Nostr Compass #37 is out. Here is what changed across Nostr this week: Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: Shopstr @npub15dc3...yv6e keeps remote-signer and wallet secrets out of browser storage, Routstr SDK @routstr verifies relay-sourced provider discovery, Postr @Postr launches as a small Android composer, Infans (maintainer Turkey: @Turkey) encrypts family tracking and co-parent sync, walls.rip carries PGP-encrypted chat through public Nostr relays, and pakstr makes Zapstore publication explicit. nostr-tools (maintainer: @fiatjaf) binds gift-wrap rumors to their seals. Releases cover subscription isolation, profile statuses, and relay-scoped leave markers. Protocol work reaches comment-thread rollout, wallet-connect fee and payment-lookup drafts, napplet display requests, and experimental same-account enrollment. The issue closes with Six Years of Nostr Augusts. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass #36 is out. Here is what changed across Nostr this week: Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: Amber (maintainer: @npub1w4us...0jr5) hardens relay auth and encrypts stored secrets, Cambium @TheCryptoDonkey signs for websites under relay-auth load, Citrine hosts groups and static sites on a phone relay, Vector @npub1hruj...f3yh queues moderation under spam and syncs mutes across devices, Sonar @Vincenzo Palazzo adds threaded mesh replies, Nostria (maintainer: @npub1zl3g...jajh) publishes podcasts, and Nail bridges email as gift-wrapped events. Releases cover MDK group state, badge minting, QR signer pairing, Android browser signing, and shared wallet-connect. Protocol work reaches comment patches, encrypted file metadata, thread formatting, Marmot restart guarantees, and Concord membership lists. Deep dives: badges and comments. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass Podcast #33 is live: Amethyst 1.13.0 opens napplets and NIP-5A nsites in an isolated keyless browser, with 1.13.1 adding NIP-29 host-relay authentication and authenticated Blossom downloads. Mosaico 0.1.2 gives coding agents shared status over relay groups, and Nostrology maps NIP-65 relay-list concentration across 520,000 profiles. Guests: @Max, @OceanSlim, @Infinity x2 https://podcast.nostrcompass.org/naddr1qvzqqqr4vcpzqa6e2nmnzsgjfzdy520vdy4hywr06c9ue6crpr2zxyq749uu275qqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqp7etsd9ek7er995cnwwpk8y6nxd35xvmngwpdd3jngut40p6xgmq5a2z4r #podcast #nostr

Nostr Compass #35 is out. Here is what changed across Nostr this week: Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: nostr-wot-extension (maintainer Leon Acosta: @leon) adds post-quantum keys and opt-in protected messages beside existing Nostr identities. Divine tightens account isolation, private-message validation, and publish confirmation; MDK @npub1marm...r6m9 strengthens encrypted-group convergence and recovery; and Amber (maintainer: @npub1w4us...0jr5) makes grouped signing decisions explicit. Releases improve wallet connections, encrypted chat, social discovery, device sync, and remote signing, while protocol work covers identity and encrypted communities. The deep dives explain authenticated deletion requests and decentralized reporting. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass #34 is out. Here is what changed across Nostr this week: **This week:** Sandstr lets newcomers explore simulated Nostr clients without creating keys or installing an app. nostr-mill @OceanSlim adds per-event signer consent and cross-client key recovery, while nostrord @npub1ktxu...zc2h expands relay-hosted groups, signers, moderation, uploads, and highlights. Protocol work spans Nostr event formats, wallet connections, relay discovery, napplets, Marmot, and Concord; the deep dives explain relay-assisted search and portable highlights. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass #33 is out. Here is what changed across Nostr this week: Welcome back to Nostr Compass, your weekly guide to Nostr. This week: Amethyst 1.13.1 @Amethyst follows version 1.13.0's Nostr-app launch with NIP-29 host-relay authentication and authenticated Blossom-download retries. Code Call @Tom keeps remote coding sessions moving from a phone, GitWorkshop (@npub15qyd...yejr) coordinates maintainers and repository synchronization, and Mosaico (@npub1l2vy...ajft) gives coding agents a shared Nostr awareness layer. Nostrology (@Whisper) maps how profiles divide read and write duties across their published relay lists. Android releases from Mafrend @Mafrend, Hanami @npub1m2jp...3wgu, and Cordn (@npub1atv4...84q8) lead the tagged releases, while FIPS adds an OpenWrt access layer (@npub19wav...8p6k) and an open PR proposes a FreeBSD port. Protocol coverage reports NIPs, BUDs, NAPs, Marmot, Gamma Markets, Concord, and NWC, while Six Years of Nostr Julys follows July changes from early domain lookup through relay-group state. Read the full issue: View article →

