Thank you so much for the support @OpenSats!
It helps us keep building towards our vision in an open, decentralized and, most importantly, the right way.
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routstr
_@routstr.com
npub130mz...l29s
A Decentralised LLM Protocol & Routing Marketplace
Check our docs:
https://docs.routstr.com
Try the chat app:
https://chat.routstr.com
Github:
https://github.com/routstr
Routstr started with a very simple idea by @npub18gr2...u9su, "what if we used a Cashu token as Bearer token to pay for AI". Without cashu, we wouldn't be where we are right now.
Cashu is amazing ❤
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Announcing Routstrd: The Only Tool you Need for Uncensorable Access to AI
Routstrd is unlike any other inference provider out there. Because it's not an inference provider, it's a tool, powered by Nostr and Bitcoin, that works for you.
A tool that:
1. Constantly searches Nostr for Routstr/AI nodes
2. Finds the cheapest available provider for the model you like
3. Falls back to the next best one based on availability
Because there's an open competition between Routstr nodes to offer the best price, latency and uptime, you will never be disappointed. We have 8-9 Routstr nodes right now.
To get started run these 3 commands:
1. bun install -g routstrd
2. routstrd onboard
(choose your favorite agent here, Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Pi Agent have quick installations for now, you can integrate it with any app on your machine)
3. routstrd receive 2100
(scan a Lightning invoice and voila, start your agent)
The Nostr + Bitcoin experience just became unbeatable! No KYC, no credit cards, no permissions.
It also has a beautiful TUI that keeps you up to date on what's happening.
I've been using Routstrd for a month now. It was easier to battle test it if you're its primary user.
Btw the competition between Routstr nodes is getting heated right now and thus you're getting the best price for your sats.
Bitcoiners get the best price! And with Routstrd, Bitcoiners also get the best experience.
Please try it out and let @redshift know if you face any issues. Thank you @Thefux and @npub1u37h...w8vy for testing this.
New Release!
Routstr Core v0.4.0: With Open Nostr Analytics
Major Changes:
1. Open Analytics:
Routstr nodes now periodically share combined usage stats on Nostr.
(Enabled by default, can be disabled in the settings)
And as a user, you can now look at how the Routstr network is doing here:
We've done 1.2M sats in volume this month across 7 nodes. Just getting started, we're optimistic that we'll grow this 10x and 100x in the near future.
2. Child Keys:
Teams can now manage apikeys and child keys for their teams on using a single upstream like api.routstr.com (Platform UI still in beta, pls report bugs: https://beta.platform.routstr.com).
3. Admin Dashboard Redesigned:
Now it's slicker with fewer bugs. Thanks to @npub1u37h...w8vy our UI wizard. Helping you manage your models and upstreams better.
4. Routstr Node Upstreams:
You can now add other Routstr nodes as upstream and your node will pay for other nodes with lightning/cashu. api.routstr.com will be doing only Routstr node upstreams going forward, you can use this as your base URL easily.
5. X-Cashu Caching:
A long awaited feature where x-cashu refunds are caching for a while before the node deletes them. If the user forgets to store refunds, you won't lose funds.
Plus other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Please upgrade your nodes by pulling the latest from main and run `docker compose up --build -d`.
Routstr
Routstr - Decentralized AI Inference Router
Access top AI models with Bitcoin Lightning payments. Permissionless, private, and decentralized.
Introducing OpenClaw Sovereign Setup!
Deploy a self-sovereign AI that:
• Pays for its fuel (inference costs with Cashu)
• Pays for its car (server time via Lightning)
• Runs completely sovereign with a Cashu wallet
→ Setup in 6 minutes with 2 Lightning payments
→ Run it now:
Built on @npub1lnvp...7vjj + @routstr + Bitcoin/Cashu
PS: Use VSCode's terminal for best QR rendering.
🔁 Script is safe to re-run if the connection hiccups.
OpenClaw Setup - Run Your Own AI Agent
Deploy your own OpenClaw AI agent in under 5 minutes with a single Bitcoin Lightning payment.
