YGG SEA Partners with Walken
YGG SEA is extremely delighted to partner with Walken, World’s first walk-to-earn game, Connecting healthy lifestyle, gaming & crypto.
Introduction of Walken
Walken is a Solana-based move-to-earn and win-to-earn blockchain game, has raised $4.7 million in a funding round led by the following Venture Capitals:
1. Infinity Ventures Crypto and Shima Capital, with participation from Morningstar Ventures
2. Ghaf Capital Partners
3. Huobi Ventures
4. Dex Ventures
5. Yield Guild Games (YGG)
6. YGG Southeast Asia
7. Big Brain Holdings
8. Moonchain Capital.
9. Moon Holdings
10. OliveX of Animoca Brands Group
11. Genblock Capital
12. NFT Tech
13. SnackClub and many others.
Walken combines crypto rewards with physical activity such as walking, running, improving their in-game characters through continuous movement or winning competitions.
It encourages players to build healthier habits through competing in the game and monetizing their steps.
The rarity of a Cathlete — common, uncommon, rare, epic and legendary — affects their stats and energy pools.
WLKN is the game’s native token users receive for winning competitions. There are six competition leagues with a minimum-Cathlete entrance level and three running disciplines where Cathletes compete for WLKN tokens.
The more a player moves, the faster they can upgrade their Cathlete, win competitions and earn WLKN tokens. Players can use the tokens to upgrade their Cathlete’s performance and purchase valuable nonfungible token (NFT) items on the in-game marketplace to boost their stats and crush their rivals.
How The Walken App Works
Their easy to understand interface guides users to easily grasp the basic concepts, so that as they advance in earning and play, users can expose more advanced functionality when they are comfortbale.
Their early testing revealed, that it was important for them to layer the exposure to functionality little by little rather than all at once.
Walken uses the movement detection capabilities of standard smartphones and wearable devices to capture the step counts of users.
They also utilize sophisticated algorithms and tools provided by to prevent cheating.
The WLKN token
WLKN is a fungible governance and staking token used to enhance a user’s adventures in the Walken app and provide income and a token to use in simplified DeFi applications within the app.
WLKN token holders will be able to vote on the future of the project as well as stake it to earn rewards.
Users can earn the token only by participating in battles.
About Walken
Walken is a play-and-exercise-to-earn mobile app built by a team with strong experience in mobile app development and marketing.
The Walken platform aims to give both crypto enthusiasts and non-crypto people an opportunity to lead a healthier lifestyle and gain crypto tokens.
About YGG SEA
YGG SEA is the first subDAO of Yield Guild Games, is a decentralized autonomous organization for acquiring and managing NFTs used in the metaverse.
