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Nostr Wallet Connect
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Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is an open protocol to connect lightning wallets to apps
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NWC 1 month ago
NWC interoperability layer is growing so big it's getting harder and harder to fit everything in one ecosystem map 😅 In version 1.9 we have 9 additions, let's take a look! 🧵 image @PayPerQ is one of the coolest additions! Auto-topups from your self-custody wallets for your AI tokens have never been easier, give it a try! image --- B2B Central is a crypto swap aggregator let's you connect your lightning wallets to easily swap in or swap out sats with NWC through Bitcoin Connect image --- ZapBook is a social reading app that pays you sats for reading books, with built in NWC support image --- @AmbrosiaPoS — a multi-user point-of-sale system for Lightning payments, supporting role-based access. Users can choose to use phoenixd or self-hosted NWC for receiving payments. image --- OpenReceive provides libraries for Node and Rails to accept payments directly into your own wallet via a receive-only NWC connection image --- @Zappr is a nostr social client with an NWC wallet interface and AI assistant for feed summaries and user-approved Lightning payments image --- Lightning Control Center is a self-hosted LND node dashboard with NWC connections for apps, but also allows you to us it with external NWC wallets image --- And something for builders — NWC tester by @Rizful.com allows you to test your apps NWC flows image --- Discover more NWC apps, filter by categories, platform or devices at Bitcoin Apps Directory!
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NWC 4 months ago
image "The USB-C of Bitcoin wallets and apps" is not stopping at all! Nostr Wallet Connect just got expanded from lightning to Ark (Bark), integrated in new p2p exchanges, music and podcast apps, VPN/eSIM services, hardware and tons of AI and developer tooling! Let's take a look 👀 --- We start with exciting news from @Second who provided us with a Rust daemon that bridges Bark wallets to any NWC enabled app Bark wallet devs can now enable their users use their wallets in dozens of NWC apps ✨ image --- Non-custodial, non-KYC, p2p exchange @Mostro integrated NWC to allow automated payments image --- BitBlik — an app allowing you to pay with bitcoin anywhere Poland's BLIK fast payment system is accepted, now let's you connect your NWC wallets for even smoother experience 🇵🇱 image --- Tanzania's M-PESA mobile payment system is now plugged in to NWC as well, thanks to @Chapsmart integration 🇹🇿 image --- Two incredible music & podcasting apps allow you to use you wallet to tip & donate your favourite creators and podcasters. Welcome to NWC family @Fountain and Castamatic --- Looking for non-KYC VPN, SMS or eSIM services? Check out @nadanada.me or https://shop.zap.best/ — both now NWC enabled --- Try to zap people on @Wisp — a new, sleek Android Nostr client image --- Non-custodial and open source PoS & crypto payments requests tool @npub1jn78...ydem integrated NWC for the smoothest, automated lightning payment experience image --- And one of our favourites - BTClock, an open source, e-paper clock not only lets you display Bitcoin price or blockheight, but also your NWC wallet balance or incoming payments! image --- A ton of AI tools for both casual users and developers were shipped lately by @Alby. Check out their Bitcoin payments & builder MCPs and skills, as well a tool to monetize your MCP or a skill for agentic use of their flagship NWC wallet Alby Hub --- More tools for devs: Agent Wallet NWC bridge — a bridge letting your moneydevkit agent connect to NWC apps @grimoire — a neat tool for all-things Nostr protocol, including comprehensive documentation and protocol explorer nostr-core — Extensive Nostr toolkit including NWC, eCash, BOLT-11, Blossom, RSS, and 40+ NIPs for JavaScript & TypeScript nwc-ruby — Ruby client for NWC by @npub1gcdm...7ffv --- See full and ever-growing list of all NWC wallets, apps and tools at Awesome NWC github repo:
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NWC 9 months ago
