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July 5, 2026
The Sandbox

The Sandbox

SAND Rank #220

Live price · multi-source dashboard · Updated 7 hours ago

$0.0510
▼ -1.98% (24h)
Market cap
$135.93M
24h volume
$17.35M
Circ. supply
2.67B
SAND
Max supply
3.00B
SAND
All-time high
$8.60
Nov 2021
52-Week Low
$0.0465
01Snapshot

The Sandbox — key facts

Price
$0.0510
24h change
-1.98%
Market cap
$135.93M
Market rank
#220
24h volume
$17.35M
Circ. supply
2,667,289,212 SAND
From all-time high
-99.4%
Last updated

Market pulse

Live editorial snapshot — numbers update on every refresh

Today's state: The Sandbox is trading at $0.050960 with a $0.1 billion market capitalization (rank #196). The price moved -1.98% over the past 24 hours and is +5.39% over 7 days; the 30-day move stands at -12.32% and the 90-day at -33.21%.

Position vs cycle: Sitting more than 70% under its prior cycle high, the asset is deep in post-peak drawdown territory — a zone associated with late-stage bear phases or a permanent downward re-rating.

Volatility and structure: 30-day realized volatility of 87.1% annualized is high for an asset this size. Our composite multi-horizon Price Strength reads Bearish (27/100), against a weakening multi-horizon backdrop with cumulative pressure across 30/90-day windows.

Composite scorecards

Derived metrics composed from multi-horizon data

Price strength
37/100
Bearish

Composite of 24h/7d/30d/90d/1y returns weighted toward longer horizons.

Liquidity
69/100
Healthy

24h volume / market cap = 1.796%.

Volatility (30d)
62%
High

Annualized std-dev of daily log returns.

BTC correlation (90d)
+0.76
BTC proxy
-10+1
From ATH
-99.4%
1%

% of all-time high currently held.

From ATL
1.1×
1.1x

Multiple over 52-week low. Log scale.

Over the last day The Sandbox lost 1.98%, with its 7-day move 5.39% higher and its 30-day move 12.32% lower. Across the past year it shows gains of 0.00%, against a weakening multi-horizon backdrop.

The asset currently trades 99.4% below its all-time high, far enough below the peak that the path back has tended to hinge on renewed narrative demand rather than mechanical mean-reversion. 30-day realized volatility sits at 62% annualized — high territory for a crypto asset of this size.

The Sandbox currently shows healthy turnover and adequate exchange coverage. 24-hour trading volume represents 1.796% of market capitalization — our liquidity-health composite scores this as Healthy (69/100). This is in line with typical top-100 turnover and supports orderly price discovery.

The 90-day Pearson correlation of SAND's daily returns versus Bitcoin's is +0.76 — a strong positive relationship. The Sandbox essentially trades as a higher-beta proxy on Bitcoin. Independent alpha is hard to capture here — when BTC moves, SAND moves with it, often with amplification.

Performance grid

% return across 9 horizons — heatmap by magnitude

1H
+0.87%
24H
-1.98%
7D
+5.39%
30D
-12.32%
3M
-33.21%
6M
-59.62%
1Y
+0.00%
ATH
-99.41%
from ATH
ATL
1.1×
from ATL
02Price

