1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,940 Hello everyone, Sandel Podcast number 31. 2 00:00:08,940 --> 00:00:14,840 Today we'll be talking about the sandbox ecosystem. 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,000 Something I've been looking forward to for quite some time, which is basically an explanation 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,200 for how things work based on what I've seen. 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:29,880 I've been a part of most segments of the ecosystem when it comes to being a gamer, a market 6 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:36,120 place purchaser, a landowner, avatar owner, an experienced publisher. 7 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:42,280 I've delved into VoxEdit, not extensively, but enough to mint stuff and placing blocks 8 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:48,280 in GameMaker to the point where we've published our own experiences. 9 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:54,400 And today I'm going to, I spent the last couple weeks putting together flow charts, diagrams, 10 00:00:54,400 --> 00:01:01,880 stuff like that to give a summary intro into what that ecosystem looks like. 11 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,560 And yeah, it should help if you haven't, if you have no idea what's going on, if you're 12 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,920 struggling to understand how all the facets of sandbox play together from the DOW, the 13 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,120 GameMaker to the game client, this is the intro for you. 14 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,960 So as I mentioned, the scope of the talk is an orientation and it's a summary. 15 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:29,120 It's basically an orientation and summary from my point of view as someone who's been 16 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,280 involved in the sandbox for going on three years now. 17 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,160 Disclaimer, I do not represent the sandbox game or the sandbox foundation, which is the 18 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,160 DOW. 19 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:45,360 I am not your financial or legal advisor and nothing that we say is to be taken as financial 20 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,440 or legal advice. 21 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,840 When I say the word SIP, I mean sandbox improvement proposal. 22 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,640 When I say the word DOW, I mean decentralized autonomous organization. 23 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,440 And when I use the word SanFam, I'm referring to everyone in the sandbox community. 24 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,680 And this is the episode we're going to go into what that means. 25 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:14,560 DOW scoreboard, as of October, early October, the SIPs 14 and 15 did not pass because they 26 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,120 did not reach quorum. 27 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,520 SIP 15 with the disability hiring program, SIP 14 was mine. 28 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,080 It was a window of resizing and resolution options. 29 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,540 Unfortunately, neither passed quorum. 30 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:31,480 So they did not pass, bringing us to nine SIPs approved, six SIPs not approved and one 31 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,960 SIP withdrawn. 32 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,080 So that's, it's about half and half right now. 33 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,040 16 SIPs total. 34 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,820 There are none in draft or open for voting. 35 00:02:42,820 --> 00:02:49,920 That's because the sandbox DOW team is currently busy reviewing, interviewing and approving 36 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,360 the delegates that just opened up. 37 00:02:52,360 --> 00:03:00,480 I did a podcast on that and that was Sandow podcast 28. 38 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,240 So check that out if you're interested in the update on the delegate system that is 39 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,640 and delegation that has arrived to sandbox. 40 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:15,000 For the checkbook, we are at 15% spent of our 15.5 million budget. 41 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,600 The only thing that this doesn't account for is the operations budget, which I need to 42 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,920 delve into a little bit more deeply. 43 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:27,520 And so over 15.5 million budget, we spent 2.3. 44 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,800 That's just totally in all the SIPs that have been approved. 45 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:44,480 Now based on AI, we're still at 211,000 token holders and for we're now at 15 proposals 46 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,680 and having casted 2200 votes. 47 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,360 I'm sorry. 48 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,960 9200 votes across 222 voters. 49 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,320 Introduction. 50 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:58,560 My name is Lanza. 51 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:07,080 I am a landowner, avatar owner gamer, and I have a background in contract writing and 52 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,200 negotiations and program management. 53 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,440 And I'm the host for Sandow podcast. 54 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,640 I'm also the president of MetaWorlds. 55 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:23,800 We have published two experiences, floor droppers and lava defense. 56 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:29,920 Floor droppers is currently at 00 for Alpha season 4. 57 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,720 I made a tweet about that a little earlier. 58 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,840 Looks like it disappeared from 00 because it's going to release at a later time, but 59 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,480 it did appear for a little bit. 60 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,160 I posted the link to it. 61 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,080 I'm beyond excited that it's at 00 and season 4. 