How Much I can earn with Stepn GO? 6 key factors that affect your earnings

2025-04-23 · By Pawel ·
Tags: stepngo stepn web3 crypto playtoEarn

Stepn GO is a web3 app that allows you to earn by moving around. You install the mobile application, buy virtual sneakers, and earn cryptocurrency GGT for each minute of activity. How much exactly you can earn?

6 key factors affecting your Stepn GO earnings

There are 5 key things that affect how much you’ll earn. The final one is probably the most important thing you need to keep in mind.

  1. your sneaker type, sneakers ‘walker’ earn a bit less than ‘yoggers’ or ‘trainers’
  2. your sneaker level and efficiency - this is the main factor, a common sneaker with level 20 will earn much more than a sneaker of level 1
  3. your in-game ‘fitness’ level, after 14 days of activity, this increases to 150% of efficiency, but it drops if you are inactive for 5 days in a row
  4. your daily energy cap - how much you can earn daily, initially starts at 2
  5. Cost of burned shoes - in Stepn GO, you get energy for walking by burning shoes. If you pay too much for a shoe you burn, you’ll end up making less or even losing money
  6. GGT exchange rate (!)

Let’s go over these factors one by one. You can use our calculator to compute average profit of some sneaker types.

Sneaker type and efficiency

In Stepn GO, there are 4 types of sneakers:

  • walker
  • runner
  • yogger
  • trainer

Each one has slightly different earning potential, but the differences are not that big. A walker earns 90% of the maximum, while a trainer earns 110%. Different sneakers have different speeds. A walker has a range of 1-4; if you move outside this range, your earnings stop. This means that you need to monitor your pace to be sure you stay within expected ranges for your sneaker type. The only one that does not have this limitation is the trainer, where you can move at any pace. This is why trainers are the most expensive in the app, and they can cost even $500 in 2025.

Each sneaker has an efficiency attribute that affects earnings. The base efficiency is built in for a sneaker and cannot be changed. Efficiency coming from sneaker level up always adds a constant value of 4 points for common and 6 points for uncommon sneakers. A walker with a total efficiency of 88 will earn around 12 GGT per energy, which with a GGT price of 0.3 translates to around $4 per 5 minutes of activity.

In-game fitness level

Initially, all users start with 100%, but then they go through a period of regression where their earnings are reduced. At the bottom of this process, they earn 50% of their sneaker efficiency, which can feel painful. But after 14 days, they move to ‘strong feet’ status and start earning 150%. This is maintained as long as they keep up their activity. If they stop moving for 5 days, their fitness drops again.

Daily energy cap

In StepnGO, the amount of energy you can use daily to earn GGT increases as you burn sneakers. One unit of energy corresponds to five minutes of earning time. Every user begins with 2 energy units per day, allowing them to earn GGT for up to 10 minutes. After that, GGT generation pauses until the next day.

As you burn more sneakers, your energy cap rises: burning 3 sneakers raises it to 3 energy units (15 minutes), and burning 5 increases it to 4 (20 minutes). This progression is part of the energy system outlined in the StepnGO whitepaper.

Ultimately, after burning 653 sneakers, your daily energy cap reaches 30 units, translating to 150 minutes—or 2.5 hours—of potential earning time each day. Under current conditions and assuming no additional limitations, this could theoretically allow users to earn up to 360 GGT daily, which equates to roughly $100 USD at the current GGT/USD exchange rate. But remember there is a daily earning cap.

The system of the energy cap means you cannot make a lot of money quickly if you don’t want to throw too much money into the application. If you’d like to increase your daily energy immediately to start from 5 units of energy per day, you’d have to burn 5 sneakers, which currently cost around $150. This would mean $750 spent on energy, plus the investment into your shoe that you will walk in.

For the full table with Stepn GO energy cap, see this post.

Cost of burned sneaker

The main difference between Stepn GO and Stepn OG is that in GO, you must burn sneakers to obtain energy needed for earning GGT. More differences described in this article. Initially, you must buy sneakers from the market, but later you can mint a new sneaker and burn it. Minting is usually cheaper (400 GGT from two level-zero sneakers) than buying, but the exact difference in price depends on market conditions. The more people mint, the less profitable minting becomes, because many minters will attempt to sell their sneakers on the market, thus prices will decrease.

The price you pay for your first sneaker will determine how long it will take to get your money back. If you pay too much, it will take longer to recover your money. Later, when you play the game and buy/mint sneakers, it is also important how much they cost. The less you pay for it, the more you profit.

GGT exchange rate

This is a critical factor on which all game economy depends. If GGT goes up, your earnings in dollars go up. If GGT goes down, your earnings in dollars go down. This means that investing money into the game is betting on the GGT rate remaining constant or going up. It can well happen that GGT can be cheaper, and in this case, your earnings may drop. You may even lose money or it may take much too long to recover your money because your initial investment in burning a sneaker and buying a sneaker for walking will be much higher than the future price of GGT.

For example, people who invested into Stepn GO with a GGT price of $1 and purchased shoes for $1000 will have to walk a lot longer to recover this amount if the price of GGT goes down to $0.1.

Remember that crypto is highly volatile, and prices can change rapidly. In the past, there were periods of GGT going up by 20% in a couple of days and going down by 20% in a couple of days. No one can tell what the price of GGT will be in the future, so you need to understand the risk.

To check the current price of GGT, you can use the Coingecko website.

For more details about the game, read the official whitepaper.