Gold, Good & a Movement Economy: Everything We Covered in Our Latest Community Update

From a game-changing gold rewards partnership to a purpose-built marketing engine, Zenko's 2026 roadmap is stacked. Here's the full breakdown.

Zenko Protocol  ·  February 2026  ·  12 min read

We went live with the community for a full project update — no recycled talking points, no rehashed announcements. This was a dedicated build update covering where we are right now, what's new, and the aggressive technical roadmap for Q1 and Q2 2026.

For anyone who couldn't join live (or wants the detail in writing), here's the complete rundown — everything covered, in the order we covered it.

· · ·

📉 The Market Is Tough. We're Building Anyway.

Let's be real: the market is in a rough spot. Stocks are up, metals are up, and crypto is just... down. We've been in what feels like a 12-month alt-coin bear market since roughly December 2024, with some tokens down 95% from their peaks. Some have recovered, but the broader picture has been painful.

Our honest take? We don't believe this is the start of another year-long decline. There's too much genuine innovation happening across the space. But nobody — and we mean nobody — can claim to know exactly what comes next. Anyone who says otherwise is guessing.

Here's what matters for Zenko though: we are not a business determined by a token price. We're a business determined by customers and utility. Token price matters to all of us, obviously. But price is temporary. Where business leads, price follows — and we have a roadmap to build.

Our position: Focus on building. Focus on customers. Focus on utility. The market will do what the market does, and when it turns, we intend to be standing on the strongest foundation in the engagement economy.

· · ·

🥇 Big News: The Flashy Group Gold Partnership

This is the announcement we've been hinting at in Telegram, and we're thrilled to finally lay it out properly.

We've partnered with Flashy Group, founded by the brilliant Michael Gord. Think of Flashy as a sibling project to Zenko — they're building an engagement ecosystem too, but from a completely different technical angle. Their stack includes DeFi tools, wallets, social platforms, and blockchain gaming. There's zero conflict between our offerings. In fact, there's extraordinary synergy.

We're already partnering with Flashy on the Zenko Play side. They've built Telegram-based games that we're pitching into enterprise customers and football clubs right now. We were in a major customer pitch just yesterday demonstrating Flashy-built games alongside Zenko's infrastructure.

But the headline news is bigger than gaming.

Flashy has developed an incredible mechanism for enabling gold on-chain to be used as an incentive.

We are integrating Flashy's gold incentive layer directly into Zenko applications — starting with Move-to-Earn, then Learn-to-Earn, and expanding across the ecosystem including Pavia.

What does this actually mean? When people engage with Zenko applications, they'll be able to earn real, tokenized gold — backed by actual gold reserves. This isn't gold that a sponsor has to pay for, and it isn't gold that Zenko has to fund. It's green gold, and it fits our proposition perfectly.

This creates a dual incentive layer: Zenko tokens power the "good" layer (impact, trees, meals, carbon offsets), while gold becomes the personal reward layer. Users will get to choose how they split their earnings between the two.

We know it might not sound revolutionary at first glance, but it genuinely transforms our go-to-market. When we sit with brands and they ask "what's in it for the user beyond planting a tree?" — now we have a powerful answer. Gold in their pocket, good in the world, and the user decides the balance.

PR launches next week (led by Flashy), and we'll be sharing much more detail on how the mechanics work. The terms were finalised two weeks ago and we are moving fast.

· · ·

🏃 Zenko Move: Welcome to the Movement Economy

This is the one we've put the most work and thinking into, and the gold partnership completely transforms the proposition.

Zenko Move now converts physical effort into gold, good, and tangible value.

Instead of paying for a subscription to Strava or Fitbit, you'll be rewarded for getting fit. This isn't ponzinomics. Previous move-to-earn projects (like StepN, which hit a $4 billion market cap before collapsing) used inflationary models — minting new tokens with every step. When new user growth slowed, the model imploded.

Zenko Move is fundamentally different. You're earning a real-world-asset-backed token (gold) and Zenko tokens backed by actual brand spend and impact. No tokens earned through the app can be sold on the open market by the earner, and any tokens awarded must first be purchased — meaning there is zero inflationary mechanism. The value comes externally, through brands and partnerships.

The User Experience

Move (run, swim, walk, cycle, row — connect via Strava or download the Zenko Move app directly), then use a simple slider to decide: do you take the gold, or do you do the impact? Or split 50/50. Every individual gets that choice.

This creates a daily habit loop: check in, move, engage, earn, do good, get gold. Come back tomorrow. Bring your friends. Thirty days is all it takes to build a lasting fitness habit, and when every session earns real value, the motivation compounds.

Three Challenge Formats at Relaunch

1. Flagship Team Missions — Our collective community challenges, like the Mission to the Moon (384,400km together). We're also building "Match the Team's Miles" with football clubs, using Hawkeye data to map player running distances into fan challenges each week.

