7th August 2026 | The Sandbox reboots LAND for AI publishing

<p>The Sandbox repositions its LAND NFTs for the AI era, Gigaverse Online is announced, Proof of Play shuts down.</p><ul><li>[00:20] The Sandbox is rebooting functionality for its LAND NFTs.</li><li>[01:03] The original vision for The Sandbox didn't work due to the friction of mini-game creation. </li><li>[01:49] It's fixing this with its new Studio AI tools, which are in beta. </li><li>[03:08] This means it can also make LAND more useful as an enhanced publishing primitive. </li><li>[06:10] Obviously this may not solve the issue of getting enough players into The Sandbox. </li><li>[07:32] Gigaverse has announced its move to persistent MMORG Gigaverse Online. </li><li>[11:40] Pirate Nation dev Proof of Play has shut down after open-sourcing code and IP. </li><li>[15:10] MIR4 was released 5 years ago. It's hosted 40,000 character NFT trades. </li><li>[20:32] Sunflower Land dev Thought Farm announces Pokemon-lite RPG Yakkamon for Ronin.</li></ul>