Published on February 20, 2026
Watch the video of this interview on Gamma Prime’s YouTube channel:
Interview with Sebastien Borget (CEO & Co-Founder at The Sandbox) and Korath Wright (Director of Capital Markets at Gamma Prime)
Sebastien Borget (CEO & Co-Founder at The Sandbox):
My name is Sébastien Bourget, I’m the co-founder and global ambassador for the Sandbox, as well as the Sandchain, which will be announced later today at 9pm Singapore time. Very excited to unveil a little bit more about that. If you’re not familiar with Sandbox, we are a decentralized virtual world where anyone can become a creator, make 3D content, full games and experiences, and truly own them thanks to the use of blockchain technology.We’ve grown to over 8 million users with the wallet. We have over 400 major brands, partnerships from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Gucci, Ubisoft, Warner Music, Attack on Titan, Terminator, Black Mirror recently, very exciting stuff. And you can play Sandbox, the new Alpha Season 6 is live, featuring some of those experiences and partners.So step in the metaverse if you haven’t tried yet.
Korath Wright (Director of Capital Markets at Gamma Prime):
Yes, fantastic. So can you tell us a little bit about Sandchain? Or is it still, do we have to wait till the announcement later today?
Sebastien Borget:
Yeah, sure. Happy to tell you a little bit more about the Sandchain. So it’s a layer two blockchain over Ethereum using ZK-SYNC and Caldera.We are essentially here to empower the creator nation. So the mission of Sandbox has been to empower anyone to become a creator. And what we’ve seen is even if technology makes it easy to get started creating your own content and now even easier with AI, there are still some challenges that remain, like how to be discovered, how to build a community and grow your community, how to build loyalty and engagement and retention for your audience, and even like how to monetize, make a living from your passion as a content creator and access funding. So I’m talking here about content creators that are not just builders in Sandbox or Metaverse. I’m talking really, even though those creators in Sandbox also face the same problem as the whole $250 billion creator economy in general.So we’re bringing this chain powered by Sandtoken to build a financial backbone of culture, a cultural economy that’s basically going to benefit content creators and fans and how they engage, that bring loyalty on chain and every interaction on chain, driving value through that. So we’ll start with having creator points on one side, standpoint on the other, where like any action, any quest you complete allows you to earn those points that can be then traded, swapped, exchanged for value and give the creators the ability to measure how engaged is their community and offer them like rewards, perks, different benefits based on what they want. Talking about content creators, like we really are aiming at like any kind of creator.It could be like streamers on YouTube, people on Twitch playing video games, Discord, podcasts, people like drawing, making animation. You can think of like all platforms because we are providing solutions that work with content creators where they are. They don’t need to migrate or move to a new channel, starting over and move their audience.That’s, in our opinion, the only way that like the technology will benefit them without disrupting what they’ve already spent so much effort into building an audience, a community. You will also have like standpoint on the chain that you can earn by completing quests. The first quest is to sign the manifesto on chain to prove that you are dear to the vision and want to build with us a greater nation.You earn 100 standpoints and after the chain will use SAND token, which has been already out there for five years. So you see token that power the sandbox virtual world, but now it’s expanding. It’s becoming a universal payment token that power gas transaction on the sand chain that provide like the ensures liquidity and like the different pairs.So when creators will launch creator tokens, for example, on sand chain, they will be paired with sand. And also you’ll be able to earn yield and other reward if you stake, for example, and mostly participate on the chain activity.
Korath Wright:
Yeah, absolutely. Well, that’s a that’s a fascinating approach. Have you seen much else like it or are you guys do you feel you’re unique in the market?
Sebastien Borget:
I would say like it’s hard to feel unique right now. Like it’s already been a long time we’ve seen change. Creating your own chain is more commoditized.So it’s more accessible than ever to launch a blockchain. But it’s not about the tech here like so much that the differentiator is about like how we are focused on a certain like market, the creator economy, how we come together, bringing the existing sandbox brands, existing sand tokens, the ecosystem of 400 brands and partners that we work with in the past at sandbox plus our existing community of sand holders and use the sandbox brand that’s now a name very much recognized and known in crypto and outside of crypto to start, focus, and continue on that mission that we started since 2011.
Korath Wright:
Okay. Okay. And so so from that perspective, where do you see the market going?Where do you see it in two years, in five years?
Sebastien Borget:
So it’s a broad question, but I think for a content creator, there’s this 250 billion dollar creator economy that’s not on chain. You think about it like most of the revenue for content creator is still coming from like platform like YouTube, TikTok, etc. Did you know that it takes an average of 60 days as soon as you made some revenue from advertising and so on to collect that payment, for example?I think like we can solve that. We can enable content creator to earn payments instantly so they can like in crypto, on sand chain, powered by sand. So in this way, using DeFi mechanics, creator vaults, patron vaults that allows as well our community and fund to participate, stake and earn a yield based on like points and activity on the chain.I believe that it’s a way that we can solve a very common problem on funding and bring a part of that economy on chain. And so it will take time to convince brands, to convince the content creator, but we want to prove that this works, that actually it benefits them and it can solve that problem and allow them to hopefully more content creator to make a living from their passion and to keep going on. Like so completing the missing components that Sandbox started enabling people to make video games by passion, progressively became a job and now enabling them to continue in that route.
Korath Wright:
Yeah, absolutely. So enabling the creator economy and keeping that going. It’s a really fascinating project.And so as far as the Capital Tokenization Summit, how has it been for you? How has it been your experience so far? What do you think?
Sebastien Borget:
Well, I can feel already like a lot of conversation around. Many people are engaging in conversation, networking. I’ll be on stage very soon so I can follow live what’s happening there.Very well attended. We’re in a VIP room, but it’s very loud out there and crowded. So that’s great.Right before the main conference, Token 2049. So great events. Well, very good location as well.It’s exciting. Like it’s people are here to build, to make business, to find new opportunities, to listen to thought leaders on certain topics and you provide that to the audience.
Korath Wright:
Perfect. And who are you most excited to connect with here today?
Sebastien Borget:
Well, I think we’re very excited that SandChain will be announced soon and we’ll be able to reach out like both to builders in web-free space, content creator on the other side, people who come from traditional, like more investment backgrounds that also can look from a new perspective. It’s interesting. Sand used to be a gaming token, in my opinion, connected only to a virtual world, but now it’s becoming a chain token as well.So you see the increase and maybe we can, we have a great product ourselves. It’s been on Ethereum or certain other chain. How can we expand our reach?How can we build together solutions? So that’s kind of what I’m looking for. Like let’s build together the solution and tools for the creator economy.
Korath Wright:
Perfect. Well, it’s very exciting to see. We’re looking forward to seeing the path and seeing the launch of SandChain and following you along that path.
Sebastien Borget:
Absolutely. Thank you so much.
Korath Wright:
Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.Perfect.
Sebastien Borget:
Hello, this is Sébastien Banger for the Sandbox and the SandChain and this is Gamma Prime.
