NFT Guide: What Is The Sandbox?
🤔 What is The Sandbox
The sandbox is a virtual world in which players can build, own and monetize their gaming experience on the Ethereum blockchain. It contains three main components: VOXEDIT 3D voxel art animation software for creating NFT game assets, MARKETPLACE for buying and selling NFT assets, and GAME MAKER tool for creating game experiences in the sandbox metaverse.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are virtual tokens minted on the blockchain for digital scarcity, security, and authenticity. They are unique, indivisible, and non-interchangeable, allowing true digital ownership of game assets.
🧠 How to Buy Your First NFT
Log into your Sandbox Account
Visit our marketplace
Select the NFT you are interested in
Click on the buy button
Make sure you have enough $SAND and ETH.
Sign the transaction on your wallet
You are the proud owner of a shiny new NFT
Now that the beta version of the market is online, you can buy NFT directly from The Sandbox without having to go to a third party. The process is very simple. Login to your Sandbox account and visit our marketplace. There, you will be able to see all the assets and NFTs created for use in our Metaverse. You can then filter by clicking the "Sell" button to see the first affordable NFT published on the market.
On the left side of the screen, you can further filter by category: physical, device, wearable, and art, or simply browse over 100 NFTs. After finding the NFT you want to buy, select the number of copies you want and then click the buy button. A pop-up window should appear in your wallet, inviting you to complete the transaction. Your transaction should be successful, as long as you have enough $SAND and $ETH to cover the gas fee, and there are enough copies at the time of your purchase. Look, you are the proud owner of the new NFT!
You can now find it in the inventory under the "Me" section. Please note that there may be a slight delay between the time of purchase and the time when the NFT appears in your inventory. This is completely normal, and you can verify the success of the transaction by verifying on Etherscan.
⛱️ Minting Your NFTs
In Phase One, the minting process is available for whitelisted artists following the same flow we use today, from VoxEdit to the Dashboard, and will soon be open to all of them as we upgrade our features.
It allows the artists to define some creative traits about their work (Name, Description, Categorization) and its scarcity.
Minting does not involve any fee from The Sandbox — only the gas cost.
When minted, ASSETS follow the ERC-1155 standard.
Sandbox is a platform for NFT makers. Anyone can create and sell their own NFTs. These NFTs can be used as assets of our Game Maker no code and can interoperate with other blockchain dApps. In the first stage, only whitelisted artists can upload their NFTs to the market. As we adjust the functions and update the platform, the later stages will open the market to more artists.
Before creating an NFT, you must use our VoxEdit 3D modeler to create assets. Once you are happy with it, you can set the name, description, set its type (physical, portable, device, or artwork), and export it to your profile. At this point, your asset is an unreleased or off-chain asset, which means it is not an NFT yet. The process of forging your NFT will make it exist on the blockchain, provide it with security and proof of ownership, and make it available on our market.
Once your assets are completed and completely tampered with, you can export them and convert them into non-fungible tokens (NFT), which can be sold for $ SAND. Your assets will remain in your profile, regardless of whether they have been posted to the store or not. You can decide whether to share it as a virtual asset on the blockchain through our market.
⌛ Conclusion
The sandbox platform provides creators with full control of their creative copyright, and can also specify how to use it, for example as a single item (such as a statue) that can only be used once in the BOX, or a common element can be copied as needed (such as, Together can form the trees of the forest).
To decentralize this process, the model will be uploaded to the IPFS network, which will allow the model to be stored securely on the network. After completing this process, we will automatically bind the hash ID provided by the IPFS network to the token itself to associate the actual voxel model with the token. After this process, the creator will effectively have a unique ASSET token created on his behalf, and you can then sell it on the market.
The Sandbox market will use smart contracts to monitor item auctions and transactions. This open market for creators and developers will allow different users of the platform to freely trade NFT assets within the game. The added benefit of this market is that the economic principles of supply and demand are automatically integrated into the system, allowing the community to determine the right price.
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