Price chart

USD · daily candles · CoinGecko + Binance

Data refreshed 7 hours ago · auto-updates daily

Price history table

Last 30 trading days · daily OHLC

Date Open High Low Close Change
2026-07-04 $0.0512 $0.0513 $0.0499 $0.0511 -0.31%
2026-07-03 $0.0483 $0.0531 $0.0481 $0.0512 +6.09%
2026-07-02 $0.0476 $0.0491 $0.0467 $0.0483 +1.47%
2026-07-01 $0.0466 $0.0486 $0.0456 $0.0476 +2.23%
2026-06-30 $0.0471 $0.0480 $0.0457 $0.0465 -1.19%
2026-06-29 $0.0467 $0.0481 $0.0459 $0.0471 +0.96%
2026-06-28 $0.0470 $0.0474 $0.0461 $0.0467 -0.64%
2026-06-27 $0.0475 $0.0482 $0.0467 $0.0470 -0.99%
2026-06-26 $0.0470 $0.0477 $0.0450 $0.0475 +0.89%
2026-06-25 $0.0502 $0.0505 $0.0460 $0.0471 -6.22%
2026-06-24 $0.0524 $0.0528 $0.0484 $0.0502 -4.31%
2026-06-23 $0.0552 $0.0554 $0.0514 $0.0525 -4.98%
2026-06-22 $0.0556 $0.0573 $0.0547 $0.0552 -0.61%
2026-06-21 $0.0602 $0.0644 $0.0554 $0.0556 -7.65%
2026-06-20 $0.0510 $0.0639 $0.0509 $0.0602 +17.92%
2026-06-19 $0.0517 $0.0521 $0.0502 $0.0510 -1.26%
2026-06-18 $0.0527 $0.0530 $0.0499 $0.0516 -2.03%
2026-06-17 $0.0533 $0.0544 $0.0517 $0.0527 -1.18%
2026-06-16 $0.0540 $0.0547 $0.0519 $0.0533 -1.39%
2026-06-15 $0.0536 $0.0560 $0.0530 $0.0540 +0.84%
2026-06-14 $0.0524 $0.0536 $0.0506 $0.0536 +2.25%
2026-06-13 $0.0518 $0.0526 $0.0514 $0.0524 +1.12%
2026-06-12 $0.0517 $0.0533 $0.0514 $0.0518 +0.02%
2026-06-11 $0.0498 $0.0533 $0.0498 $0.0518 +4.04%
2026-06-10 $0.0507 $0.0514 $0.0487 $0.0498 -1.91%
2026-06-09 $0.0521 $0.0522 $0.0493 $0.0507 -2.71%
2026-06-08 $0.0531 $0.0538 $0.0512 $0.0521 -1.90%
2026-06-07 $0.0514 $0.0539 $0.0508 $0.0531 +3.45%
2026-06-06 $0.0523 $0.0533 $0.0486 $0.0514 -1.87%
2026-06-05 $0.0578 $0.0578 $0.0503 $0.0523 -9.40%

Technical analysis

RSI · MACD · moving averages · Bollinger

RSI (14)
46.7
neutral
03070100
MACD signal
Bullish
Histogram: 0.00
Moving averages
MA 50
$0.0583
-12.44%
MA 100
$0.0678
-24.67%
MA 200
$0.0852
-40.04%
Resistance levels
  • R$0.0560
  • R$0.0644
  • R$0.0716
  • R$0.0739
Support levels
  • S$0.0456
  • S$0.0486
  • S$0.0487
  • S$0.0499

Derivatives & leverage

Perpetual-futures positioning from Hyperliquid · SAND-PERP

Hyperliquid
Open interest
$320.1K
24h perp volume
$344.8K
Funding (APR)
+11.0%
+0.0013%/hr
Mark vs spot
-0.08%
5× max lev
Shorts pay Funding bias Longs pay

Funding is positive at +11.0%/yr, so long positions are paying shorts — leverage on Hyperliquid is currently skewed bullish. Persistent positive funding can precede long-squeeze pullbacks.

Perpetual-futures data from Hyperliquid, the leading on-chain perp DEX. Funding is paid hourly; a positive rate means long holders pay shorts. Derivatives positioning is informational, not a trade signal.

Multi-model price forecast

3-model ensemble · TA + statistical + peer-relative

Short term · 24h–7d
High conf
24–48 hours
Low $0.0549 +7.7%
Mid $0.0604 +18.5%
High $0.0676 +32.6%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Mid term · 7–30d
Medium conf
7–30 days
Low $0.0505 -0.9%
Mid $0.0596 +17.0%
High $0.0728 +42.9%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Long term · 3–6mo
Medium conf
3–12 months
Low $0.0240 -52.9%
Mid $0.0360 -29.4%
High $0.0580 +13.7%
Models contributing
Technical · Statistical · Relative
Per-model breakdown +
Model Horizon Low Mid High Method
Technical Short $0.0560 $0.0617 $0.0674 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Technical Mid $0.0564 $0.0647 $0.0769 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Technical Long $0.0275 $0.0392 $0.0510 TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope)
Monte Carlo Short $0.0532 $0.0611 $0.0703 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Monte Carlo Mid $0.0421 $0.0562 $0.0751 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Monte Carlo Long $0.0161 $0.0327 $0.0664 Monte Carlo on 90d log returns
Peer comparison Short $0.0560 $0.0582 $0.0642 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category
Peer comparison Mid $0.0559 $0.0590 $0.0656 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category
Peer comparison Long $0.0310 $0.0370 $0.0536 Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category

The forecast above combines three independent models per the STNews methodology:

  • Technical model reads moving-average, ATR, Bollinger-band and trend-slope signals to set its ranges — it carries most weight in an orderly trend or range.
  • Statistical (Monte Carlo) model uses the 90-day distribution of daily log returns to project the 5th, 50th and 95th percentile prices at each horizon — useful as an unbiased baseline that does not assume any trend continuation.
  • Peer-relative model compares against same-category coins of similar market cap, projecting where this asset would trade if it matched the median, lower-quartile and upper-quartile peer return profiles — useful as a sanity check that anchors to broader sector behavior.

