Sandbox Transaction Analytics Dashboard

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:brick: Proposal: Live Transaction Dashboard & Historical Analytics Platform for The Sandbox Ecosystem

1. Project Overview

This project aims to build a real-time blockchain transaction dashboard that tracks and analyzes The Sandbox (SAND) token activity, user interactions, and game economy metrics across the Polygon network. The dashboard will combine live on-chain data and historical records, offering deep analytics for players, creators, studios, and investors — driving transparency, engagement, and strategic decision-making across the ecosystem.

It will serve as the open data layer for The Sandbox community — similar in spirit to Dune Analytics or Etherscan dashboards — but focused entirely on the Sandbox metaverse economy, NFTs, and creator activities.

2. Objectives

  • Build a unified analytics dashboard for real-time and historical SAND transactions.

  • Enhance ecosystem transparency by visualizing on-chain activity (player transactions, LAND trades, staking movements).

  • Empower creators and studios with data-driven insights on asset demand, user behavior, and engagement.

  • Enable traders and investors to analyze token movement patterns, liquidity shifts, and active wallet dynamics.

  • Archive complete transaction history for long-term ecosystem intelligence.

  • Foster DAO-led governance around data access and dashboard evolution through community-driven features.

3. Core Features

  • Live Dashboard

Real-time Polygon-based stream of SAND token transfers, LAND/NFT sales, staking activities.

  • Historical Database

Archive of all historical SAND & LAND-related transactions with filtering, search, and analytics.

  • Wallet Insights

Aggregated statistics for players, creators, or studios — holdings, activity, frequency, token flows.

  • Analytics Tools

Visualization of transaction volume, velocity, token burn/mint trends, and time-based analytics.

  • Alerts & APIs

Webhooks and APIs for developers to integrate live transaction feeds into other tools or dashboards.

  • Community Governance

DAO members can vote on dashboard updates, new metrics, or premium data access.

4. Benefits to Stakeholders

:farmer: Players

  • Transparent view of SAND token movement and LAND trades.

  • Ability to track personal or community transaction activity.

  • Access to historical earnings insights and in-game economic trends.

:building_construction: Game Studios & Creators

  • Data-backed decision-making on asset pricing and user engagement.

  • Insights into which game mechanics drive the most economic activity.

  • Analytics to optimize rewards, token sinks, and item rarity models.

:money_bag: Traders & Investors

  • Real-time visibility into wallet activity and liquidity patterns.

  • Data for forecasting token trends and market sentiment.

  • Opportunity to identify whale movements or high-activity accounts.

:office_worker: DAO & Management

  • A transparent, data-driven view of ecosystem health and economic growth.

  • Metrics for measuring project success, adoption, and token flow.

  • Foundation for community-driven decisions backed by objective data.

5. Technical Architecture (High-Level)

  • Data Source: Polygon Network (Alchemy / QuickNode API)

  • Data Extraction Layer: Python scripts using web3.py and pymysql

  • Streaming Layer: WebSocket for live transaction monitoring

  • Storage: MySQL - AWS RDS / Google Cloud SQL for structured data + AWS S3/ GCS (Google storage) for historical archives

  • Compute / Processing: AWS Lambda / Google Cloud Functions for real-time ETL

  • Backend API: Python / API for dashboard endpoints

  • Frontend: CMS - React + Tailwind + Chart.js / Recharts for interactive dashboard visuals

  • Hosting: AWS EC2 / Google App Engine

  • Access Control: DAO token-gated dashboard for community tiers

6. Funding Request

We request ~$15,000 USD (estimated 1st year cost) in DAO grant funding to cover:

  • 12 months of infrastructure (database, hosting, blockchain APIs)

  • Development & maintenance for live dashboard modules

  • Public API endpoint setup

  • Community DAO integration features (voting, token-gated access)

The funding ensures sustainable hosting, ongoing updates, and open access for the Sandbox community.

