Why this should be built as open source and as a public good in the first place.
If Nimiq Pay is to become a universal payment interface for humans and AI agents, it could become much more than a better wallet. It could become part of the basic payment infrastructure of the open internet.
And infrastructure of that importance should not belong to a company or a closed organisation. Just as nobody owns the fundamental protocols of the internet, nobody should need permission from a gatekeeper to build on an open payment layer.
Open source would mean transparency, permissionless innovation, interoperability, resilience and, ultimately, greater individual sovereignty. Especially in a future where AI agents can autonomously pay for APIs, data, compute and services, I think it matters enormously who controls the underlying rails.
This also brings us back to the original motivation behind Nimiq: not simply building a successful crypto project, but building open and independent money as a public good.
So perhaps the bigger mission is:
Open money → open payment infrastructure → an open machine economy.
That, to me, is a vision worth building Nimiq around.
