The SandBox is a virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain.
It allows the player to exercise their creativity to use on their platform, often without any predetermined goal or with a goal that they set for themselves.
Associated with an open world concept, giving the user freedom of movement and progression in the game’s world.
User-Generated Content Ecosystem
Sandbox feature three main components to help run their ecosystem and provide a unique experience for user-generated content production:
VOXEDIT 3D voxel art animation software for building NFT game assets
MARKETPLACE for buying and selling NFT assets
GAME MAKER tool for creating gaming experiences in The Sandbox metaverse
VoxEdit allows you to create, model, and animate your voxel-based NFTs such as humans, vehicles, foliage, animals, tools, and items. in the Sandbox platform.
These objects can be exported from the editor to The Sandbox marketplace to become NFT game ASSETs.
Sandbox’s NFT marketplace allows users to upload and sell their NFT creations which were made with the Vox Editor.
These NFT creations are first uploaded to an IPFS network that provides decentralized storage.
These creations are registered onto the blockchain to prove the user’s ownership.
Once approved on the blockchain, creations become ASSETS that can be sold on the marketplace.
Gems & Catalysts
These are ERC-20 tokens that define your ASSETs tier, attribute, and scarcity. You’ll need these tokens to provideour NFT definited attributes used in the metaverse and marketplace.
Catalysts
Catalysts add empty sockets to your NFT that can filled with Gems. The higher quality the catalyst, the more sockets you ASSET will have.
They have 4 different tiers which define the number of sockets and scarcity of your ASSETS.
Common Catalyst: 1 Gem socket, up to 25 Atributes and 20,000 copies of the ASSET.
Rare Catalyst: 2 Gem sockets, up to 50 Atributes and 4,000 copies of the ASSET.
Epic Catalyst: 3 Gem sockets, up to 75 Atributes and 1500 copies of the ASSET.
Legendary Catalyst: 4 Gem sockets, up to 100 Atributes and 200 copies of the ASSET.
Gems
Gems are burnt on usage when you define your ASSET’s attribute. These are the main stats that will be displayed on the metaverse.
The more attribute your ASSETS have, the more points that can be distrubted to your NFT, increasing their overall value.
The possible attributes that you can socket are the following:
The Game Maker is the visual scripting tool that allows users to terraform LAND and place elements with a logic layer to create games.
Create, Build, and Share your creations to the metaverse by constructing creative interactive experiences without any prior coding due to their visual scripting tools.
It has 3 layers of complexity to create your whole world:
Basic: Expand game templates with new challenges and levels
Advanced: Add new elements and give your land a unique look and feel
Expert: Tweak behaviors and create new gameplays
Your gameplay and ASSETS remain on your property. This will allow you to freely monetize them using SAND and trade using The Marketplace.
A Virtual Economy
SandBox Tokens
Sandbox uses several different types of tokens to ensure an economy for all the types of users who will interact with their platform; users, creators, land owners, and curators.
SAND: The ERC-20 token used for Sandbox’s ecosystem transactions and interactions
LAND: A digital piece of real estate in Sandbox’s metaverse. Users buy LAND to populate it with assets, interactive experiences, and games.
ASSETS: A token created by players who build user-generated content. Utilizing the ERC-155 standard means they can be traded on the marketplace while serving as creative elements in Sandbox Game Maker.
What is $SAND?
The main utility token (ERC-20 token) allows players to purchase services, trade, play, and govern. In addition, SAND will be required whenever a user wants to mint an asset, depending on the scarcity (amount of copies available) and rarity (global power) of that specific asset.
Governance
SAND is a governance token that allows holders to participate in decisions on the platform using a DAO structure.
Wild Goat Gang is one of the many projects in the Ethereum project that are created a DAO similar to SandBox.
Allowing communities to be part of the decision-making process results in a more autonomous and transparent organizational structure.
Staking
Blockchain depends heavily on the global network of transaction validators who authenticate transactions before any information gets added to a block on a blockchain.
These are done by validators or miners who decide the amount of cryptocurrency or NFT they pledge towards the blockchain. In return, these miners earn rewards in the form of native cryptocurrency for devoting resources.
This allows you to receive more SAND by having LAND. This is the only way to get valuable Gems and Catalysts required for ASSET creation in SandBox.
Transaction Fee Model
5% of all transactions carried out in SAND will be charged, with 50% of the revenue going to rewards for Stakers and 50% to the “Foundation”
Foundation
The role of the foundation is to support the Sandbox ecosystem. Offering grants and incentives to high-quality interactive content & game production on the platform.
