=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @The Daniel 🖖 “we, here, the tiny handful of us using Nostr might be the only people in the entire world who care about free speech enough to want to protect it.” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 45031934 - Users: 1195150 - Trusted users: 187745 - Events: 613689586 - Posts: 163353365 - Zaps: 5514634 - Zap amount: 2546778742 sats According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 34,070, compared to 32,162 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 2,609, compared to 805 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 10,279,977, compared to 8,584,091 sats the week before - Total events: 2,275,515, compared to 2,331,002 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. What’s the status of Nostr.Band? @Soapbox 2. Nostr lets you build community 3. Lana Direct Messages based on NOSTR 4. From Likes to Sats: How Nostr Changes the Game

Nostr: A New Model for Content Creation and Payment | Onramp MENA posted on the topic | LinkedIn

From Likes to Sats: How Nostr Changes the Game Traditional social media runs on attention. But decentralized protocols like Nostr are showing a n...

5. A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm

Instagram

Jake Woodhouse on Instagram: "A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm What would a truly open social media network look like? @paulinthejungle and I explore the vision behind Nostr and Primal, a world where users hold their own keys, control their feeds, and own their digital identity. Watch the full episode: https://jakewoodhouse.link/ep84-youtube #bitcoin #crypto #nostr #investing #bitcoin2025 #primal #nostr"

1 likes, 0 comments - jakewoodhouseio on September 23, 2025: "A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm What would a truly ope...

#media_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. PODSTR - New tool A Nostr-powered podcast platform for single creators that blends decentralized publishing with Podcasting 2.0. It supports npub-authenticated publishing, Blossom or external hosting, rich metadata, Lightning payments, auto-generated RSS feeds, a mobile-friendly player, and community interaction through comments, zaps, and social features - all built on open Nostr protocols. Developed by: @Derek Ross Source:

GitHub

GitHub - derekross/podstr: A application that marries Nostr and Podcasting 2.0

A application that marries Nostr and Podcasting 2.0 - derekross/podstr

2. White Noise - v0.1.4 White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr, using the MLS protocol for encrypted group messaging. This release brings a major backend refactor for improved stability, performance, and relay handling, alongside Android-specific security fixes and numerous bug resolutions. It also adds features like editable group names, secure message drafts, and a key package management screen. With redesigned chat sheets, better emoji/reaction handling, skeleton loaders, and consistent UI polish, White Noise is now faster, more stable, and more user-friendly across platforms. Developed by: @JeffG , @npub1peps...grxw, @npub1qwu2...dmjg, @npub1gcs5...e8d0, @untreu, @npub1jgm0...669p, Delcin Maria Koilraj Source:

GitHub

Release v0.1.4 · marmot-protocol/whitenoise-archive

Big Plans... 🦫 Thank you to everyone who tested v0.1.3 and gave us feedback. As the saying goes, everyone has a plan until they get punched in t...

3. Gitplaza - v0.10.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized for managing Git-related activity on the Nostr network. In this release, it introduces a web-of-trust indicator based on follows, upvotes, reposts, and proof-of-work. Users can toggle pubkey selection in feeds, toggle content types, retry keystore lookups, and see profile names of referenced events. Performance improvements include discarding outdated query tasks, optimizing subscription filters, and reducing database queries. Bug fixes address deadlocks, and enhancements allow loading names in Zap receipts and making top Zap chips interactive. Developed by: @dluvian Source:

Cookie monster!

4. Coracle - 0.6.23 Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol focused on enhancing the user experience with features like relay selection and management, web-of-trust based moderation, content recommendations, and privacy protection. The latest release adds a loading indicator when following or unfollowing users and introduces relay fallback support for Zaps. Developed by: @hodlbod Source:

GitHub

Release 0.6.23 · coracle-social/coracle

What's Changed Show loading when following/unfollowing Add relay fallback to zaps Full Changelog: 0.6.20...0.6.23

5. Mostro - v0.14.5 Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling users to trade directly over a decentralized network. This release includes a bug fix ensuring that makers are always notified when their orders are taken, improving the reliability of order notifications. Developed by: @negrunch Source:

GitHub

GitHub - MostroP2P/mostro at v0.14.5

Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr - GitHub - MostroP2P/mostro at v0.14.5

6. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 - v3.13.0 Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning Browser Extension that brings deep Lightning and Nostr integration to the web, providing a wallet interface for multiple Lightning nodes and a key signer for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin. This release adds important features and fixes, including LNbits connector improvements, support for connecting CLN nodes through NWC, a Ukrainian locale, a right-click menu to pay invoices or addresses, revamped “Pin Extension” screen layout, metadata support for transactions, and various UI and bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: @npub1gv5s...hgdr, @René Aaron, Dunsin Source:

GitHub

Release 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 · getAlby/lightning-browser-extension

TL;DR 🚀 This release brings important fixes and new features: ⚡ LNbits connector fixes 🔗 CLN nodes can now connect through NWC 🌐 Added U...

