The submission portal is closed and the results aren't out yet, so now feels like a good time to say thank you. First, the Nimiq team. @Martin DeSouza, thank you for hosting the Sip & Ship calls and guiding us every week, and most of all for the good vibes you bring to every call (especially by blasting Bob Sinclar 🕺). @Yasmine Romdhane and @Laura Fluieraru, thank you for being on Skool every day, answering every question, leaving no one behind, and making sure we never missed an update or a deadline. @Alberto Monterroso, thank you for always helping out when we had technical questions. You always knew the answer and saved us so much time. @Peter Parker, thank you for stepping in whenever we were lost. Your help was really appreciated. A big thanks also to everyone at Nimiq working behind the scenes, for Nimiq Pay, the Mini App SDK, and the chance to build something real in just a few weeks! 💪 And to the community, a few people in particular deserve a shoutout. @Angelo Fornasieri was our first real tester. His deposit surfaced a bug early on that we were able to fix right away. @Francois Bradette gave us some very useful feedback on the welcome screen, and we used it to make it even better. @Jeremy Lee tested early, asked great questions at Demo Day and gave us the validator idea, which is now on our roadmap. @Swift Bot Labs tested our Mini App while we tested theirs (Kuza). Competing and helping each other at the same time is what we liked most here. And to the Nimiq Community Council, thank you for taking the time to judge our Mini Apps. We really hope you'll like what we built. This was my first competition like this and I did it with my sister @Khadija Chourou. We had a blast from ideation all the way to submitting. We learned that real users break things in ways you’d never expect, and every bug they found actually made Dibs better. Around 30 people ended up saving NIM with it, and our favorite moment was seeing the first gift card bought on mainnet!

This experience has been so much more than I could have imagined. I’m so grateful to have helped build a community where people genuinely support each other, lift each other up, and celebrate each other’s successes. One person I really want to highlight for bringing me along on this crazy journey is @Martin DeSouza . He’s the reason I joined Nimiq to start this incredible project, and I’m so grateful I decided to quit everything and dive headfirst into it. Thank you for always believing in me, my friend. You were right... this was a life-changing experience for me! And in case you didn't notice it, another highlight of my entire experience was of course @Yasmine Romdhane 😻. She made every call fun, every problem feel solvable. Her attitude and cat memes got me through the most stressful times. I knew from the moment I met her that she would feel right at home here, and I didn’t even know the half of it 🙈. Reading your final posts and seeing how much you’ve encouraged one another has been one of the most rewarding parts of this experience for me. We created a community where kindness, collaboration, and helping each other became the norm rather than the exception. And I think there’s something really special about that. It’s been an honor to guide you throughout these three cycles. As Season 1 comes to an end, so does my contract, but I truly hope to be part of another project like this with Nimiq in the future. 🫶 But one thing I really want to make clear is that this is just the beginning. This competition was never just about the handful of builders who won prizes (and I hope we were clear about that). It was about each and every one of YOU. Nimiq’s mission is to continue supporting builders, highlighting your work, and creating opportunities for you to grow within the ecosystem. We didn’t build this community for it to disappear after three cycles. More IS TO COME! We live in an incredible era where almost anyone can turn their creativity and ideas into actual tangible solutions. But what makes the difference is building something meaningful. Something that solves a real problem, helps someone, or brings value to another human being.

And just like that, the Mini Apps Competition has come to an end. I honestly don't know where to begin. Time flies when you're having fun, and looking back, I can't believe this journey is already over. First, to every single builder who was part of this competition, thank you. Thank you for showing up, sharing your ideas, building, experimenting, asking questions, giving feedback, supporting each other, and making this community such a lovely place to be. Getting to know so many of you has been one of my favorite parts of this experience. A big congratulations to everyone who won in the previous cycles, and to those who will be announced as Cycle 3's winners! But beyond the results, I hope every builder takes a moment to appreciate what they've accomplished. So many of you built your first Mini App, brought an idea to life, and put something out there for people to use. That's no small thing, and you should be incredibly proud of yourselves. If you don't end up among the winners this time, don't let that discourage you. Keep building, keep experimenting, and keep believing in your ideas. This is only the beginning. To the entire Nimiq team, thank you for making this competition possible and for giving me the opportunity to be part of it. I feel incredibly lucky to have been along for the ride. To @Laura Fluieraru and @Martin DeSouza, I genuinely don’t know how to thank you enough. You made work feel like the least work-y thing I’ve ever done. Thank you for trusting me with this opportunity, for all the support, the laughs, the good vibes, and for making work feel this much fun. It's rare to find people who make you genuinely look forward to opening your laptop every day. I'll miss our conversations, our calls, and everything in between more than you know. And of course, I'll miss this community. The builders, the daily conversations, the chaos, the excitement, and especially our Sip & Ship calls. It's funny how a group of people coming together to build Mini Apps can end up meaning so much more.

And here we are! Just one day left before the big announcement of the Cycle 3 winners! 🏆 Unfortunately, this is the final cycle until further notice. Hopefully, we’ll see more initiatives like this in 2027, or at the very least, this community will stay alive and continue to grow. It would be great to keep developing projects, sharing ideas, helping each other, and supporting one another, even without an official competition or cash prizes. I’d also like to take this opportunity to share my top three picks for the projects I believe have the best chance of standing out and potentially winning a prize: 🥇 Nimbook 🥈 Dibs 🥉 kuza That’s my personal prediction, in that exact order! Of course, I could be completely wrong, but these are the three I believe have the strongest chances. Wishing everyone the best of luck, including myself! 😄🍀 And regardless of who wins, I sincerely hope this community continues well beyond Cycle 3!

The final deadline is only hours away, so we need a vibe check! Vote below, then drop a GIF in the comments that sums up exactly how you’re feeling right now.