The Sandbox is a fully decentralized and community-driven Metaverse or “virtual world” for PC (Windows & Mac), that is built, governed, and owned by its users on the Ethereum blockchain. Players can create, enjoy, own and trade or monetize content (voxel assets such as avatars, equipment, art, furniture) and experiences (worlds and games) as well as socialize and attend a wide range of daily, community-driven events (e.g. live concerts, conferences, exhibitions, dance parties). Over 165 brands—including The Walking Dead, The Smurfs, Snoop Dogg, Care Bears, Atari, and CryptoKitties —have voxel versions featured in the metaverse. Many game genres are available and being made in The Sandbox, including golf, adventure, puzzle, shooter, RPG, and more. The Sandbox has its own cryptocurrency ($SAND), NFT marketplace, system of property, and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).
Game Features
- User-Created Worlds & Games: Users can create, enjoy and trade or monetize their own virtual worlds, events and games within The Sandbox ecosystem.
- User-Created Cosmetics: Users can create, enjoy and trade their own avatars, attribute-based equipment (e.g. weapon, armour), characters (e.g. pets), and cosmetic items (e.g. furniture, art).
- Unlimited Game Genres: Users can create and enjoy any types of games (e.g. sports, puzzle, adventure, RPG, strategy, shooter).
- Voxel-based Metaverse: Voxel-based environments and characters allow for easier user access and faster metaverse development.
- Play-to-Earn: Rewards may be earned in the form of NFTs and $SAND by playing games or taking part in community events (some of which may require NFTs).
- Content Creation Tools: Users are provided with free tools to create voxel assets (e.g. avatars, equipment, art) and 3D worlds & games that can also be monetized.
Blockchain Integration
Whitepaper
DocumentsThe Sandbox aims to be a fully decentralized virtual world that is built, governed, and owned by its users. Smart contracts built on the Ethereum blockchain are used to record the ownership and transactions of all digital assets such as land and cosmetic NFTs.
The Sandbox has its own cryptocurrency, $SAND, which serves as a medium of exchange for all digital goods and services traded within the ecosystem.
Through The Sandbox’ decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), also powered by smart contracts, users (token holders) can submit and vote on various policies.
The Sandbox’ code is open source, so anyone can make improvements or build on top of it, anyone can explore and review transactions, and anyone can host the game, so it can never be shut down and gamer purchases can never be taken down.
Ownable (NFTs)
- Land: 96 m by 96 m LAND parcels (× 166,464 LANDS) in NFT format that are located on the main Sandbox Map, and that can be bought, sold, and rented out.
- Estates: Merger of two or more parcels of LAND that are directly adjacent to one another.
- Avatars: 3D avatars that can be created, traded and used as NFTs by users to customize player characters.
- Equipment: Attribute-based accessories that can be created, traded and used by users as NFTs to customize the appearance of Avatars (6 equipment slots).
- Entities: Interactive content like art, characters, furniture and more that can be created, traded and used as NFTs by users to customize worlds & games.
Cryptocurrency
$SAND is The Sandbox’s cryptocurrency. Its purpose is to allow users of The Sandbox to purchase and sell land, goods and services from and to one another. It is a fungible, Ethereum-based, ERC-1155 utility token limited to a total original supply of 3,000,000,000. (+ info)
