iPhone beta open · paying real ZEC on Zcash mainnet

Get paid to ride your bike. Nobody sees where you go.

Pedalshield pays you shielded ZEC for real rides — and your route never leaves your phone. Not encrypted-and-uploaded. Never uploaded.

Install on iPhone — free See how it works
✓ Non-custodial ✓ Open source · MIT ✓ No token, no ponzi ✓ Payouts with no human in the loop
Proof, not promises: real autonomous payouts on Zcash mainnet — tap a txid and check the block explorer yourself.
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How it works

Install. Ride. Get paid. That's the whole app.

1

Install & connect a wallet

Install free via TestFlight, then paste your Zcash wallet address — from Zodl or any Zcash wallet (free, takes 2 minutes). We never hold your keys.

2

Ride your bike

Tap start and ride. GPS and motion sensors verify the ride entirely on your device — the route never leaves your phone.

3

ZEC lands in your wallet

The moment your ride verifies, an autonomous treasury pays shielded ZEC to your address. No approval queue, no operator, no waiting. You get the txid in-app.

Install on iPhone — free
Why Pedalshield exists

Your fitness app is a surveillance device with a leaderboard.

Heatmaps have exposed military bases, stalking victims, and home addresses. The deal was rewards for data. We think that deal is robbery — so we built the opposite.

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Your route is never uploaded

Not stored on our servers, not "anonymized", not encrypted-and-uploaded. It never leaves the device. There is no route database to breach or subpoena.

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Enforced by code, not a policy

The payload that leaves your phone is pinned by an open-source unit test that rejects location, motion, and sensor fields. You can read it and run it yourself.

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Your keys, your money

Payouts go straight to a shielded Zcash address only you control. We can't freeze it, take it back, or see what you do with it.

Don't trust us — read the code on GitHub. The privacy contract is MIT-licensed and independently verifiable.

Real rides only

The treasury pays cyclists — not cars, couches, or GPS spoofs.

Every ride is scored on your phone by a layered anti-cheat engine before a single zatoshi moves. That's what keeps rewards flowing to people who actually ride.

✓ Catches cars

Speed envelope, missing road-buzz vibration, and no pedaling cadence in the motion data — a car ride fails on all three.

✓ Catches fake GPS

Teleport jumps, impossibly constant speeds, and synthetic ruler-straight tracks are hard-failed before payout.

✓ Catches walks

Real cyclists break ~15 km/h at least briefly. A walk dressed up as a ride never does — and never gets paid.

Honest limits: the anti-cheat is layered, not perfect, and we publish what it doesn't catch. ZK route proofs and a community-signed treasury are on the roadmap, not live today.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

How much do I actually earn?
About $0.006 per mile, paid in shielded ZEC — the real carbon value of a mile ridden instead of driven (~1 lb of CO2 avoided), with a small per-ride cap. That's deliberate: rewards come from a finite treasury, not a minted token, so they're sustainable instead of a pump-and-dump. Privacy is the product; the ZEC is a bonus.
Is this another crypto ponzi like StepN?
No. There is no Pedalshield token, nothing to buy, no NFT sneakers, and no yield promises. You install a free app, ride, and receive small amounts of ZEC — an established cryptocurrency — from a capped treasury. If the treasury runs dry, payouts pause; nobody is left holding a bag.
Do I need to know anything about crypto?
You need a Zcash wallet address, which takes about two minutes: install a free wallet like Zodl, copy your address, paste it into Pedalshield once. Done. We never touch your keys.
What data leaves my phone?
A minimal claim: distance, duration, and an integrity score. No coordinates, no route, no accelerometer or sensor data — an open-source unit test pins the exact payload and rejects those fields. No account, no email, no identity required to ride.
I'm on Android — can I ride?
iPhone first; Android is next. Drop your email in the box below and you'll be the first to know when it lands.
Will it drain my battery?
Tracking runs only during a ride you start and stop yourself — comparable to any cycling app for the duration of your ride, and nothing in the background the rest of the day.