The Sandbox May 2021 LAND Sale: Euphoria!

The Sandbox
The Sandbox
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6 min readMay 21, 2021

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New LANDs, new NFTs, new partners! New names are making their way into The Sandbox Metaverse and along with their arrival, a new LAND sale will take place on Thursday, May 27 at 1 PM UTC!

The Euphoria sale will include a total of 900 LANDs available for direct purchase, as well as 400 Premium LANDs featuring exclusive NFTs.

The Sandbox is a decentralized gaming platform where players, gamers, and creators can design and monetize their user-generated content on the blockchain.

TL;DR:

  • This LAND sale features several new partners including artists, game studios and other NFT metaverses.
  • Two very special music partners will be revealed Tuesday May 25th.
  • A total of 900 LANDs and 400 Premium LANDs will be available for direct purchase.
  • Each Premium LAND will include a curated and unique Euphoria NFT collection.
  • 11 ESTATES (5 Small, 4 Medium, 2 Large) will be auctioned on OpenSea for a 48 hours only event.

If this is your first LAND sale, or its been a while since you last participated, you might find these articles helpful:

To buy a LAND, you will need to follow these 3 steps:

  1. Set up your wallet

2. Get $SAND

3. Buy LAND on The Sandbox map (Make sure you are there on time!)

4. Important: On the day of the LAND sale we will disable account creation so make sure to create your account, if you haven’t already done so at least 24 hours before the sale goes live.

Partners

This LAND sale will include a diverse array of partners from all around the world including. Keep on reading to know who they are and what our partnership entails.

NFT Metaverses

ZEPETO

Following our special NFT sale with Zepeto we will continue on with the partnership to build an NFT-based cross-world metaverse.

VoxoDeus

The Sandbox is teaming up with VoxoDeus to bring their Voxos NFTs into our metaverse. This will be the very first step of our interoperability project.

RTFKT

Avatars will become more fashionable as The Sandbox is collaborating with collectible virtual shoe creator RTFKT, to bring you even more NFT wearables.

Bored Ape Yacht Club

It’s time to go bananas, there will be a LAND of the Bored Apes in our LAND sale.

Digital Art Spaces

CADAF

The French Crypto and Digital Art Fair host digital, augmented reality filled events on their platform. With this partnership we can expect exclusive events on both of our platforms for our artists.

Artists

Art of Block

A team of artists that is all about the love of art, games and blockchain. They will be building unconventional experiences in The Sandbox metaverse.

Jinkei

JinKei is a brick artist based in Korea who creates physical and digital works. His next project will be built within his LAND on our metaverse.

Mr Misang

Korean artist Mr Misang, will be building a theme park based on his original animation series: [Modern Life is Rubbish].

Music Artist

Hanjin

Hanjin is an award-winning multi-faceted Hong Kong singer, record producer and actor that will be settling down in our metaverse.

Skull

South Korean reggae singer Skull will join the party as one of the partners for this round. Prepare your ears for a musical interlude.

Other entertainment projects

Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen

Would you like some fries with that partnership? Get ready for a meta-version of the beloved show, as Hell’s Kitchen becomes one of our partners.

Happy Block

Loungelab

Loungelab is an urban-tech startup in Korea, whose mission is to innovate user experience by using cutting-edge technologies such as robotics, A.I, and blockchain. Loungelab operates robotics cafe LOUNGEX and is developing BARIS (Coffee robot) and Aris (ice cream robot).

Project WITH

Explore NFTs of football prospects and play football-themed games in WITH’s LANDs. Project WITH is a new platform that supports career development of sports players by utilizing blockchain technology, provides clubs with the optimum window to scout players, and fans with an interactive platform to share information.

Republic Realm

Republic Realm is a professionally-managed, diversified digital real estate NFT investment vehicle that will be parking their latest project in our metaverse.

WiV

Follow the evolution of wine, from Soil to Sandbox with this new partner! The WiV blockchain technology allows users to securely collect and store information about each unique asset’s provenance and transaction history, whilst holding and insuring the unique asset in a professionally managed storage facility.

Mystery Partners

This is not the end of our partners. The Sandbox Euphoria LAND sale will feature two additional partners that have yet to be announced, can you guess who they are? Keep your eyes peeled for the big reveal on the 25th.

The Content: Premium LANDS

Premium LANDs offer two exclusive benefits. They are located closest to our partners, giving them a better chance to be visited by players after the game officially launches as they will bask in the partner’s aura. When purchasing a premium LAND, you also get exclusive NFTs that can only be purchased during that sale.

For the Euphoria LAND sale, 400 Premium LANDs, each located nearest to our partners and including unique NFTs will be up for grabs.

How to bid on OpenSea?

Five S ESTATES (3x3), four M ESTATES (6x6) as well as two L ESTATES (12x12) will be sold on an auction basis via our partner platform OpenSea. You will have 48 hours to bid for your desired ESTATE.

The process will remain the same as in Wave 1:

  • A total of five S ESTATES (3x3), 4 M ESTATES (6x6) and two L ESTATES (12x12) will be sold in auction on OpenSea.
  • Users will freely place their bids starting from Thursday, May 27th at 1PM until May 28th at 1PM UTC.
  • Each ESTATE will have a floor price depending on its size.
  • Bidders will have the choice to place a bid on any and every ESTATE they wish to acquire.
  • Each bidder will have to outbid the subsequent bidder (place a higher bid than the previous one) to have a chance at winning the ESTATE.
  • The final winner will be the one that has the highest bid by the end of the auction.

You can begin auctioning on May 27th at 1PM UTC by going to any one of these links below.

After the 48 hours have passed and the auction is completed, the highest bidders for each ESTATE will be validated and contacted to receive their winnings.

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