Rules of the game
First, a 13-step walkthrough to follow with your phone in hand. Then all the rules of the game, to look up whenever you need them.
BEFORE YOU START
STEPN requires you to buy an NFT sneaker (a virtual shoe). Earnings are not guaranteed. The price of sneakers and tokens can go down: you can lose the money you spend. Nothing here is financial advice. This page contains no referral links or invite codes.
Sources: the STEPN whitepaper and guides from stepn.jp. Last checked on 24.10.2026. FSL may change the rules without notice.
PART A
Tick off each step once it's done. The 13 steps are numbered from 00 to 12. Each step tells you what to do. Some steps also point out a mistake to avoid.
Useful words: sneaker · GST · GMT · Wallet · realm · Energy · HP. Other terms are explained in the glossary.
PROGRESS 0 / 13
STEPN costs money. First you need to buy a sneaker. Then you need GST to repair it and level it up. You also need a little SOL, BNB or POL, depending on your realm: this token pays the fees. You don't need the app to walk with the club.
To try it without buying anything, STEPN GO offers a free guest mode (stepn.jp guide); it's a separate app from STEPN OG.
STEPN measures your walk with your phone's GPS. Dual-band GPS (L5) is more accurate: iPhone 14 Pro and later (including the standard iPhone 16), Pixel 7 Pro and later, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Xiaomi 14T. The iPhone 13 and SE only support the L1 band: the app works, but the measurement is less accurate.
On the App Store or Google Play, search for “STEPN”: the app published by Find Satoshi Lab.
Sign up with an email address, then enter the verification code you receive.
The app may ask you for an activation code. A club member will give you one free of charge: ask for it in a direct message to @PolyGST on X. The club never sells codes: if someone offers you one for money, it is not the club. Players get these codes by spending 10 Energy (only one code at a time), but FSL sometimes switches this system off.
In your account settings, turn on 2FA: it protects your account even if someone finds out your password.
Tap the Wallet icon at the top right. The app then shows you 12 secret words.
Write them down on paper and keep them somewhere safe. Never take a screenshot. Never give them to anyone: neither STEPN nor a club member will ever ask you for them. If someone asks you for them, it is a scam.
On id.fsl.com, using the same email address as in the app: confirm your email address, choose a strong password, then turn on 2FA under Settings → Security with an authenticator app. Write the backup codes down on paper.
The FSL ID is free. You need it for the web marketplace (m.stepn.com, MOOAR).
Sneakers and GST can't move from one realm to another, so your choice matters.
| REALM | CHAIN | TOKENS | PROFILE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solana (S) | Solana | SOL + GST | The biggest market and the most information; recommended for beginners |
| BNB (B) | BNB Chain | BNB + GST | Middle ground |
| Polygon (P) | Polygon | POL + pGST | Small market, fast-moving prices; see Polygon |
GMT is shared by all three realms. The Polygon realm replaced the Ethereum realm in August 2025.
Buy GMT on an exchange: you will use it to pay for your sneaker in the next step. Send it to your in-app Wallet. Also send a little SOL, BNB or POL, depending on your realm: this token pays the fees.
When you send, the exchange asks you to choose a network. Choose the same network as your wallet address: SOL on Solana, BNB on BNB Chain, POL on Polygon. If the network does not match, the money you send is lost. First send the smallest amount the exchange accepts. Check that it has arrived in your in-app Wallet, then send the rest.
On iPhone, you can also buy SPARK with Apple Pay in the in-app marketplace.
Use the filter in the in-app marketplace or on m.stepn.com. For club walks, choose a Walker (1–6 km/h) or a Trainer (1–20 km/h).
Check the quality, level, mint count and HP. A brand-new sneaker, just out of its Shoebox, loses no HP for 48 hours; if you buy one, you get whatever time remains.
To find the right sneaker for your strategy: STEPN Sneaker Search (stepn-market.guide), a community tool that filters sneakers for sale by chain, type, quality, attributes, level, mint count and price.
