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!

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!

Dibs is a Save mini app inside Nimiq Pay. You call dibs on something real, save NIM toward it, and get it at the end. The flow after this week's update 👇 🎯 Pick a gift card: Steam, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and more. Choose the amount and Dibs shows the NIM target at today's rate, plus a weekly amount. 💰 Save whenever you can. Each deposit is a staking transaction from your own wallet, confirmed in Nimiq Pay. Nobody holds your NIM but you, and it earns while you save. ⏳ At 100%, one wait. NIM takes 12 to 24 h to come out of staking. Dibs tells you this before you start and shows the exact time, so nobody finds out at the end. ⚡ One tap for the card. Dibs moves your NIM back and pays the shop over Lightning: three confirmations in Nimiq Pay, then the code shows up in the app and stays under Past dibs. Why: most savings apps end with a balance. Dibs ends with the thing you wanted. The screens below are the new design. Testing on mainnet opens soon in Test My Mini App, with a thank-you in NIM for the first 10 testers 🙌 Questions welcome below.

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.

Can you believe we’re already approaching the end of our final cycle (for now)?! I can’t wait to see all the amazing mini apps you guys have been working on and how everything comes together! As we’re getting closer to the finish line, don’t hesitate to reach out with ANY last-minute questions! We’re here to support you and make sure you have everything you need to give yourself the best chance in Cycle 3! Let’s make these last 2 days count and finish this competition STRONG!! 🚀