7. Coop - v0.2.10 Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, it brings several improvements, including a refactored input component for better performance, fixes for double messages and duplicate replies, and a new context menu for quick profile viewing. Additionally, it now consistently calls get_public_key on NIP-46, ensuring more reliable key handling. These updates make Coop more stable, user-friendly, and efficient for everyday messaging. This was the latest release, and there was the release of v0.2.9 last week. Developed by: @reya Source:

GitHub

Release v0.2.10 · lumehq/coop

What's Changed chore: refactor the input component by @reyamir in #165 chore: fix double message on sent by @reyamir in #166 chore: fix duplicate ...

8. Bitchat - v1.4.3-actual Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global connectivity, eliminating the need for accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. In this release, it introduces a general localization framework with support for multiple languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Nepali, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Arabic, and Hebrew. Additionally, it now includes Mermaid diagrams for packet structures and externalized strings to improve localization. These updates make Bitchat more accessible to a global audience while enhancing clarity and developer support. Developed by: @jack, Mattia Marchese Source:

GitHub

Release 1.4.3 · permissionlesstech/bitchat

localization release: added general localization framework languages: english, italian, spanish, german, brazilian portugese, chinese, nepalise, i...

#tools_nostr_recap

=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Android Signer (NIP-55) - New Developer tool A Nostr-based library that allows applications to interact with Android signers following the NIP-55 protocol. It provides secure, standardized, and verifiable signing of Nostr events directly on Android devices, enabling developers to integrate trusted event signing, authentication, and value-for-value operations within their apps. Developed by: @npub1drvp...seet Source:

GitHub

GitHub - rust-nostr/android-signer: A library to interact with Android Signers (NIP-55)

A library to interact with Android Signers (NIP-55) - rust-nostr/android-signer

2. Mostro Core - v0.6.54 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. In this release it fixes issues by removing targets that do not support dynamic linking and includes general release updates for stability. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.6.54 · MostroP2P/mostro-core

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

3. Mostro CLI - v0.13.6 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for interacting with the Mostro P2P Lightning Network exchange on Nostr. This release updates removed Android builds, eliminated unnecessary dependencies (like sqlx, protobuf, and openssl) from GitHub Actions and Rust workflows, added strict tag checking in cliff.toml, improved changelog handling, and bumped the release version for consistency. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v0.13.5 and v0.13.4 also last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.13.6 · MostroP2P/mostro-cli

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

#dev-tools_nostr_recap

====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. CFRelay - 0.0.4 CFRelay is a Nostr relay built on Cloudflare Workers, offering a lightweight and easily deployable relay solution. This release improves configuration management by moving many settings into wrangler.toml for easier setup and adds support for Cloudflare one-click deploy, making deployment more seamless and user-friendly. Developed by: @DASHU Source:

GitHub

Release 0.0.4 · haorendashu/cfrelay

Change list: Move many config to file wrangler.toml . Add support to cloudflare oneclick deploy .

2. Nosflare - v7.4.11 Nosflare is a Nostr relay (a server-side application that handles event storage and distribution) built serverless using Cloudflare Worker and D1 database. This release includes a hotfix that lowers the archive batch size and adds daily database optimization. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases of v7.4.10, v7.4.9, v7.4.8, v7.3.8, and v7.3.7 last week. Developed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v7.4.11 · Spl0itable/nosflare

Hotfix: major code revert required to fix bug that allowed for runaway durable object billable usage Hotfix: fixed event tags in archival process

#relays_nostr_recap

=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @TKay “Freedom of speech is not under attack. People willingly lock themselves in cells.” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 44867082 - Users: 1194210 - Trusted users: 195030 - Events: 611323979 - Posts: 162601567 - Zaps: 5479278 - Zap amount: 2536762943 sats According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 32,029, compared to 31,931 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 672, compared to 671 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 8,583,958, compared to 7,308,787 sats the week before - Total events: 2,326,691, compared to 2,666,715 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. How to Save & Share Nostr Notes as Images @primal #education_nostr_recap

============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. Building Bitcoin Use Cases and Online Communities with Nostr @WendyDing, @calvadev⚡️, @npub1gv5s...hgdr, Will Casarin 2. Nostr: A Wholesome Social Media Experience? 3. Damus vs Amethyst: iOS User Shares Nostr App 4. Nostr is much more than just a twitter alternative @Derek Ross #media_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Nostrmo - 3.4.0 Nostrmo is a cross-platform Nostr client built with Flutter, supporting Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. This release focuses on a new relay pool implementation along with several bug fixes and enhancements. Key updates include support for index relays and proof-of-work (POW), UI changes to event components, improved parsing of messages using NIP-44 before falling back to NIP-04, adjustments to emoji link handling, a larger close button for image previews, and a confirmation step before logout. It also fixes issues with follow packs, moving them to the first tab for easier access, making this version more reliable and user-friendly. Developed by: @DASHU Source:

GitHub

Release 3.4.0 · haorendashu/nostrmo

Nostrmo 3.4.0 release. This version mainly change the relay pool implement and bugfix. Change list: relay pool implement. Add index relay support....