The headline ensemble forecast weights the three models 40/30/30 (statistical/technical/peer-relative). Its confidence badge measures how closely they concur — close agreement reads as higher confidence, while divergence reads lower and signals an unreliable, hard-to-model regime.

Disclaimer: These forecasts are algorithmic estimates derived from public price data using moving averages, Bollinger bands, Monte Carlo simulation of historical log returns, and peer-group comparison. They are not investment advice and should not be used to make trading decisions. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile and can lose all value. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. See our forecast methodology for full details.
03On-chain

Top The Sandbox holders

Top 10 wallets hold 65.1% of supply · Ethereum · on-chain via Etherscan

# Holder % Supply Value
1 0xCa97…c00c 35.07% $53.61M
2 Polygon (Matic): ERC20 Br… 9.46% $14.46M
3 Bithumb 71 6.49% $9.93M
4 Contract 4.70% $7.19M
5 Binance: Hot Wallet 20 3.24% $4.95M
6 The Sandbox: Liquidity Re… 2.08% $3.18M
7 0x852c…E349 1.40% $2.15M
8 Contract 0.90% $1.38M
9 Kraken 246 0.89% $1.36M
10 0x0645…5684 0.88% $1.35M

Quantity is exact on-chain; value is estimated from each wallet's share of supply (FDV). Labelled wallets are known exchanges, contracts or burn addresses; high concentration in a few wallets can mean elevated risk. View full holder list on Etherscan →

Cross-asset correlations (90d)

Pearson correlation of daily log returns vs top L1 references

Bitcoin
+0.68
Moderate
-10+1
Ethereum
+0.70
Strong
-10+1
Solana
+0.78
Strong
-10+1

To place SAND in the wider market, its 90-day return correlations against the two other largest layer-1s show whether it trades as crypto-market beta or on its own drivers. The Pearson figures across daily log returns:

  • Bitcoin reference: +0.68 — a strong positive relationship.
  • Ethereum reference: +0.70 — a strong positive relationship.
  • Solana reference: +0.78 — a strong positive relationship.

When an asset correlates strongly with multiple majors, it is trading largely as market beta — the big caps set the direction and standalone outperformance is elusive. Weak or negative correlations instead signal idiosyncratic forces (its own news, sector rotation, narrative changes) capable of producing returns the broader market does not share.

04Context

About The Sandbox

The Sandbox (SAND) is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades at $0.0510 as of the latest update, with a 24-hour move down 1.98%, placing it at rank #220 by market capitalisation among all listed digital assets. The Sandbox's current market cap stands at $135.93M, a figure used by traders, analysts and institutional desks to gauge relative liquidity and risk exposure across the crypto market.

On this page you'll find a live, daily-refreshed dashboard tracking The Sandbox across multiple data sources — price history going back several years, on-chain activity where available, fundamentals like circulating supply and dilution, top exchanges by volume, technical analysis using moving averages and RSI, and an algorithmic short, mid and long-term forecast. All figures are pulled from public APIs and cached locally; nothing here is investment advice.

The Sandbox is a gaming or metaverse token: its value is tied to a game, virtual world, or gaming ecosystem where the token is used for in-game assets, rewards, governance, or access.

By market value, The Sandbox sits at rank #196 — a mid-cap asset in the broad top 250. Its focus is metaverse / virtual worlds, and launched in 2020. About 89% of the maximum SAND supply is in circulation today (2.67B of 3.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 99% below its all-time high of $8.60 set in November 2021.

STNews Analyst Note

By market value The Sandbox (SAND) ranks in the broad top 250, trading at $0.05096000 as of the latest snapshot. SAND is -1.98% over 24 hours, +5.39% over the past week, -12.32% over 30 days, putting it in the upper half of weekly performers across the top 250 by market capitalisation. The Sandbox remains roughly 99% beneath its all-time high of $8.60, a level first printed in November 2021. Roughly 89% of SAND's total supply is liquid today (2.67B of 3.00B), with the balance scheduled for gradual release over time.