62 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,880 It was rather unexpected that they reached out to me and said, hey, we like what floor 63 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,960 droppers did during Builders Challenge. 64 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,840 We like the idea of it and we'd like to include in season 4. 65 00:04:53,840 --> 00:05:00,160 And I was very, very happy to accept and we had to make a few changes to be in season 66 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,160 4. 67 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:02,380 I'm loving season 4 so far. 68 00:05:02,380 --> 00:05:08,120 If you've been on this channel, you've been seeing that I've been hosting 24 hour streams 69 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,540 pretty much for Alpha season 4. 70 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:16,760 So check that out when we're not doing Sandow podcasts. 71 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,120 That's twitch.tv slash Lanza. 72 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,280 And I'm going to be talking about the Sandbox. 73 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,280 So I'm going to be talking about the Sandbox. 74 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,280 So I'm going to be talking about the Sandbox. 75 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,680 I should have put a little agenda item. 76 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,380 What is the Sandbox? 77 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:37,080 How does the ecosystem work? 78 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,360 What is its purpose to people and its products? 79 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:45,600 How does it all come together in an ecosystem that functions and has been functioning since 80 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,600 2018? 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,560 Okay, so what is the Sandbox? 82 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,280 It first started in 2012 as a mobile game. 83 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,840 It was not blockchain enabled. 84 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:08,480 If you YouTube speeches made by Arthur Madrid and Sebastian Bourget, they articulate this 85 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,400 in a number of their conferences. 86 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,760 Started in 2012 and it transformed into a metaverse game with the blockchain ecosystem 87 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,040 in 2018. 88 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,240 And it went from mobile to PC. 89 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:30,460 So having been involved in most of the things in this, in what Sandbox does and is, it took 90 00:06:30,460 --> 00:06:31,800 me a while to figure it out. 91 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,040 So this is the benefit of my knowledge and in a summary of it, just my perspective. 92 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:38,500 So what is the Sandbox? 93 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:43,520 It basically revolves around three segments, three groups of things that are happening 94 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,520 all at once. 95 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,360 Three activities. 96 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,400 They are the product, the people, and the purpose. 97 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:57,000 The product are all the different things that the Sandbox game and the Sandbox company have 98 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,120 produced to include the game that we're playing on Alpha Season 4 right now, but also a lot 99 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,600 of backend products that support the game. 100 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:11,500 The people are all of the family members we call Sandfam involved in the daily activities 101 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:13,680 of the Sandbox. 102 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,940 I also include the DAO when I include the people because the DAO is mostly an organization 103 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:21,220 of community. 104 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:27,300 Even though it does have a structure, it is itself separate from the Sandbox as described 105 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,920 by Sebastian and Cyril, who is the DAO administrator. 106 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:32,920 And the purpose. 107 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,240 Why is our way even doing any of this? 108 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,360 Why does the Sandbox exist? 109 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:44,960 All of those things together, all of those three segments come together, swirl around, 110 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,960 interact with each other daily, and that's what the ecosystem is created from. 111 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,400 There we go. 112 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,400 That's a good summary for it. 113 00:07:52,400 --> 00:08:00,800 It's a daily interaction of the Sandbox's product, people, and purpose. 114 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,080 So let's get into the first one. 115 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,640 What do I mean when I say people? 116 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:13,160 Well, what I'm talking about are all of the types of people who interact with the Sandbox. 117 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,660 That's the gamers. 118 00:08:14,660 --> 00:08:17,200 A lot of them are in Alpha Season 4 right now. 119 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:22,280 You install the game client, you launch the launcher, and you jump in zero zero at the 120 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:30,280 Alpha Season 4 hub, or whatever the default experience is at the time, and then you start 121 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:31,280 playing. 122 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,200 WSAD, jump around, do quests. 123 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Those are the gamers. 124 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,160 Then you have the game makers. 