Overview
Walkers is a free mobile app that rewards you for walking. You track your steps in the app on your phone, and the distance you cover each day earns you experience points that you can later convert into a reward token called WLK1. It pairs everyday step tracking with light game features, like collectible characters that boost what you earn.
Walkers runs on the Cardano blockchain, and its Google Play listing names the developer as WalkersCNFT2. The app was later rebuilt from the ground up as WFit App, adding live walk maps, Apple Watch and Apple Health sync, and an AI fitness coach3.
Key Features
- Earn a token just for walking. The Walkers app counts your steps on your phone and turns the distance you walk, up to a daily limit, into experience points, which you can convert into WLK, the project's reward token, once you reach Level 51. Higher-tier characters raise that limit, from 4,000 steps a day for starter characters to 15,000 for the top tier4.
- Boost rewards with collectible add-ons. Walkers offers optional digital collectibles (NFTs, meaning one-of-a-kind items tracked on the blockchain) such as Backpacks and a Walkers Node. Holding them earns passive WLK plus partner tokens like IAG from Iagon and DEDI from Dedium, and Electricity Generators, a subscription add-on, extend the same passive-reward model4.
- Stake WLK for extra rewards. People who hold WLK can register their wallet on the staking page and earn more WLK over time just for holding it, while keeping full control of their tokens5.
- Swap tokens on the website. From the Walkers website you can trade ADA, Cardano's main coin, for WLK or other Cardano tokens through a built-in exchange powered by the DexHunter aggregator4.
- Project Catalyst participation. Walkers has put forward proposals across multiple rounds of Project Catalyst, Cardano's community grant program, seeking support for app upgrades6, gamification7, and its WHub challenge platform8.
What to Expect
A new user downloads the WFit App (formerly Walkers) free from Google Play or the Apple App Store, creates a profile, and picks a starter character. From there, the app tracks steps in the background during the day, turning distance into experience points and WLK rewards. Connecting a Cardano wallet (the app that holds their coins) on the Walkers website lets holders manage and swap their tokens. Beyond the app, the WFit ecosystem includes WChronicles, a trading card game with battles and rewards; WBoard, for tasks and achievements; WHub, where people own geolocation collectibles tied to real places; and WAirdrops, for free token drops9.
Most of the app is free to use, but its economy is built around collectible characters that set your daily distance limit and add-ons that earn passive WLK plus extra partner tokens. Token holders can also stake WLK for ongoing rewards without giving up control of it5, or swap it straight from the website4.
