Introducing nimiq shop · Mini Apps Competition

Introducing nimiq shop

Buy gift cards and phone top-ups with NIM. Steam, Amazon, Netflix, Google Play, PlayStation, Xbox, that kind of thing. Works in 190+ countries. Pay with Nimiq Pay — you confirm in your wallet, that's it. No KYC, no sign-up, we never hold your coins.

You can send stuff as a gift too. Put in a friend's number or email, write a quick note, pay. They get the code or top-up with your message attached. That's also how we plan to grow it — friends buying gift cards for each other pulls new people in naturally.

How it works: Nimiq Pay converts your NIM to BTC Lightning and pays the provider directly. Your NIM never reaches our wallet. The code or top-up lands in email/SMS, usually under a 5 seconds.

Quick note: I reached out to bitrefill by email a week ago about their business API, they never got back to me, so I switched to a different provider.

There's a cashback system built in — 1% NIM back by default on every order, paid directly in NIM to your wallet. We'll also drop promo codes over time that push that up to 5% NIM cashback — just enter the code at checkout and the extra NIM lands with the base reward.

I dropped a few screenshots and the logo below — most of the site is already working. The main thing I'm waiting on is for Nimiq Pay to open up its native NIM → BTC Lightning payment flow to mini apps too — right now that's about the only real blocker.

Honestly, if you use Nimiq Pay there isn't really another place to spend your NIM on stuff like this right now. Beyond that, we get better pricing that regular users can't — as a personal buyer you can't get the kind of discount rates providers give businesses, so we can pass that back as cashback and still price competitively.

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Introducing nimiq shop