How Lodestone® Works
Presence, verified with a tap.
Lodestone connects a physical place to a trusted digital moment. When you tap a Lodestone tag, the system confirms a real interaction happened at a real location and can unlock an experience that only makes sense if you were truly there.
The simple version
A secure Lodestone tag is placed in the world
A tag becomes the physical anchor for a location or experience.You tap it with your phone
The moment stays quick and natural. No special gear. No ceremony.Lodestone verifies the interaction
Verification is based on secure NFC hardware and cryptography, not GPS guesses or QR codes.Something meaningful unlocks
A validated log, a reward, a chapter of a story, a proof for a partner, a new layer of gameplay.
Why this is different
GPS is proximity. Lodestone is presence.
GPS can drift, spoof, or fail. Lodestone is tied to a physical object at a precise place.
QR codes can be copied. Lodestone is designed not to be.
Lodestone uses secure NFC tags meant to prevent cloning and replay.
“Trust me” limits what we can build.
When presence is verifiable, the experience can safely become more dynamic.
Designed for the real world
Works in outdoor conditions
Remote areas, rough weather, crowded events, and quick moments on the move.
Works when connectivity is weak
Interactions can be captured offline and verified when a connection returns.
Built to scale
From a single trailhead to a global network of places.
What gets verified
Lodestone validates a moment as a bundle: a person, a place, and a time, cryptographically bound together.
You can go deeper in the white paper, but you don’t need to be technical to use it.
What it unlocks
- Verified visits and logs
- New kinds of location-based challenges
- Rewards and collections tied to real exploration
- Event participation that is effortless to confirm
- Partner experiences that are simple to run and hard to fake