As the valuation of all games grows, the more funding The Foundation gets enabling to fund even bigger games and experiences
Ecosystem
Players spend SAND to play games, buy equipment, or customize their Avatar.
Creators spend SAND to acquire LANDS, ASSETS, and SAND through staking. The circle of LAND sales will drive demand for SAND to purchase LANDS.
Artist will spend SAND to upload these ASSETS to the Marketplace and buy GEMS for defining Scarcity and Rarity for their ASSETS.
What is LAND?
LANDS are portions of the Sandbox metaverse open to user ownership. Each LAND is a unique NFT lying on the public Ethereum blockchain (ERC-721).
There is only a total of 166,464 LANDS that will ever be available contained in a map that forms the Sandbox metaverse.
There are two types of ‘parcel’ types available:
LAND: The basic sandbox is 96x96 meters in the game world. They can be populated by their owners using other tokens such as ASSETS and GAMES to create and monetize experiences.
ESTATE: An estate in a combination of multiple LANDS can be linked together
By having LAND it allows you to:
Play & Create Games: Populate and customize ASSETS to bring your land to life as a space to host contests, events, and socialize, explore, play in while getting rewards for it.
Earn Tokens: Monetize your gaming experiences by charging others to visit your LAND, to play your games, or eventually sell the LAND.
Governance: LAND ownership gives you a governance token that allows you to determine the future of the platform.
Future LAND Possibilites
Renting Land
Owning LAND could bring a source of passive income if you rent it to Game Makers.
LAND owners can rent their LAND to game creators, monetizing their LANDS without needing to create games
Game Creators can publish and monetize their games on their LAND
Districts
When an ESTATE is owned by several players, it will be called a DISTRICT. Allowing special governance rules to play a bigger role in the DAO. They will be natural hotspots within the Meetaverse, driving project and traffic.
What is an ASSET?
It is a token that refers to voxel assets on the Sandbox marketplace. Once these assets are uploaded into the blockchain they are automatically converted into NFTs through the smart contract ERC-155.
The ERC-155 is a standard for representing virtual items on the ETH blockchain allowing the creation of multiple types of tokens in the same contract. This allows creators to mint any number of copies of the same asset while still having a supply of 1.
The flexibility is important for items used in games as you can mint any number of copies of the same ASSETs or Items.
There are 3 different types of ASSETS available:
Entity
A level design entity such as an environmental asset like hay, barns, or goats grazing across your LAND
Equipment
Anything that can be attached to your Avatar, like Wild Goat Gang apparel or an epic Viking axe.
Block
Working with the Game Maker, you’ll be able to construct new blocks to create new experiences.
These assets can be enhanced with special attributes (catalysts and gems) that will change their behavior and your overall gameplay.
How can Creators Generate Revenue?
Create Voxel ASSETS Build ASSETS on Voxedit, import and sell them on the Marketplace as NFTs.
Build Games with the Game Maker Build and monetize games and interactive experiences with the Game Maker using your LANDS.
Own a LAND Buy a LAND during one of our LAND Sales. Rent them or populate them with content to increase their value.
Bringing it all together
The SandBox is a virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain.
It has three main components to help run its ecosystem and provide a unique experience for user-generated content production:
VOXEDIT 3D voxel art animation software for building NFT game assets
MARKETPLACE for buying and selling NFT assets
GAME MAKER tool for creating gaming experiences in The Sandbox metaverse
ASSETS
An NFT voxel asset that is designed with the intention to add a level design elements into Sandbox.
ASSETS can be either used to fill a LAND to create unique game experiences or to be monetized and traded on the blockchain.
There are 3 different types of ASSETS available: Entity, Equipment, and Block
SAND
SAND is the currency that allows players to purchase services, trade, play, and govern in Sandbox.
It is also a governance token that allows holders to participate in decisions on the platform using a DAO structure that has staking capabilities.
LAND
LANDS are 96x96 meters blocks of the Sandbox metaverse open to user ownership. There is only a total of 166,464 LANDS available on SandBox.
By having LAND it allows you to Play & Create Games, Earn Tokens, and Governance.
STAKING
Blockchain depends heavily on the global network of transaction validators who authenticate transactions before any information gets added to a block on a blockchain.
These are done by validators or miners who decide amount of cryptocurrency or NFT they bledge towards the blockchain. In return, these miners earn rewards in the form of native cryptocurrency for devoting resources.
This allows you to receive more SAND by having LANDS. This is the only way to get valuable Gems and Catalysts required for ASSET creation in SandBox.
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