2. Personal Bucket List Challenges — We researched the top 20 bucket-list fitness goals people talk about most. We're building each one into Zenko Move as personal challenges. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro (on a stair climber). Complete the Three Peaks. Run a marathon distance over a month. Each challenge comes with an NFT proof of completion, and we're creating physical merchandise too — t-shirts and medals for those who want artifacts of their effort. Imagine completing the Kilimanjaro challenge and getting the collectible, the t-shirt, and the gold and impact rewards.

3. Build Your Own Challenge — Set your own goals with friends. Couch to 5K in a month. 5K to 20K progression. Whatever motivates your group — and everyone earns while they move.

🎯 Relaunch Target: March 1st, 2026

💰 Backed by $1 million in gold incentives

For anyone who participated in the first version of Zenko Move, your Ambros points will transfer across. Points equal gold value — nobody loses progress on the path to the new platform.

We're finalising the technical details in an offsite meeting next week, with a target of three to four weeks until relaunch. Imagine launching in March with a million-dollar incentive campaign: come run, swim, walk, cycle — earn gold and do good. That's StepN on steroids, backed by real value.

· · ·

📚 Learn-to-Earn: Fully Built, New Customers Incoming

Our Learn-to-Earn platform is fully built and live with enterprise clients including Lenovo, HP, Google, and Mastercard. We've just secured two new projects starting in Q1.

The most exciting new development is a partnership with an elite sports specialist brand launching online coaching. Think about the specialists behind your favourite football club — the dietitian, the strength and conditioning coach, the mental preparation expert, even the breathwork specialist. Their content library is being layered into our Zenko Learn protocol.

This is significant because it's our first external partner deploying our protocol in their own learning environment — not just in ours. This is the model that scales.

We're also moving forward with Open Campus, who provide student-based digital IDs. They want our learning incentive technology; we want their student verification infrastructure. It's a natural partnership, and we're working through the integration plan now.

· · ·

🛍️ Shop-to-Earn & the Launch of Collector

Shop-to-Earn is live with our first club (MK Dons — buy an item, earn a token, choose a cause, get an NFT proof of your impact). MK Dons supporters are directing their impact toward feeding children in food poverty through our Relegate Hunger programme.

We have 30+ clubs lined up and ready to roll out. The delay hasn't been customer acquisition — it's been the final technical step: the user claiming their digital proof.

Here's what happened: ApeChain's wallet access issues created our first delay. We then attempted to acquire an existing NFT engine, which turned out to be mostly paper and didn't work properly. So we did what we do best — we built our own.

Introducing Klectr — our own NFT marketplace that we 100% own and control.

It's currently live in staging, with the front-end copy being finalised. We expect it to be publicly live within the next couple of weeks.

Klectr is purpose-built for official collectibles across our partner ecosystem. It's not an NFT launchpad — it's a place for clubs, schools, artists, and brands to offer meaningful digital collectibles backed by impact.

Launch collections include: Sports club collections (like MK Dons' "Buy a Shirt, Feed a Child"), ESG impact collections (carbon removal, tree planting, ocean plastic removal, child hunger relief), and school fundraising collections (the "digital bake sale" concept from our whitepaper). We also have 16 clubs that have undergone on-site carbon assessments, and they'll use Collector to raise funds toward carbon neutrality.

Additionally, Collector will house Pavia metaverse assets — land, mechs, and add-ons — as well as membership NFTs for partners like Predictfully.

The benefit of building it ourselves: it's completely multi-chain, we own all transaction fees (flowing through Zenko), and it's a permanent addition to our ecosystem.

· · ·

📺 Watch-to-Earn & Explore (Pavia)

Two additional dApps are joining the ecosystem:

Watch-to-Earn is a streaming platform using over-the-air advertising that rewards people for watching content and allowing ads within a stream. This isn't necessarily critical for Zenko's own content, but it's massive for our customers — sports clubs, brands, and creators who all want to self-broadcast, monetise content, and sell subscriptions. We're in the late stages of making an acquisition to bring this capability online, and it will be a huge addition to the stack.

Explore is powered by Pavia, which is essentially "WordPress for metaverses." Brands can build their own metaverse environments — a club shop, a virtual twin stadium, a museum, a Lenovo learning centre — hosted directly on their own website. Instead of watching flat videos, users enter immersive experiences with AI-powered NPCs answering questions. We're doing a dedicated community update on Pavia shortly, with both launching in Q2.

· · ·

🤝 Major New Activation Partner

We're not ready to share full details yet (we'll do a dedicated session on this soon), but here's what we can say:

We are partnering with one of the world's largest technology companies to deploy our applications into their go-to-market across 160,000+ businesses globally.

They will adopt Move, Learn, Explore (Pavia), Watch, and our broader engagement tools through a B2B deployment model that touches millions of people worldwide.