7. Roadmap & Milestones (Phase – Duration – Deliverable)

**Phase 1 (**Month 1–2)

Historical transaction database & backend API setup

**Phase 2 (**Month 3–4)

Live transaction dashboard (frontend + WebSocket integration)

**Phase 3 (**Month 5–6)

Wallet-level analytics & player insights

**Phase 4 (**Month 7–9)

DAO voting integration & community dashboard release

**Phase 5 (**Month 10–12)

API public release, optimization & scaling

8. Long-Term Vision

This project sets the foundation for a Sandbox Data DAO — a decentralized analytics hub that can expand into:

  • LAND sales tracking

  • NFT marketplace analytics

  • Cross-chain SAND token insights

  • Creator leaderboard dashboards

  • Predictive analytics powered by AI

It aligns with Sandbox’s metaverse ethos: open, transparent, player-driven economies.

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This is interesting.

My thoughts. If you add high quality and advanced visualizations you would get a lot of support from this. Things that are worthy enough to go on /r/dataisbeautiful

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Thanks for the submission, @xtremearcader!

Interesting idea… that I’m sure our @Delegates and wider community will have some thoughts on.

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I’ve been thinking about this myself.

I wonder if assets will migrate from Polygon to Sandchain. And I think developing these things won’t be difficult now that AI is available.

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Thanks for the insights, guys! I’ve already started working on this. I currently have an API-based setup that extracts both historical and live on-chain data.

Right now, I’m focusing on fetching ERC-20 $SAND transactions. Once the data pipeline is stable, the results will be displayed on xralabs.io (WIP), featuring interactive charts and filter-enabled tables to deliver actionable insights to the community.

We’re currently extracting 38 key transaction-level fields from Polygon, which can uncover meaningful trends and transparency metrics for The Sandbox ecosystem.

The main challenge, however, lies in data storage and extraction costs. With over 2 million ERC-20 transactions (and growing), plus upcoming NFT transaction data, we’ll need a scalable cloud infrastructure to handle continuous API data ingestion.
Enterprise-grade storage and query solutions typically cost around $700–$1,000 per month, and that’s where I’m hoping for the DAO’s support — to help bridge this infrastructure cost gap and make the analytics accessible to everyone in the community.

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Thank you @xtremearcader

I support the Sandbox Transaction Analytics Dashboard proposal for its potential to enhance transparency and provide valuable insights into the Sandbox ecosystem. The focus on real-time and historical data for SAND token movements, LAND trades, and player activity aligns well with the needs of players, creators, traders, and DAO governance. Below are some technical questions to clarify and refine the proposal:

  • Why use WordPress plugins for the dashboard frontend instead of a more lightweight or specialized framework like React or Vue.js, which might offer better performance for data-heavy applications?
  • How will you secure the WordPress-based dashboard against common vulnerabilities (e.g., SQL injection, XSS) given its public-facing nature?
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I’ve tried to answer the questions below based on my current understanding. Any feedback or suggestions to make the deployment smoother/cheaper/more reliable are more than welcome!

:one: Why Use WP Tables in WordPress Instead of React/Vue.js?

Our current goal is rapid deployment and ecosystem visibility rather than building a custom frontend from scratch.
Using WordPress with WP DataTables Plugin provides key advantages:

  • Speed to Market: WordPress offers a ready CMS backbone with integrated hosting, plugin support, and content management — enabling faster setup and iteration.

  • Built-in Admin Control: Data can be directly managed and visualized through the WordPress backend without requiring a separate deployment pipeline.

  • Non-technical Accessibility: Community contributors, analysts, and moderators can add, filter, or edit displayed data without coding knowledge.

  • Integration with On-chain Data Plugins: WordPress supports REST API integration and external data fetching — letting us display live blockchain metrics (via Alchemy/Node APIs) efficiently with caching layers.

  • WP DataTables Server-Side Processing: WP DataTables includes a Server-Side Processing feature (link) that handles data queries directly on the server instead of loading everything in the browser. This makes filtering, sorting, and displaying large datasets — like our blockchain transaction charts — much faster and more efficient.

:two: How Will the WordPress Dashboard Be Secured?

Since the dashboard will be public-facing, we’ll take several basic steps to make sure it stays safe and reliable.

  • Built-in WordPress Security:
    WordPress already includes many security protections by default — such as automatic input filtering, user role permissions, and secure login management. These help prevent most common website attacks automatically.

