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nostrrecap 1 month ago
#10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Replicatr - New Developer Tool Replicatr is a background daemon designed to automatically monitor Nostr relay selections and replicate user events according to the outbox model. It ensures that a user’s published Nostr events are efficiently synchronized and distributed across multiple relays, maintaining data consistency, redundancy, and availability within the decentralized Nostr network. Developed by: @ hodlbod Source: 2. Aegis - v0.3.0 Aegis is a simple and cross-platform Nostr signer designed to securely manage keys and sign events while supporting multiple connection methods for seamless interoperability across clients. This introduces the ability to set up a local relay directly within the app and expands support to iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows, making it more versatile for users across platforms. Developed by: @ZharlieW Source: 3. Gitplaza - v0.17.0 Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling git-related activities and repositories within the Nostr ecosystem. This release introduces several major upgrades, including follow/unfollow functionality, enhanced profile editing (covering relays, contact lists, and hashtags), npub copying, and improved UI elements. It now integrates blog posts into inbox and activity feeds, refines git issue and patch displays, and improves performance by prioritizing key event publishing and data loading while reducing unnecessary allocations. The update also simplifies the interface by removing the Upvote section and noisy reactions/reposts. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @corndalorian “We have the freest free speech in the world here on Nostr.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
=========================== #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 860 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 3,851, compared to 2,580 users the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 47,962, compared to 40,668 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 3,865, compared to 2,668 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 7,656,984, compared to 8,246,204 sats the week before image - Total events: 10,170,316, compared to 2,771,870 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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nostrrecap 1 month ago
============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. How to Build Something New on Nostr @nextblock, @Derek Ross 2. Nostr For Content Creators @MAKE SONGS LONGER 3. Nostr For Social Apps @ManiMe 4. Nostr Events in PNG 5. Hivetalk: The Nostr-enabled video conferencing tool @HiveTalk, @BITKARROT 6. Nostr & Zaps Explained #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Noscall - v0.1.0 - New tool NosCall is a secure audio and video calling application built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encrypted communication with full cross-platform support. This first release introduces compatibility with NIP-100 clients like 0xchat, along with Bunker/Amber login support, call history management, voice and video calling features, and a contact list for seamless connection. Developed by: @sana Source: 2. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.16.39 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral and persistent chat client built on the Nostr protocol, integrating with Bitchat for anonymous and temporary messaging. This release introduces forward secrecy for disappearing private messages, which can be enabled from settings, and includes a hotfix to ensure messages are correctly routed to the right threads. This was the latest release and there were also some few more releases last week. Developed by: @Luxas Source: 3. Primal Android App - 2.5.20 Primal Android App is Primal’s official Android application for Nostr, providing users with a full-featured interface for live streams, notifications, and content interaction. This release adds a replay button for streams, new notification settings for live streams and reply-to-reply messages, and improves the article content parser for images and notes. It also fixes issues with zap receipts, timestamps, stream rewinding, keyboard dismissal, player controls, and wallet display, while upgrading acinq libraries to resolve a 16KB issue on Google Play. This was the biggest release of the week and the latest release was 2.5.21. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Nostr Web Publisher (nw-publisher) - New Developer tool Nostr Web Publisher (nw-publisher) is a full-featured command-line interface (CLI) tool for managing static websites on Nostr. It allows developers and creators to deploy sites as signed Nostr events, track versions, monitor relay status, synchronize content across multiple relays, and clean up outdated deployments, all through a single, streamlined interface. This tool empowers users to efficiently maintain decentralized websites while ensuring authenticity, version control, and smooth multi-relay operation. Developed by: Karim Hassan Source: 2. Mostro CLI - v0.14.2 Mostro CLI is a command-line interface tool for Mostro, allowing users to view all new replaceable events from the Mostro platform. This release introduces automatic updates of child orders in the database to prevent errors in flow, a major cosmetic refactor that beautifies terminal output for better readability, and various bug fixes including corrections in the getdm command and GH Actions tests. Additional improvements include 78 new unit tests with documentation, clippy error fixes, race condition adjustments, and removal of OpenSSL dependency for cleaner builds, enhancing both usability and reliability. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard, @negrunch Source: 3. Gitplaza - v0.16.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in managing git-related content. This release adds a dropdown for copying event IDs, rebroadcasting events, and viewing event JSON, displays information toasts, allows opening events directly from Nostr URIs, highlights code syntax in markdown, and increases event title size. It also stops banning relays on event mismatch and improves performance by showing loaded events immediately. The release removes the buggy "Show more/less" toggle to simplify the interface and improve reliability. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v0.15.0 last week. