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=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Ryan “You're free to post what you want. Relay operators are free to host what they want. You're free to host your own relay. Users are free to block what they want. Clients are free to block what they want. Users are free to use whatever client they want.” #quote_nostr_recap
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=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! 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. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. NOSTR Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨ @Daniella ✨ #education_nostr_recap
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============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. This is how Nostr benefits users 2. Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr @Max 3. I am sure these comments will make some plebs @the8thHouse @npub1jnzz...dgw7 4. This is well said: 100% agree @Jake Woodhouse #media_nostr_recap
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================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Flotilla - 1.3.0 Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client designed around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to chat, manage spaces, and interact in a decentralized way. This release introduces optional badges and sounds for notifications, improves link rendering, restores Blossom feature detection for spaces, and enhances the light theme. It also adds more signer status information, simplifies navigation for adding spaces, enables QR code scanning for invite links, streamlines wallet setup with improved receive address settings, switches mobile storage to Capacitor file API, and fixes duplicate DMs. Developed by: @ hodlbod Source: 2. Coop - v0.2.11 Coop is a simple and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, the focus was on improving message handling, with refactoring of the message sending process and follow-up fixes to ensure smoother and more efficient communication within the app. Developed by: @reya Source: 3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1 Yakihonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter that provides a seamless Nostr experience, allowing users to interact with relays, manage keys securely, and engage with content across platforms. In this release, the app introduced a redesigned app bar with new Black and Ivory themes, a database-first architecture supporting offline mode, relay orbits for easier relay discovery, Nsec bunker integration, updated content boxes and video types, and default custom reactions. Performance optimizations were applied across feeds, notifications, content sharing, and searching, alongside clickable relay URLs, improved handling of Nostr schemes, and various bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: Boukhalfa Seddik Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. Nosflare - v7.4.13 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built using Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database, designed for scalability and efficiency without traditional server infrastructure. In this release, a hotfix was introduced to address an issue where durable objects were not utilizing the hibernation API properly. This fix improves resource management and relay performance, ensuring more stable and cost-efficient operation. Developed by: @Luxas Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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=========================== #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
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=========================== #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 image - Total zap senders: 2,609, compared to 805 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 10,279,977, compared to 8,584,091 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,275,515, compared to 2,331,002 events the week before image Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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================================== #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: 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 , @pepi, @Mubarak Ibrahim, @npub1gcs5...e8d0, @untreu, @J.G.Montoya.Hodl, Delcin Maria Koilraj Source: 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: 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: 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: 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: @pavanj, @René Aaron, Dunsin Source: 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: 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: #tools_nostr_recap
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=========================================== #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: @Yuki Kishimoto Source: 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: 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: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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====================================== #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: 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: #relays_nostr_recap
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=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @TKay “Freedom of speech is not under attack. People willingly lock themselves in cells.” #quote_nostr_recap
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=========================== #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 image - Total zap senders: 672, compared to 671 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 8,583,958, compared to 7,308,787 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,326,691, compared to 2,666,715 events the week before image Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. How to Save & Share Nostr Notes as Images @primal #education_nostr_recap
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============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. Building Bitcoin Use Cases and Online Communities with Nostr @WendyDing, @calvadev⚡️, @pavanj, 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
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================================== #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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: #tools_nostr_recap
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=========================================== #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: 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: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Rasha “Big Tech sells your data. Nostr gives you your voice. ⚡” #quote_nostr_recap
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=========================== #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 image - Total zap senders: 671, compared to 750 plebs the week before image - Total zap receivers: 157, compared to 172 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 7,308,787, compared to 10,235,498 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,661,742, compared to 2,281,590 events the week before image Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap