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**The Sandbox** is positioning identity, ownership, and distribution as core infrastructure elements within its platform. **Key developments:** - Creators can now establish their identity onchain, maintaining full ownership of their creations - Built assets remain portable and can be distributed across interoperable surfaces - **$SAND** serves as the consistency layer, ensuring actions and value transfer remain standardized across the ecosystem This approach builds on The Sandbox's existing framework where creators, brands, and players operate within a shared economic system. The platform continues to expand with hundreds of worlds and tools connecting through a unified economic layer powered by $SAND. The focus on onchain identity and ownership represents a structural shift toward creator autonomy within the metaverse environment.

**Corners**, a new curation marketplace, has officially launched on Base with backing from The Sandbox. **Key Features:** - Communities can share and vote on links that matter most - Users earn rewards by curating content - Create and trade "corners" around topics, trends, and memes - Curations gain value as they attract more engagement The platform aims to build a **curation market for internet culture**, allowing users to monetize their taste-making abilities. Zerion API provides real-time market data to support the platform's scaling efforts. Users can start creating and curating at [curate.corners.market](https://curate.corners.market/)

**The Sandbox launches on Spotify** with its complete gaming soundtrack collection. Players can now stream **in-game songs, themes, and soundtracks** anywhere - not just within the metaverse world. The timing coincides with Spotify Wrapped season, letting users explore web3 gaming music alongside their annual listening stats. - Complete game audio library now available - Accessible outside the gaming platform - Expands The Sandbox's reach beyond virtual worlds [Listen now on Spotify](https://tsbga.me/48t6UpH)

**The Sandbox** is expanding its ecosystem by bringing **$SAND token to Base network**, aiming to power a new layer of internet culture. **Key developments:** - $SAND serves as the core currency for gameplay, creator economies, and community governance - Base integration will enhance The Sandbox's existing infrastructure - Move supports the platform's growing creator-focused economy **Background context:** - The Sandbox has over 8 million users in its established ecosystem - Platform enables creators to build, monetize, and govern their own digital economies - Recent partnership with Elastic Network through SANDchain aims to create a "Creator Nation" This expansion represents The Sandbox's continued effort to **decentralize gaming** and provide creators with more tools for monetization and community building in the metaverse space.

The Sandbox launches **Retro Game Jam** - a competition for developers to create old-school gaming experiences. **Key Details:** - Registration deadline: **December 10** - Rewards: $SAND tokens available - Winners may be featured in next Alpha Season - Focus on retro/classic game design This follows the recent Future Tech Game Jam that closed December 3. The Sandbox continues expanding its creator economy through regular competitions. [Register now](https://tsbga.me/3Ya0bw1)