We're finalising technical data integrations and some remaining terms. While we go direct-to-consumer with our own apps, this partner takes our tools into a global B2B channel. A full stream dedicated to this announcement is coming — watch this space.

· · ·

🧠 The Cleo Engine: A Marketing System With a Heart

This one has been 18 months in development, and we've never properly talked about it until now. We're incredibly excited.

Everything we've discussed so far is about engagement at the "real physical stuff" level — movement, learning, shopping. But what about the grassroots? Where does the engagement journey start for a business? Sending emails. Running social. Managing funnels. Updating landing pages.

The Cleo Engine is a cause-based marketing engine — a complete system for running social, digital, outbound, tele-outreach, and funnel management campaigns in one box, with purpose built in and climate positivity powered by Zenko.

The Problem It Solves

Small businesses are drowning in fragmented tools trying to adopt AI. The signal gets lost in the noise. They don't need another tool — they need a bridge. The Cleo Engine provides that bridge: a second brain for marketing, but with a heart.

What It Does

Every interaction with a brand's content earns tokens — through the entire sales journey. Someone opens an email, clicks a link, books a demo, closes business: all of it accrues value inside the engine.

But this isn't just a token wrapper. It's a full marketing automation system. Think HubSpot, but green, with a built-in incentive layer, powered by AI.

The AI agents write your emails, A/B test them, optimise subject lines, analyse responses, and send one-to-one follow-ups. Not enough data? An agent goes to LinkedIn, identifies your target market, listens to what they care about, compiles a database, packages it up, and delivers the best possible first touch — whether that's email, LinkedIn outreach, or even a handwritten letter.

Yes, we've programmed in handwritten letter scripting. The engine will write a note saying "I loved what you posted on LinkedIn — would love to meet and discuss" and send it physically. For small businesses, this is ground-breaking.

Key facts about the Cleo Engine:

✅ Cheaper than HubSpot, Marketo, and Pardot

✅ AI agents handle prospecting, writing, testing, and follow-up

✅ Built-in incentive layer powered by $ZENKO

✅ Climate-positive with every campaign

✅ ~$2,000/month subscription for the full suite

✅ Two customers rolling out in Q1, with a growing pipeline

For context: UK SMBs spend between £3,000–£8,000 per month on fragmented marketing tools. There are 4 million SMBs in the UK alone. The Cleo Engine consolidates everything into one purpose-driven, AI-powered system — and every email sent, every chatbot interaction, and every campaign runs through our protocol.

Phase one is a soft launch. Phase two extends across the UK. Phase three goes global, with partners in South America, Germany, and Spain already in discussions to take the technology into their local markets.

· · ·

🔗 Going Multi-Chain: Wire Network & the Universal Transaction Layer

This section is technical, but it's arguably the most important infrastructure update we've shared.

Here's our problem (and everyone's problem): we have assets on ApeChain, customers with assets on Ethereum, metaverse assets on Cardano, a token trading on Solana, and we want to be on Base. How do you create an abstracted experience across all of these?

The traditional answer is bridges. Bridges require you to move assets between chains, and they come with massive security risks — billions have been lost to bridge hacks. They also create terrible user experience: you need gas on multiple chains, you need multiple wallets, and for a football fan trying to buy a shirt, it's a complete non-starter.

Enter the Wire Network and UTL

The Wire Network is building the Universal Transaction Layer (UTL) — and it changes everything.

With the UTL, assets stay where they are. No bridging. No transferring. The UTL uses a sovereign layer that allows you to transact with assets across different chains without moving them. Assets remain native, there's no security risk from transfers, and everything settles through a single layer.

For Zenko, this means:

A football fan doesn't need to know what chain their collectible or ticket is on. They don't need Cardano gas to access a Pavia-powered club shop. They don't need 15 different wallets. One wallet address works across all chains — what Wire Network calls a "universal polymorphic address protocol."

Zenko is deploying its own node on the Wire Network blockchain.

This makes us a part-owner in the infrastructure, enabling us to run our assets efficiently and be deeply integrated into their ecosystem. EVM and Solana support (which is what we need) is confirmed for Q2 2026.

We're working closely with the Wire Network team on definitive timelines and will share those as soon as they're confirmed. But the core message is clear: we will be bridgeless, gasless multi-chain. And this isn't technology we built — it's technology we manifested. We were hoping something like this existed, and then Wire Network appeared.

If the UTL captures even 10% of bridging activity in its first year, it will be enormous. They've just launched a liquidity event where you can stake to participate in their launch. We'd encourage anyone interested in the multi-chain future to go research what they're building.

· · ·

🎯 Predictfully: Live, Growing & Partnered With Zenko

Predictfully is a prediction market platform built on Avalanche, and they're now live. Their model isn't about competing with Polymarket for users — it's B2B focused. Sports clubs offer their own branded prediction markets, powered by Predictfully. Play for free or play for money, all on Avalanche rails.

