Does your smartphone or wearable device track your daily steps and produce a fascinating statistic? Beyond the numbers, a recent research published in the Lancet: Public Health has actually shown that being active; more specifically achieving at least 6000–8000 steps per day in this regard, in fact confers a mortality benefit towards longevity. Amidst the background of cryptocurrency and NFT frenzy, what if I told you that these steps could be used to translate into earning cryptocurrencies? That would have been an almost ideal fusion of digital well-being, fitness and cryptocurrency that would definitely tickle some woke senses, wouldn’t it?
Introducing Walken — a blockchain-based game with a unique built and ideology, aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle in an innovative way. What better way to earn a passive income than to do it in a healthy way, literally! Walken turns walking into an enjoyable and rewarding activity that pays.
Walken’s Play To Earn
Essentially, Walken is a free to play game that converts daily steps into NFT. Everyday activities recorded by a mobile or wearable device are converted into the game currency, whereby 1000 steps will earn 1 in-game gem.
Of Cats and CAThletes
If you had joined any Walken communities, you would most likely have heard of the term CAThletes. Deriving its adorable name from the common household pet, CAThletes are NFT characters — cute and adorable digital creatures that can be bred, raised, battled and even traded in the marketplace. Each CAThlete is unique, and can be upgraded with gems earned by walking. Walken tokens ($WLKN) can be spent on purchasing accessories on the marketplace, boosting the stamina, strength and speed of your CAThlete, making it more competitive and hence more likely to win battles, which in turn earns more WLKN tokens for you. Thus, the more you walk, the more you play and win, the stronger your CAThlete becomes, while earning you more $WLKN tokens!
A screenshot of a CAThlete of an early beta tester, taken from the official Twitter page of Walken.
Game tokens earned by simply staying active can be used to level up CAThletes.
Walken Tokens (WLKN)
WLKN is the token that forms the core of the game. It can be either bought on a cryptocurrency exchange or earned by playing Walken. WLKN token has a host of uses in the game, including levelling up CAThletes; breeding CAThletes to get new and unique ones; trading on the marketplace; and withdrawal of the game token for profits.
WLKN tokenomics, taken from the official Medium page of Walken.
WLKN has been listed on coinmarketcap.
Image taken from coinmarketcap.
Early Beta Stage
Walken is currently in beta phase, only available to iOS devices for the time being. (Android version is coming up, so stay tuned!) Visit the official site at https://walken.io/ to subscribe to the closed beta. Selected beta testers will then receive a link to download Walken for iOS devices. The link will be sent to the email submitted on https://walken.io.
How To Avail The Ongoing Airdrop!
The airdrop for the WLKN token has just started a few hours ago.
Avail the airdrop by interacting with the Walken telegram bot by clicking here.
Answer some simple automated questions to prove that you are human. Then proceed with completing the tasks listed. Links will be provided by the bot.
Then, provide your twitter username for Walken to verify that you have followed and retweeted their said post.
Then you will be prompted to join their discord group, just click continue after doing so.
Subsequently, you will be greeted with the following prompt — which is optional.
And now, for the most important part of the airdrop!
Submit your Solana-SOL wallet address found in Trust Wallet or Sollet.io
Once done, you will come to the final message.
You will have a referral link generated, which you can use to invite users onto the platform. And that’s it! Airdrop rewards will be distributed to your wallet address after IDO, and 3,000 lucky random participants will be rewarded. Await the airdrop, details of which will be announced soon; and download the app once you receive an invitation link in your email, having registered on the official site!
Final Thoughts
Powered by the Solana blockchain technology, Walken represents an innovative game-changer in the NFT and cryptocurrency industry, which promises users an exciting gameplay and a chance to earn $WLKN tokens while being motivated to stay active in real life. It does sound like a very promising prospect indeed. Join the ongoing airdrop event! Stay tuned for future game updates and tutorials, as the platform unfolds!
What are your thoughts? Feel free to leave comments below!
Some materials used for this article were taken from the official Walken site, twitter and Medium page.
As always this is not financial advice! But simply investment platforms I have invested in and have found worthy of sharing with. Do your own research before investing and never deposit money you cannot afford to lose. Feel free to ask me any questions below.
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