The Sandbox is a virtual world, or metaverse, where players can create, own, and monetize gaming experiences using blockchain technology. The project team frequently collaborates with real-world organizations, enabling players to interact with their favorite brands and/or celebrities from across the globe through exclusive content and virtual events. The ecosystem is designed to be inclusive, allowing anyone to contribute and benefit from the growth of the virtual world.

User engagement is encouraged through a strong emphasis on community and social activity. Players use an avatar to explore the virtual world to meet other players, broaden their community, and participate in events and challenges. Inside the metaverse, players can individually or collaboratively create games, assets, and experiences using integrated tools such as VoxEdit, which enables the creation of voxel-based assets, and Game Maker, which assists players with designing and building interactive games without needing to know how to code. All content created with these tools is minted onto the blockchain as ERC-1155 non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which can have different rarities and whose value can be increased by using “Catalysts.” The assets can then be exchanged on the protocol’s marketplace or third-party marketplaces, such as OpenSea.