Sandbox price prediction as a bearish pennant pattern forms

The Sandbox price remained in a tight range as investors reacted to the new roadmap plan for LAND holders. SAND is trading at $1.3225, which is significantly above last week’s low of $0.9272. As a result of this rebound, the coin’s market cap has risen to over $1.65 billion.

Sandbox roadmap

The Sandbox is a leading blockchain project that is in the metaverse and gaming industry. The network helps people and companies participate in the metaverse in a number of ways.

For example, the developers regularly host the Alpha season event where gamers participate in games and make money for winning. This money is usually in the form of SAND, the network’s native token.

The platform also has a diverse NFT marketplace, where people can buy products like avatars and other virtual products. It is one of the most popular NFT marketplaces in the industry.

Most importantly, people are able to buy virtual land and sell it later at a fee. Some people have spent millions of dollars on this virtual land.

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At the same time, many companies like HSBC and Standard Chartered have made deals with Sandbox. These firms have bought virtual property in the platform for marketing purposes.

In a statement on Monday, the developers announced the roadmap for LAND holders. The developers will distribute 5 million SAND to all holders. Going by the current price, this distribution will be worth more than $6 million. 

At the same time, LAND and ASSET will be moved to Polygon, a leading layer-2 network in a bid to lower transaction costs. People who migrate to Polygon will be eligible for over 1 million SAND rewards. 

Still, the biggest concern among investors is whether the recent recovery is real or whether it is a bearish recovery.

The Sandbox price prediction

On the 4H chart, we see that the SAND price has been in a strong bearish trend in the past few months. The sell-off accelerated last week as Terra USD crumbled. Now, the coin has formed what looks like a bearish pennant pattern that is shown in blue. 

It has also moved slightly below the 25-day moving averages while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) comeback has stagnated at 50. Therefore, the pair will likely stage a major pullback since the pennant pattern is nearing its confluence level. If this happens, the next key support will be at $1.10.

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33 central banks and 12 financial authorities to meet Nayib Bukele to discuss BTC

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, tweeted that he would be meeting with 33 central banks and 12 financial authorities today Monday to discuss the Bitcoin rollout among other things.

According to the Twitter thread that followed the tweet about the meeting to “discuss financial inclusion, digital economy, banking the unbanked, the #Bitcoin rollout and its benefits in our country,” some of the banks expected to meet Bukele include the bank of Rwanda, Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) Kenya, Central Bank of Egypt, Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Maldives Monetary Authority among others.

The central banks and regulatory authorities mentioned by Bukele are primarily from developing countries, especially from Africa. 

At the time, it is clear are explicitly meeting to discuss Bitcoin or if there are other issues to be discussed.

Bukele’s tweet didn’t however capture the world by surprise since about five days after the tweet from the president, someone under the Twitter account going by the name “Bitcoin Beach” had said that several countries are flying to El Salvador.

El Salvador and Bitcoin

El Salvador is the first country to make Bitcoin a legal tender and it recently took advantage of the falling BTC price and bought 500 bitcoins.

Besides making BTC a legal tender in the country, El Salvador has accumulated more than 2,000 bitcoins worth over $60 million at the current Bitcoin price. 

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Luna Foundation Guard confirms it sold 80,081 bitcoins to try prevent the UST crash

Luna Foundation Guard, an organization that supports the Terra ecosystem, has confirmed through an announcement that they sold 80,081 bitcoin and other holding tokens to prevent the crash on May 8 and May 10.

The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) had over 80K BTC and other cryptocurrencies before the de-pegging of the UST.

The organization sold Bitcoins for about 3 billion UST which currently wort nothing because Terra blockchain has been suspended.

Luna stated via Twitter:

“Beginning on May 8, when the price of UST began to drop substantially below one dollar, the Foundation began converting this reserve to UST. The Foundation did so by directly executing on-chain swaps and transferring BTC to a counterparty to enable them to enter trades with the Foundation in large size & on short notice. Directly sold 26,281,671 USDT & 23,555,590 USDC for an aggregate 50,200,071 UST· Transferred 52,189 BTC to trade with a counterparty, net of an excess of 5,313 BTC that they have returned, for an aggregate 1,515,689,462 UST. On May 10, when UST had fallen to $0.75… Sold 33,206 BTC for an aggregate 1,164,018,521 UST.”

However, Luna collapsed the day after as there were no other mechanisms or assets to stabilize the stablecoin UST.

On May 7, LFG held 80,394 Bitcoin, but when the price of $UST started to drop they started the conversion of the Bitcoin reserve to $UST. At the time of writing the reserve has been left with only 313 BTC.

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