Sandbox price trades sideways ahead of $88 million Valentine’s token unlock
|- Sandbox price noted a 4.62% weekly decline in its price, SAND price is $0.4330 on Wednesday.
- Sandbox has scheduled an unlock of 205.59 million SAND tokens worth $88.31 million on February 14.
- SAND price dropped by 20% in the week following its previous token unlock event, a similar occurrence is likely this month.
Sandbox has scheduled a $88.31 million unlock on February 14. The token is currently in a downward trend and further decline is likely with the likely release of 205.59 million tokens in SAND’s circulating supply.
On-chain metrics support a bearish thesis for SAND and further correction in the metaverse token is likely.
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Sandbox on-chain metrics, scheduled events suggest SAND price correction is likely
Sandbox’s Active Addresses and Volume, two metrics used to determine user activity and the token’s demand among market participants, signal a correction in SAND. Since January 1, SAND’s Active Addresses and Volume have been in a downward trend, as seen in the Santiment chart below.
This indicates that user activity in Sandbox has dropped significantly, in the same timeframe.
SAND Active Addresses and Volume. Source: Santiment
Now turning to Sandbox’s Supply on Exchanges, this metric climbed from 380.3 million on February 1 to 466.05 million on Wednesday, at the time of writing. This marks a steep increase in SAND reserves on exchange wallets, meaning there is a relatively large volume of Sandbox tokens likely to be sold. There is a possibility of an increase in selling pressure on SAND, and this could drive the metaverse’s price lower.
Sandbox Supply on Exchanges and Price. Source: Santiment
According to data from tokenunlocks.app, the unlock of $88.31 million in SAND tokens is scheduled for February 14. A similar event where $130.26 million worth of the asset was unlocked in August 2023, drove the price down by nearly 20%. If the trend repeats, SAND price could suffer a nearly 20% decline in its price, within a week of the unlock.
SAND/USDT 1-day chart
At the time of writing, SAND price is $0.4320 on Binance.
(This story was corrected on February 7 at 14:38 GMT to say that the SAND unlock is worth $88.31 million, not $94.42.)
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