image 2025 was a blast for NWC ecosystem: dozens of wallets and apps integrated the USB-C of Bitcoin wallets and apps. In the first update of 2026, we bring you 1 new wallet, 9 new products with NWC support, 4 new dev tools and 1 new NWC-adjacent protocol! Let's dive in 🤿 --- With the latest release, finally @ZEUS allows you to connect your wallet to any NWC app. For a while now you can also connect any other NWC wallet or node to Zeus. It really became an NWC powerhouse! image --- We've got 3 new wallet interfaces for your NWC wallets: - @npub1ek42...v4pd that let's you connect your wallet to BOLT card, - @npub1p0rt...x40r app combines NWC with Nostr identity - Tides, new Nostr messanger browser extension --- We got another exchange with NWC intergation! @Bitcoin Well, US & Canada exchange, allows you now to seamlessly withdraw your purchased bitcoin straight into your NWC wallets --- Now this one is exciting: @npub1musq...v5kr , bitcoin payment infrastructure provider, allows merchants to accept bitcoin in-store and online payments directly to connected NWC wallets. image --- Bitinfrashop, winner of @Geyser NWC hackathon, allows for automated recurring Bitcoin subscriptions between shop owners and BTCPay Server admins powered by NWC. Think Stripe Subscriptions, but Bitcoin and Nostr-native. image --- @Sat Sorter helps you take control of your finances by giving every satoshi a specific purpose before you spend it. It's the ultimate bitcoin budgeting app. Give it a try with your NWC wallet! image --- We also got a new social media app: @npub1lumr...kzfc is a platform for sharing images, built on the Nostr protocol image --- Another NWC hackathon submission was Ricochet: a tool that helps drives meaningful engagement on Nostr by allowing you to create promotional campaigns for Nostr notes that reward engagement and conversations. image --- Now let's see 4 new dev tools: - Nostr PHP client implementation - NWC Faucet for creating test wallets / dummy NWC connections for rapid app development and testing - NWC Playground to connect and test Nostr Wallet Connect commands - Portal SDK - Nostr-based authentication and payment SDK allowing applications to authenticate users and process payments through Nostr and Lightning Network --- Last but not least, we got Cashu Wallet Connect, an NWC protocol extension that supports @Cashu wallets. It maintains NWC compatibility while adding native Cashu token operations, multi-mint support, and NUT-18 payment requests. image --- We just can't imagine how NWC landscape will look like at the beginning on next year. See all list of NWC wallet, products and tools on Awesome NWC repo:
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NWC 1 year ago
Nostr Wallet Connect became the USB-C of bitcoin wallets and apps 🔌 We hardly can keep app of new apps joining the ecosystem! 👀 Let's see what new wallets support NWC and what new things you can dow ith your wallet since the last update 🧵👇 image 👛 Let's start with new wallets that gained the superpowers of connecting to apps! First one is @Blitz Wallet , a well known lightning wallet that lately became one of the first mobile Spark wallets. Give it a try, the team is now working to improve it even more 🛠️ image --- A new, community-driven web wallet for buisnesses and individuals with strong focus on NWC and connecting to apps: meet Buho Try open beta at image The team behind Buho recently also released BuhoGO — mobile and web NWC wallet interface. Just connect as many wallets as you want and pay on the go 👣 image --- The third wallet that had NWC feature for a while, but we somehow missed it @Nutstash is one the leading ecash PWA wallets with some unique features like Pay To Pubkey (P2PK) that allow for offline payments. It's nuts! 🥜 image --- 📱 Now let's get to apps: Zap Tracker is an execllent value4value web analytics dashboard that lets you manage multiple wallets and has built-in tools to engage with your supporters and community. Very powerful tool for the internet economy 🌐 image --- @LN POS ⚡️ is a simple Point of Sale app that supports NFC payments. Excellent tools for merchants 🛒 image --- Kanbanstr is a simple kanban board that is... zappable. Let your users vote on new features with sats that go straight to your self-custodial NWC wallet 🤯 https://kanbanstr.com image --- Lightning Tic Tac Toe is... a bit more expanded version of tic tac toe, but with sats at stake. Something fun to play at bitcoin meetups? image --- A screenserver that shows lightning bolts when you receive a zap? Meet NWC Screenserver. Has some cool features like audio notification or displaying QR code for payments (good for events or meetups). image --- ✨ Two AI tools additions! 1. AskExperts lets you create AI experts, discover them, and ask them questions privately and pay for the answers using lightning KYC-free and with hundreds of AI models. Pretty cool huh? 