AI-powered walking tours where your contributions earn real value.
1.52B international tourists in 2025 — historic high. $2.1T spending. Walking tourism +90% in a decade.
$500/guide → $0.01/guide. Cost dropped 50,000x. Every POI narratable, every language, on demand.
$0.005/tx, 0.4s finality. Reward every photo, rating, guide economically. Sweatcoin proved the model (200M users) but couldn't do on-chain at Ethereum gas.
Fixed schedule, crowds, $30–80/person
Static, pre-recorded, limited cities
No narrative, no audio
No GPS trigger, no voice, no curation
No app tells you the story of every building you walk past — free — and rewards you for improving it.
GPS detects POIs as you walk, plays AI narration, rewards contributions.
GPS detects POIs within 50m
AI script + xAI voice, $0.01/guide
Photos, ratings, feedback
Points → WAULK tokens on Monad
No predefined route. Walk wherever you want. When you're near something interesting, it speaks. Choose your own adventure.
| Competitor | How it works | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| VoiceMap, izi.TRAVEL | Pre-defined routes | Miss a turn? Tour breaks. |
| GetYourGuide | Book a group | Fixed schedule, $30-80 |
| Google Maps + ChatGPT | Read text while walking | No audio, dangerous |
+ Community flywheel: Every contribution makes it better. + Agent platform: Any AI can submit content via MCP.
Cities
Curated POIs
Cost/guide
Photos
Add a city
Gross margin
Cultural tourism: $8B → $27B by 2035
AI in tourism: $3B → $13B by 2030
Fitness apps: $12B → $45B by 2035
POI data market: $1.3B → $8B by 2034
AI-generated, free, token rewards.
| Stream | Model | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ads (free tier) | iOS in-app ads, premium = ad-free | Planned |
| Premium features | Alt voice, offline, custom routes | Live |
| Agent staking | Buy & stake 1,000 WAULK to publish | Phase 4 |
| Content licensing | Travel platforms license POI data | Planned |
| City partnerships | Tourism boards pay for placement | Planned |
>90% gross margin — $0.02/guide, Cloudflare R2 hosting
We built the product first. Blockchain solves 3 things a database can't:
Lisbon guide → Tokyo tourist. Stripe: $0.30 min. Monad: $0.005.
On-chain proof of who created what. Auditable, immutable.
Stake to vouch for quality. Transparent incentives, slashing.
DePIN for tourism content — like Hivemapper for maps. Demand side pays without knowing it's crypto.
If only contributors earn and no one buys, it's a Ponzi. Here's who creates buy pressure:
| Buyer | What they pay for | Mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Tourists | Premium, ad-free, offline | Fiat → WAULK → burn |
| AI/Human Agents | Must BUY & STAKE to publish | Direct buy pressure |
| Advertisers | In-app ads, sponsored POIs | Fiat → treasury |
| Travel platforms | POI data ($1.3B market) | Burn for credits |
| Tourism boards | Featured routes | Burn for placement |
Helium model: Non-crypto customers create buy pressure. Burns > emissions = deflationary.
Not walk-to-earn. Requires real photos, feedback, guides. Hard to game.
| Audio guide | +500 |
| Photo | +30 |
| Report issue | +10 |
| Rate + feedback | +5 |
| Rate | +1 |
| Ad-free | 100 pts |
| Alt voice | 20 pts |
| Offline pack | 200 pts |
| City badge | 150 pts |
~8% circulating at TGE. Team: 1yr cliff, 3yr vest.
Claude/Grok script + xAI TTS. $0.02/guide. 7-strategy photo resolver.
OSM → Wikidata QRank → 5-tier system. Any city in 2 min.
Monad: $0.005/tx, 0.4s, EVM. Uniswap deployed.
MCP server, 7 tools. A2A AgentCard. Any AI can contribute.
Swift/SwiftUI. Sign in with Apple. GPS-triggered. Background audio.
Sweatcoin model: "points" in-app. Tokens on wallet.waulk.ai.
| Founded | 2021, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Founder | Denys Kovalenko |
| Experience | Travel since 2007, blockchain since 2021 |
| Team | 4 people |
| StakingRewards | AA rating (top tier) |
| Validators | 20+ chains incl. Monad |
| Uptime | ~99.9% |
18yr travel + 5yr PoS infrastructure. Not crypto tourists.
Direct ecosystem relationship.
11 cities, dual TTS, agent platform, wallet — 6 weeks. 100+ commits.
11 cities, dual TTS, photo resolver, tiers
Sign in with Apple, earn/spend, ratings
wallet.waulk.ai, link-code auth
WAULK token, claim contract, agent staking
DMA marketplace, in-app tokens
50+ cities, partnerships, 100K MAU
Monad ecosystem raises: aPriori $30M, Kuru $13.6M. Range: $1.1M–$30M.
The culture layer of walking.
contact@waulk.ai