The Zenko connection: a small percentage of each Predictfully transaction converts into Zenko tokens for carbon offsetting, making Predictfully climate neutral. We published a Q4 transaction blog post detailing this — check the website.

For our community, Predictfully is live right now. You can earn XP through missions (no deposit needed), use that XP to make sports predictions, accumulate more, and when their token generation event happens, that XP converts to tokens. It's a zero-cost farming opportunity on a platform with real customers and a fully built product. They're waiting for the right market conditions for TGE, not rushing for a cash grab.

· · ·

⚠️ Season 2, Fraud & The Honest Path Forward

We wanted to address this transparently, because the community deserves honesty.

Season 2 was sponsored by Predictfully. Part of the mission requirements was to create a Predictfully account and play (not bet — play). We announced this on a live stream, published a blog post, and gave clear instructions. Some community members completed the full mission. Many did not.

But the bigger issue with Season 2 — and with our weekly rewards — has been rampant fraud.

We discovered that a small number of individuals created hundreds of wallets, each pretending to be different community members. They operated multiple Telegram accounts, talked to each other (as the same person), and systematically drained rewards. When we ran wallet mapping analysis, we found that approximately 80% of recent weekly rewards had gone to the same individual over a three-week period.

Of the 170,000+ registered players, a significant portion are duplicate accounts from the same people farming the system. We've paid out roughly $40,000 in rewards — and we believe a large share went to two or three individuals gaming the system. That money should have gone to real community members, and it's deeply frustrating.

The blockchain is transparent, and we've been doing extensive wallet-tree mapping — tracing where funds originate, where they flow, and which wallets are connected. It's taken months of work that isn't productive to the business, but it's necessary.

What Happens Next

Season 2 winners: We've deduplicated the data and identified genuine players who completed both the P2E season and the Predictfully mission requirements. We will publish the winners list early next week, alongside a full blog explaining the methodology.

Dispute process: We'll open a formal submission form for anyone who believes they should be on the list but isn't. We're not doing this arbitrarily — there will be a clear path to make your case.

Going forward: We're implementing Twitter verification, Discord verification, and additional anti-fraud checks. Whether Season 3 happens in its current format is still being evaluated. We want to reward the community — that's the whole point — but the mechanism has to be fraud-resistant.

We're not pursuing money already paid out. What's done is done. But going forward, rewards go only to genuine community members.

· · ·

🚀 The Summary: What We're Building in 2026

Stepping back from the Season 2 frustrations, here's the full picture of what Zenko is bringing to market:

Gold + Good economy — through our partnership with Flashy Group, every Zenko app now offers dual incentives. Users choose between personal gold rewards and real-world impact, or both.

Move-to-Earn relaunch — targeting March 1st with $1M in gold incentives, bucket list challenges, team missions, and physical merch rewards. This is the movement economy.

Learn-to-Earn — fully built, live with Fortune 500 clients, expanding into sports coaching and Open Campus student partnerships.

Shop-to-Earn + Collector — our own NFT marketplace, 30+ clubs ready, schools collections coming, and full multi-chain support.

Watch-to-Earn — streaming rewards through over-the-air advertising, acquisition in late stages.

Explore (Pavia) — metaverse environments for brands, hosted on their own websites, with AI NPCs. Community update coming Friday.

The Cleo Engine — an 18-month build delivering a purpose-driven, AI-powered marketing automation system for SMBs. Cheaper than HubSpot. Smarter than most enterprise tools. Two customers in Q1, with global expansion planned.

Major technology partner — deploying Zenko tools across 160,000+ businesses globally. Dedicated announcement stream coming soon.

Wire Network integration — our own node on a bridgeless, gasless multi-chain infrastructure. One wallet, all chains, no complexity.

Predictfully partnership — live prediction markets on Avalanche with Zenko-powered carbon neutrality.

· · ·

A Note on Communication

We acknowledge we haven't been translating all of this progress into consistent community updates. The market conditions made it tempting to go quiet, but that's not the right approach. We're recruiting dedicated team members to produce daily or bi-daily updates for the crypto community. Starting next week, you should see a visible difference in external communications.

You shouldn't have to wait for a live stream from us to know what's happening. We're fixing that.

Stay Connected

Follow the build. Join the conversation. Earn while you move.

Buy $ZENKO Join the Moon Mission Telegram Community Follow on X Track on DEXScreener

This article reflects the current state of Zenko Protocol as of February 2026. Token performance, partnership details, launch dates, and reward structures are subject to change based on development progress, partner timelines, and market conditions. Nothing in this article constitutes financial advice. Always do your own research.

Next
Next

Zenko AMA Recap: Building the Sustainable Engagement Economy