{"id":73365,"date":"2023-02-01T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=73365"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:46:11","slug":"decentraland-and-the-sandbox-tokens-post-sharp-january-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/decentraland-and-the-sandbox-tokens-post-sharp-january-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Decentraland and The Sandbox tokens post sharp January gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 30 days, the prices of the GameFi metaverse tokens Decentraland (MANA) and The Sandbox (SAND) have posted notable gains after the slump in November\u2013December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, MANA was trading at $0.73 after rising to a local high of $0.80. Over 30 days, the token rose 143%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\">CoinGecko<\/a>. The coin&#8217;s market cap stands at $1.34 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11-1024x607.png\" alt=\"MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11\" class=\"wp-image-196780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MANAUSDT_2023-02-01_09-53-11.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Daily chart of MANA\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/MANAUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 30 days, the SAND token rose 83.9% \u2014 from $0.30 at the start of January to $0.70 as of February 1. The asset&#8217;s market cap stands at $1.14 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50-1024x559.png\" alt=\"SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50\" class=\"wp-image-196781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SANDUSDT_2023-02-01_10-00-50.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Daily chart of SAND\/USDT on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/SANDUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Growth in GameFi metaverse tokens is part of a broader January rally in the crypto market. In the first half of the month, Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-breaches-18000-as-u-s-inflation-data-are-released\">surpassed<\/a> $18,000, and by the end <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-approaches-the-24000-level\">neared<\/a> $24,000. As of writing, the leading cryptocurrency was trading above $23,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12-1024x559.png\" alt=\"BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12\" class=\"wp-image-196782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12-1024x-559.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BTCUSD_2023-02-01_09-55-12.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hourly chart of BTC\/USD on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSD\/?exchange=BINANCE\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Analyst Stephen Zheng of The Block Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/207129\/the-sandbox-decentraland-land-prices-double-during-mysterious-january-bull-run\">noted<\/a> that lately the market had been very optimistic due to the revival in Bitcoin and Ethereum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTypically, when [leading assets by market capitalization] lead for a long period, traders begin looking for new trading opportunities,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, analysts at Glassnode noted that Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/glassnode-bitcoin-recovers-from-the-fallout-of-the-ftx-collapse\">recovered from<\/a> the consequences <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ftx-group-files-for-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-resigns-as-ceo\">of the FTX collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, LookIntoBitcoin experts suggested that Bitcoin could enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/analysts-see-bitcoin-entering-the-early-stage-of-a-bull-market\">early stage of a bull market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in Blofin Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-link-bitcoin-pullback-to-hedging-ahead-of-fed-meeting\">they linked the pullback of digital gold<\/a> near $24,000 to a decline in risk appetite ahead of the Fed meeting <span data-descr=\"Federal Reserve System of the United States\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u0424\u0420\u0421<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 30 days, the prices of the GameFi metaverse tokens Decentraland (MANA) and The Sandbox (SAND) have posted notable gains after the slump in November\u2013December 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2133,1353,2060],"class_list":["post-73365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-decentraland-mana","tag-metaverses","tag-the-sandbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73367,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365\/revisions\/73367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}