This box is only about the league. To get started, one sneaker is enough: go to the next step. The league requires 20 Energy a day in one realm. That's the most a realm allows, and the amount that refills in one day. Your maximum Energy depends on how many sneakers you own and their quality. Five ways to get there:
| SETUP | BASE ENERGY | QUALITY BONUS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Common sneakers | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 15 sneakers, including 8 Uncommon | 12 | +8 | 20 |
| 15 sneakers, including 4 Rare | 12 | +8 | 20 |
| 9 sneakers, including 3 Epic and 1 Rare | 9 | +11 | 20 |
| 4 Legendary sneakers | 4 | +16 | 20 |
Base Energy by number of sneakers: 1 or 2 → 2, 3 to 8 → 4, 9 to 14 → 9, 15 to 29 → 12, 30 or more → 20. Bonus per sneaker: +1 Uncommon, +2 Rare, +3 Epic, +4 Legendary. Cap: 20 per realm.
You need a setup in each realm, because sneakers can't move between realms. A sneaker below 20% HP, or listed for sale, no longer counts towards Energy. 20 Energy is 100 minutes of walking a day.
Energy refills by 25% every 6 hours, at the same time for everyone:
| 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTC | 01:00 | 07:00 | 13:00 | 19:00 |
| Switzerland, winter | 02:00 | 08:00 | 14:00 | 20:00 |
| Switzerland, summer | 03:00 | 09:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 |
You can start walking as soon as the first refill comes in. With a single Common sneaker, the maximum is 2 Energy, which is 10 minutes of rewarded walking.
Before you set off, adjust these settings on your phone. On Android: set battery usage to “Unrestricted”. On iPhone: set location to “Always”, turn on Motion & Fitness and turn off Low Power Mode.
Repair your sneaker with GST before your next walk, keep an eye on its HP and level it up. The daily routine: walk → maintain → upgrade.
Based on stepn.jp.
PART B
Costs are given in GST; in the Polygon realm, you pay in pGST. Click a topic's title to open or close it.
| TYPE | OPTIMAL SPEED | SAMPLE EARNINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Walker | 1–6 km/h | 4 GST per Energy |
| Jogger | 4–10 km/h | 5 GST per Energy |
| Runner | 8–20 km/h | 6 GST per Energy |
| Trainer | 1–20 km/h | 4–6.25 GST per Energy |
Below or above the optimal speed, earnings drop by up to 90%. Three categories: Classic (up to level 30), Rainbow (earns GMT only; no attributes, no levelling, no repairs), Soulbound (received in a promotion; can't be sold or used for Enhancement or Fusion).
Four attributes: Efficiency (GST per Energy), Luck (Mystery Boxes), Comfort (HP loss and GMT earnings), Resilience (Durability loss).
| QUALITY | POINTS PER LEVEL | BASE ATTRIBUTE |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 4 | 1–10 |
| Uncommon | 6 | 8–18 |
| Rare | 8 | 15–35 |
| Epic | 10 | 28–63 |
| Legendary | 12 | 50–112 |
Milestones: level 5, first gem socket and minting; levels 10, 15 and 20, the next sockets; level 25, HP restored to 100% for free on the way from 24 to 25; level 30, GMT earnings unlocked. Levelling up to 5, 10, 20, 29 and 30 also costs GMT. Attribute points can be redistributed for GMT.
1 Energy = 5 minutes of rewarded walking. Without Energy, you can still walk, but you earn nothing.
| SNEAKERS OWNED | MAX ENERGY | MINUTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | 9 | 45 |
| 15 | 12 | 60 |
| 30 | 20 | 100 |
Bonus per sneaker: +1 Uncommon, +2 Rare, +3 Epic, +4 Legendary. Maximum: 20 per realm, 60 per account. Refills stop when the bar is full. Listing a sneaker for sale lowers your Energy; a transfer between accounts locks the sneaker for a while.
