The Sandbox is a blockchain-based virtual environment created by Pixowl in 2011, which allows users to create, construct, purchase, and trade digital goods in the nature of a game. The Sandbox develops a decentralized platform for a healthy gaming community by combining the powers of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Sandbox's native token is the SAND token. It serves as the foundation for all game transactions and interactions.The Sandbox was initially founded as a mobile game platform to compete with Minecraft. Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget, the company's co-founders, agreed to investigate the possibility of constructing a 3D metaverse on the blockchain in 2018. Their objective is to allow people to truly own their works as NFTs and earn incentives while doing so. The new Sandbox project was launched in 2020 and quickly became one of the most popular crypto games.