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Is SAND set for a 15% decline? Bears take control

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A wallet linked to The Sandbox had dumped 25 million tokens worth $7.08 million to Binance and OKX. 

Is SAND set for a 15% decline? Bears take control

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  • SAND could decline by 15% to reach the $0.231 level unless it breaks above the $0.29 level.
  • The token’s Long/Short Ratio was 0.84 at press time, indicating bearish market sentiment.

After experiencing a notable rally over the past few days, The Sandbox [SAND] looked poised for a price decline as millions of tokens are being dumped onto centralized exchanges. 

Wallet dumps 25M SAND

On the 25th of September, on-chain analytic firm Eyeonchain made a post on X (formerly Twitter) that wallet address “0x010” linked to The Sandbox had dumped 25 million tokens, worth $7.08 million, to Binance and OKX. 

The Sandbox (SAND)

Source: X

The post on also noted that this wallet received 41 million SAND worth $11.32 million from The Sandbox. Also, a significant portion of these tokens have already moved to the CEXes, indicating a potential sell-off.

The Sandbox: price momentum

Despite this significant dump, SAND hasn’t seen any major price changes in the past few hours. At press time, SAND was trading near $0.281 and has experienced a modest 1% price surge over the past 24 hours.

During the same period, its trading volume jumped by 21%, indicating higher participation from traders and investors.

According to AMBCrypto’s technical analysis, SAND appeared bearish at press time, and was trading below the 200 Exponential Moving Average (EMA) on a daily time frame, indicating in downtrend.

The 200 EMA is a technical indicator used by traders and investors to determine whether an asset is in an uptrend or downtrend.

The Sandbox technical analysis

Source: TradingView

Additionally, the asset was facing a price reversal from a crucial resistance level of $0.288 at press time.

Based on the historical price momentum and the recent token dump, there is a strong possibility that SAND could decline by 15% to reach the $0.231 level in the coming days.

The bearish outlook for The Sandbox will only hold if SAND remains below the $0.29 level, otherwise, it may fail.

Bearish on-chain data

This negative outlook was further supported by on-chain metrics. SAND’s Long/Short Ratio was 0.84 at the time of writing, indicating bearish market sentiment among traders.

SAND Long/Short ratio

Source: Coinglass


Read The Sandbox’s [SAND] Price Prediction 2024–2025


Additionally, its Futures Open Interest increased by 4.2% over the past 24 hours, indicating that bears were betting more on short positions than long ones.

At the time of press, 54.14% of top traders held short positions, while 45.86% held long positions. Thus, bears were dominating the asset and were potentially creating selling pressure in the coming days.

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Chanakya G is an analyst with 4 years of experience looking at the crypto-markets. His primary field of interest is the Altcoin market and its correlation with Bitcoin, and how that dynamic affects the larger sector.
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