Welcome to the 37th 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

• A zombie and beanie’d CryptoPunk just set a new CryptoPunk sales record of 185 ETH …

  Nifty Report @NiftyReport

  New record punk sale! Beanie (the rarest trait) combined with zombie. #NFTs #cryptopunks @larvalabs larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/de…

  October 3rd 2020

  18 Retweets47 Likes

• Ethereum art platform SuperRare saw its monthly volume reach a new all-time high of $777,000. The platform also just completed its audit with Quantstamp’s venerable smart contract auditors.

• NFT marketplace OpenSea saw its monthly volume break a new all-time high of $2.75 million.

• The Untitled NFT Hackathon is running from Oct. 8th to Oct. 27th. The event is sponsored by Avastars, MetaCartel, Matic Network, and the xDai project.

• The LAO co-founder Aaron Wright said: “NFTs and other tokens will begin to eat the estimated $6 trillion intellectual property market in the US over the upcoming decades.”

• Kai published “Avastars: A Practical Guide to UB Scores.” Kai’s a genius, don’t miss this read!

• I wrote TokenSmart’s first Humpday Report. In it, I covered the Pranksy takeover: the prolific NFT collector and flipper Pranksy just released $COZOM, collaborated with NFT-centric Meme Protocol, and more.

• The first Pranksyland bundle was sold: Coldie’s “Proof of Work” Cryptovoxels parcel sold to collector Astelier for 28.5 ETH.

🕹️ Blockchain Games

• Don’t miss out on the Axie Infinity Obsidian Cup this week!

• CryptoKitty #1 sold for 200 ETH this week.

• My WARCHEST proposal for NFT yield farming was a runner-up in the Gods Unchained DeFi Challenge! Woohoo!

♦️♦️ DeFi News

• MetaFactory, a decentralized fashion label, launched its $ROBOT governance token …

  MetaFactory @TheMetaFactory

  Meet $ROBOT: the governance token of MetaFactory. We have spent the last 10 months experimenting, learning, and refining our mission. Today we are launching the culmination of our efforts and transitioning to full community ownership. Journey into our dreams of a new future.

  October 1st 2020

  72 Retweets169 Likes

• Support Ethereum for payments. Just do it …

  vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

  More people should support ethereum for payments. The nice thing about supporting ethereum is that you're not just accepting ETH, you also get support for MKR, UNI, WBTC, and every stablecoin for free. And there's already like three working layer-2 scaling solutions on mainnet.

  Spencer Noon @spencernoon

  No one will ever be able to convince me that @Square refusing to support Ethereum (in addition to Bitcoin) isn’t dumb. It’s the most head-scratching crypto strategy we’ve ever seen from a big corporate, and that’s saying something...

  October 1st 2020

  284 Retweets1,637 Likes

📰Fresh Content

• “Quick Overview of the NFT Ecosystem” - Andrew Steinwold

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

Keep an 👁️ out for the 38th 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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