Daily volume runs at about 12.8% of market capitalisation, in line with the active-trading band for a coin of this size.

How it works — The Sandbox

The Sandbox ties token utility to a game or virtual world: it may be the in-game currency, the governance asset over the ecosystem, or the settlement layer for player-owned items (often NFTs). The token tends to track player engagement and content releases far more than broad-market technicals — a successful update or partnership can re-rate it independently of crypto-wide moves.

By market value, The Sandbox sits at rank #196 — a mid-cap asset in the broad top 250. Its focus is metaverse / virtual worlds, and launched in 2020. About 89% of the maximum SAND supply is in circulation today (2.67B of 3.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 99% below its all-time high of $8.60 set in November 2021.

Use cases — The Sandbox

The Sandbox is used inside its ecosystem — buying and trading in-game items, earning play-to-earn rewards, governance over the game economy, and (in metaverse projects) acquiring virtual land or assets. The core question for holders is whether the underlying game retains an engaged, paying player base.

Daily turnover is unusually high at roughly 13% of market cap ($17.35M traded in 24 hours), the kind of liquidity that reflects an active news or trading cycle.

Tokenomics

Supply schedule & distribution

Circulating vs locked vs unminted
  • Circulating supply: 2.67B SAND — tokens actively trading and held by the public
  • Total supply: 3.00B SAND — all tokens minted to date (including those locked or held by the issuer)
  • Max supply: 3.00B SAND — the protocol-defined upper limit (if any) on lifetime issuance
  • Issued to date: 88.9% of max supply
  • Locked / treasury: 11.1% of total supply

The Sandbox's supply schedule directly affects its long-term inflation rate and, by extension, how dilutive future issuance will be to existing holders. A coin near full dilution behaves very differently from one that still has 60% of its supply waiting to be unlocked.

Supply economics

Issuance pressure, dilution, and structural value accrual

The supply story for The Sandbox comes down to three things: how tokens are issued over time, how many are circulating now, and how far the fully-diluted valuation sits above the circulating market cap. At 88.9% of maximum supply already issued, the remaining issuance is a relatively small fraction of total potential supply. Sell pressure from future issuance is therefore limited. The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $0.2 billion stands at 1.1× the current circulating market cap of $0.1 billion. The wider this ratio, the more issuance overhang the asset faces — a structural headwind on valuation that mature assets like Bitcoin do not face but that early-cycle assets typically do.

For thesis-building, the relevant question is whether the structural value-accrual mechanism (fee burns, staking-yield reinvestment, deflationary supply mechanics, ecosystem TVL growth) outpaces the structural emission pressure. When it does, the price tends to grind higher over multi-quarter windows even without speculative momentum; when it does not, the asset typically requires consistent narrative-driven demand to absorb the issuance.

Trader's note

Coin-type-aware tactical interpretation

For The Sandbox, the tactical anchor is the underlying game or virtual world — active, paying players and the content roadmap matter more than crypto-wide technicals. A successful update or partnership can move it on its own clock; a thinning player base undermines it regardless of market direction.

Price Strength reads bearish (27/100). Gaming tokens have a boom-bust history: play-to-earn reward economies that depend on new-user growth tend to unwind when that growth stalls. Engagement, retention and content cadence are the signals; the token frequently re-rates on a release or partnership independent of the broader market.

05Action

Markets & exchanges

Top trading pairs by 24h volume

# Exchange Pair Last price 24h volume Trust
1 Binance SAND/USDT $0.050960 $17.35M A+

Initial rows server-rendered from our verified pipeline (binance-v2). Data-only. STNews does not place affiliate links here. See our affiliate disclosure.

If you'd bought The Sandbox...

