Deep midnight. Luminous gold. Zero DeFi-dashboard energy. Here's how we're designing the way NIM Relay actually looks and why most crypto apps get this part wrong Open almost any crypto product and you get the same screen: dark background, green and red numbers, a table of addresses nobody can read. It's built for traders. NIM Relay isn't a trading tool, it's a global game. So it can't look like one. Our palette starts with deep midnight surfaces not "crypto app black," but a rich, cinematic dark that feels like nighttime, not a terminal. Then luminous Nimiq gold as the accent that matters. Gold is the baton. Gold is progress. Gold is "something just happened." Everything else stays quiet so gold actually means something when it shows up. Cyan is restrained on purpose. It's system information status, HUD details, live indicators. Never decoration. The moment cyan is everywhere, nothing stands out. World maps and moving routes replace transaction tables. Instead of watching a ledger update, you watch a baton physically move from Lagos to Berlin. Same underlying data. Completely different feeling. The wallet fades into the experience. No address strings front and center, no explorer-style UI. You're not managing a wallet you're holding a baton that happens to be real money. Strong typography, refined HUD details, motion that feels premium instead of gamified-cheap. Sound and haptics come later, but the visual language is built to support them. Our aim is to make NIM Relay should feel like a premium global game. The blockchain is real and load bearing it's just not the thing you're staring at. So incase you are curious about NimRelay visual brief, here you go. https://x.com/nimrelay/status/2097693021135307245?s=46

Every crypto app treats the transaction like a chore. We treat it like the whole point. No wallet UI. No “transaction pending.” No spinner while you wait to feel something. Just a 10-second challenge, and then you move it forward. One coin. One relay. One journey that’s been passing hand to hand since turn 1, picking up players like a story picks up chapters. Here’s the part most games get backwards: the transfer isn’t the reward for finishing the game. The transfer is the finish. Passing it forward IS the win. We didn’t build a crypto app with a game bolted on. We built a game that happens to run on real Nimiq transactions. Nim Relay is cooking up

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.

1. Visit https://nimiq.space/advertise 2. Sign-in with a Nimiq Wallet, via desktop or Nimiq Pay (desktop recommended) 3. Fill out your app details & upload an image (recommended 1600x984 for best in-game clarity) 4. Leave your app name here in this thread once the above is completed. (I'll respond to confirm it's live, or if there is any issues with the advert) For those competing in the Mini Apps competition, I'll add a free top up of 1500NIM. So there is no need for you to fund anything towards your campaign. This is roughly 15 days of in-game display time for free! Choose an image that makes your application stand out, something that will make users want to click.