125 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:42,360 They interact with the game maker product, and they place blocks, and they create the 126 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,640 levels that the gamers play on. 127 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,720 We have voxel artists, or just artists. 128 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,800 They're the ones who create all of the scenery. 129 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:59,240 They create all of the objects and assets that the game makers put into their game. 130 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,960 The gamers can play with both. 131 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:08,520 So the sword that you swing, that is an asset created by a voxel artist. 132 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:18,380 The grass that you run on, that is a voxel block placed by a game maker, and the gamers 133 00:09:18,380 --> 00:09:19,640 play with both. 134 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,600 Then you have the landowners. 135 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:31,600 So the asset that the game makers place the blocks on is called land, and there is someone 136 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,000 who owns that land. 137 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,800 So that's an NFT that someone will own. 138 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,320 Sandhoner, sand holders. 139 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,960 That's the sand token, which exists on Polychain, Polygon, and the Ethereum blockchains. 140 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:54,420 So sand is a token compared to the Ethereum and Polygon coins. 141 00:09:54,420 --> 00:09:57,360 So whether you're speculating, you're day trading, or you're just holding it, or you're 142 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:03,160 staking it, if you hold sand, or if you have that token in your wallet, you're a sandholder. 143 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,280 Then you have the DAO delegates. 144 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,720 This is the newest kid on the block. 145 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,240 The DAO delegates haven't been implemented yet. 146 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,560 They're in the process of being implemented by the DAO admin team. 147 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:22,760 But they will be the person that all of the voters, many voters, will delegate their voting 148 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:28,880 power to, and the delegates will be able to vote on behalf of those who delegated. 149 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,760 Then you have participants. 150 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,360 That to me is like a catchall. 151 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:41,080 So a person who is a participant isn't necessarily anyone of the above, but they still interact 152 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,520 with the daily sandbox activities. 153 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,300 And the thing that comes to mind to me is a broker. 154 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:52,640 Someone who doesn't own land, but will find someone who does, find a buyer of land, and 155 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,800 a seller of land, and broker that deal. 156 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,040 So they don't even have to own any sand. 157 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,120 They could just be someone who doesn't, they don't have to game, they don't have to game 158 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,160 make, they don't have to voxel edit, or make voxel artwork. 159 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,900 They don't have to own land, they don't have to hold sand, they don't have to be a delegate. 160 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:15,200 But they are in a key position to connect buyers and sellers, where otherwise they would 161 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,200 not meet. 162 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,560 So that's market activity. 163 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:23,760 And people like that, or other people who don't fall into any of these categories, are 164 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 participants. 165 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,800 And then the last thing is the sandbox team. 166 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,100 They themselves, the developers of the sandbox game and all these products, they are employees 167 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:39,820 of the sandbox company, they themselves are part of the people of the sandbox ecosystem. 168 00:11:39,820 --> 00:11:43,760 And all of those people together is what I mean when I say SanFam. 169 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,220 It's the sandbox community. 170 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:53,440 Those who participate in the sandbox ecosystem in some way, shape, or form. 171 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,640 Page two, that was just page one. 172 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:03,880 Page two of people is the businesses, all of the businesses that are partnered with 173 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,240 by the sandbox. 174 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:14,720 So that would be Atari, Deadmau5, eToro, The Walking Dead, Time Magazine, who else? 175 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:22,360 Gucci, Ledger, many, many, many businesses that have invested. 176 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:27,220 Most of them are themselves landowners, SanToken holders. 177 00:12:27,220 --> 00:12:32,520 But I call them out separately because they have their own niche as to where they belong 178 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,020 and what part they play. 179 00:12:36,020 --> 00:12:43,840 So Animoca Brands owns the sandbox, the sandbox company, and all of its partners. 180 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:49,080 And then below I have the DAO, which would be the voters and the delegates. 181 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,760 The sandbox foundation, which is the corporate entity, the one I say in the disclaimer I 182 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,760 don't represent. 183 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,760 The sandbox foundation is the DAO's legal entity. 184 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,120 Then you have the councils and the working groups. 