The Sandbox is a decentralized, community-driven blockchain gaming metaverse and social gaming platform created and owned by TSB Gaming Ltd. The company was originally founded as Pixowl in 2011 by Arthur Madrid and Sébastien Borget, and became The Sandbox after Animoca Brands acquired it in 2018. The Sandbox was founded by Arthur Madrid as CEO and Sébastien Borget as COO, and operates as a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. The platform enables creators to publish games on virtual LANDs, mint and sell assets in the Marketplace, and has shifted Marketplace transactions to Polygon to reduce gas fees. The Sandbox's native currency and utility token, SAND, is an ERC-20 token with a maximum supply of 3 billion, used as a medium of exchange and for governance participation. The Sandbox metaverse consists of 166,464 virtual LANDs on the blockchain. The Sandbox's TwitterScore is 372 out of 1000.
The Sandbox's products include VoxEdit, Marketplace, and Game Maker. The Sandbox launched a DAO intended to gradually decentralize the platform and give stakeholders greater influence over decision making. The Sandbox held a Binance Launchpad sale dated Aug 13th 2020 at 0.008333 USD / SAND, with 360,000,000 SAND allocated to the sale. Reuters reported on November 2, 2021 that SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $93 million investment in The Sandbox. The Sandbox Studio is presented as an AI game engine for creators. The platform is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and its advisors include Yat Siu, Alexis Bonte, Ed Fries, and Mikhael Naayem.
The Sandbox has 1,057,622 followers and 20,436 posts on Twitter. It ranks #723 out of 364,257 accounts, and is mentioned by 2,303 accounts across 13,215 mentions. Bubblemaps, Yuga Labs, Index Game, YUMON and Cualit
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The accounts that follow The Sandbox include 1,046 founders, 149 angel investors, 1,317 influencers and 105 VCs, among them Toly, Laura Shin, Ansem, Binance, Andrew Kang and OpenSea.