Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd’s The Sandbox, a decentralised gaming virtual world, has snapped up Uruguayan company Cualit, a full-stack development technology firm experienced in gaming.
The move will boost The Sandbox’s Web3 and blockchain innovation and development capabilities. The companies have had a close partnership for more than a year and will work with Martin and Frederico Perez, the two brothers who co-founded Cualit, to boost the team’s growth through additional resources and infrastructure.
The Sandbox Uruguay
Cualit will become The Sandbox Uruguay, expanding The Sandbox’s global team and accelerating growth of its ambitious metaverse ecosystem.
Cualit has been instrumental in decentralising the tech industry in Uruguay by applying blockchain frameworks and technologies to competitive projects over the past 10 years.
It has built innovative digital experiences for leading brands, empowering digital transformation in the country and reinforcing its presence as an innovative hub for technology and software development.
In its new identity as The Sandbox Uruguay, the team will focus its efforts on accelerating development of The Sandbox.
Ideal South American location
With a quality education system and many prominent fintech companies, Uruguay is an ideal location for The Sandbox’s second development office in South America, alongside the existing Argentinian development team responsible for the Game Client and Game Maker.
The Sandbox plans to leverage local Web3 talent to increase the team’s size of approximately 90 technology professionals to 150 people in Latin America in the near future.
“Web3 technology is rapidly evolving and we believe The Sandbox Uruguay will help us to onboard millions of users through their expertise in web design and user flow,” said Arthur Madrid, CEO and co-founder of The Sandbox.
“Uruguay is a fantastic place to invest in technology and we see a new generation of developers who want to rethink the way we are using and owning our data through the open metaverse.”
The Sandbox Uruguay team
About The Sandbox
Part virtual real estate, part amusement park, The Sandbox fully embraces the idea of the metaverse as a continuous shared digital space where worlds and heroes collide to make magic. It offers a rich, open metaverse driven by fun interactive experiences, a user-generated content ecosystem that rewards creators with 95% of their proceeds and a decentralised virtual economy.
The Sandbox is emerging as the first entertainment platform that combines a creator-driven, user-centric open metaverse with rich gaming and social experiences, true ownership, and licensed content from more than 200 major brands.
