SuperRare is holding a 3D VR exhibit dubbed #Atlantis in VRChat, featuring artists like Metageist, Scobot, VRRosie, Trippyogi, and more.

• Artist etiene sold “How to Disappear Completely” on SuperRare for 5 ETH …

  etiene @etienecrauss

  'How To Disappear Completely' NOW AVAILABLE ON @SuperRare_co💎 superrare.co/artwork-v2/how…

  August 14th 2020

  49 Retweets242 Likes

• On the heels of starting a $WHALE liquidity mining program, the collector WhaleShark also started an “NFT mining” campaign.

• Generative on-chain art project Avastars is issuing a native token that will be required for minting Replicants, which are synthetic Avastars that can only be created by melding previous Primes.

• When you buy an Avastar, you own the license to its image. Artist duo Hackatao once again this week showed how this dynamic can be creatively used …

  Hackatao @Hackatao

  We are pleased to announce the first @AvaStarsNFT on @SuperRare_co "I don't tell anyone" superrare.co/artwork-v2/i-d… #Cryptoart #Avastars #Nfts @j1mmyeth

  August 18th 2020

  16 Retweets88 Likes

• New NFT minting project Cargo introduced Cargo Gems, a new utility token for the platform.

• Artists XCOPY, Perry Copper, and Yonat Vaks had NFT drops on Nifty Gateway this week.

• Actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher auctioned off an NFT art piece for charity via Cryptograph.

• The Coinbase Wallet team gave NFT marketplace OpenSea a shoutout this week. Respect!

• Virtual world Cryptovoxels is becoming more beautiful with each passing day …

  Cryptovoxels @cryptovoxels

  Niiiiice.

  August 21st 2020

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🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Some of the best players of Gods Unchained, the biggest Ethereum trading card game, are going head to head in a showmatch on August 23rd.

• Virtual game world Decentraland is getting ready to kick off its Game Jam festivities, starting September 1st.

• The “Battle for Hautclere” Axie Infinity tournament began today. The prize pool is composed of 1,000 HAUT, which are fractional shards of the legendary Hautclere Axie 💎

• Fantasy soccer game Sorare rolled out a new league structure for its Gaming Arena. The game also topped weekly volume in the NFT economy with +$143,000 in sales.

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• Aave and Curve became the 2nd and 3rd DeFi protocols to reach $1 billion in crypto assets under management.

• The treasury of the yearn.finance yield aggregator project has reached $500,000.

• Decentralized exchange dYdX is embracing StarkWare’s Layer-2 scaling solution, StarkEx.

• Decentralized exchange 1inch announced its 1INCH token and an associated liquidity mining campaign.

• $WHALE became the first social money to reach a market cap of $10 million.

📰Fresh Content

• “Non-Fungible Tokens Directly Touch Upon Innate Pieces Of Human Nature” - Andrew Steinwold

• “What is ‘wash trading’ and why is it negative for non-fungible tokens?” - dafky2000 via NonFunbile

• “Lo, the Lore of Avastars: How Humanity Took Hold of the Stars!” - me

• “To Infinity, and Beyond! Inside the Arrival of InfiNFT in NFTLand” - me

• “Token-Curated Communities” - me

• “Elastic Supply Tokens Explained” - me

• “defiprime Post #4” - me

🖌️Extra, Extra

• Check out the Intelligencer’s new meet-and-greet build in Cryptovoxels!

• I collected the piece “HIROSHIMA” from the artist Eburgami this week for 0.6 ETH. I’ve always been a pained student of that episode in history. I think Eburgami brilliantly conveyed so many complex elements around the bombing in truly signature and minimalistic fashion. What an NFT … sometimes art hurts, you know?

  Eburgami @eburgami

  HIROSHIMA - Aug. 6, 1945. Little Boy. Tokenized on @SuperRare_co : superrare.co/artwork-v2/hir… #hiroshima #digitalarts #cryptoartbuyer #cryptoart #contemporaryart #minimal #japanart #tokyoolympics #JAPANSINKS2020 #nowar @MuseumModernArt @MOCDA_ @VMDArt @MuseumofCrypto

  August 20th 2020

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 32nd 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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