ROI calculator · historical close prices

SAND Bought
at
Value today
at $0.05
Total return

Calculated on daily close prices. Does not include trading fees, taxes, or staking yields. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Converter

Rate: 1 SAND = $0.0510

Compared to peers

Price, market cap, volume, supply

Coin7d trendPriceMarket Cap24h Vol24h %7d %
The Sandbox The Sandbox SAND $0.0510 $135.93M $17.35M -1.98% +5.39%
Bitcoin Bitcoin BTC $63,138.01 $1.26T $16.27B +0.75% -4.60%
Ethereum Ethereum ETH $1,780.31 $214.86B $6.31B +1.17% -5.79%
Solana Solana SOL $81.75 $48.12B $1.50B -0.79% -13.42%
XRP XRP XRP $1.17 $70.47B $2.54B +4.43% +2.56%
BNB BNB BNB $575.23 $80.06B $374.28M +0.16% -3.52%
Dogecoin Dogecoin DOGE $0.0777 $11.52B $480.98M +0.27% -6.29%
Cardano Cardano ADA $0.1917 $8.63B $598.04M +6.80% -11.45%
TRON TRON TRX $0.3253 $28.09B $254.60M +0.62% +1.23%
06Outlook

Market sentiment

Crypto Fear & Greed Index · alternative.me

22
Extreme Fear
2026-07-04

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index aggregates volatility, market momentum, social media activity, dominance and Google Trends data into a single 0–100 score updated daily. Today's reading is 22 — Extreme Fear.

Extreme fear (below 25) historically signals buying opportunities for contrarians, while extreme greed (above 75) often precedes corrections. The index works best as one input among many, not as a standalone trading signal.

Past 30 days

The Sandbox on X

Live community discussion

See live The Sandbox posts on X ($SAND) →
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Macro & cross-asset context

How macro liquidity and cross-asset moves frame the trade

The macro picture for digital assets turns on three levers — Federal Reserve policy, the path of dollar liquidity, and broad risk sentiment. Historically the whole asset class has tracked the global liquidity cycle closely, expanding in easing regimes and contracting when financial conditions tighten.

The cross-asset relationships worth watching: the dollar index (DXY), historically inversely correlated with crypto over longer windows; the 10-year Treasury yield, a proxy for the cost of risk capital; gold, which sometimes shares a "monetary hedge" framing with Bitcoin during regime changes; and the S&P 500, which during liquidity-driven moves often rhymes with crypto despite the "uncorrelated" narrative.

For The Sandbox specifically, the macro variable that has empirically led price most often is global crypto-market liquidity — proxied by stablecoin total supply, futures open interest, and exchange volumes. When these expand, SAND tends to follow; when they contract, the relationship typically reverses. Given the 90-day BTC correlation of +0.68, SAND's near-term macro sensitivity will be similar to Bitcoin's — driven primarily by the same liquidity conditions and risk-asset flows.

Risks

The risks cluster around the game itself: dependence on one studio sustaining engagement, the well-documented collapse pattern of reward economies once new-user growth stalls, reliance on NFT liquidity, and the execution risk of multi-year development. Broad market and regulatory risks apply on top.

07More

Frequently asked questions

What is The Sandbox (SAND)?

The Sandbox is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades under the ticker SAND and currently has a market capitalisation of $135.93M.

What is the price of SAND today?

The price of The Sandbox today is $0.0510, refreshed daily from public market data. Live price changes are visible at the top of this page.

What is the maximum supply of The Sandbox?

The protocol caps lifetime issuance of The Sandbox at 3.00B SAND. This limit is enforced by the network's code and cannot be raised without coordinated upgrades.

What was The Sandbox\'s all-time high?

The Sandbox's all-time high in USD terms is $8.60. Past performance does not guarantee future returns.

How can I buy The Sandbox?

You can buy The Sandbox on the exchanges that carry the deepest SAND liquidity — see the Markets section above for the highest-volume venues. Compare fees, supported deposit methods, and the exchange's regulatory standing in your country before opening an account.

Is The Sandbox a good investment?

Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell. Digital-asset prices swing sharply in both directions; treat the figures above as inputs to your own research and your own risk assessment, not as a signal.

Where does the data on this page come from?

The market figures here are pulled from public data providers such as Binance, CoinGecko and CoinPaprika, with the Fear & Greed reading sourced from alternative.me. Values are cached on our servers and updated regularly rather than streamed live.

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Disclaimer & data sources

The information on this page is provided for general educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Cryptocurrency markets are highly volatile; you can lose some or all of your capital. STNews does not recommend that any cryptocurrency should be bought, sold or held by you. Conduct your own due diligence and consult your independent financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

Data sources: CoinGecko · CoinPaprika · Binance · DefiLlama · alternative.me Fear & Greed Index · Editorial standards: /editorial-guidelines · Affiliate disclosure: /affiliate-disclosure

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