185 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,720 So the special counsel, the advisory board, and any working groups that may prop up in 186 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,720 the future. 187 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:11,920 So those are part of the people, but most of them have some sort of place in the page 188 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:18,720 one of the people that I just went through the past 10 minutes, who I dubbed as SanFam. 189 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,240 I didn't want to leave them out though. 190 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,200 They have an emerging place within the sandbox ecosystem. 191 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,360 All right, so those are the people that are involved in the sandbox ecosystem. 192 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:39,000 The gamers, the game makers, voxel artists, landowners, San holders, DAO delegates, participants, 193 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 and the sandbox team, all equal the SanFam. 194 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,280 All right, then we move on to the products. 195 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:55,020 Products is what the people interact with when they enter the sandbox ecosystem. 196 00:13:55,020 --> 00:14:00,360 You have four main groupings, four main categories of product. 197 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:06,240 You have VoxEdit, GameMaker, the market, and the game client. 198 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:17,920 VoxEdit is the software that studios, artists, and animators, studios, artists, and animators 199 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,360 interact with to create voxel art. 200 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:26,640 So a lot of the NFTs that you see in the marketplace, all the assets, the props, the equipment, 201 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:31,240 those are all created by voxel artists, mostly through VoxEdit. 202 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:38,280 There are competing products, but VoxEdit is the official Vox editor for the sandbox. 203 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,000 That's one product. 204 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,560 Second product is the GameMaker. 205 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,240 That's where most of your studios and game devs and quality assurance testers exist in. 206 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:54,160 That's where you place blocks to create your experience, your level, your level designers. 207 00:14:54,160 --> 00:15:01,720 That's where the engineers will go in to create game logic, all your triggers and messages 208 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,360 and mechanics that make an experience work. 209 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:05,360 Your quests. 210 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:13,960 GameMaker is where you also place your NFT assets that are created in VoxEdit. 211 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,420 And you publish experiences to the sandbox map. 212 00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:21,800 So if you are playing in Alpha Season 4, you are playing on an experience created by a 213 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,920 game maker with assets created from VoxEdit. 214 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,040 And then we have the GameClient. 215 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,120 That is the main mechanism through what most of the community interacts with. 216 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,600 That's where you actually play the game. 217 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:43,280 So the two products out of that is the GameClient and the Sandbox Launcher. 218 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:49,960 The GameClient is the actual thing where you open up and you join experience and you play. 219 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:56,120 The Game Launcher is now kind of like when you have Steam or... 220 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:01,520 Or yeah, yeah, it's just, it's kind of like Steam when you open it up and it's kind of 221 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,400 like a game manager, so to speak. 222 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:06,480 It's very new. 223 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,560 So it's still, they're still working out the kinks. 224 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:15,040 But I imagine that's where you're also going to end up with VoxEdit and GameMaker downloading 225 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,040 out of there. 226 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:20,520 But for right now, it just has the Sandbox GameClient and it will be an auto... 227 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,040 It's also an auto-updater. 228 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:27,520 So that's where your gamers, your guild members, and your Web2 and Web3 users interact with 229 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,840 mostly is through the GameClient. 230 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,600 Last but not least is the market. 231 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:41,240 The market is the activity on blockchain and all the buying and selling and speculating 232 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:50,560 and deal making mostly through the market, which is the Avatar marketplace, the Sandbox 233 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,800 marketplace, which is where you can buy assets and equipment. 234 00:16:53,800 --> 00:17:00,480 You have the blockchains, all the exchanges where you can buy and sell Sand Token, and 235 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,020 then the map where you can buy and sell land. 236 00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:06,360 You can also do it through Magic Eden or OpenSea. 237 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:10,440 So the market is where all the buyers and sellers, the staking happens, the brokers 238 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,400 and the exchanges all interact with each other. 239 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:19,160 So those four products exist within the Sandbox ecosystem, which is the VoxEdit, the GameMaker, 240 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:20,900 GameClient and the market. 241 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:27,360 And that's where all the people, they have some part to play in. 242 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:30,840 Last but not least is the purpose. 