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!

Dibs is live on Nimiq Pay mainnet 🚀 https://dibs-sepia.vercel.app/ 📱 Open Nimiq Pay → Mini Apps → Custom URL → paste https://dibs-sepia.vercel.app/ 🧪 To test: open it, pick a card and create a goal, then reply here with one thing that confused you or that you’d change. No deposit needed for that. 💰 Want the thank-you? Add at least 100 NIM to your goal (it stays in your own wallet, staked; unstaking takes 12 to 24 h) and reply with a screenshot. The first 10 who do get 6,600 NIM from us, paid within 24 hours, transaction posted here. Same thank-you whatever the feedback. One per person and wallet! ⏳ Open until 10 Nov 23:59 UTC or until the 10 are in.

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.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated, built, and contributed throughout this journey! It’s been an amazing experience seeing all your ideas come to life. As I’m putting together the final Cycle 3 report, I’d love to hear from YOU! What was your experience like? What did you enjoy, what could we improve, and what are your overall thoughts on Cycle 3 and the Mini Apps Competition as a whole? Your feedback is incredibly valuable, so feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, whether positive or constructive! Thank you all for being part of this journey!