Nut November is officially wrapped up. We had 23 submissions this year, 12 from first-time contributors. Grateful for everyone who jumped in and made our first Cashu hackathon special.
Here are your 2025 Nut November champions ππ
Hardest Nut to Crack
This award goes to the most technically impressive, deeply engineered contribution of the month.
π Winner: Pay to Blinded Key (P2BK) using ECDH
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The Nuttiest Idea
This one celebrates the wildest or most unexpected concept.
π Winner: On-Chain Disc Golf
A disc golf scorekeeper with built-in Bitcoin payouts. No spreadsheets. No IOUs. No βVenmo is being weird.β Just: pay in when you start, get paid when you finish. Built on Nostr, powered by ecash. Massive respect.
Demo: https://on-chains-disc-golf-982604035840.us-west1.run.app
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Best Design Nut
Awarded to the project with the cleanest UX, or strongest visual execution.
π Winner: Nostrpay
A child-friendly learning app that integrated offline-first Cashu payments to an educational environment. Parents connect a Lightning wallet, kids mint and send ecash, and the entire experience is wrapped in a playful, thoughtful, beginner-friendly interface.
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Freshly Minted Nut
Awarded to the best project from a first-time contributor.
π Winner: Taskify
A clean, powerful to-do app where you can attach ecash bounties to tasks, share boards over Nostr, customize your workspace, and use a built-in ecash wallet, receive notifications, relay management, and even an optional Bible reading tracker.
Huge debut. Big potential. Congrats @Student of Life@
Crowd Favorite
Voted on by the community!
π Winner: Cashu Monopoly
Classic Monopoly, but the money is real Bitcoin. Buy in with Lightning, pot held in a Cashu wallet, winner takes the sats. A fun, educational way to introduce people to Bitcoin, Lightning, and ecash in one go.
Congrats @b'TC.py!
Demo: https://cashu-monopoly.onrender.com
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The Golden Nut
Our top award for Nut November, given to the project that stood out in scope, execution, and impact.
π Winner: The Nutty Pill
A bitcoin education app, where ecash is locked behind an admin dashboard and the learner unlocks the sats by working through lessons and quizzes. Roughly 85 lessons across a range of topics, everything running locally with Cashu. Smart concept, strong execution. A well deserved grand prize.
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