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. Nosflare - v7.4.11 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay designed for Cloudflare Workers, utilizing a Cloudflare D1 database and R2 Object Storage for scalable, decentralized message handling. This release includes hotfixes addressing a critical bug that could cause runaway durable object billing and fixes to event tags in the archival process, ensuring stable and efficient relay operation. Developed by: @Luxas Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @paul keating “Nostr is the final destination for your content. Owned by you, viewable in many apps, monetizable, & censorship resistant. This will become more obvious over time” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================== #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: 2,580, compared to 2,552 zaps the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 40,668, compared to 37,499 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,668, compared to 2,847 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 8,246,204, compared to 6,831,789 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,764,277, compared to 2,654,882 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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nostrrecap 2 months ago
============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. First-ever Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 : Q&A session @jack, @Derek Ross, 2. What’s Nostr’s Biggest Allure? @Momo, @npub1fjjg...k8jn 3. NOSTR Social Media Explained: Decentralized Future with Bitcoin & Free Speech 4. What is NOSTR? Decentralized Identity & Rewards #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Coracle - 0.6.25 Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the full power of multiple relays, allowing users to browse, filter, zap, and build custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release, adds the display of “a” tags on highlights and disables imgproxy by default for improved performance and flexibility. Developed by: @ hodlbod Source: 2. Mostro - v0.15.0 Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange platform built on the Lightning Network and Nostr, enabling decentralized trading between users without intermediaries. This release introduces the removal of the OpenSSL dependency in favor of Rust TLS for improved security, adds manifest signature support, and refines order request handling. It also fixes issues related to trade index messaging and payment failure calculations, while improving dispute error messages and overall performance. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v0.15.1 last week. Developed by: @negrunch, @Pinball Wizard, @Catrya, Otso Hirvikangas Source: 3. Flotilla - 1.3.1 Flotilla is an end-user Nostr client designed like Discord, using the concept of “relays as groups” to enable chat and community interactions. This release fixes a memory leak in the storage adapter and reduces the number of annoying toast messages, improving performance and user experience. Developed by: @ hodlbod Source: 4. Bitchat - v1.4.4 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global messaging, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release focuses heavily on localization and modularization, adding new languages, unifying string handling, and refactoring modules like Tor and PeerID services. It also improves private chat deduplication, fixes stale messages and ghost peers, optimizes performance for location notes, enhances QR verification, and addresses various test and build issues to ensure a more stable, secure, and efficient messaging experience across platforms. Developed by: @jack Source: 5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.13.25 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with Bitchat integration. In this release it added the ability to copy user public keys directly from context menus, introduced kind 10000 mute list support for blocking users and keywords, and fixed several bugs, including issues with blocked users’ nicks, geohash explorer resets, and nostr profile data preservation. This was the biggest release and there were also some multiple releases last week. Developed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Gitplaza - v0.14.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling Git-related activities within the Nostr ecosystem. In this release it added features to show repository topics, edit repository events, list maintainers, display all Git servers and websites in the repo view, include nutzap events in the inbox, and populate the hashtag filter with followed hashtags, while improving performance by preventing README.md requests from blocking subsequent actions. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. ContextVM SDK - New Developer tool ContextVM SDK is a JavaScript/TypeScript software development kit that implements the Context Vending Machine Protocol, acting as a bridge between Nostr and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It enables developers to create, expose, and access decentralized computational services, allowing applications to securely exchange contextual data and AI capabilities across distributed networks. Developed by: @Gzuuus Source: 2. Nostr-java - v1.0.1 Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that enables developers to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays with ease. This release refines event handling, adds Sonatype Central publishing credentials, and updates Maven configuration and settings for improved central publishing and API management. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.0 last week. Developed by: @398ja Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. Nosflare - v7.4.14 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built to run on Cloudflare Workers with support for Cloudflare D1 and R2 Object Storage, offering a scalable and efficient relay infrastructure for the Nostr network. The latest update, v7.4.14, introduces a stale session expiry mechanism to improve connection stability and lowers the REQ rate limit per minute to optimize performance and prevent excessive relay load. Developed by: @Luxas Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Derek Ross “Nostr is a village and it's going to take all of us to build it. Don't hold back.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================== #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: 2,552, compared to 1,519 zaps the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 37,499, compared to 35,950 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,847, compared to 2,677 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 6,831,789, compared to 6,292,007 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,651,955, compared to 2,507,267 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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nostrrecap 2 months ago
