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What is STEPN?
STEP’N is the first move-to-earn mobile game powered using Solana and aims to build the next generation play-to-earn mobile game with the ability to scale to millions of players.
STEPN was born as a winner of the Solana Ignition Hackathon. As a growing problem in the world, we’re simply not getting enough exercise as a population and this is a major problem for our health. By not getting the amount of exercise we need, STEPN believes our collective well-being is suffering as a result. That’s why projects like STEPN are stepping in to help. By adding the STEPN app to your mobile device, there’s an easy starting point to getting a workout done.
STEPN’s objective is to nudge everyone into healthier lifestyles, bringing them into the Web 3.0 world while contributing positively to carbon neutrality. Similar to Strava and Nike Run Club, STEPN has developed an achievement system that rewards players with NFT badges, along with a location-based system (LBS) integrated with Discord.
How does STEPN Work?
STEPN plays on our brain's abilities to form habits. The developers at STEPN break this down into 4 main categories that help the progression of learning positive habits like exercise.
- STEPN hopes to give psychological cues by first making the reward “obvious”. Utilizing all of our daily energy to earn rewards helps create a natural prompt to get outside and move. So that energy won’t go to waste. Essentially, it makes it obvious that you should use up all your energy so you can earn as much as possible.
- Next is making the activity “attractive”. For many people, going outside to walk, jog,
