Overview
Walkers is a free mobile fitness app that rewards you for walking. You download it on iOS or Android, pick an NFT character, and earn the project's WLK token plus experience points based on how far you walk each day. Optional NFT add-ons like Backpacks and Electricity Generators stack extra rewards from partner projects.
Walkers is built on Cardano and began as a simple step-tracking app. The team is expanding it into a wider ecosystem branded WFit, which is planned to add smartwatches, AI fitness coaches, geolocation-based activities, and a single-stake portal that already pays passive yield to WLK holders1.
Key Features
- Earn tokens for everyday walking. The app counts your steps with your phone's sensors and pays out experience points and WLK tokens against a daily distance cap. Different NFT character types raise that cap, from a starter daily cap of around 4,000 steps up to 15,000 steps for higher tiers1.
- Stack rewards with NFT add-ons. Holders of Backpacks earn WLK plus DEDI (the Dedium compute partner's token). Walkers Node holders earn WLK plus IAG (the Iagon storage partner's token). The Electricity Generator subscription pays out WLK and rotating partner-project tokens1.
- Single-stake yield without giving up custody. WLK holders can park tokens in a non-custodial single-stake pool and earn passive income. Their own wallet keeps control of the deposit at all times2.
- Weekly raffles and a built-in swap. Holders enter weekly draws on a sister site and can swap ADA into WLK or other Cardano tokens directly from the homepage, powered by the DexHunter aggregator1.
- Project Catalyst track record. Walkers has been funded across multiple Catalyst rounds (Funds 11 through 15) for app upgrades, gamification, and the WHub challenge platform. Catalyst is Cardano's community-voted grants program that helps cover ongoing development3.
What to Expect
A first-time visitor lands on the app store, downloads the Walkers app for free, signs in with a Cardano wallet, and picks one of four character types. From there, the app counts steps in the background while the user walks during their day. Daily tasks and weekly raffles add small reasons to come back. The loop feels closer to a fitness tracker with a reward layer than a hardcore game4.
Anyone curious can stay free, but the project's economics lean on the NFT character collection and add-ons. Walkers, Backpacks, and Walkers Node items live on the Cardano NFT marketplace and unlock higher daily caps or stacked partner-token earnings. Token holders can also use the single-stake portal at the partner site for passive yield, or trade WLK directly through the swap on the homepage1.
The project is openly mid-pivot. The original walk-to-earn loop ships in the live app, while smartwatches, AI coaching, and the geolocation-based WHub features sit on the roadmap.
