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@Laeserin
“The people who are here to be groupies or to get rich quick have been slowly, steadily exiting. There are simply more riches and more famous people, elsewhere.
Those of us who have made close friendships here and who genuinely want to build a place for resisting both government censorship and corporate capture for ourselves and for our friends and family, are still here.
The signal continues to rise. The network continues to strengthen. This open protocol is spilling over into our real lives and is becoming a living, loving thing.”
#quote_nostr_recap
@Laeserin
“The people who are here to be groupies or to get rich quick have been slowly, steadily exiting. There are simply more riches and more famous people, elsewhere.
Those of us who have made close friendships here and who genuinely want to build a place for resisting both government censorship and corporate capture for ourselves and for our friends and family, are still here.
The signal continues to rise. The network continues to strengthen. This open protocol is spilling over into our real lives and is becoming a living, loving thing.”
#quote_nostr_recap
Nostr is growing!
According to 
Many thanks to the developers of 
1. Why Your Nostr Private Key Matters
2. What Is Nostr? The Internet Without One Company Owning Your Identity
3. Decentralized Social Protocols, Moderation, and Governance Comprehensive Guide
#education_nostr_recap
1. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - July 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST
📍 Location: TBA
🤹♀️ Organizers: 
1. The story of selling handmade goods using Nostr and Bitcoin
2. How Bitcoin Helps Creatives Build Differently
1. Amber - v6.2.3
Amber is an Android Nostr event signer used to securely sign requests from other Nostr apps without exposing private keys directly. In this release, it adds a configurable profile fetch interval (including a “never” option), improves account switching with profile pictures and scoped subscriptions per account, strengthens bunker permission parsing, reduces main-thread StrictMode violations by moving key and account operations off-thread, trims locale support, and fixes several UI and localization issues including theme contrast, translation errors, and settings text formatting.
Contributed by: 
1. Mostro Core - v0.14.1
Mostro Core is a Rust-based peer-to-peer library that provides the core networking and protocol logic for building Mostro-based decentralized applications and daemons. In v0.14.1, the release deprecates the legacy gift-wrap (protocol v1) transport in favor of newer approaches and includes routine maintenance updates such as changelog updates and version release tasks.
Contributed by: 
1. Nostr Relay - v0.0.244
Nostr Relay is a backend Nostr relay implementation built on the relayer framework for storing and forwarding Nostr events between clients. In v0.0.244, the release adds support for a Firestore storage backend, expanding the available persistence options for relay operators.
Contributed by: 
1. Mostro - v0.18.0
Mostro is a non-custodial, peer-to-peer Lightning Network exchange built on Nostr that enables censorship-resistant Bitcoin trading using protocol-based messaging, pricing, and escrow logic. This release advances transport v2 integration with NIP-44 direct messaging, adds anti-spam gates, improves live price handling with caching and staleness controls, introduces new fiat pricing support (including El Toque), enhances bond/dispute notifications, and strengthens CI, documentation, and Cashu escrow safety while continuing cleanup and deprecation of older transport versions.
Contributed by: 
1. Buzz - v0.3.42
Buzz is a self-hosted Nostr-based workspace platform where humans and AI agents collaborate over relay-hosted channels, treating all activity as signed event data with optional agent workflows and git-integrated project spaces. In v0.3.42, the release improves stability and performance with better relay reconnect handling, bounded storage usage, faster channel switching, and optimized fan-out and query execution, while also adding repository-first project workflows, contribution heatmaps, agent catalog and configuration improvements, workspace branding via NIP-11 icons, and stronger reliability for agent execution, messaging, and state consistency. This was the latest and there were also a few more releases last week.
Contributed by: Tyler
Source: 
Nostr is not growing fast! It seems like it has a bear market.
According to 
Many thanks to the developers of 
1. Nostr Explained: The Future of Decentralized Social Media
1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - July 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, July 05, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: 
1. Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Quantum Problem
1. Squalk - New Tool
Squalk is a Nostr-based forum platform that helps manage communities of any size with flexible Simple and Full modes, while integrating real-time chat into every forum for seamless collaboration and discussion.
Developed by: 
1. Noscrypt - v0.1.15
Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C that provides low-level cryptographic primitives used to support secure signing and encryption for Nostr applications. In v0.1.15, the release fixes a header-level issue by restoring the missing NC_CC calling convention macro definition (affecting only imports, not ABI compatibility), updates Linux CI setup to use mise-en-place for dependency management, and upgrades the Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk test dependency from 18.5.1 to 18.7.0 to improve build and test environment consistency.
Contributed by: 
1. Nostream - v3.0.0
Nostream is a TypeScript-based Nostr relay. In v3.0.0, the release introduces major improvements including expanded protocol support (NIP-17 encrypted DMs, NIP-44 v2, NIP-42 authentication, NIP-62 vanish events, NIP-65 relay lists, NIP-13 proof-of-work, NIP-45 event counts, and additional relay features), stronger performance and reliability (rate limiting, caching, query optimization, improved connection handling, Docker and Redis fixes), enhanced security and dependency upgrades addressing vulnerabilities, and upgraded developer tooling such as event import/export, compression support, CLI/TUI unification, benchmarking and test coverage improvements, plus new capabilities like i2p support and geohash-based filtering.
Contributed by: Ricardo Cabral, Radosvet Petrov, XD22, Mahmoud Khedr, Anshuman, Khadar vali, archief2910, khushal, Mohit Davar, Saniddhya Dubey, Chetan Reddy Kodidela, Kanishka.., Divyanshu Kumar, Priyanshu Bharti, Abhinav Rathee, Tharupahan Jayawardana, kartik, Kushagra Kinra, Yash Agarwal, FerryxFerryx349, Vikash Siwach, Sagar
Source: 
1. Angor - v0.2.31 (Unstable Release)
Angor is a decentralized protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr, used to enable peer-to-peer funding workflows. This unstable release improves protocol stability and tooling with consolidated BCIP/NIP documentation, cross-platform distribution updates (portable Windows executables, signed macOS DMGs, and Android APK publishing to ZapStore), fixes for relay race conditions and subscription recovery, improved network switching behavior, and several validation and UX-related fixes such as funding date constraints, spinner state handling, and relay reconnection reliability.
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