Paying someone on Nimiq means copying a 36-character address. Pigeon turns it into a name. Send NIM to pigeon.nim, tie a payment request to a link, or split a dinner bill into stamps that get a postmark as each friend pays. Names live on Nimiq itself: no contracts, public rules anyone can check, and the first valid registration on chain wins. Every person shows with their Nimiq Identicon, and a link that fakes a name is blocked. Try it in Nimiq Pay: https://pigeon.heylogram.com Video: https://youtu.be/gAgeB7Ck_w8 Open source (MIT): https://github.com/jakalijey/pigeon

Across the first two cycles of the Nimiq Mini Apps Competition, we've seen an incredible 204 submissions, with 7 official winners selected! Choosing the winners was no easy task. Many apps impressed us, some came incredibly close to winning, and others simply became personal favorites of the Council. We believe great efforts deserve recognition, even when they don't make it to the podium. That's why the Nimiq Community Council has decided to award $100 USD in $NIM to each of these 9 projects across the 2 last cycles! Special mentions from Cycles 1 and 2: ⭐ Nimiq Bazar by @Angelo ⭐ Nimble by @Arkadiusz Galler ⭐ Savanna Run by @Winnifred Ndukwe ⭐ NimBooks by @Jeremy Lee ⭐ NimHunt (geofaucet app) by @J A ⭐ Nimiq Names by @Enrique Ferrater ⭐ NimMultiSend by @Anita Chan ⭐ Pact by @Adeleke Khaleed These rewards are our way of showing appreciation for the creativity, effort, and passion these builders have brought to the Nimiq ecosystem. Congratulations to all the selected projects, and a huge thank you to everyone who participated! Keep building, keep experimenting, and keep making the Nimiq ecosystem better. Nimiq Community Council

🏷️ Nimiq Names: pay a name, not an address Someone asks for your Nimiq address and you paste NQ82 YRAT NFS1 XRE6 3VU2 EKXL C7LH 8RAQ NK9F, then you both check it twice (at least). Wondering how did we solve that? Website: https://nimiqnames.com How it works: https://youtu.be/lVhPkgVjzYc (complete walkthrough) ⚡ What you can do with a name Get paid by name. People type "rico" instead of 36 characters, in NIM or in USDT on Polygon. Ask to be paid with a link. Pick an amount and a reference, share the link, and it opens their wallet already filled in. Hand out unlimited subdomains for free. Register "service" once and give every user "alice.service" or "jonas.service" from your own server, with nothing stored per user and nothing to pay. Link an EVM address to your name, so one name answers on Nimiq and on Polygon. Sell it or auction it. Fixed price sales and live bidding are built in. Message the owner of any name straight from the app. 🔐 Why it is different It is native to Nimiq. A name lives on the Nimiq chain itself, you buy it with NIM, and you manage it in Nimiq Pay or your PC (Nimiq Hub) like any other payment. ENS or Unstoppable can hold a Nimiq address in a record, but getting there means creating an EVM wallet, funding it with gas, buying the name on another chain and managing it there forever. That is a lot of work to be paid in NIM. Your key holds the name. Nobody can move it, freeze it or take it back, me included. There is no admin who can reassign your name. There are no smart contracts. A registration is one ordinary Nimiq transaction with "NNS1Grico" in its data field. Anyone can run the indexer that reads those transactions, and every honest one ends up with the same list of names. Every answer comes with a proof. Two independent resolvers answer your lookup, your wallet checks the Merkle proof itself, and if they disagree the app stops instead of showing you an address. The whole thing is open source under MIT, specification included, so you do not have to take our word for any of the above.

Cycle 2 starts today and we couldn't be more excited! Here's what the next four weeks look like: → August 24: Cycle 2 kicks off → September 18 at 23:59 UTC: submissions close → 4 Sip & Ship calls every Wednesday at 11 AM ET → $17,000 USDT in prizes for the top 3 builders 📅 Add the Mini Apps Competition Calendar to yours so you never miss a call or a deadline. Note: If you participated in the previous cycle, you don’t need to register again. What are you building for Cycle 2? Drop your idea below and let's kick this off together.