The Sandbox partners with World of Women to drive female education and mentorship
The Sandbox (SAND) metaverse announced its partnership with nonfungible token (NFT) community World of Women, or WoW, to launch the WoW Foundation. A $25 million grant fromThe Sandbox will help fund the foundation over the next five years. The mission of the WoW foundation is to amplify female representation in the NFT and metaverse spaces.
As a collection of “diverse and powerful" women sold on the Ethereum blockchain, World of Women shared with Cointelegraph that they aim to lower the barrier to entry for women in Web3.
This mission has four main pillars: uplift the ecosystem by supporting artists and funding projects; educate newcomers; give more visibility to women-centric causes and give back to charities. Via The Sandbox's grant, it also plans to support creators' journeys in Web3, from mentoring and funding their first mint to their first sale.
World of Women and The Sandbox intend to work together to create a series of interactive experiences via the WoW Foundation within the metaverse. Among these projects are theWoW Museum on a 2x2 Sandbox LAND, the WoW University, which provides free online lessons on how to get started with Web3, and The WoW Academy, which will serve as a mentoring and funding incubator.
Recently, The Sandbox acquired the most expensive WoW NFT at the time of purchase for 200 ETH, named Aurora, and made her the new “goddess” of The Sandbox. Yam Karkai, co-founder and artist of World of Women, revealed that WoW will be voxelizing all 10,000 NFTs "so that our entire community can join us" in the metaverse. These interoperable avatars will be accessible within The Sandbox's "Alpha, Season 2.
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