  • Limited Access:
    Only approved admins will have editing or upload access. The public dashboard will be read-only, so users can view data but not make any changes.

  • Regular Updates:
    We’ll keep WordPress, the theme, and all plugins updated to the latest versions. This ensures we benefit from all recent security patches.

  • Firewall & HTTPS:
    We’ll use HTTPS (secure web connection) and a firewall service to block unwanted access and protect against common online threats.

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Thanks for the proposal @Sanctum !

As a long time $SAND holder and having received several payments in $SAND for work, I can say there is a real need to better understand the global flow of the token. With the full supply of $SAND about to be emitted in the coming months, this feels like the perfect time to develop tools that help the community monitor and interpret token dynamics, how it moves, who is accumulating or distributing, and how these movements reflect the platform’s growth strategy.

There is still significant trading volume around $SAND, which makes it challenging to identify and analyze the most relevant wallets. A well structured tool to surface key on chain insights would be extremely valuable for both transparency and community confidence.

Additionally, it would be great to see similar tools applied to LAND transactions, for example a heatmap to visualize market activity and a fear and greed index reflecting sentiment trends within the LAND ecosystem.

I am not deeply technical on the implementation side, but I would be happy to discuss the broader community value and potential use cases for such an initiative.

Cheers!

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That’s an interesting idea — it’s always great to see tools like this being developed.

That said, I’m wondering if the upcoming Sandchain might affect or overlap with this concept in some way?

Also, do you have any estimate of what the development cost could be?

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Admin will look into this and I will respond here whenever we can get a response.

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Below I have tried to put a proposal (1st draft) I will more than welcome anyone to help our community, if there are any improvements that can be made (Admins & community members please do provide your valuable insights).

As for Sandchain, I don’t believe it will overlap with our initiative — in fact, it can serve as a central repository. Sandchain aims to become a platform similar to Polygon, enabling multiple communities to create and manage their own tokens within the Sandbox ecosystem. This would allow Sandchain to act as a central contract ID database for all Sandbox-related community projects. (THESE ARE MY OWN VIEWS , I DON’T CLAIM TO SHOWCASE ALL THE SANDCHAIN CAPABILITIES HERE)

:brick: Proposal: Live Transaction Dashboard & Historical Analytics Platform for The Sandbox Ecosystem

1. Project Overview

This project aims to build a real-time blockchain transaction dashboard that tracks and analyzes The Sandbox (SAND) token activity, user interactions, and game economy metrics across the Polygon network. The dashboard will combine live on-chain data and historical records, offering deep analytics for players, creators, studios, and investors — driving transparency, engagement, and strategic decision-making across the ecosystem.

It will serve as the open data layer for The Sandbox community — similar in spirit to Dune Analytics or Etherscan dashboards — but focused entirely on the Sandbox metaverse economy, NFTs, and creator activities.

2. Objectives

  • Build a unified analytics dashboard for real-time and historical SAND transactions.

  • Enhance ecosystem transparency by visualizing on-chain activity (player transactions, LAND trades, staking movements).

  • Empower creators and studios with data-driven insights on asset demand, user behavior, and engagement.

  • Enable traders and investors to analyze token movement patterns, liquidity shifts, and active wallet dynamics.

  • Archive complete transaction history for long-term ecosystem intelligence.

  • Foster DAO-led governance around data access and dashboard evolution through community-driven features.

3. Core Features

  • Live Dashboard

Real-time Polygon-based stream of SAND token transfers, LAND/NFT sales, staking activities.

  • Historical Database

Archive of all historical SAND & LAND-related transactions with filtering, search, and analytics.

  • Wallet Insights

Aggregated statistics for players, creators, or studios — holdings, activity, frequency, token flows.

  • Analytics Tools

Visualization of transaction volume, velocity, token burn/mint trends, and time-based analytics.

  • Alerts & APIs

Webhooks and APIs for developers to integrate live transaction feeds into other tools or dashboards.

  • Community Governance

DAO members can vote on dashboard updates, new metrics, or premium data access.

4. Benefits to Stakeholders

:farmer: Players

  • Transparent view of SAND token movement and LAND trades.

  • Ability to track personal or community transaction activity.

