In Brief:
- The @STEPN account said STEPN GO (official site) is launching Rare Sneakers along with Level 5, 6 and 7 Gems and Raw Stones.
- According to the account, the new items are prizes in Challenge Capsules exclusive to STEPN GO, and players pay a GMT entry fee to open one.
- Before this, the highest sneaker quality documented in STEPN GO live play was Uncommon, which arrived in April 2025.
A post on X from the official @STEPN account says Rare Sneakers are coming to STEPN GO, together with Level 5, 6 and 7 Gems and Raw Stones. The first of these items are being handed out as prizes in STEPN GO’s exclusive Challenge Capsules.
“Something RARE is coming to STEPN GO…” the account wrote. “We’re celebrating the launch of Rare Sneakers and Level 5, 6, 7 Gems and Raw Stones with some seriously valuable rewards, and they’re all up for grabs in STEPN GO exclusive Challenge Capsules!”
Something RARE is coming to STEPN GO…
We're celebrating the launch of Rare Sneakers and Level 5, 6, 7 Gems and Raw Stones with some seriously valuable rewards, and they're all up for grabs in STEPN GO exclusive Challenge Capsules!
From today, get Rare Sneakers when@STEPNView on X ↗
The next line of the post reads: “From today, get Rare Sneakers when”. In the version of the post available for this story, that sentence breaks off before it explains how players qualify. The visible text from @STEPN gives no drop rates, no prize counts and no end dates for the capsules.
What a Rare Sneaker gets
The Rare tier is already set out in the STEPN GO whitepaper. A Rare Sneaker can reach Level 40 and earns eight attribute points each time it levels up. By comparison, Uncommons top out at Level 30 with six points per level, and Commons top out at Level 20 with four.
According to the whitepaper, Rare Sneakers unlock Gem sockets as they climb. Socket 1 opens at roughly Levels 4 to 5 and costs GGT plus GMT. Socket 2 arrives at Level 15 and Socket 3 at Level 20, and both of those cost GGT only. Going from Level 39 to 40, the last step, takes both GGT and GMT.
Higher-level Gems and Raw Stones
Raw Stones come out of Mystery Boxes, and a player has to cut one into a Gem before it can be placed in a socket. To level a stone, a player combines three Raw Stones of the same type. If the attempt fails, all three are destroyed.
The success rates are low. The whitepaper puts the Level 1 to 2 upgrade at a 30% success rate for 5 GGT. Each attempt from Level 2 through Level 9 has a 50% success rate and costs 10 GGT plus 1 GMT. Getting a stone to Level 5 from the start by leveling alone means a long run of three-for-one burns.
A stone’s level also decides what the cutter produces. At Levels 1 to 5, a standard Raw Stone has a 70% chance of turning into a Gem of the same type. At Levels 6 to 10, the chance is 100%, and the Gem keeps the stone’s level. That means a Level 6 or 7 Raw Stone won from a capsule always cuts into a matching Gem, while a Level 5 stone falls under the 70% rule.
Mystery Raw Stones use their own table. The whitepaper says cutting one can give a Gem of random type, and the result can go up by one or two levels or down by one.
How the capsules work
Challenge Capsules are available in both STEPN and STEPN GO. A player chooses a capsule and pays a GMT entry fee, and only then are its contents revealed. The STEPN whitepaper says a paid capsule can’t be exchanged, and the player can’t withdraw to get the fee back. If a capsule doesn’t reach its minimum participation, fees are returned automatically.
Finishing a capsule’s challenge gives the player one ticket in that capsule’s prize draw. Only one capsule can be open per player at any time.
In STEPN GO, players can pick up extra tickets in Charm Run Mode by choosing the Charm slot before a session. How many they get depends on the Energy spent and the sneaker’s Charm value. In the original STEPN, extra tickets come from Mystery Boxes earned by sneakers with 500 or more Resilience.
Because the GMT fee is paid up front and prizes are decided by a draw, paying to enter does not guarantee a Rare Sneaker or a high-level Gem.
Background
The previous quality tier upgrade in STEPN GO landed on April 9, 2025, when Uncommon Sneakers and Mystery Boxes went live. The STEPN GO site said Uncommons had a “3% chance of dropping from a Common Shoe box.” Each one came with four Gem sockets, four Mystery Box slots, a burn value of 270 Energy and a Luck attribute that affects Mystery Box earnings.
The same update introduced 10 Mystery Box tiers, all containing Level 1 Raw Stones. Gems in STEPN GO come in four types: yellow for Efficiency, blue for Luck, pink for Charm and green for Karma.