243 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,760 The purpose. 244 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,520 So what is the purpose of the Sandbox? 245 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:38,800 Why are we here? 246 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:45,560 So taken from the Sandbox white paper, which was launched in 2020, the words it starts 247 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:51,320 out with is to play, create, govern, earn. 248 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,960 So what does that mean? 249 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,320 Welcome to the metaverse is what it says. 250 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,920 And the Sandbox team is building a unique virtual world where players can build, own 251 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:06,640 and monetize their gaming experiences using Sand, the main utility of the platform. 252 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:12,240 So we kind of already went over what the Sand was, what gaming experiences were, experiences 253 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,800 what the player will play on. 254 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,680 Sand is the token. 255 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,120 Build on land using GameMaker. 256 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:25,640 You own the land and NFTs by purchasing them on the blockchain and in the marketplace. 257 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,520 You monetize by staking or buying and selling. 258 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,480 And all of that is metaverse gaming. 259 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:41,520 Metaverse meaning, you know, web enabled, massively multiplayer online, usually an immersive 260 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:42,800 experience. 261 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,000 Think Ready Player One, but not quite so, you know, put on a headset and you're transported 262 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,760 into and to stuff. 263 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,840 So that's the white paper in 2020. 264 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,160 But let's not just choose the white papers. 265 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:02,960 Let's also hear the words of the people who, who co-founded this whole thing. 266 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:10,480 So Sebastian Bourget, who is the Sandbox co-founder and the COO, chief operating officer. 267 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:19,640 A quote from one of his, a couple of his AMAs is a quoting from Sebastian. 268 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:25,640 The Sandbox is how we empower anyone to become a creator, where we build a virtual world 269 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,520 that brings culture and gaming together. 270 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,520 So culture is a very deep word. 271 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:37,040 I might even have to do a podcast on the future, but far, far more experienced minds and I 272 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,080 can comment on culture. 273 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,760 That's like the people's interactions. 274 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:41,760 It's your customs. 275 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:51,600 That's your, your art, your, your entertainment, your, your customs and courtesies, culture, 276 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,600 how society lives and functions. 277 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:59,080 So this brings many different cultures and the gamers together. 278 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:06,280 You know, your first person shooters, your, your MMOs, your RPG players, puzzle, party 279 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,920 gamers, all of that stuff. 280 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,760 You bring them all together in a virtual world. 281 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:19,200 And you do that by enabling anyone empowering in Sebastian's words, anyone to become a creator, 282 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:25,960 to build, to create, to buy, to sell, to own all of the things to govern all of the things 283 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,280 that were said in the white paper. 284 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:34,640 Right, that's Sebastian Bourget quoted as saying how we sandbox is how we empower anyone to 285 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,880 become a creator. 286 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,880 And later on in that sentence, he says build to build a virtual world that brings culture 287 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,640 and gaming together. 288 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:47,280 Arthur Madrid, who is also sandbox co-founder and currently the chief executive officer, 289 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:53,240 the CEO said, we are building a blockchain metaverse where anyone can buy land and create 290 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:54,960 their own digital space. 291 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,360 We believe in a new immersive and social experience. 292 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:03,440 So you start to see some similar trains of thought happening here. 293 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:09,600 Arthur Madrid, who's very business minded, very entrepreneurial. 294 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,360 If you watch a lot of his videos, he's been an entrepreneur for quite some time, more 295 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:17,100 in like the management leadership role, that sort of thing. 296 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:21,200 And he is take on it is a blockchain metaverse. 297 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:28,360 So blockchain enabled metaverse being what we said earlier about online social interactions 298 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,320 where anyone can buy land and create their own digital space. 