Nostr Compass Podcast #8 rust-nostr ships a massive SDK overhaul Nostria 3.0 delivers modern UI and list sync Frostr hits iOS, Vector hits SIMD speeds And we explore fresh NIP proposals #podcast #nostr

Nostr Compass #9 The next edition of the newsletter is out, covering many development updates across Mostro beta: P2P Bitcoin trading on mobile after 3 years dev. Zapstore 1.0: Permissionless Android app store is stable. Antiprimal: Bridges Primal cache to standard NIPs NIP-45: HyperLogLog counting with 256 bytes View article →

Nostr Compass #8 is out! This week: • rust-nostr ships major API redesign (21 PRs) • Nostria 3.0 launches with dual pane navigation • Vector adds SIMD acceleration (65x-184x speedups) • Frostr brings threshold signing to iOS • NIP-47 gets hold invoice support for escrow payments • NIP-74 proposes podcast standards • Pod21 launches decentralized 3D printing marketplace Plus: Damus NIP-19 relay hints, Primal NWC encryption, nostr-tools fixes, and 17 more project updates. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass Podcast #7 Ridestr builds decentralized ridesharing with Cashu. Pomade adds email-based multisig recovery. Damus ships negentropy. Five years of Nostr. The participants discuss decentralized ridesharing with Ridestr, multisig key recovery via Pomade, and Damus’s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr — plus major NIP proposals for encrypted sync, file storage, and community management. Finally, we reflect on five years of Nostr's evolution. #podcast

Nostr Compass Podcast #7 Ridestr builds decentralized ridesharing with Cashu. Pomade adds email-based multisig recovery. Damus ships negentropy. Five years of Nostr. The participants discuss decentralized ridesharing with Ridestr, multisig key recovery via Pomade, and Damus’s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr — plus major NIP proposals for encrypted sync, file storage, and community management. Finally, we reflect on five years of Nostr's evolution.

Nostr Compass Podcast #6 Bitchat ditches C Tor for Rust Tor, we explore how AI is reviving abandoned Nostr projects, with JeffG sharing how he resurrected Listr after a year of dormancy. The panel debates relay trust assertions and whether standardized scoring helps or hurts decentralization. Post-quantum cryptography gets a reality check: 105 qubits today versus the million needed to break current crypto. Plus release updates from Amber, Zeus, Primal, White Noise, and NostrDB's new streaming queries. #podcast #nostr @JeffG @Tim Bouma @Geektoshi @npub1jgm0...669p @hzrd149 @Max

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Nostr Compass #7 is out. This week: someone's actually building Uber on Nostr: Ridestr uses Cashu escrow for trustless rides. Damus finally fixes those missing DMs with negentropy sync. We also traced Nostr's full journey every January from 7 relays and a Hacker News thread in 2021 to audited infrastructure today. View article →

# Nostr Compass #6 Nostr infrastructure levels up this week. Bitchat migrates to Rust's Arti for memory-safe Tor, eliminating crashes and battery drain. nostrdb-rs adds streaming queries for zero-allocation database ops. Listr returns after a year dormant with NDK 3 beta and pagination. Zeus merges 17 NWC fixes while Primal Android ships wallet backups and NIP-92 media dimensions. Draft NIP for Trusted Relay Assertions proposes scoring relays 0-100 across reliability, quality, and accessibility metrics. NIP-11 self-reported relay docs combine with NIP-66 independent monitoring (kind 30166 events) for informed relay selection beyond hardcoded defaults. Open PRs signal major architectural shifts: Damus embeds Arti for native Tor, implements Negentropy for efficient sync (megabytes to kilobytes), and adds Low Data Mode. Marmot's MIP-03 solves distributed chat race conditions with deterministic commit ordering. Full newsletter: View article →

Nostr Compass Podcast #5 This edition covers Bitchat's professional security audit by Cure53, the same firm that audited Signal and NIP-44, with 17+ PRs already merged addressing critical findings. We explore NIP-71's addressable video events and the post-quantum cryptography proposal for future-proofing Nostr. Plus our NIP deep dive explains NIP-51 bookmark lists and NIP-65 relay metadata. #podcast View article →

Nostr Compass #5 is out. Bitchat completed a professional security audit by Cure53, the same firm that reviewed Signal and NIP-44, with 17+ PRs already merged fixing critical findings. NIP-71 brings addressable video events to the protocol. Amethyst ships bookmarks, voice notes, and an early desktop release, while a new post-quantum cryptography NIP opens discussion on future-proofing Nostr. Read more at nostrcompass.org. View article →

Nostr Compass Podcast #4 This week we cover Primal Android's transformation into a signing hub for other apps. We look at Marmot's 18 security fixes after their audit and Nostria 2.0's music and streaming features. Plus our NIP deep dive breaks down NIP-04 vs NIP-44 encryption View article →

Nostr Compass Podcast #3 The third episode of the Nostr Compass Podcast is here. This special episode celebrates Nostr's fifth anniversary with a deep retrospective tracing the protocol's evolution through every December since 2020. We start with HODL invoice escrows in Shopstr, then journey through five years of December milestones: from fiatjaf's first client release in December 2020, through the Hacker News moment in 2021, Jack Dorsey's pivotal 14 BTC donation in 2022, the NIP-44 encryption audit in 2023, to 2024 and 2025's ecosystem expansion with NDK's 162x cache speedup and NIP-55 signer proliferation. Plus: Amethyst's desktop module takes shape, voice messaging arrives, local relays and offline functionality, data resilience patterns, NIP updates, ZapStore improvements, npub.cash, and more. Whether you've been here since the Branle days or just discovered Nostr, this episode puts five years of protocol development into perspective. **Listen to the Podcast:** **Read the Newsletter:** View article →

Nostr Compass #4 is out! This week @primal Android transforms into a full signing hub with NIP-46 remote and NIP-55 local signer support, letting other apps request signatures securely. The Marmot Protocol team @White Noise merged 18 PRs hardening their MLS-based encrypted messaging after a security audit. Our deep dive explains NIP-04 vs NIP-44: why legacy encryption has critical flaws and how the modern replacement fixes them with authenticated encryption and proper key derivation. Plus: @Citrine v1.0, Applesauce v5.0, AI agent supervision in TENEX, and notable work across @Damus, @Amethyst, Bitchat, and more. View article →

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Nostr Compass Podcast #2 Primal Android joins Amber and Aegis as a full NIP-55 signer, Shopstr introduces Zapsnags for flash sales via Lightning, and Mostro adds an opt-in development fund. Plus: NDK cache queries got 162x faster, we break down NIP-02 (follow lists) and NIP-10 (reply threading), and the panel explores multi-agent AI systems on Nostr. @npub1jgm0...669p @hzrd149 @negrunch @Vitor Pamplona @Max

Nostr Compass #3 is out: "Five Years of Nostr Decembers" A technical retrospective tracing December milestones from 2020's genesis through Jack's 14 BTC donation to this month's NIP-55 signer expansion and NDK's 162x speedup. Plus: Amethyst desktop module, Notedeck messaging, Citrine web hosting, NIP-54 internationalization fixes. View article →

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Nostr Compass Podcast #1 The builders mentioned in Nostr Compass #1 sat down to talk through what shipped. NIP-BE brings Bluetooth mesh networking to Nostr. MIP-05 tackles private push notifications. Amethyst, WhiteNoise, Damus, and Notedeck all dropped security and UX improvements. Hear the devs explain why it matters.

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