The Sandbox Investment Calculator
What would buying SAND have been worth? Pick a plan and a start date and this replays it against real daily The Sandbox closes.
What SAND actually did, in the data this page replays
Measured from the 2,222 daily closes this page replays — 14 August 2020 to 13 September 2026, from Binance. Figures are bounded by that window, not by the asset’s whole life.
| History available | 6 years and 1 month (from Binance) |
|---|---|
| Bought on the first day, held to the last | 0.544× — a loss of 45.6% |
| Highest close in this window | $7.51 on 28 November 2021 |
| Where it sits against that high | 99.5% below |
| Deepest fall | −99.5%, 28 November 2021 → 10 September 2026 |
| Time to get back to that peak | still below it |
| Separate falls of 50% or more | 3 |
| Days spent more than 20% below a previous peak | 93.2% |
| Best calendar year | 2021: +15,697.7% |
| Worst calendar year | 2022: -93.6% |
| Annualised volatility | 135.2% |
SAND year by year
First close to last close each year. 2020 and 2026 are partial — the data starts mid-2020 and 2026 is still running.
| Year | Change | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | -45.9% | partial year |
| 2021 | +15,697.7% | best full year |
| 2022 | -93.6% | worst full year |
| 2023 | +53.1% | |
| 2024 | -9.5% | |
| 2025 | -81.1% | |
| 2026 | -69.3% | partial year |
The part the calculator does not show you
Held from the first day in this data to the last, SAND returned 0.544× — a loss of 45.6%. Long holding periods are usually presented as the thing that rescues a volatile asset, and over this particular window for this particular coin, they did not. It is worth setting the calculator above to the full range and seeing that result written out before assuming time fixes an entry.
The deepest fall took SAND down 99.5%, from $7.51 on 28 November 2021 to $0.03484 on 10 September 2026 — 4 years and 9 months of falling. SAND has not been back to that peak since. Anyone who bought on 28 November 2021 is still waiting, 16 months later — which is the scenario a backtest showing a positive average return quietly averages away.
At 135.2% annualised volatility, SAND sits in the top band of anything on this site — the drawdown figures above, not the average, are the number to plan around. All SAND calculators →
Frequently asked questions
＋Would buying SAND on the first day of this data and holding have made money?
No. Held across the whole window the position ended at 0.544× — a loss of 45.6%. That is worth stating plainly because "hold long enough and it recovers" is the usual advice, and over the 6 years and 1 month we hold for SAND it did not happen.
＋What is the worst SAND has fallen?
99.5% in this data, from 28 November 2021 down to 10 September 2026 — 4 years and 9 months of falling. It has not returned to that peak since, so anyone who bought at the top is still waiting. Bear in mind our SAND series starts in 2020; a deeper fall before that date would not appear here.
＋How often does SAND lose half its value?
3 separate falls of 50% or more appear in this data, and the position spent 93.2% of all days more than 20% below a previous peak. A drop of that size is not an exceptional event for this asset — it is a recurring feature of the record, which is the thing to size a position around.
＋What were SAND's best and worst years?
2021 was the best at +15,697.7%, and 2022 the worst at -93.6%. The gap between those two is the reason a single average annual return is a poor description of this asset: almost nobody experiences the average, they experience one of the two extremes depending on when they bought.
＋Is 6 years and 1 month of data enough to trust this backtest?
Reasonably. 6 years and 1 month spans roughly one full cycle for SAND — enough for the drawdown figure to mean something, not enough to call it a pattern. The assets here with a decade or more behind them support firmer conclusions.
What to keep in mind for SAND
SAND is down heavily from its 2021 peak and moves on metaverse and gaming headlines rather than on measured in-world activity.
SAND is cheapest to move on Polygon; the Ethereum version costs ordinary gas, which matters when buying low-priced in-world assets.
A backtest is one path that already happened. It shows what this plan produced through the exact sequence of prices SAND went through — not what a similar plan will produce through a sequence nobody has seen yet.