299 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,160 So buy land being the marketplace activities we talked about during the products and the 300 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:40,520 digital space, owning their own digital space, which is the land that landowners can can 301 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,880 own. 302 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,800 Or and the creation of that digital space would be the game maker in the box editor, 303 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:56,500 where you can create the assets and and create the scenery and architecture on that land 304 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:57,500 using game maker. 305 00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:02,140 And the last one, at least he said, we believe in a new immersive and social experience. 306 00:22:02,140 --> 00:22:06,960 This was a little bit of a of a social experience. 307 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:13,740 What key to cute in there to where he's talking about the interactions where people can can 308 00:22:13,740 --> 00:22:19,160 new ways of interacting with each other online. 309 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,640 So repeating it one more time, Arthur Madrid said sandbox is where we are building a blockchain 310 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,840 metaverse where anyone can buy land and create their own digital space. 311 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:34,680 We believe in the new immersive and social experience. 312 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:42,880 Yet Sue, chairman of the Animoca brand said sandbox continues to be a key strategic initiative. 313 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:49,080 Key strategic initiative being the phrase there where it's it's important to the Animoca 314 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,080 brand. 315 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,000 Animoca brands is the largest Web3 company in the world. 316 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,700 I don't think anyone's larger than them in terms of market cap or size. 317 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:02,440 They have over 400 companies, subsidiaries that they own. 318 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:09,300 He goes on later to say in a different in his TED talk to think of the open metaverse 319 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:13,960 as the construction of new economies and new societies with a strong foundation of 320 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,080 digital property rights. 321 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,680 The construction of new economies being the marketplace activity that we talked about 322 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:20,680 earlier. 323 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,840 The new societies being the cultural norms that are developed out of the sandbox unique 324 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,900 to the sandbox and digital property rights being the ownership of your assets that you 325 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:36,720 buy and trade own, sell and interact with on the blockchain and in the market within 326 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,740 the sandbox ecosystem. 327 00:23:41,740 --> 00:23:48,040 So I linked here specifically to their phrase, their their words so you can hear it in their 328 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:55,420 own words and we'll just go through all four of them. 329 00:23:55,420 --> 00:23:59,780 So what would you say is the ultimate mission of the sandbox? 330 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,740 Where do you see the sandbox in 10 years, for example? 331 00:24:02,740 --> 00:24:04,240 Well, that's that's a great question. 332 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,920 So our mission is like, how do we empower anyone to become a creator? 333 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:09,920 Right. 334 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,920 That's really what drives us. 335 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,700 And like we've been so creator focused or creator driven since the beginning. 336 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:16,700 We keep doing so. 337 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:18,600 It's our big focus this year. 338 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,600 I believe like beyond that, beyond like enabling anyone to become content creator, we want 339 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,900 to build a virtual world that brings culture and gaming together. 340 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:34,200 Once you onboard new people, first time creator to a platform, people who never made videos 341 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,280 or video games before, you start attracting different kind of content, things that you 342 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:44,240 will not find on other platform because just the pool of the people who contribute to express 343 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,120 their creativity, their imagination is different. 344 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:49,120 So there you go. 345 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,420 That is basically what I quoted earlier. 346 00:24:52,420 --> 00:25:00,020 And that was Sebastien Bourget on the token podcast with Anna Solana. 347 00:25:00,020 --> 00:25:04,360 That was three months ago, back in June, 2024. 348 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,680 The next one is Arthur Madrid. 349 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,840 What are you doing right now? 350 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,620 What are you trying to work on? 351 00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:20,780 So yeah, like we are building a blockchain metaverse where anyone can buy land and create 352 00:25:20,780 --> 00:25:25,060 their own digital space and host people. 353 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:32,680 We believe on a new immersive and social experience that is enabling a new way to interact, a 354 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,000 new way to build, a new way to trade, a new way to own, a new way to govern. 355 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:44,720 So basically we do believe like decentralization and Web 3.0 can definitely change the way 356 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,880 people play. 357 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,680 And this is what we're working every day on. 358 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:58,360 So there you go, that was back two years ago with Arthur Madrid and in November of 2021 359 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:04,040 on the Bit About Crypto podcast. 