2. Amber - v4.0.2 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that keeps users’ nsec keys secure in a dedicated app. This release introduces improvements such as building from the local repo via Dockerfile, displaying all accounts in the backup screen, and automatically showing the backup dialog if any account requires backup. It also enables Gradle configuration cache for faster builds, fixes migration issues from older versions, and corrects a broken README link, making the app more stable and user-friendly. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v4.0.2-pre1 last week. Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source:

GitHub

Release Release v4.0.2 · greenart7c3/Amber

Amber 4.0.2 Change Dockerfile to build from the local repo Show all accounts in the backup screen Show the backup dialog if any account needs back...

3. Aegis - v0.0.1-beta Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer designed to securely sign events and support multiple connection methods, making it easier for users to manage their Nostr activity across different platforms. The v0.0.1-beta release marks its initial beta version, introducing key features such as support for NIP-46 (local relay), which allows communication with apps via a local relay, and NIP-55 (Content Resolver), enhancing the ability to fetch and resolve content on Nostr. Additionally, this release enables multi-account login, giving users the flexibility to manage multiple Nostr identities from a single interface. Developed by: ZharlieW Source:

GitHub

Release Beta v0.0.1 Released · ZharlieW/Aegis

Aegis Beta v0.0.1 Released Added support for NIP-46 (local relay) Added support for NIP-55 (Content Resolver) Enabled multi-account login

4. Flotilla - 1.2.4 Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to communicate and organize discussions across multiple relays in a familiar chat interface. This release adds direct message alerts and a dedicated alert settings page, provides instructions for key downloads, and introduces an option for relays to strip signatures. It now detects relays that mostly refuse requests, compresses and uploads profile images, defaults to the system theme, updates the icon set with a refactored inclusion method, and switches from localStorage to Capacitor’s preferences for storage. These improvements enhance usability, reliability, and overall user experience across the app. This was the biggest release, and the latest release was 1.2.5 last week. Developed by: @hodlbod Source:

GitHub

Release 1.2.4 · coracle-social/flotilla

What's Changed Add direct message alerts Add alert settings page Add instructions to key download Add option that allows relays to strip signature...

5. Coop - v0.2.8 Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. This release improves user profile handling, enables resending of failed messages, and refactors event fetching. It also adds a “seen-on-relays” viewer per message, detects user DM relays when opening the chat panel, and includes additional UI improvements for a smoother messaging experience. Developed by: @reya Source:

GitHub

Release v0.2.8 · lumehq/coop

What's Changed chore: improve handling of user profiles by @reyamir in #146 feat: resend failed messages by @reyamir in #147 chore: refactor event...

6. Primal Android App - 2.5.11 The Primal Android app is Primal's Android client for Nostr, enabling secure messaging, live streaming, and content interaction. This release introduces Picture-in-Picture support and background playback for live streams, proper chat and zap loading logic, breath animations on large streaming pills, and automatic updates for stale streams. Connectivity indicators and video handling have been improved, while padding, deep-linking crashes, and overlapping or slow-loading zap items have been fixed. The release also enables publishing profile metadata with enhanced privacy, removes click indicators from stream chats, reduces the live stream stale threshold to 1 hour, and adds a ZapStore publish flow. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source:

GitHub

GitHub - PrimalHQ/primal-android-app at 2.5.11

Primal's Android app for Nostr. Contribute to PrimalHQ/primal-android-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

7. Bitchat - 1.4.2 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app using both local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and the Nostr protocol for global reach, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release adds options to enable or disable Tor for privacy and gates default relay connections behind mutual favorites. Other updates include preventing GitHub language stats skewing, setting the macOS app category to Social Media, and centralizing the marketing version as a single source of truth. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of 1.4.1 and 1.4.0 (geotags) last week. Developed by: @jack, Islam Source:

GitHub

Release 1.4.2 · permissionlesstech/bitchat

gate tor/nostr connections: add option to turn tor on and off gate default relay connections behind mutual favs What's Changed Prevent Github La...