  • Access to historical earnings insights and in-game economic trends.

:building_construction: Game Studios & Creators

  • Data-backed decision-making on asset pricing and user engagement.

  • Insights into which game mechanics drive the most economic activity.

  • Analytics to optimize rewards, token sinks, and item rarity models.

:money_bag: Traders & Investors

  • Real-time visibility into wallet activity and liquidity patterns.

  • Data for forecasting token trends and market sentiment.

  • Opportunity to identify whale movements or high-activity accounts.

:office_worker: DAO & Management

  • A transparent, data-driven view of ecosystem health and economic growth.

  • Metrics for measuring project success, adoption, and token flow.

  • Foundation for community-driven decisions backed by objective data.

5. Technical Architecture (High-Level)

  • Data Source: Polygon Network (Alchemy / QuickNode API)

  • Data Extraction Layer: Python scripts using web3.py and pymysql

  • Streaming Layer: WebSocket for live transaction monitoring

  • Storage: MySQL - AWS RDS / Google Cloud SQL for structured data + AWS S3/ GCS (Google storage) for historical archives

  • Compute / Processing: AWS Lambda / Google Cloud Functions for real-time ETL

  • Backend API: Python / API for dashboard endpoints

  • Frontend: CMS - React + Tailwind + Chart.js / Recharts for interactive dashboard visuals

  • Hosting: AWS EC2 / Google App Engine

  • Access Control: DAO token-gated dashboard for community tiers

6. Funding Request

We request ~$15,000 USD (estimated 1st year cost) in DAO grant funding to cover:

  • 12 months of infrastructure (database, hosting, blockchain APIs)

  • Development & maintenance for live dashboard modules

  • Public API endpoint setup

  • Community DAO integration features (voting, token-gated access)

The funding ensures sustainable hosting, ongoing updates, and open access for the Sandbox community.

7. Roadmap & Milestones (Phase – Duration – Deliverable)

**Phase 1 (**Month 1–2)

Historical transaction database & backend API setup

**Phase 2 (**Month 3–4)

Live transaction dashboard (frontend + WebSocket integration)

**Phase 3 (**Month 5–6)

Wallet-level analytics & player insights

**Phase 4 (**Month 7–9)

DAO voting integration & community dashboard release

**Phase 5 (**Month 10–12)

API public release, optimization & scaling

8. Long-Term Vision

This project sets the foundation for a Sandbox Data DAO — a decentralized analytics hub that can expand into:

  • LAND sales tracking

  • NFT marketplace analytics

  • Cross-chain SAND token insights

  • Creator leaderboard dashboards

  • Predictive analytics powered by AI

It aligns with Sandbox’s metaverse ethos: open, transparent, player-driven economies.

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Nice re-draft!
Note: you can always “overwrite” the original post using the “edit” function so anybody who finds their way to this forum doesn’t have to read through all of the comments for the most recent version.

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Done. Thanks for the advice :smiley:

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Hey, thanks for presenting this SIP idea!
Could you clarify how you plan to maintain the dashboard and infrastructure after the first year of funding. Will you plan on asking for follow up maintenance funding via SIP?
I’d assume, should everything go well that would be the loose plan in some form?

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Hey! Yes, that’s a great question. I was thinking of monetizing the website through Google ads to help cover ongoing costs. Additionally, the site will feature games developed by my studio, which can redirect new players into the Sandbox ecosystem. These games can be monetized, and a portion of the earnings can be used toward maintenance and continuous improvement of the dashboard if there is no additional funding.

Do let me know if anyone has other great ideas for sustainable funding models to support future upgrades and infrastructure needs.

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Technically, people who are curious about most of this information and want to follow it can already follow it as Onchain. Also this presenting data Dapp Radar and OpenSea like on the platform existing.

How logical is it to offer something that already exists, but with a different interface?

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Hey,

I agree that other platforms already provide basic analytics, but there are still some gaps in tracking transactions related to NFTs and LAND ownership that need to be highlighted. The existing data is scattered across multiple sources — my goal is to build a consolidated, centralized database focused specifically on The Sandbox ecosystem to bridge these gaps.

Thanks for the valuable feedback!

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