Original title: "The Sandbox: A Decentralized Virtual Gaming World"
Original source: hackernoon
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On November 25, 2021, after the explosion of the metaverse concept, the decentralized virtual game world The Sandbox finally ushered in spring. The price of SAND skyrocketed by 120% in 7 days, and completed a 10-fold increase in 30 days. The land price in the ecology continued to rise. According to the current Opensea price, even the "remote" virtual land price exceeds 3 ETH, worth more than 80,000 yuan . In addition, The Sandbox has also been blessed by Softbank, and in November this year, it received US$93 million in financing led by Softbank Vision Fund 2.
However, with the hot market, many users are blindly chasing higher prices without knowing about the project. In order to help readers better understand The Sandbox, Rhythm BlockBeats recommends this article published in October 2020, hoping to fully interpret The Sandbox through a detailed introduction to The Sandbox, Token economic system, infrastructure and competitor analysis. Sandbox allows everyone to have a more intuitive understanding of the virtual world.
As one of the leading companies in the blockchain industry, The Sandbox has been committed to promoting and developing blockchain games. Rhythm BlockBeats will introduce The Sandbox ecosystem in this article, which is a decentralized multi-platform multi-player virtual game world.
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Just as a physical sandbox can exercise and test a child's imagination and creativity, developers from all walks of life use a virtual sandbox as a testing environment, equipped with a variety of tools to experiment, test, debug and create components such as video games. and other products.
As kids, our sandbox in our backyard was our first art arena, where we would compete with best friends, share ideas, and most importantly, play. There we built our first hills, caves, castles, and cities out of thousands of golden sand grains, and poured a vat of water on them, turning them into the fabled submerged Yate Landis.
Then as we grew up, the sand in the backyard became a computer resource, and the playpen became a display screen.
When the "sandbox" is driven by the blockchain, it is not just a place to play and test. It expanded into a fully game-oriented ecosystem, connecting users around the world through the blockchain, opening the door to the Metaverse, where players can use The Sandbox's tokens to create A brilliant digital world.
For those who want to play games, The Sandbox is a gaming metaverse where you can create a game yourself or play games created by others;
For those interested in making a living the way they love, The Sandbox is a framework where programming-talented artists can capitalize on the ecosystem's marketplace.
The Sandbox is a decentralized virtual game world based on the Ethereum blockchain. Creators can create 3D pixelated assets and import them into the game in the form of NFT. In the future, The Sandbox may support real-world Object scans for importing into the game.
Since the entire platform is based on blockchain technology, The Sandbox expects players to control the entire game world.
The Sandbox metaverse contains multiple tokens. For example, LAND is a parcel of land that players can purchase with SAND, on which they can create a pixelated game. SAND tokens can be exchanged for fiat currency, and players can earn more tokens by playing games, renting out their own land, or staking their own SAND tokens.
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Players own their digital assets in their wallet-linked accounts. These accounts can be accessed using the Metamask login option, which allows the use of hardware wallets such as Ledger and Trezor.
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Benefits of True Ownership
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Interoperability
Interoperability
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How players can make money through NFT
1. Earn tokens through different games according to their rules;
2. Lease out the purchased land to earn rental income;
3. Trade in The Sandbox market or secondary market.
Voxels are generally understood as 3D cubes, but can also be rendered as point cloud models generated from 3D scans. While Voxel-based games lack stunning graphics, they outshine others in terms of building, collaboration, and automation.
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Factorio
Factorio is a survival game about automation and creation that especially appeals to people with a technical mind, such as engineers and programmers, and those with a technical mind.
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Minecraft is not about automating, but about using the player's creativity to build the world around the player. Although there is automation and programming in Minecraft, it is not used as heavily as in Factorio. In Minecraft, the player "has" a Lego, but the player "is" a Lego. In this world, you can simulate a box falling down a staircase, but also a PC processor with all its components and many other things; it all depends on the player's imagination and abilities. It's a small price to pay for this creative freedom at the expense of high-end visuals, as it's something most other games simply don't have.
Minecraft's entry into the blockchain happened through the Blockchain EnjinCraft add-on, which eventually sparked more discussion about blockchain games, with Cryptovoxels and The Sandbox pioneering it.
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The built-in games in The Sandbox are similar in design to Minecraft and have programming features like Factorio, but creating imitations and enhancements of existing games is not the purpose of the platform. To make a game platform that has similarities to the above two games, but provide creators with better possibilities and tools, let them 100% own their creations, and provide players with the opportunity to participate in the game to make money, this is The The meaning of Sandbox.
SAND holders can also participate in the management of the platform through a DAO, in which they can exercise voting rights on key decisions of The Sandbox ecosystem. As a player, you can create digital assets (NFTs), upload them to the marketplace, and then drag and drop them into The Sandbox game maker to create gaming experiences.
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The Sandbox Economic Ecology
VoxEdit: Create voxel assets, then they will be turned into NFT tokens and imported into the market.
Marketplace: A decentralized game asset trading market has been created in VoxEdit.
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Token Circular Economy in Blockchain Games
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Token
SAND
SAND acts as an access pass that allows players to play games and buy equipment for their avatars. LAND owners and game creators can buy in-game land, create games on it, and buy things on the marketplace.
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LAND
LAND provides a virtual "building field" where users can create games through The Sandbox game maker. The final number is 166466 LAND. LAND sales drive demand for LAND using SAND.
GEM and CATALYST (gem and catalyst)
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Using the free VOXEDIT 3D voxel modeling package allows users to create and animate 3D objects such as people, animals, leaves and tools, and export them to the Sandbox Marketplace as game assets.
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In order to create a game, a piece of land is needed. Owning a piece of land means owning an in-game space where you can create your own games.
Players can create digital assets in the form of NFTs, upload them to the market, and integrate them into games with game makers.
A piece of land is a piece of digital real estate in The Sandbox that players can buy and build experiences on. Once a player owns a piece of land, the player can populate it with games and assets. Multiple parcels of land can be combined into one estate.
There are a total of 166,464 parcels of land available that will be included in one map to form The Sandbox space.
To create assets and upload them to the store, you need the editing program VoxEdit, as well as an account and a virtual wallet. Other token types (GEM and CATALYST) define asset classes, scarcity, and attributes. CATALYST adds GEM-fillable slots to NFTs. The higher the quality of the CATALYST, the more open seats your assets will have.
Users can monetize their time on the platform in the following ways, retaining 95% of SAND as revenue share:
1. Sell assets: Users can create and sell assets as NFTs on the market.
2. Own a piece of land: buy a piece of land in a land sale. Players can rent or fill content to increase the value of the land.
3. Create games on the basis of game producers: use game producers to create games on land owned by players and profit from them.
By using the ERC-1776 standard, The Sandbox allows platform users to initiate transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, and the transaction Gas fee is paid by the platform, which optimizes the overall user experience. The Sandbox platform employs a fee model where 5% of all transaction value comes from market transaction fees. The remaining 95% of the transaction value comes from land sales, premium non-financed sales and subscription services. In total, 26.50% of SAND trading volume went back to the Foundation. The calculation formula is: 5% x 50% + 95% x 25% = 26.50%
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competitors
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Decentraland
Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. In decentralized platforms, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications.
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Enjin
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Axie Infinity
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