The Sandbox was founded by Pixowl in 2012 as a mobile gaming platform, and it is now a play-to-earn blockchain version that allows players to design their own avatars to access the crypto-driven metaverse's numerous hubs, locations, and games. This version of the game, which was introduced in 2018 by its co-founders Sebastien Borget and Arthur Madrid, allows players to create virtual worlds on Ethereum using non-fungible tokens while also collecting rewards.

Borget and Madrid debuted The Sandbox on the blockchain in 2021, and it quickly became one of the most popular cryptocurrency games. Users can create everything from houses and vehicles to costumes and creatures with the software. They can then store these products on the blockchain as NFTs and sell them on secondary markets like OpenSea or The Sandbox's crypto marketplace. Players may create full 3D games that they can sell without needing any coding experience.

The SAND coin is required to play the game on the blockchain, trade ASSETS on the marketplace, and purchase LANDs, which are virtual parcels of land in the game. They can also vote and propose platform changes using the SAND coin as a governance token through a Decentralized Autonomous Organization structure.