From Pixels to Protocols: Sebastien Borget on The Sandbox, SANDchain, & the Creator Economy
Update: 2025-11-27
Description
In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Sebastien Borget, co-founder and global ambassador of The Sandbox, a leading decentralized virtual world where players can create, own, and monetize experiences. Together, they explore the evolution of The Sandbox from a 2D mobile game to a metaverse platform with over 8 million users, and discuss the launch of SANDchain, a new layer-2 network designed to empower creators across gaming, art, and social media.
What you’ll learn:
• How The Sandbox evolved from a mobile game to a global Web3 virtual world
• Why creator monetization challenges led to early NFT adoption in 2018
• What lessons Borget learned from building through multiple market cycles
• How SANDchain expands the creator economy beyond gaming
• Why meaningful partnerships matter more than hype in Web3
• How The Sandbox continues to innovate through scalability and decentralization
• How The Sandbox evolved from a mobile game to a global Web3 virtual world
• Why creator monetization challenges led to early NFT adoption in 2018
• What lessons Borget learned from building through multiple market cycles
• How SANDchain expands the creator economy beyond gaming
• Why meaningful partnerships matter more than hype in Web3
• How The Sandbox continues to innovate through scalability and decentralization
And much more!
Sebastien Borget is the co-founder and global ambassador of The Sandbox and a leading voice in the Web3 gaming industry. With over 15 years of experience across mobile, cloud, and gaming startups, Borget has helped pioneer user-generated content and digital ownership, shaping how creators engage and earn in decentralized environments.
Previous guests include: Rusty Matveev, Chief Strategy Officer at Calaxy; Andrew Lawrence, CEO and Co-Founder of Censo; Zac Townsend, CEO and Co-Founder of Meanwhile; Jesper Johansen, CEO and Co-Founder of Northstake; Tama Churchouse, COO of Cumberland Labs; Holly Wood of Boson Protocol; Sid Powell of Maple Finance; Chad Barraford of THORChain; and many others.
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