360 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,880 And then yet, Sue? 361 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,280 You are what products, what games you're building now? 362 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,760 Well, I mean, I think it's, you know, obviously sandbox continues to be a key strategic initiative, 363 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,460 but otherwise, you know, one of the other initiatives that, you know, we're really focused 364 00:26:20,460 --> 00:26:21,460 on is the Mochaverse. 365 00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:30,580 I might have to do a podcast all on Mochaverse in the future and how that may really interact 366 00:26:30,580 --> 00:26:32,240 with the sandbox. 367 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:38,680 I mentioned it briefly earlier on page two of the people part where Animoca Brands, so 368 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,120 we won't focus on that now. 369 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:47,200 But yet Sue, this was yet Sue on the Defiant podcast. 370 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:55,700 And it was fascinating to me for him to say that that sandbox is a key strategic initiative. 371 00:26:55,700 --> 00:27:02,040 And and you see why when he's constantly talks about digital property rights, and I let him 372 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,400 speak for himself on his TED talk. 373 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:11,120 Think of the open metaverse as the construction of new economies and new societies with a 374 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:16,040 strong foundation of digital property rights. 375 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:22,280 This presents us with a remarkable opportunity to shift away from this current form of shareholder 376 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:29,480 capitalism that has left so many people behind to this newer form of stakeholder capitalism 377 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:35,560 in which every participant can now also become an owner. 378 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:42,040 That was yet Sue's TED talk a year ago on August 2023. 379 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,200 And it wasn't a TEDx talk. 380 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,620 It was a TED talk. 381 00:27:44,620 --> 00:27:49,760 So the main TED stage. 382 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,360 And there was a lot there. 383 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:56,320 I would highly recommend that you go watch that. 384 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:01,240 It was very enlightening when it comes to the concepts, strategies and ideas how to 385 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,120 approach Web3. 386 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:10,280 And I found many phrasing that I use myself now that I really think is very descriptive 387 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,280 of what it is that we're after. 388 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,840 But in any case, zeroing it back into sandbox, this is the purpose. 389 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,920 This is why the sandbox exists with the main people who are behind it. 390 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:30,200 All right, so though we just went over in depth the three things that are all playing 391 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:37,640 together, the three segments, your products, your people and your purpose. 392 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,480 They're interacting with each other. 393 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,500 They're making exchanges all the time. 394 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:51,240 Your people being the San Fam, your products being the software products put out by the 395 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,540 game company and the market activity and the purpose being the reason why the founders 396 00:28:56,540 --> 00:29:02,760 and the main muscle movers for it to be in existence. 397 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,380 So the sandbox ecosystem. 398 00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:06,380 What are we left with? 399 00:29:06,380 --> 00:29:07,920 How does it all function together? 400 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:17,840 You have on the left your white paper and the reasons for why the sandbox exists, spoken 401 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:24,040 by the people who are the main movers and leaders behind it. 402 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:30,000 Then you have the products, the market activity, the game client, the game maker and the Vox 403 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,600 edit. 404 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:37,200 After that you have the San Fam, which are the gamers, the game makers, Voxel artists, 405 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:46,680 landowners, sandholders, Dow delegates, participants and the sandbox team. 406 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,880 When you put them all together, what is it that you're left with? 407 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:51,960 What do you get? 408 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:59,400 You get that ecosystem, the daily interactions and of all the people, purpose and products 409 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:10,600 buying and selling, content creation, playing the game, making assets, trading, purpose, 410 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,840 charity, existence, identity, culture. 411 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:23,320 All of those things are happening each day and that is what it means for the sandbox 412 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:30,240 ecosystem to exist. 413 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,240 That's it. 414 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,400 That's what I wanted to go over today. 415 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,400 It was just an introduction. 416 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,400 I'm going to be doing a podcast episode on each of these segments. 417 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:44,840 So I'll be doing a deep dive into the sandbox ecosystem and the people. 418 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:52,320 Sandbox ecosystem in the market, sandbox ecosystem in the Dow and the gamers. 