Sydney, Australia, August twenty second, 2024, Chainwire
STEPN GO and CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. have teamed as much as launch a novel assortment of co-branded STEPN GO NFT Sneakers. As a part of the “VIRTUAL G-SHOCK” undertaking, Casio will collaborate with the not too long ago launched Web3 social-lifestyle app STEPN GO to supply a restricted variety of 800 NFT Sneakers. These unique NFTs can be obtainable by means of a Raffle Mint occasion held from August 26 to August 29 on the gamified NFT market “MOOAR”.
That is the primary partnership for STEPN GO, which lays the muse for mass onboarding of Web3 through modern social options. The primary key social factor is the ‘Haus System,’ a lending system that lets customers share their Sneaker NFTs with family and friends who’re new to the app, sharing rewards and simplifying the method of understanding crypto. One other distinctive characteristic is the ‘Interactive Map’, which can enable customers to see different gamers’ avatars and talk with them, even including them as buddies inside the platform.
The “VIRTUAL G-SHOCK” initiative, which started in September 2023, goals to develop the person base of Casio by introducing G-SHOCK experiences distinctive to digital areas comparable to NFTs and the Metaverse. “STEPN GO” enhances health by means of a Web3 app the place customers earn rewards for every day train and interactions, together with buying, lending, and borrowing NFT Sneakers.
The restricted version NFT Sneakers characteristic designs impressed by the G-SQUAD sports activities line of G-SHOCK, appropriate for each sports activities and digital environments. Customers of the “STEPN GO” app can earn cryptocurrency primarily based on the gap they run or stroll, integrating bodily exercise with digital rewards.
Yawn Rong, Co-Founding father of FSL, commented on the collaboration, “We’re at all times eager to convey extra conventional partnerships and IPs into STEPN GO in order that we are able to expose a broader viewers with our Web3 life-style app. This collaboration with Casio is pivotal to the entire FSL ecosystem for the grand imaginative and prescient of Web3 mass adoption.”
This partnership displays a shared imaginative and prescient of mixing real-life train with cutting-edge expertise. The collaboration goals to advertise bodily exercise by means of modern merchandise just like the G-SQUAD watch, making a holistic expertise that bridges the bodily and digital worlds.
Takahashi Oh, Senior Common Supervisor of Timepieces at Casio, “Partnering with STEPN GO permits us to merge the bodily and digital worlds in an modern method. We’re excited to supply our customers a brand new and interesting expertise that mixes health and expertise.”
About STEPN GO
Constructing on the success of STEPN, the pioneering move-and-earn platform, STEPN GO revolutionizes social health in on a regular basis life. Purchase, borrow, or lend your Sneakers to earn rewards by staying energetic. Your rewards can be utilized to stage up, money out, or flex your on-line look, fostering each bodily exercise and social connections.
About G-SHOCK
Casio’s shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch of Casio is synonymous with toughness, born from the developer Mr. Ibe’s dream of ‘making a watch that by no means breaks’. Over 200 handmade samples have been created and examined to destruction till lastly in 1983 the primary, now iconic G-SHOCK hit the streets of Japan and commenced to ascertain itself as ‘the hardest watch of all time’. The watch is full of Casio improvements and applied sciences to forestall it from struggling direct shock; this contains inner parts protected with urethane and suspended timekeeping modules contained in the watch construction. Since its launch, G-SHOCK has continued to evolve, persevering with to assist on Mr. Ibe’s mantra “by no means, by no means surrender.”
About STEPN
The unique STEPN app was launched in 2021 and stays the world’s main ‘move-and-earn’ utility, pioneering the style of gamified Web3 health purposes. With over 5.6 million registered customers and over 1 million Sneaker NFTs owned by gamers throughout three blockchains. STEPN has partnered with prolific manufacturers over time together with ASICS, Steve Aoki, and most not too long ago adidas. STEPN was additionally the primary blockchain gaming app to combine Apple Pay, making a seamless onboarding expertise for web2 native customers.
Mattina Hiwaizi
STEPN GO
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