Move-to-earn project Step App announced on August 5 that it will permanently shut down all services on August 21, 2026, after four years of operations. The team urged users to unstake any locked FITFI tokens and close or manage open exchange positions before the deadline.
The closure notice did not provide a specific financial, technical, or regulatory reason for the decision. Instead, the team described the wind‑down as a final operational halt, stating there is no buyer, restructuring, or continuation plan. The project highlighted that it had surpassed one million downloads and tracked billions of steps, though those figures are company‑reported and unaudited.
Step App combined fitness tracking with blockchain rewards: users earned KCAL in‑game tokens through physical activity, while FITFI served as the governance and utility token for staking, network fees, and marketplace transactions. The ecosystem ran on Step Network and Avalanche, with separate FITFI contract addresses across chains.
The shutdown comes amid a series of exchange delistings for FITFI. Bithumb will cease FITFI trading on August 18 at 15:00 KST, with withdrawals closing on September 18. KuCoin removed Step App on July 30 and set its withdrawal deadline for August 31. Bybit delisted FITFI spot trading in April. A claimed Upbit delisting could not be confirmed.
FITFI’s volatile history saw an all‑time high of $0.7319 on May 5, 2022 – roughly 149 times its public sale price of $0.0049. With the project’s imminent closure and exchange support ending, holders face a narrow window to salvage any remaining value. The team has not announced compensation, a token swap, or a successor platform; further instructions, if any, would only appear through verified Step App channels.