419 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,880 Just a couple of days ago we did an interview with Touche, one of the most well known and 420 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:11,080 successful sandbox studios who was himself leading a group of game makers, Vox artists. 421 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:16,160 He published many experiences, some of which were game of the year, advanced trusted partner. 422 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:28,680 He existed solely and very, very deeply within the game maker Voxel artist landowner. 423 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:36,080 So that would be this right here. 424 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:43,480 The top portion, the studios. 425 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:49,000 So it was a studio for both Vox editing and game making. 426 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,120 So that was just a couple of days ago. 427 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,200 Please check that out. 428 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:58,840 He sent a tweet out to where he had to take a step back from full time studio making of 429 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,800 the sandbox. 430 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,120 And I'll let his reasons speak for themselves if you go watch the podcast. 431 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:10,400 And in the future, you can expect me to cover the deep dive into the summary that I just 432 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,320 gave you today. 433 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:21,560 And in a couple of days, I didn't put this on here yet, but episode 32 is actually going 434 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:33,440 to be the Dow admin team medium article that just published a few days ago. 435 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:40,080 I put my thoughts in the Dow forums and also in on Twitter to where you can see the questions 436 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,360 that I asked and given a couple more days to see if the Dow team would respond. 437 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,600 If not, I'm just going to cover what I wrote as a podcast. 438 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,920 Okay. 439 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:58,880 I didn't see any community questions, although I did see a couple of messages from, from 440 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,240 not Jackie Chan. 441 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,400 I'm not able to scroll up to see what happened or what was discussed. 442 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,000 Apologies for that, Jackie. 443 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,120 I did see that you're talking about how one of the main, the most important people are 444 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,480 the creators and the players. 445 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,600 I definitely agree with that. 446 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,520 So I didn't see any community questions. 447 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,260 If you do have one, just go and post one. 448 00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:24,160 And before I, I stopped the show, I will answer it. 449 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,920 No open topics. 450 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,720 And so sandbox bases, if you want to get involved in the sandbox community on discord is the 451 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,960 best way to do that. 452 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,680 There is a Dow discussion channel. 453 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:39,440 There is game making channels, box setting channels, land ownership, staking channels. 454 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,440 Jackie Chan says very cool. 455 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,440 Love your presentations. 456 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,440 Love it. 457 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,440 Thank you. 458 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:44,440 Appreciate you. 459 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,440 You watching Jackie Chan, not Jackie Chan. 460 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,440 Sorry. 461 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,440 That's your username. 462 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,080 You can also in sandbox bases, go to the sandbox Dow forums. 463 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:57,440 Obviously best place to go to interact with the Dow, the SIPs talk with, with just general 464 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:03,760 conversation about the Dow on Twitter, formerly or ex formerly known as Twitter. 465 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:11,720 You can hashtag SanFam hashtag, hashtag the sandbox Dow, hashtag the sandbox game or follow 466 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:16,360 at the sandbox Dow and at the sandbox game on Mondays. 467 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,820 There's mocha verse hall, also known as United grand halls. 468 00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:26,720 On Saturdays bulls on the block on Monday through Friday, coffee with captain. 469 00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:31,720 It's mostly an eight chain enable, but they do talk about the sandbox on Tuesdays is natively 470 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:37,840 digital with whale members who just announced their Dow and I am, I put in a proposal for 471 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,320 their Dow for them to participate regularly in voting on the sandbox SIPs. 472 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:50,280 And then monthly is SanFam cafe hosted by Bruno, otherwise known as pickax master. 473 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:59,480 And we did an interview with him last month and that was Sandel podcast number 17 back 474 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,480 in August. 475 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,160 Thank you all for your time. 476 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:08,560 Today was about the sandbox ecosystem, the products, the people and the purpose. 477 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:14,920 And I will be continuing my stream after this for the sandbox alpha season. 478 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:39,280 Have a great day everyone.