============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. HOW TO USE NOSTR | Mini tutorial using PRIMAL @Final Step Bitcoin #education_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. Escape The Social Media Matrix with Bitcoin & Nostr @Svetski, @walker 2. Nostr vs RSS 3. No More Nostr Service Providers (NSPs) and Why That Matters @npub10qdp...arpj, @Derek Ross 4. Derek Ross is at Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 5. Vibe Code Mastery for Nostr DMs 6. Identity: Passwords to PIN to Nostr! 7. Nostr in spanish @Jordi Llonch Esteve #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Peridot - New Tool Peridot is a Nostr bunker application for desktop that securely stores and manages your Nostr keys locally, allowing safe signing and relay communication without exposing private keys to external clients. Developed by: @npub1kg4s...w5te Source: 2. Nostr Gatekeeper - New Tool Nostr Gatekeeper is a reliable Nostr Connect bunker that securely handles signing requests and key management, ensuring smooth and safe interaction between Nostr clients and your private keys. Developed by: @hzrd149 Source: 3. Coracle - 0.6.24 Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to unlock the full potential of multiple relays, enabling users to browse, filter, zap, and create custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release introduces the use of a new shipyard public key and includes minor optimizations to improve performance and stability. Developed by: @ hodlbod Source: 4. Primal Android App - 2.5.17 The Primal Android app is an end-user tool for Nostr, providing a feature-rich Android client for browsing, interacting with, and streaming content within the Nostr ecosystem. In this version, it introduced delete repost for notes, live stream caching, rewind and fast-forward with seek bar support, deep link handling, and expanded QR code support for NEVENT, NADDR, and nprofile types. It also improved usability with collapsible stream player, stream control popups, and stream-ended state handling. Numerous fixes addressed UX issues, chat scrolling, zap/message display, stream playback, thread screen jumps, crashes, and video background behavior, while maintenance updates included an upgrade to Kotlin 2.2 and migration to PlayerSurface for note video previews. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: 5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.9.13 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is an end-user Nostr-based chat client designed for both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with integration to Bitchat for anonymous and temporary communications. In version v2.9.13, it introduced default image blurring with optional unblur, and added support for NIP-72 communities, enabling community-based moderation and enhanced control over shared content. Developed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Gitplaza - v0.13.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activities, providing features for browsing repositories, viewing users, and tracking activity with trust indicators. In this release, it added a “Repos” tab and a “People” tab with search bars, introduced a hashtag filter in the activity feed, added repo topic chips, enabled searching for repos in profile views, and displayed trust indicators in various views. It also fixed issues with the top zap chip and removed the now-obsolete “Explore” tab. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Nostr-java - v0.5.1 Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that provides developers with tools to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays. This release, introduces major improvements including enhanced documentation with API references and how-to guides, better error handling with dedicated exceptions, validation tests, and significant code refactoring for cleaner, more reliable performance. It also features CI/CD workflow enhancements, dependency updates, and automated quality checks, making it a robust and developer-friendly library for integrating Nostr functionality into Java applications. Developed by: @398ja Source: 2. Noscrypt - v0.1.13 Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C, designed to handle the cryptographic operations required by the Nostr protocol. The latest update improves compatibility and performance with updates to vnlib.core (version 0.1.3) and MSTest (version 3.11.0). It includes revised build scripts using a centralized Directory.Build.props file, modernized shell commands for Task v3.45, and enhanced testing accuracy through stricter exception handling. Additionally, parallel builds are now supported across all platforms with cmake -j, making the library faster and more efficient for developers implementing secure Nostr functionality. Developed by: @ChipTuner Source: 3. Mostro-core - v0.6.56 Mostro-core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for building decentralized applications on Nostr, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. In this release, it introduced the SynchUserTradeIndex Action to synchronize the last trade index, improved verification checks and session restoration, aligned actions with updated protocol specifications, and included minor bug fixes and performance enhancements. Developed by: @negrunch, @Pinball Wizard Source: 4. Mostro CLI - v0.14.0 Mostro CLI is a simple command-line interface for interacting with Mostro, displaying new replaceable events, and supporting trade and order management on Nostr. In this version, it added improved error logging, rabbit fixes, enhanced gift wrap decryption, handling of user-initiated disputes, correct last trade index calculations, and support for invalid fiat currency. It also introduced a first testable version with the last_trade_index command, improved message parsing and management, refined database operations to avoid UNIQUE constraint errors, and included various refactors, CI improvements, and documentation updates for better usability and maintainability. This is the biggest update, and the latest update was v0.14.1 last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard, @Andrea Díaz Correia Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 months ago
=========================== #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