Apple has locked down the NFC capabilities of their phones towards using apple pay, there's not much we can do about that. While they announced that it will be available for developers, I am uncertain of if we will see things like unlock with nfcring will be accepted into the app store.
Here's a thread for future reference: https://forum.nfcring.com/topic/865/nfc-the-times-they-are-a-changin/2