The GST you earn depends on speed, Efficiency, gems and the anti-cheat check. The daily cap is set by your highest-level sneaker and is shared across realms.
| LEVEL | DAILY CAP |
|---|---|
| 1–4 | 5 GST |
| 5–9 | 10 GST |
| 10–14 | 25 GST |
| 15–19 | 50 GST |
| 20–24 | 100 GST |
| 25–29 | 200 GST |
| 30 | 300 GST |
Above 300, you can raise the cap permanently by burning GMT, as soon as you reach 90% of your current cap. GMT can be earned at level 30, with no cap; the Comfort attribute counts, and the amount earned changes every minute depending on how many players are earning GMT at the same time.
Durability drops as you walk and is repaired with GST: below 50/100, earnings fall to 90%; below 20/100, to 10%.
HP drops when you spend Energy and is restored with GST and Comfort gems (red). Below 100%, you can't sell or transfer the sneaker; below 20%, it no longer counts towards Energy; at 0%, it can no longer be used. A Rainbow sneaker's HP can't be restored.
Yellow for Efficiency, blue for Luck, red for Comfort, purple for Resilience: each gem goes in a socket of the same colour. The socket's quality multiplies the effect: ×1.0 Common, ×1.1 Uncommon, ×1.2 Rare, ×1.3 Epic, ×1.5 Legendary. Gem effect = fixed bonus + base attribute × awakening.
Upgrading: 3 gems of the same level and colour make 1 gem of the next level. If the upgrade fails, you lose all 3 gems and the cost paid.
| LEVEL | BONUS | AWAKENING | SUCCESS | COST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +2 | +5% | 35% | 50 GST |
| 2 | +8 | +70% | 55% | 100 GST |
| 3 | +25 | +220% | 65% | 200 GST |
| 4 | +72 | +600% | 75% | 300 GST + 200 GMT |
| 5 | +200 | +1'400% | 85% | 500 GST + 500 GMT |
| 6 | +400 | +4'300% | 100% | 800 GST + 2'000 GMT |
| 7 | +777 | +11'000% | 100% | 1'200 GST + 4'000 GMT |
| 8 | +1'888 | +28'000% | 100% | 2'000 GST + 8'000 GMT |
| 9 | +6'789 | +66'000% | — | — |
The success rate shown is for upgrading to the next level. Costs are from stepn.jp; the whitepaper gives the rates but not the amounts.
Three gems of the same level can also make a Rainbow gem of that level, which goes in the Rainbow socket and can't be upgraded any further. The community contests are built on these upgrades.
They drop at random while you walk and contain GST, Minting Scrolls and level 1 to 4 gems. Their quality (10 levels) depends on the Energy spent in the session and on Luck. An account can hold 4 boxes at most, across all realms. The opening countdown starts automatically; opening a box costs a little GST.
Minting creates a Shoebox from two parent sneakers of level 5 or above, at full Durability, using Minting Scrolls. Each parent can mint 7 times at most, with a 48-hour cooldown between mints; the cost goes up after the second mint.
The Shoebox's quality doesn't guarantee the sneaker's: a Rare Shoebox gives an Uncommon sneaker 27% of the time. Enhancement burns 5 sneakers of the same quality for one sneaker of the next quality up; Legendary sneakers can only be obtained through Enhancement.
Three realms: Solana, BNB and Polygon. Each realm has its own game token, which never leaves it; GMT is shared. Sneakers can't change realm, and Energy is counted per realm. What sets Polygon apart.
Every session is checked. The Turing Score starts at 100, can rise to 120 and gains 1 point for every 4 Energy validated. From 81 to 120, withdrawals are allowed; from 0 to 80, they are blocked.
| DETECTED | EFFECT |
|---|---|
| Abnormal run | −10 Turing Score |
| Several devices at once | −5 per extra device |
| Bot, spoofed GPS, simulated movement | Immediate ban |
Since January 2026, “Bot-hack” and “Multi-device” cases can no longer be appealed. You can only appeal an abnormal run, and only with a score of 100 to 120 (support@stepn.com).
Statuses shown on screen: Walking; Moonwalking if the GPS is weak or the movement isn't natural (no earnings); Airwalking if data is missing (stop the session).
256 sneakers and 500 other items at most, shared across realms. Beyond that, items don't disappear, but they are no longer shown.
Unfamiliar term? Glossary Have a question? FAQ Official sources: whitepaper, support@stepn.com
