Ethereum gaming metaverse The Sandbox will quickly possess its hang creator-focused blockchain known as SANDChain, an Ethereum layer-2 network built with the ZK Stack.
SANDChain targets to change into the house for creators on-chain, enabling them to hang their shriek material, generate money from their identities, and method up their communities with out losing out to the platforms they assemble on.
“By leveraging The Sandbox’s existing ecosystem, which accommodates over 8 million users, 400+ tag partnerships, and the SAND token, we’re laying the muse for the ‘Creator Nation’: a decentralized economy designed to empower creativity at scale,” The Sandbox co-founder and SANDChain ambassador Sébastian Borget told Decrypt.
On the present time, we formally launched SANDchain — The Creator Chain. pic.twitter.com/H98LNba5ti
— SANDchain (@0xSANDchain) September 30, 2025
“For sport creators, along with on The Sandbox metaverse nonetheless extra broadly across the App Retailer, this means being ready to open loyalty facets, quests and sport tokens with out having to fret [about] seconds-to-minute-prolonged transaction validations.”
The layer-2 network shall be powered by three value layers: SANDpoints to trace network recognition and loyalty, Creator Points for enhance of creators and glean admission to to their respective tokens, and Creator Tokens—tradable resources which can even very neatly be tied to creator’s producers.
“SANDchain is set giving creators a monetary foundation, no longer correct a following,” stated The Sandbox CEO Robby Yung, in a assertion. “The Sandbox is happy to accomplice with The SANDChain Foundation to type SANDchain and provide creators with funding rails, automated revenue management, and programs to flip viewers enhance into tangible snort.”
The network will employ the Sandbox’s SAND token as its native gas token, one way or the opposite bettering the utility of the token which can energy its patron and creator vaults—core ingredients of its product suite which supply capital reserves for creator loans and aggregates Web2 revenues.
SAND dipped following the news, currently down 2% on the day at a designate of about $0.26. It’s down virtually 8% on the month, and remains about 97% off its all-time high designate method in 2021.
The Sandbox is an Ethereum metaverse sport built spherical tokenized land plots that owners can assemble and open games on, alongside user-owned avatars and in-sport resources. The mission has secured a tidy selection of celeb and tag partners, along with Snoop Dogg, The Walking Boring, Cirque du Soleil, Atari, Paris Hilton, and Warner Tune Neighborhood.
SANDChain will open early glean admission to signups on October 1, with its testnet expected to debut on October 14.
Early open partners encompass Animoca Brands, Ethereum NFT sequence Chilly Cats, ZKSync, and Pucca, a Korean comic strip sequence, amongst others.
“Launching a blockchain has never been extra accessible, as a result of upward thrust of zk-rollups and Ethereum sidechains,” stated Borget.
“When we method out to develop SANDchain,” he stated, “we quick realized that the precise value no longer lies in the harmful infrastructure, which is an increasing number of commoditized, nonetheless in how we differentiate, whom we serve, and the strategy we allow important use cases, equivalent to gaming, leisure or creator-fans interactions.”
Extra reporting by André Beganski
