The Sandbox: Alpha Season 2 kicks off with Snoop Dogg and an improved Play2Earn system
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The Sandbox, one of the main metaverses on the market, will kick off the Alpha Season 2 at 4.00pm Italian time on Thursday 3 March and for the occasion the numerous upcoming news have been unveiled, including new experiences, including one with Snoop Dogg, and an improved Play2Earn system. Furthermore, for the first time, The Sandbox will be accessible not only from PC but also from Mac.During this event, users will have the opportunity to explore over 35 experiences, including 18 updated compared to season 1 with new missions. Added to this are 5 other new original experiences, 4 created by users and supported by the Game Maker Fund, 3 new IP-based experiences, as well as a new Hub. Furthermore, all experiences will be open to everyone, even without having an Alpha Season 2 Pass.
Let's read together all the contents of The Sandbox Alpha Season 2 reported in the official press release:
3 new IP-based experiences:
Snoop Dogg's Foreplay: A sneak peek of the Snoopverse created by the rap legend. Snoop is showing his NFT collection and you are invited! Well ... almost! Transformed by mr. nobody a VIP helping guests and making friends with Doberguards. Hong Kong's Star Ferry Pier: Enjoy this journey through time as you visit Hong Kong's famous pier on this experience created from the historical archives of the South China Morning Post. Missing Parts by Celsius Online: A cup of tea on the veranda, a romantic ride on an adorable Duck Boat, a walk in the flower garden and a wish to make in front of the fountain! The romantic getaway of your dreams begins here in Etheria in this multiplayer experience!
4 experiences financed by the Game Maker Fund:
Dracula's Castle: A dark adventure awaits you to save a cursed world ... Do you dare to face the evil Count Dracula and his army of monsters? Will you save the village and bring peace to the land? Meta Dungeon: A hack and slash adventure created by RTFKT. Survive giant bosses in the dungeons and explore a cybercity to understand what is happening and who you really are! The Funguys Kingdom: A first look at the life of the Funguys. Challenge your friends in this multiplayer experience and explore 10 biomes to discover the hidden secrets of the mushroom alcove. Border Town of Tang Dynasty: The evil power of a demon spread to a peaceful town during the Tang Dynasty. It will soon destroy the rest of the country, unless you save everyone!
Other fun stuff you can find:
Blond: ish will be our main guest and resident DJ in the XYZ Club experience: he will shake the metaverse. There are two new dance tracks from Blond: ish that you can listen to in the club. Snoop Dogg Avatars will be playable in Alpha - their lucky owners can show off some of the coolest avatars around! Rooftop à la Mode: A new fashion-oriented multiplayer experience. Tired after a long day of NFT shopping? How about a rooftop party with The Sandbox users? Here the sun never sets. Enjoy the Haute Couture show and make new friends until you go crazy with joy.
There are three ways you can get an NFT for Alpha Season 2: by using your The Sandbox account to play Alpha Season 2 and participate in the lottery, by participating in the social contests that will take place every week in the 'Alpha Season 2 or by purchasing the pass on the secondary market. Additionally, owners of an Alpha Season 2 will bea> able to win up to 1000 SANDs.
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Àcheval Gets Investment from Cofounder of The Sandbox Metaverse
PARIS — While brands are flocking to the buzzy metaverse known as The Sandbox, cofounder Arthur Madrid is looking the other way for his next investment — to real life.
The social-gaming entrepreneur is personally investing in Argentinian fashion label Àcheval, cofounded by Sofia Achaval de Montaigu and Lucila Sperber.
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“Looking at how people create their new identity through their avatars, it makes sense to support fashion,” Madrid said on a call, crediting the brand’s strong identity and feeling of authenticity for convincing him to put his own money on the table.
While the deal’s financial terms were not disclosed, he described the brand as a “strong mix of polo, fashion and these amazing women” that was positioning itself as “probably the number-one polo brand for women.”
And it’s not just his penchant for polo, or his IRL friendship with the Àcheval pair, talking. In his opinion, authenticity comes from being “built on the legacy of the culture [it is rooted in]” be it art, music or fashion, he said, drawing on his experience as an early NFT collector but also with the “creator-friendly platform” of The Sandbox, which already garnered the attention of Snoop Dogg, creative agency Al Dente or most recently Gucci, which last month revealed the purchase of a virtual plot to extend its Gucci Vault projects.
For the Àcheval duo, Madrid’s investment and arrival as a strategic partner represents an opportunity to merge the virtual and real worlds, by creating a space where consumers can experience their homeland’s pampa and equestrian culture with the idea of having “the virtual world enhances reality and vice versa,” according to Achaval de Montaigu.
But it also segues into the responsible approach they wanted from the get-go. “From the start, [we] tried to search for upcycled fabrics, work with communities and to be respectful [of humans and nature],” Sperber said, explaining that they would evolve toward limited collections that include physical products and their NFT twins.
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That’s another reason why Madrid wanted to invest in Àcheval. The label is already on the path that The Sandbox’s cofounder sees fashion taking. “Brands are moving toward collectibles, building collections around scarcity and limited supplies of their pieces,” he noted. “The idea of the metaverse is to live virtually what you’re living in real life.”
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