Nostr Compass #32 is out. @Gunnar Stødle (IndieSats) retires custodial artist keys and its whitelist, opens publishing, and makes its 2% track split optional. @npub1ktxu...zc2h (Nostrord) ships v2.3.0 with group moderation and onion relays while five NIP-29 changes merge. Divine Mobile 1.0.17 adds durable NIP-17 delivery and strict TLS validation, while Armada v0.37.0 opens Buzz workspaces from a second client. @Amethyst (Amethyst) reaches 88 merged PRs with Desktop NIP-88 polls, and @npub15dc3...yv6e (Shopstr) binds payment validation to signed receipts and server-side prices. Read the full issue for Snort EOSE-proven cache synchronization, nak NIP-34 workflows, and the NIP-42/NIP-43 access-control deep dive. View article →

Nostr Compass #31 is out. @npub1hruj...f3yh (Vector) moves group chats from Marmot to the open Concord protocol, and @Amethyst (Amethyst) ships its own clean-room implementation days later. @Vincenzo Palazzo (Sonar) splits off from @npub17slp...w9r8 (Bitchat) with a cross-platform alpha, and @npub1wmr3...g240 (Divine Mobile) ships at-rest encryption and ProofMode provenance. Read the full issue for NIP-99, Gamma Markets, and this week's open NIP proposals. View quoted note →

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Nostr Compass Podcast #16 is out. Amethyst ships six releases in three days, adding pinned notes, NIP-86 relay management, and NIP-62 Request to Vanish. NIP-5A merges, defining how to host static websites under Nostr keypairs using Blossom storage. White Noise fixes relay churn with quorum-based publishing and scoped ephemeral sessions. Flotilla adds voice rooms, email login, and proof-of-work DMs. Nymchat adopts Marmot for MLS-encrypted group chats with NIP-17 fallback. nospeak launches 1.0 as a no-signup encrypted messenger. Calendar by Form* reaches v1.0.0, Amber adds mnemonic recovery, and Schemata ships 21 PRs across four releases. Plus: Nostr VPN roster sync, Igloo FROST threshold signing on iOS, Nalgorithm relevance-ranked feeds, TENEX RAG vector stores, and 10 open NIP proposals including agent reputation, paid API announcements, and LNURL-auth key derivation. Deep dives into NIP-5A (Static Websites) and NIP-62 (Request to Vanish) with @Tim Bouma , @marcan0, @vinney...axkl, @npub1jlrs...ynqn, @Calva, @Max and @npub1szgd...v73y. https://podcast.nostrcompass.org/naddr1qvzqqqr4vcpzqa6e2nmnzsgjfzdy520vdy4hywr06c9ue6crpr2zxyq749uu275qqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqp7etsd9ek7er995cnwde4xvmnydf3xcunsded095hq7ngvaenxusjnh9wl #podcast #nostr

Nostr Compass Podcast #12 is out. We unpack outbox benchmarks, ContextVM's MCP, and MDK's public release. We also run through this week's releases and NIP updates. Then we trace five Februaries of Nostr from the 2021 rewrite to 2026 infrastructure growth. Read the issue at nostrcompass.org. https://podcast.nostrcompass.org/naddr1qvzqqqr4vcpzqa6e2nmnzsgjfzdy520vdy4hywr06c9ue6crpr2zxyq749uu275qqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqp7etsd9ek7er995cnwde5xqurgwphxscnjwpdd4shjurp0q6x76sy36rd6 #podcast #nostr

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 → @npub1w4us...0jr5 @Amethyst @Derek Ross @npub1dvmc...3jdm @npub1jlrs...ynqn @npub1wmr3...g240 @npub1dx5q...88sj @npub19wav...8p6k @Form* @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 @fiatjaf @npub1zl3g...jajh @Nostur @npub18m76...q955 @gandlaf21 @npub1zxu6...cx2y @npub1w5rg...eu4t @npub1mfus...pf33 @White Noise

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

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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: @npub1hqlx...gspw v1.0, Applesauce v5.0, AI agent supervision in TENEX, and notable work across @npub18m76...q955, @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. @J.G.Montoya @hzrd149 @npub1qqqq...rfkq @npub1gcxz...nj5z @Max

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