#tools_nostr_recap

=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Mostro-CLI - v0.13.3 Mostro-CLI is a command-line client for Mostro (the Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr). The latest release, v0.13.3, delivers key improvements, including a fix for the wrong key in the execute_admin_add_solver function, enhancements to the changelog, and updates to cargo.toml. It also introduces a new helper for handling all admin dispute commands, alongside several bug fixes and refinements. This release strengthens reliability while simplifying dispute management and admin operations. There were also releases of v0.13.2, v0.13.1, and v0.13.0 also last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.13.3 · MostroP2P/mostro-cli

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

2. Snstr - v0.1.4 Snstr (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) is a developer tool for enhancing Nostr development across Node, React Native, and Web, providing secure and environment-aware cryptographic functions. This release lazy-loads Node crypto only in Node, ensures environment-specific NIP‑04 selection, and strengthens decrypt behavior to throw on wrong-key attempts. It hardens RN/Web entries to avoid accidental Node imports, updates security validation, and relaxes timing thresholds for improved test stability. Existing behavior remains compatible with synchronous NIP‑04 signatures and retains 0.1.3 improvements. RN/Expo users should install snstr@0.1.4, clear the Metro cache, and import react-native-get-random-values once at startup. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.1.3 last week. Developed by: Austin Kelsay Source:

GitHub

Release 0.1.4 · AustinKelsay/snstr

Highlights Prevents Metro/Expo from bundling Node crypto by lazy‑loading it only in Node (eval(require('crypto'))). Environment‑aware NIP‑04...

#dev-tools_nostr_recap

=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Rasha “Big Tech sells your data. Nostr gives you your voice. ⚡” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 44705120 - Users: 1193410 - Trusted users: 195328 - Events: 608988686 - Posts: 161800348 - Zaps: 5447800 - Zap amount: 2527296192 sats According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 31,931, compared to 35,202 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 671, compared to 750 plebs the week before - Total zap receivers: 157, compared to 172 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 7,308,787, compared to 10,235,498 sats the week before - Total events: 2,661,742, compared to 2,281,590 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. Nostr zaps make Instagram likes look pathetic @paul keating, @Jake Woodhouse 2. Uncensorable Future @npub1jn0d...r2qa 3. Building a Life of Freedom 4. How Nostr Makes Bitcoin Feel Real 5. From LinkedIn Jail to Nostr & Bluesky 6. Bitcoin, Nostr and Sovereign Engineering with Gigi @Gigi #media_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Plebs vs. Zombies - New Tool Plebs vs. Zombies is a Nostr utility that helps you keep your follow list healthy by identifying and cleaning up dormant accounts. Over time, inactive npubs can pile up like “zombies,” bloating your following list, consuming bandwidth, and putting extra load on relays. This tool makes it easy to spot those inactive users and manage them, so your Nostr experience stays light, efficient, and alive. Developed by: @The Daniel 🖖 Source:

GitHub

GitHub - dmnyc/plebs-vs-zombies: Kill the zombies taking over your Nostr follow list! They're dead, but refuse to die. 🔪🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

Kill the zombies taking over your Nostr follow list! They're dead, but refuse to die. 🔪🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️ - dmnyc/plebs-vs-zombies

2. Amber - v4.0.1 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that keeps users’ nsec keys secure in a dedicated app, ensuring safe event signing. This release fixes reproducibility issues with added README instructions, improves validation when sending events from different users, ensures proper reject responses when using intents, corrects field updates on the edit permissions screen, and updates the project to Gradle 9. This is the latest release, and there was also the release of v4.0.1-pre1 last week. Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source:

GitHub

Release Release v4.0.1 · greenart7c3/Amber

Amber 4.0.1 Fix reproducibility and added instruction in the README Fix the validation of the current logged in user when sending a event from an...

3. Coop - v0.2.7 Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. This release improves handling of user profiles, introduces the ability to resend failed messages, and includes a refactor of event fetching for better performance and stability. This is the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.2.6 last week. Developed by: @reya Source:

GitHub

Release v0.2.7 · lumehq/coop

What's Changed chore: improve handling of user profiles by @reyamir in #146 feat: resend failed messages by @reyamir in #147 chore: refactor event...

4. Bitchat - 1.3.4 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture, combining local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and the internet-based Nostr protocol for global reach, all without accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. The latest release, v1.3.4, known as the “tor release,” enables Tor by default to enhance IP address privacy, improves Nostr relay error handling, and delivers numerous bug fixes for a more secure and stable messaging experience. Developed by: @jack Source:

GitHub

Release 1.3.4 · permissionlesstech/bitchat

tor release: tor by default to provide IP address privacy better nostr relay error handling many bug fixes

#tools_nostr_recap

=============================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =============================== @Space Dog “Nostr is the most wholesome community in the internet.” #quote_nostr_recap