Every STEPN sneaker, decoded

Every STEPN sneaker is an NFT with a type, a quality, a level and four attributes. Together these decide how fast you need to move, how much Energy you get, how much GST you can earn per minute and how quickly the sneaker wears out. If you have opened the marketplace and felt lost among Joggers, Uncommons, Genesis IDs and Rainbow badges, this guide to STEPN sneakers sorts it out, one label at a time.

We focus on what each property does. For buying tactics and floor prices, see our STEPN marketplace guide. For breeding new pairs, see STEPN mint cost. Here, the question is simpler: what are you looking at, and which one fits you?

What are the four STEPN sneaker types?

The type tells the app what speed counts as “good” for this sneaker. Inside that speed band the GST counter runs at full rate; outside it, rewards drop. The whitepaper lists the optimal speeds and an example of GST per Energy at optimal speed for each type ^[source] .

These example values are not a promise. Actual GST depends on Efficiency, gems, Durability, a randomization factor, anti-cheat verdicts and hidden system values. Still, the ranking tells you something: faster types pay more per Energy, but only if you can hold their pace for the whole session.

That last part is where many players go wrong. The Help Center says that if you move up to 50% of a session outside the green zone your GST is reduced, and above 50% you earn zero ^[source] . A Runner who walks home from the gym earns nothing. A Walker who breaks into a jog loses rewards. Be honest about your pace.

Walker vs Jogger vs Runner in real life

A comfortable walk for most adults sits somewhere between 4 and 6 km/h, which is inside both the Walker and Jogger zones. That overlap makes the Jogger interesting for brisk walkers who sometimes jog. If you can hold 8 km/h or more without stopping at traffic lights every two minutes, a Runner pays the most per Energy. City running in Tokyo, Seoul or Hong Kong often involves stops, so check your real average speed in a normal run app before you buy a Runner.

Why Trainers are different

The Trainer covers the entire 1–20 km/h range. You give up a bit of certainty on the GST rate (the example range is 4–6.25 per Energy), but you gain freedom. A Trainer suits players whose pace changes from day to day, or who walk some days and run others. Rainbow sneakers, covered below, are always Trainers.

What do sneaker qualities change?

Quality is the rarity grade: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary. It sets the range for base attributes, how many attribute points the sneaker gets per level, and how much bonus Energy it adds to your account.

A Common sneaker can roll anything from 1 to 10 in each base attribute, so two Commons at the same price may perform quite differently. An Uncommon starts higher and gains 6 points per level instead of 4. By level 10, that adds up. Higher qualities also feed your Energy pool: an Uncommon adds 1 bonus Energy, a Legendary adds 4. Our STEPN Energy guide explains how that bonus stacks with the base Energy you get from the number of sneakers you hold.

Enhanced sneakers go further. After Enhancement, the min and max attribute ranges rise by 20%, so an enhanced Legendary can range from 60 to 134.4 ^[source] .

Higher quality is not automatically better value. Rare and Epic sneakers cost more to buy, more to repair and more to mint with. Repair cost rises with both level and quality. At today’s GST price, the extra earning power of a high-quality sneaker can take a long time to pay back. Run your own numbers in the GST earning calculator before you upgrade.

What do the four attributes do?

Every sneaker has four attributes. You start with base values from the quality range, then add points each time you level up. Where you put those points shapes the sneaker’s role.

Efficiency is the GST engine. More Efficiency, more GST per Energy. Gems in sockets can boost it further.

Luck controls Mystery Boxes. Boxes can contain GST, Minting Scrolls and gems, and better Luck means better boxes more often. Drops also depend on how much Energy you spend in a session.

Comfort has changed role over time. On 4 February 2022 it replaced Efficiency as the GMT stat, and from July 2022 it also affects HP decay. If you plan to reach level 30 and switch to GMT earning, Comfort matters a lot.

Resilience slows Durability loss. Durability falls as you run; at 50/100 your earning efficiency drops to 90%, and at 20/100 it drops to just 10%. Every repair costs GST, so Resilience quietly saves you money over hundreds of sessions.

The classic beginner split leans heavily into Efficiency with a slice of Resilience. Luck builds trade some GST now for box value later. The right mix depends on how you play, which is the topic of our GST earning strategies page. Leveling costs and points are covered in STEPN level up, repair and gems.

What are Genesis and OG sneakers?

