What this page is, and is not
This is a dated snapshot. Everything here was true as of 14 September 2026, and this page is refreshed periodically, so the date is the scope of what it claims. The Nimiq ecosystem is small and its parts move, which is exactly why a list written once and treated as permanent causes more confusion than it solves.
It is also deliberately not a directory of every project with the name Nimiq on it. What we can name with confidence is a short set: the first party products the project publishes, and our own tools, which we can verify because we built them. Everything else is labelled for what we could not verify rather than guessed at.
The core team products
These are the pieces Nimiq itself publishes, and they are the ones the other articles on this hub stand on.
| Thing | What it is | Where | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nimiq Wallet | The browser interface: balances, sending, receiving, staking. Runs in a browser tab | wallet.nimiq.com | Core team |
| Nimiq Pay | The self custodial mobile payments app, which also hosts mini apps | Mobile app, published by Nimiq Labs | Core team |
| Keyguard | The component that stores your keys and signs with them, on its own isolated origin | Inside the browser wallet | Core team |
| Official validators list | The published list of operators, carrying fees and payout types | validators-api | Core team |
The relationship between the wallet, Nimiq Pay and Keyguard is covered in how to create a Nimiq wallet, and the app itself is explained in Nimiq Pay explained. Those three pieces are the spine of the ecosystem, and most of the rest hangs off them.
Mini apps: what runs inside Nimiq Pay
Nimiq Pay opens mini apps, which are ordinary web applications given a channel to talk to the wallet. A mini app can ask for your addresses, a signature or a payment, and the wallet keeps custody throughout. The full model, including the exact ten wallet methods the SDK exposes, is in mini apps in Nimiq Pay.
The examples we can name with confidence are our own, which we flag plainly as self interested. We build mini apps, all open source under MIT, and all running inside Nimiq Pay as well as in a browser:
- NimBooks does balances, history, CSV statements and signed proof of payment receipts.
- Darkfall is a dungeon crawler with a player run trading post where items change hands for NIM, wallet to wallet.
- NimMap, at /graph/, draws any Nimiq address as a graph of the flow of value around it. It is the tool the rest of this hub uses for its worked traces.
We cannot point you at a directory of third party mini apps, because we could not find a public one we could cite. Nimiq Pay keeps an internal list, and it warns on URLs outside it, but who maintains which of the wider set is something we have not verified.
Explorers: reading the chain
An explorer is how you look at the chain without running a node. There are a few, and the distinction worth making is which data each one reads.
- Our block explorer, at /explorer/. Blocks, transactions and addresses, from live chain data on this site. It takes a block height, a block hash, a transaction hash or an address, and routes each to where it can be read.
- NimMap, at /graph/. Our graph explorer, which draws the flow of value around an address as a set of edges you can follow. It is a different shape of answer from the explorer: the explorer says what a thing is, the map says where it went.
- nimiq.watch. A third party explorer that this site links to from its own explorer code. We can confirm it exists and is reachable from here. Who maintains it and how current its data is we have not verified, so treat it accordingly.
The division of labour between our explorer and NimMap is described in how to use NimMap.
Validator dashboards: comparing who produces blocks
Because staking is central to Nimiq, so is the question of which validator to back. The dashboards that answer it read from the official list and from live chain data.
- Our validators page, at /validators/. Every validator from live data, with fees, payout types, stake and trust scores, ours in the table with the rest. It renders the official list, so it is a view of the set with published terms rather than every registered record.
- The official validators list itself. The core team maintains the list an operator must register with to appear with published fees. The fee and payout type fields it carries are exactly what choosing a Nimiq validator teaches you to read.
The distinction between "registered on chain" and "in the official list" matters, and the staking numbers case study measures both denominators rather than blending them. Nimiq staking in numbers is the companion measurement page.
Community tools and channels
Nimiq describes itself as a non profit and open source project, supported by the Nimiq Foundation, and a good deal of what surrounds it is community work. We can name the channels that exist without verifying who runs each project:
- The community forum at forum.nimiq.community, where the staking FAQ is discussed, and which the official FAQ itself points at.
- The Telegram and X channels linked in this site's own footer, which we run.
- The public node software, core-rs-albatross, which is open source on GitHub and is what every node, including ours, runs.
For everything else in the wider ecosystem, the honest answer is the same: we did not verify who maintains it. That is not a judgement. It is the difference between a snapshot we stand behind and a list of names we would be passing on without checking. Where this page says "not verified", read it as exactly that.
Where this site fits
Everything on this domain is ours: the block explorer, NimMap, the validators page, the Learn hub, and the ImpactZero validator itself. We run that validator at a 0% fee because our other work pays for the node, which why we run ImpactZero at 0% fee explains in full. In the map above we are, honestly, one validator in the table and one mini app family among the ones we named, and the rest of the Learn hub is our attempt to make the whole thing easier to read.
This page is a snapshot taken on 14 September 2026 and is refreshed periodically. Nothing on this page is financial advice, and we publish no price figures anywhere on this site.