Digital land sales are booming lately following rising interest in crypto games and Facebook’s prominent push into the metaverse. But Ethereum-based metaverse games like The Sandbox, Decentraland, and Axie Infinity have been selling virtual plots for years—before metaverse hype picked up steam.
If spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on digital land parcels still seems far-fetched today, then imagine the gamble when The Sandbox first offered them up in 2019. Early adopters are now seeing the benefits with the game’s SAND token and LAND NFTs all becoming vastly more valuable of late.