The Sandbox Ecosystem Welcomes Web3 Platform Corners, Beta Now Available to Coin Internet Content

TheNewsCryptoPubblicato 2025-12-09Pubblicato ultima volta 2025-12-09

Introduzione

The Sandbox ecosystem has integrated Corners, a new Web3 platform currently in invite-only beta. Corners enables users to create, curate, and share collections of internet content (URLs) as transferable digital assets called "Corner Coins." These assets allow communities to form around topics and gain value through curation and contributions. The platform is deeply integrated with the SAND token, which powers its economy, rewards user activity, and enables trading. Corners expands The Sandbox beyond gaming into digital culture distribution. It is built on Base (Coinbase's Layer 2) and is scheduled for a full public launch in early 2026. Early adopters can join the waitlist at corners.market.

Los Angeles, United States, December 9th, 2025, Chainwire

The Sandbox ecosystem welcomes Corners, a new Web3 platform in invite-only beta that lets participants coin and gain value from Internet content

Expanding The Sandbox ecosystem, Corners is a new Web3 platform to coin, curate, and share the content of the Internet, allowing curators to gain value from collections of URLs from all corners of the Internet

The Sandbox and Animoca Brands welcome the new free-to-use curation platform, Corners, into their ecosystem. Corners has launched an invite-only beta where users can coin, create, and share collections of internet content. Users can join the waitlist at www.corners.market.

Corners allows anyone to create a “Corner Coin” – a user-created, transferrable digital asset based on a curated collection of internet links, conversations, and content. Once a corner is created, anyone can share and curate content for it, and contribute to its growth and value by adding links or new content.

The launch of Corners expands The Sandbox’s ecosystem beyond gaming, as previously announced as part of The Sandbox 3.0 rollout, and into a broader distribution network of culture while introducing new utility for the SAND token.

Robby Yung, CEO of The Sandbox, said: “Corners is a great example of how partners can help extend the utility of the SAND token and support the continued evolution of The Sandbox ecosystem beyond gaming. By enabling curators to tokenize the content they love, Corners opens meaningful new opportunities for creativity and participation. We’re pleased to support products that build on our foundation and bring more communities into The Sandbox’s wider ecosystem.”

Corners deeply integrates the SAND token as its main utility token, powering platform activity. Curators can earn rewards for their activity and curation. Additionally, a portion of the platform’s activity is used to reward Corner Coin holders with the SAND token, promoting its distribution and use within the ecosystem.

The SAND token will also become available on Base through an initial liquidity pool on Aerodrome. This expansion will make the SAND token and The Sandbox ecosystem accessible beyond Ethereum and Polygon, offering a new on-ramp for on-chain communities and making it easier to move the SAND token across the crypto ecosystem.

Ahead of the full public rollout scheduled for early 2026, Corners is releasing a comprehensive “How to build your corner” guide on www.corners.market to provide additional details on getting started, understanding market price, transferrable digital assets, and more.

Early adopters who wish to discover and create their own corner can join the waitlist at www.corners.market.

About Corners

Corners explores a new paradigm for digital interaction on the Internet. On Corners, communities form around a collection of links, and every community becomes a valued community collection. Communities form around a topic, idea, or niche, and others can trade those markets, curate content, and contribute to the growth of the corner via comments and upvotes.

Corners is launched on Base, Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain, and supported by The Sandbox and powered by the SAND token.

Users can visit corners.market for more information

About The Sandbox

The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is the leading global distribution ecosystem for digital culture and IP connecting brands, creators, institutions, and consumers worldwide. Leveraging blockchain and AI technologies, The Sandbox enables end-user creation, decentralized economies, and digital social experiences, all powered by SAND.

SAND is the utility token that powers The Sandbox ecosystem, which includes The Sandbox Game, The Sandbox DAO, SANDchain, and Corners. It fuels The Sandbox’s in-game economy and marketplace, enabling users to buy and sell digital assets, grants holders governance rights through the DAO, provides liquidity, transactions, and rewards on SANDchain and Corners.

With over 400 partners, including Warner Music Group, Gucci, Black Mirror, and NBC Universal’s Jurassic World, 8 million users, and 30 million on-chain transactions, The Sandbox ecosystem is one of the largest cultural distribution ecosystems in Web3.

For more information, users can visit www.sandbox.game and follow regular updates on X, the Blog, and Discord.

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (ACN: 122 921 813) is a global digital assets leader building blockchain and tokenized assets to advance the future of Web3 innovation. It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies 2025, Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and Deloitte Tech Fast. Animoca Brands is recognized for building digital asset platforms such as the Moca Network, Open Campus, and The Sandbox, as well as institutional grade assets; providing digital asset services to help Web3 companies launch and grow; and investing in frontier Web3 technology, with a portfolio of over 600 companies and altcoin assets. For more information users can visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.

Contact

Senior Vice President
Chase Colasonno
47 communications on behalf of The Sandbox and Corners
thesandbox@fortyseven.com

Domande pertinenti

QWhat is Corners and what does it allow users to do?

ACorners is a new Web3 platform that allows users to create, curate, and share collections of internet content. Users can create a 'Corner Coin'—a transferable digital asset based on a curated collection of URLs, conversations, and other content. Anyone can then contribute to and curate these collections, helping them grow in value.

QHow does the Corners platform integrate with The Sandbox ecosystem and its SAND token?

ACorners deeply integrates the SAND token as its main utility token to power platform activity. Curators can earn SAND rewards for their activity, and a portion of the platform's activity is used to reward Corner Coin holders with SAND, promoting its distribution and use within The Sandbox ecosystem.

QOn which blockchain is Corners launched and what new accessibility does it provide for the SAND token?

ACorners is launched on Base, Coinbase's layer 2 blockchain. This expansion will also make the SAND token available on Base through an initial liquidity pool on Aerodrome, making The Sandbox ecosystem accessible beyond Ethereum and Polygon and providing a new on-ramp for on-chain communities.

QWhat did Robby Yung, CEO of The Sandbox, say about the Corners platform?

ARobby Yung stated that Corners is a great example of how partners can extend the utility of the SAND token and support The Sandbox's evolution beyond gaming. He said it opens meaningful new opportunities for creativity and participation by enabling curators to tokenize the content they love.

QHow can users get early access to the Corners platform and when is the full public rollout scheduled?

AUsers can join the waitlist for the invite-only beta at www.corners.market. The full public rollout of Corners is scheduled for early 2026.

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