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Nostr Compass Podcast #10 is out. This week: Blossom local cache from 4 independent projects, competing AI agent NIPs from joelklabo and pablof7z, Alby's NWC sandbox, FROST threshold signing on Android, decentralized map tiles over Nostr, Mostro's built-in Lightning wallet, and deep dives into NIP-85 Trusted Assertions and NIP-52 Calendar Events. https://podcast.nostrcompass.org/naddr1qvzqqqr4vcpzqa6e2nmnzsgjfzdy520vdy4hywr06c9ue6crpr2zxyq749uu275qqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqp7etsd9ek7er995cnwde38ymrydfexcmrzwpdv3cxumpe8pa8z7qvpm54w #podcast #nostr
Here are all the projects we track for updates in Nostr Compass. If we're missing your project, please let us know! https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/bucket https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/coracle https://github.com/ArcadeCity/wally https://github.com/ArcadeCity/zapstore https://github.com/beacon21m/beacon https://github.com/nicfab/matrix-nostr-bridge https://github.com/nicfab/nostr-secrets https://github.com/nostrability/outbox https://github.com/nostrability/schemata https://github.com/pablof7z/wikifreedia https://github.com/plebstr/plebstr https://github.com/vertex-lab/vertex
Nostr Compass #12 is out. The Marmot Development Kit shipped v0.6.0 as its first public release with encrypted media, multi-language bindings, and over 200 merged PRs. Nostrability published outbox model benchmarks testing 14 relay selection algorithms across 15 clients, finding that Thompson Sampling with dead relay filtering pushes event recall above 90%. Wisp, a new Android client, went from first alpha to beta in eight days with 19 releases, Tor support, and NIP-55 signing. This issue also covers NIP-91 (AND filters) merging, Vector v0.3.1's 15x performance gains, and a Five Years of Nostr Februaries retrospective tracing the protocol from three relays to mesh networking. View article โ†’
Nostr Compass #11 is out. White Noise v0.3.0 lands real-time messaging with Amber signer support and over 160 merged improvements. FIPS delivers a working Rust implementation of self-organizing mesh networking using Nostr keypairs as node identities. ContextVM bridges the Model Context Protocol to Nostr, and Burrow launches MLS-encrypted messaging for both humans and AI agents. Deep dives this week cover NIP-55 Android signing and NIP-60 Cashu wallet synchronization. View article โ†’ @greenart7c3 @Amethyst @Derek Ross @ContextVM @hodlbod @rabble @eNuts โšก๏ธ๐ŸŒฐ @Johnathan Corgan @Form* @utxo the webmaster ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป @fiatjaf @SondreB @npub1n0st...k6h0 @Damus @gandlaf21 @Justin Moon @Relatr @Ridestr & Drivestr @White Noise
Nostr Compass Podcast #9 Mostro ships its first public beta for P2P Bitcoin trading on mobile, Zapstore reaches 1.0 stable, and OpenSats renews funding for Minibits Wallet. NIP-45 gains HyperLogLog for approximate cross-relay event counting. Primal Android expands NWC infrastructure while Antiprimal bridges Primal's cache to standard Nostr protocols. A campaign to slim kind 0 metadata begins with identity tags moving to their own event kind. NIP-96 continues its deprecation as projects migrate to Blossom for content-addressed media hosting. Hosts: @hzrd149 @Pip the WoT guy @franzap @J.G.Montoya.Hodl @Max https://podcast.nostrcompass.org/naddr1qvzqqqr4vcpzqa6e2nmnzsgjfzdy520vdy4hywr06c9ue6crpr2zxyq749uu275qqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqp7etsd9ek7er995cnwde38ymrydfexcmrzwpdv3cxumpe8pa8z7qvpm54w #podcast #nostr
Nostr Compass #10 is out! This week: Blossom projects converge on offline media caching for Android, with four independent teams tackling local storage. Alby launches a developer sandbox for testing NWC integrations without real funds. Two competing AI agent communication proposals arrive as fiatjaf strips unused fields from NIP-11. Deep dives cover NIP-85's Trusted Assertions for delegating Web of Trust calculations and NIP-52's Calendar Events with new day-granularity indexing. View article โ†’
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 โ†’
Nostr Compass #8 is out! This week: โ€ข rust-nostr ships major API redesign (21 PRs) โ€ข Nostria 3.0 launches with dual pane navigation โ€ข Vector adds SIMD acceleration (65x-184x speedups) โ€ข Frostr brings threshold signing to iOS โ€ข NIP-47 gets hold invoice support for escrow payments โ€ข NIP-74 proposes podcast standards โ€ข 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 โ†’
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 Damusโ€™s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr โ€” 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 Damusโ€™s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr โ€” 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 @J.G.Montoya.Hodl @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 โ†’
# 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 โ†’
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 โ†’
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 โ†’
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 โ†’
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 โ†’
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 โ†’
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