Routstr Chat v0.1.0 Stable Release
Image Generation, Multi-modal Inputs (images, pdfs, etc), Nostr Wallet Connect and more
We're proud to announce a battle tested chat frontend is ready for your daily use.
Now it comes with:
1. Image generation for as little as 5 sats (on Nano Banana)
2. Image editing with image inputs
3. PDF/files summarization
4. Nostr Wallet Connect for seamless topups.
5. Automatic Routstr node selection based on price (among 8 nodes)
6. Highly stable NIP60 wallet to never lose sats
7. Robust API testing to ensure stability
Download Local++ on the @Zapstore 
routstr-core v0.1.3 is live:
biggest improvement is we could reduce the minimum required amount per request by dynamically checking the length of given prompt and also considering max_tokens
GitHub
Release ⬆️v0.1.3 · Routstr/routstr-core
Routstr v0.1.3 — 2025-09-16
Highlights
DB-backed settings with live updates: Env vars seed on first run; DB is the source of truth (except DATAB...
v0.1.2 of routstr-core is live:
Every node now automatically publishes their information to nostr so it can be discovered!
Announcing Routstr Core v0.1.0: Come Run Routstr Nodes with Us
With this stable release, anyone can run Routstr nodes and help decentralize AI access to anyone, anywhere on earth!
Come run a Routstr node and serve models from OpenAI, Anthropic, x-ai, Google, Replicate, or OpenRouter (charges 5% extra) to anyone on the open internet and earn Bitcoin via Cashu/Lightning.
With v0.1.0, we made Routstr incredibly stable, but this is still a Beta version. If you come across a problem, we’d appreciate it if you report the bug to us on our Github.
Along with making Routstr more robust, we added these new features to Routstr:
1. Multiple Cashu Mint Support: Users and nodes don’t need to use the same mint
2. Multi-Currency Support: Sat and msats are both supported right now
3. Pay per Request with X-Cashu Headers: Send a Cashu token with enough balance and get the change back along with the response
4. Admin Dashboard and Withdrawals: A simple dashboard to look your and your users’ balances, more updates coming
production is stable!
We are proposing NIP-91: Discoverability for routstr providers 
GitHub
Add NIP-91: Routstr Provider Discoverability by shroominic · Pull Request #1987 · nostr-protocol/nips
This PR introduces NIP-91, which defines a standardized way to discover Routstr AI proxy providers on Nostr.
Overview
Routstr provides privacy-pre...
we just spend 120k SATs to create this new cashu nip60 implementation in python
120k SATs because claude4 opus in cursor costs a lot
we needed this internally to improve the proxy implementations so why not publish it as separate library
Client Challenge
One single request to Claude 4 Opus can cost $5,4 at context and completion maxed out. (~5k sats)
Before the request there is no way to estimate the cost so we are required to implement a minimum balance that you need to put in your cashu token to be able to use the model.
This cost varies by model so for example
Gemini 2.5 Flash has a maximum cost of
$0.2 ~180 sats
Our public onion endpoint:
http://mcfftxiqtpwvrsly4..titn3frmf55frcleid.onion
If you want to host your own provider and appear in the marketplace just post a nostr message, mention @routstr and add your onion url like in this message. We have a script in our backend that searches nostr for these messages and then includes your provider.
At routstr were building the first marketplace to buy and sell LLM APIs using cashu tokens.
Using our proxy you can monetize any OpenAI API compatible LLM server on a per token basis at msat precision (e.g. your local hosted LlamaCPP server)
As User you can just put a cashu note into the api-key field of your llm application and as long as the balance lasts, you can leave the same note.
We dont have everything build out yet and soon we’re getting the marketplace onto nostr so people can list their own nodes.
To then ensure trust and quality we are working on a separate evaluation system so you know which nodes provide a good service.
A bitcoin technology
Access o4 Mini High with a simple API call using your Cashu token for authentication.
