Live on Nimiq mainnet since June 2026
Start a challenge in one tap. Day one is running from that second, free, with no money involved. When you feel ready, put a little of your own money on your word and get it back when you keep the days.
It lives inside Nimiq Pay. New to Nimiq Pay?
The engine
Day one begins the second you tap. You have the whole first day to make it official, and day one still counts from the tap.
tap · free
Install, hit Get Started, and you are already in day one. Nothing to set up, and no money involved.
inside 24 h · make it official
Put your stake down, pick how many days. Day one is backdated to your tap, so the day you have been keeping still counts.
day 1 … day N · settled
Check in inside each day. At the end it settles once, and your money comes back with a little extra for finishing.
Never make it official? The challenge just lapses at the end of the free day, and no money was ever involved. Start another whenever you like.
700 $NIM
Choose a goal you already have and back a day of it with a little of your own money.
day kept, sealed
700 $NIM
+ 50 $NIM finisher bonus
Keep the day and your money comes back, with a little extra for finishing. Then you do the next one.
How it works
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Hit Get Started and day one is already running. Free, and no money involved. Taste it for a day before you decide anything.
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When you feel ready, put a little of your own money on your word and pick how many days. The intention has real weight now, not just good wishes.
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The couch calls, the craving arrives, the reason goes quiet. Tap the dot and it hands you the right words for that exact moment, and one small next move.
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Keep the day and your money comes back, with a little extra for finishing. Then you do the next one.
The moment
The snooze. The cigarette. The couch. Each one is a small decision that felt like nothing at the time.
the route reaching a day and splitting two ways
Never heard of Nimiq?
Stakes runs inside Nimiq Pay, a free self-custodial wallet app. You install that one app, and Stakes opens inside it.
no money needed to start
The actual challenge and the whole app is free. Matter of fact, you get a dust amount of Nimiq when you start your first challenge, which is free. So even if you do the taste 24 hours, it’s free.
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Free on iOS and Android, and self-custodial. The wallet is created for you, with no sign-up. Get Nimiq Pay
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NIM is the money Stakes settles in. A few hundred is enough for a first stake, and it stays yours the whole time.
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Buy it inside the app, swap for it on an exchange, or have someone send you some. About Nimiq
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Stakes is a mini app. There is nothing extra to install: you open it from inside Nimiq Pay and day one starts on the tap.
What you can stake on
Back a day of a goal you already have. Here are nine to start.
A walk or a run, your call.
Asleep by the hour you set.
Skip the one you would regret.
An hour that comes back to you.
A few real pages.
The cold now, the clear head after.
Ten minutes on one room.
Sit still and breathe.
Message the person you keep meaning to.
The companion
The dot is your companion for the moment you would otherwise lose. Feel the pull toward the snooze or the cigarette, tap the dot, and instead of a noise you get the right words for right now, plus one small thing to do next.
It keeps no score. There is no streak to break, and no miss brought up later. The day that got away is gone. The next one is still yours.
It is back in the corner now. Tap it.
crave
You are not choosing forever. You are choosing the next ten minutes.
Set a timer for ten. Decide again when it rings.
start
Start smaller than you think you should.
Do the first two minutes. That is the whole ask.
tired
Tired is allowed. Do the smallest version.
Shoes on. Walk to the corner and back.
In motion
The whole idea, in ninety seconds.
Trust, not surveillance
You are the one who says whether you kept the day, so nothing here has to watch you. There is no camera, and no tracker building a file on your life. There is no AI reading you to decide whether you were good.
The money moves by the rules on the chain. The truth stays with you, where it belongs. This is a tool that hands you the choice and trusts you to make it.
On-chain proof
You do not have to trust us. Every stake, every day kept, every payout is a small tagged transaction on the Nimiq chain. The money follows one honest rule: you put it on your word, and you get it back when you keep the day. Nobody wins anyone else’s money.
Open the record and read it for yourself.
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tagged transactions, all readable
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put on the word
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banked and paid back, bonus included
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check-ins stamped on the chain
Stamp, where your check-ins land:
NQ25 V9U3 BPTD S9T9 DM5P DHGM CY59 U2B4 7D59Treasury, stakes in and money back out:
NQ83 0UJS 7NG3 QH7K 3VLF 7E06 JNH4 X5EV U04RFrom the blog
Where Stakes came from, and what happened when we asked the internet to break it.
The origin
A cold-shower pact between two people who did not want to be the one who bailed, and how it became an app.
Read the post
Under attack
Hours after launch, a bot spun up hundreds of fake wallets to drain a fee. It netted under a cent, and left a fingerprint that showed a real gap.
Read the postThe story so far
Stakes has run on Nimiq mainnet since June 2026. Here is the arc so far, and the directions ahead.
Now
This page, at stakes.day, and the app now at app.stakes.day.
The road ahead, no dates, just direction.
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