Early STEPN sneakers carry special ID ranges. Genesis sneakers have IDs G1 to G20,000. OG sneakers have IDs 20,001 to 60,000. Collectors value them for their history, but they also have a practical role: enhancing an Epic into a Legendary requires at least one OG or Genesis sneaker among the inputs.

FSL has treated Genesis as a special supply. In March 2026 it bought back and burned 28 Genesis sneakers across BNB Chain, Polygon and Solana, publishing the transaction hashes in its transparency log ^[source] . Genesis Legendary Enhancement went live around the same time, and Legendary Genesis pairs have been auctioned on MOOAR, FSL’s NFT marketplace. For a normal player these are collector items, not earning tools. You do not need one to play well.

How do Classic, Rainbow and Soulbound sneakers differ?

Besides type and quality, each sneaker belongs to a class.

Classic sneakers are the standard ones. They level from 0 to 30, earn GST, and switch to a GST/GMT toggle once they reach level 30. Almost everything on the marketplace is Classic.

Rainbow sneakers earn GMT only. They were enabled in October 2022 and are always Trainers. Their HP cannot be restored, and each session uses at least 6 Energy. You usually get one as a lucky outcome of Enhancement. Think of them as a separate GMT-earning tool with a limited life, not a better Classic.

Soulbound sneakers are promotional and cannot be traded. They let some new users or event participants try the game. Because you cannot sell them, they have no market value for you, but they still teach you how sessions work.

What is Enhancement, and when does it matter?

Enhancement burns five sneakers of one quality, plus GST and GMT, and gives you one sneaker of the next quality up. There is also a chance of a Rainbow. Rules worth knowing: each input sneaker must have a mint count of at least 2, Epic-to-Legendary needs at least one OG or Genesis input, and there was no Rare-to-Legendary double jump as of March 2026.

Enhancement is the only route to a Legendary, since Legendaries cannot be minted. It is a late-game tool. For a beginner, five Commons are more useful as five Energy sources than as one Uncommon, at least until you understand your earnings. Enhancement also burns GMT, which makes it one of the token sinks described on our GST vs GMT page.

Which brands have collaborated on STEPN sneakers?

STEPN has released many co-branded collections. The whitepaper lists collaborations with ASICS, adidas, Atletico Madrid, Lamborghini, Javier Mascherano, Ubisoft Rabbids, Steve Aoki, Ghost in the Shell, the Argentina Football Association, Casio, Snoop Dogg and Pantone ^[source] .

Two stand out for Asian readers. ASICS, the Japanese sportswear brand, was STEPN’s first big collaboration, with an NFT sneaker drop on Binance NFT in April 2022 that reported more than 195,000 participants ^[source] . The adidas Genesis collection in April 2024 offered 1,000 pairs via a MOOAR raffle with a 10,000 GMT entry. Collaboration sneakers mostly matter for collectors and for skins; their earning mechanics follow the same types, qualities and attributes as any other sneaker.

How do you choose the right STEPN sneaker?

Put the pieces together in this order.

1. Pace first. Measure your normal walking or running speed and pick the type whose zone covers it with room to spare. When in doubt, a Walker or Trainer is the safer choice for walkers, and a Jogger for mixed walk-jog days.
2. Quality by budget. Common is the sensible start. Move to Uncommon or higher only after you have seen real earnings and know the repair costs.
3. Attributes over cosmetics. Compare base Efficiency and Resilience between listings at similar prices. A slightly more expensive Common with much better base stats can earn more over time.
4. Level and mint count. A higher level saves you leveling GST and time. Mint count matters if you plan to mint or enhance.
5. Realm. Sneakers live in one realm and earn that realm’s GST. Check that realm’s token on our live GST price page before you buy.

One more practical limit: your inventory holds up to 256 sneakers and 500 other items, shared across all realms ^[source] . Very few players get near that, but it is worth knowing if you plan a large Energy build. Also remember that buying is not the end of the cost. A sneaker you buy today will need GST for leveling, repairs and HP restoration every week you use it. A cheap sneaker with high base Resilience can end up costing less over a month than a slightly cheaper one that wears out fast. Treat the purchase price as the entry ticket and the upkeep as the real subscription.

When you are ready to compare real listings, head to our STEPN marketplace guide for fees, floors and the GMT pricing system. And if you want to breed your own pair instead of buying, the mint cost calculator shows whether it beats buying at the floor.