2 meseca teka z aplikacijo NFT Fitness Stepn

Back in April, all the degens on Crypto Twitter were boasting about the money they were making just going out for a run and using “move-to-earn” Stepn. Aplikacija vas nagradi z žetonom GST (Green Satoshi) za hojo, tek ali tek na prostem. Nekateri uporabniki Web3 so zbrali DDV v vrednosti več kot 20 USD na vožnjo.

Toda to je bilo aprila, ko je bil GST blizu 9 USD.

By May 10, when I started using the app (late to the party), it was down to $3.50. I earned 0.65 GST for my first 2.5-mile run, or $2.27. Still, hey: free money (well, “money”) for an activity I was already planning to do. And then GST kept falling amid the broader crypto crash. By my third run on Stepn, on May 1, GST was at 97 cents. Today, it’s at 8 cents. (Could this thing go to zero? Absolutely.)

To date, in eight runs on Stepn of 1.6 to 3.6 miles, I’ve earned 31 GST, currently worth … $2.17.

And I haven’t even mentioned the catch. To use Stepn, you have to start by buying a sneaker NFT, parked on Solana and priced in SOL. When I bought mine toward the end of April, SOL was flying high, close to $100, so I shudder to share what I spent on my sneaker: more than $400. Market research!

Ljudje, ki so bili zgodnji v Stepnu, so govorili o tem, kako hitro pričakujejo, da bodo zaslužili nazaj denar, ki so ga porabili za svoje superge NFT, in začeli ustvarjati dobiček. Po trenutnih cenah kriptovalut bom zaslužil nazaj, kar sem porabil v 363 mesecih ali približno 30 letih. Aplikacija vas nenehno poskuša prepričati, da bi porabili več denarja, tako da "popravite" svoje superge ali "višate raven" z nakupom drugih.

Če tokenomika ni dovolj za izklop (vsekakor vas pozove Obtožbe Ponzijeve sheme), the UX is far inferior to leading Web2 fitness apps like Nike Running Club and Strava. (When I run now, I use all three apps.) Stepn doesn’t currently have any social features (but CMO Shiti Maghani told us on podcast gm in June that those are coming), and will only display metrics in kilometers. Like Axie Infinity, the progenitor of the promising-but-problematic “play-to-earn” model, these products ask users to buy in before they can even see whether they enjoy the app or game.

Glede na vse povedano menim, da je Stepn, ki je v samo šestih mesecih zbral 3 milijone uporabnikov, zelo kul dokaz koncepta uporabnih NFT-jev.

Kot sem že zapisal v preteklih kolumnah, verjamem, da bodo NFT-ji ostali in se bodo razvijali daleč preko premoženja PFP-jev, kot je Bored Apes. Predvidevam, da še nismo videli najzanimivejših primerov uporabe tehnologije – ne glede na to, ali bo to za izdajanje vstopnic (kot Mark Cuban razmišlja), igre, metaverse ali kaj drugega.

I love the idea of an NFT as your entryway into a club. At NFT NYC prejšnji mesec, multiple parties only allowed in people who owned a certain NFT, and they used apps like Tokenproof to check. I think Stepn’s mistake was pricing its sneaker entry ticket far too high; the latest trend now is shifting toward more affordably priced NFTs.

Verjamem tudi v element skupnosti je ključen. Despite Stepn’s design flaws, I sense there are people actively using it mostly because they want to support these types of projects. I’m in two different Stepn Telegram groups, and they are buzzing all day, every day.

Zato vidim Stepnov pomen kot simboličen. Smo v zelo zgodnjih korakih ekonomije žetonov in poskuse prvih korakov, kot sta Axie Infinity in Stepn, je treba pohvaliti, ker poskušajo ugotoviti te stvari, tudi če bo nekdo drug verjetno prišel zraven in bo to naredil bolje.

Zato tako Axie kot Stepn izvajata pomembne prilagoditve svojih izdelkov (Axie je ustvaril brezplačni začetni NFT-ji za nove igralce bo Stepn odkupi in zažge svoj žeton upravljanja GMT in dodajte podporo za Ethereum), da se pridružite naslednjemu valu kripto radovednežev.

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