🕵️‍♂️ image 2. Something for developers: turn your MCP into PaidMCP by @Alby and charge bitcoin for each tool request, powered by NWC. It takes just a few lines of code to implement 👩‍💻 --- Add a simple tip tool to your website ⚡ Lightning Invoice Generator is a simple microservice where you can insert your NWC secret and get a unique endpoint for generating invoices on demand on your website https://ln-invoice-generator.mozharov.me image --- Now a big one... @npub1rujd...9u68 just made setting up self-custodial @Bolt Card easy, all thanks to NWC. No more worries your sats from the BoltCard are gone! Connect your node and be happy ☀️ https://boltnwc.lacrypta.ar Support the project on @Geyser: image --- Now we have a draft of a new protocol that uses NWC. Described by @ynniv as "a layer 3 protocol for zero UTXO trust-minimized lightning wallets" Very interesting concept and we hope we'll see it live soon! image --- Last but not least, a few new developer tools on the block: 🤖 n8n-nodes-nwc - custom n8n nodes for Nostr Wallet Connect protocol integration by @npub1rszx...l7mx 🔨 Thor - a lightning address server powered by Rust and NWC by @yfaming 🐹 Go NWC - NWC client library for Go language by @Roland 🧩 NNostr - A Nostr relay and client written in C# with NWC support by @kukks --- Thanks for all the contributors, apps, wallets and developers creating NWC tools! 🙏 This is the power of open source and interoperability. Wanna see more apps or add one that is missing? See our curated list of NWC apps and resources:
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NWC 1 year ago
Time for another Nostr Wallet Connect ecosystem map — your overview of interoperable bitcoin apps and wallets 🔌 Let's see what's new 🧵👇 image 👛 www.zap.land offers 1-click instant deployments of a custodial wallet that can connect to all other NWC apps, great for quick and easy testing of your NWC apps. It's built on nwc-enclaved library, which is an addition to dev tools category: image 📱 Avocadough is a new addition to mobile wallet interfaces. This sleek iOS app lets you use your NWC wallets and nodes with your phone image 💱 New category: exchanges! Two services arrived here: 🇲🇽 http://swpaido.com offers mexican bank transfers via lightning 🇪🇺 gives you a debit card that can be automatically topped out with NWC 📊 offers self-custodial bitcoin lightning payment services designed for developers and entrepreneurs image ✨ Prototyping lightning apps never been easier! http://lnfly.albylabs.com let's you create NWC apps with just one prompt image 🎰 One of the apps created by LNfly is Blotto — a simple lightning-based lottery. Want to gamble some sats to win more? https://blotto.lnfly.albylabs.com image 🤖 Alby MCP Server enables ALL AI agents to understand and use lightning wallets on your behalf. Vibe code lightning apps and let your agents use the hardest money ever made. Possibilities are endless. 🔊 Last but not least — new NWC relay on the block. Wallet Relay by @Bitvora Inc. is a specialized relay for wallet service providers to process NWC and Cashu Wallet events. Want to see all NWC apps and wallets? Visit our repo:
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NWC 1 year ago
Bitcoin interoperable and programmable payments with zero-custody spread to more and more apps and projects thanks to Nostr Wallet Connect. Enjoy the new NWC ecosystem map! We added new Relay category, new projects and several ones that we missed before 🧵👇 image 👛 Two new NWC wallets arrive: @Bitvora Inc. , a bitcoin lightning API platform for businesses with custodial wallet that you can use in apps and an option to connect your own wallet to use the platform too. https://bitvora.com image ✨ Another wallet is Sparky Hub — built by @Alby, the first public wallet of new layer 2 Spark by Lightspark. It's a self-custodial wallet with NWC without the need to manage your channels! The wallet is in experimental phase, so use it at your own risk. https://sparkyhub.albylabs.com image 👥 Two new Nostr social media clients join the party and integrated zapps: @npub1dyej...nrtm — image sharing client and @npub160tq...50js — snappy web client 📰 Bitcoin Lightning Publisher wordpress plugin made by @Alby for value4value monetization offering paywalls and donations for your blog or website image 🔍 Noogle is a Nostr search engine and Data Vending Machine toolkit where you can pay for data processing with sats straight from your wallet image 🧢 Fancy some fresh bitcoin open source projects merch? Visit by @The Bullish ₿itcoiner and checkout easily with any NWC wallet thanks to Bitcoin Connect image 💸 Zapper is a micro-app that allows anyone to send bulk lightning payments to multiple recipients at once, now with NWC image 👩‍💻 Something for developers: we added 2 missing libraries that have integrated NWC: Dart NDK and NostrDVM 🔊 And finally, new category: Relays specialised in NWC events! First two we showcase is Alby NWC relay https://guides.getalby.com/developer-guide/nostr-wallet-connect-api/building-nwc-wallet-services/alby-nwc-relay… and a brand new one: NWCLay https://github.com/dezh-tech/ddsr/tree/main/nwclay 🙏 That's all folks! To see all NWC apps with descriptions and links, visit Awesome NWC repo: If you know NWC app that is not included there, let us know or create an issue :)
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NWC 1 year ago
