Bubble
The Sandbox SAND
The Sandbox (SAND) was trading at $0.0382, ranked #241 by market cap at $112.29M, with 24h volume of $23.01M.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-02 12:15 UTC.
The Sandbox is a voxel-based virtual world where LAND parcels are NFTs and creators build games with its free VoxEdit and Game Maker tools rather than needing to code. It signed an unusually long list of brand partnerships — Adidas, Snoop Dogg, Warner Music among them — during the 2021 metaverse rush, and its ongoing challenge is turning that name recognition into people who log in regularly. The Sandbox sells virtual land as NFTs alongside tools for building experiences on it, and it secured a long list of brand partnerships during the metaverse cycle. What it demonstrates is the gap between announcements and usage: signing well-known brands is easier than getting people to spend time in a virtual world, and land prices in these platforms have fallen substantially from their peaks. SAND remains a large asset in the gaming group on this map, and its price has tracked metaverse sentiment far more closely than it has tracked concurrent users.
What is virtual land in The Sandbox?
NFT parcels within its virtual world on which owners can build experiences. Supply is limited by design, which is what created a market for them.
Did the brand partnerships translate into usage?
Announcements were far more numerous than sustained user activity. The gap between the two is the main lesson of the metaverse cycle.
What is SAND used for?
Transactions within the platform, staking, and governance of the ecosystem.
What drives the SAND price?
Metaverse sentiment more than concurrent users. Its bubble on this map moves with the sector narrative rather than with measured engagement.
Market cap decides how big a bubble is drawn, so rank is what places SAND on the map relative to the rest of its sector.
| Rank | Coin | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| #210 | Chiliz (CHZ) | $138.78M |
| #212 | ApeCoin (APE) | $137.12M |
| #241 | The Sandbox (SAND) | $112.29M |
| #297 | GALA (GALA) | $85.81M |
| #314 | Beam (BEAM) | $79.15M |