🔌 Just ahead of @btcplusplus hackathon with dedicated NWC track, we present to you 1.2 version of Nostr Wallet Connect ecosystem map! Let's take a look at apps which joined the family 🧵👇 image @primal wallet, available on iOS and Android just got a superpower to connect to apps! image This is a big one — now you can connect your node to @ZEUS and do mobile payments with reliable, fast NWC connection They also plan to allow users with Zeus built-in wallet to connect to apps in the future image Another addition to AI category: @dataMachine 🤖 by @N @unleash let's you connect wallet of your choice and seamlessly pay per usage within the app Try it out: image Finally, @eggstr integrated NWC for automated billing for it's subscription. Moreover, it allows you to deploy Alby Hub from @Alby easily and enjoy a powerful wallet that connects to apps Check it out: image We can't wait to see how this map will grow after @btcplusplus this week 👀
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NWC 1 year ago
image 🔌 Nostr Wallet Connect hackathon track sponsored by @Alby is coming next week to @btcplusplus in Florianópolis, Brazil 🇧🇷! 👩‍💻 Compete for hefty sats prizes by hacking innovative software with NWC protocol 🎟️ GIVEAWAY: We’re giving away one free ticket! To win a ticket, simply: 1. Follow NWC X profile (sorry, it's X only 😬): 2. Repost giveaway post: 3. Tag a product that would benefit from integrating NWC and explain how it could make it better We’ll choose the winner based on the best answer and announce it this Saturday.
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NWC 1 year ago
2024 was a real breakthrough of Nostr Wallet Connect ecosystem—new wallets, apps, websites, dev tools embraced interoperability & programmability that #NWC brings to Bitcoin. 2025 is going to be even more exciting. Let's celebrate that with fresh updates to NWC ecosystem map 🧵👇 There's another NWC wallet in the block? Created by @npub1gcdm...7ffv , Rizful is a service providing instant, disposable lightning nodes, optimized for education. Easily spin up a node with NWC functionalities for testing. image @Alby Hub is getting easier to deploy on more and more platforms and operating systems. Already in 2025, both RaspiBlitz and Unraid let you install Alby Hub from their app stores. image Olas - new, Instagram-like Nostr client created by @PABLOF7z that gains lots of traction now, allows you to zap photos of your friends with sats image We now have two NWC Telegram bots: ZapGram allows you to tip users on Telegram directly from your wallet. image @nostrcheck.me — a comprehensive Nostr account management service & private relay integrated Nostr Wallet Connect as well. image @plebdevs.com , bitcoin developer education community, awhile ago integrated NWC bot on their Discord. Now you can also connect your wallet to their website to pay for content, 1:1 sessions, plebdevs.com lightning address & NIP-05 image Pull That Up Jamie! is a private AI web search that integrated Bitcoin Connect for NWC payments per prompt. image We added experimental NWC integration with @npub1ex7m...vyt9 API created by @npub1h6lq...gty4 image Polish bitcoiners community @npub1cpmv...sapc started using NWC bot ThunderTip on its Telegram. image Last but not least — small little fun app Bullish Bulletin is a web cork notice board. You pay with sats per each note you want to share
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NWC 1 year ago
I just want to zap people from my node on @SimpleX Chat, is that too much to ask for? 🥺 image
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NWC 1 year ago
Nostr Wallet Connect allows to connect and lightning wallets to apps on any platform. Choose a wallet of your choice and enjoy seamless payments within dozens of apps — there are new ones joining the interoperable NWC family everyday image
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NWC 2 years ago
Check out @saunter talk on what kind of superpowers #NWC brings to apps and wallets 😍
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NWC 2 years ago
🚨 Bounty alert! 🚨 @LNbits just announced two bounties for integrating Nostr Wallet Connect! In total 1 500 000 sats is waiting for developers that can do the job 👇 1️⃣ First bounty is for adding NWC as a funding source for LNBits. Reward: 750,000 sats 2️⃣ Second bounty is for building a Nostr Wallet Connect extension for LNbits to allow LNbits to act as a NWC Wallet Service. Reward 750,000 sats
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NWC 2 years ago
Make Nostr Wallets Self-Custodial Again
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NWC 2 years ago
We heard you guys like nuts
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NWC 2 years ago
Today's zapping is brought to your Nostr client by #NWC
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NWC 2 years ago
...and be happy image
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