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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#13 image 1. Buzz - v0.4.26 Buzz is a workspace where humans and agents collaborate together on a relay you own, built around decentralized infrastructure. In v0.4.26, the release improves mobile pairing QR code presentation, refines community management flows, updates documentation, and adds clearer setup guidance for macOS local network access and CLI runtime configuration. This was the latest, and there were also a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: Wes, klopez4212 Source: 2. Pyramid - v1.3.1 Pyramid is a community-building platform for Nostr that helps users create and manage vibrant communities through a hierarchical relay system. In v1.3.1, the release fixes an issue where event statistics were incorrectly displayed for non-members who did not have any events, improving the accuracy of community data. Contributed by: @fiatjaf Source: #workspaces_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#14 image 1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.32 Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that allows users to share their Lightning node through Nostr accounts and connect easily with compatible web applications. This release fixed missing payment push notifications by improving service startup order, reduced false sanity-check failures for nodes with large LND histories, and introduced a TypeScript build update without runtime changes. Contributed by: Justin (shocknet) Source: 2. Nostr-VPN - v4.1.4 Nostr-VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed data plane, using Nostr for decentralized coordination. In v4.1.4, the release improves cross-platform network joining, strengthens mobile tunnel management, enhances QR-based device approvals, and expands physical device testing for Android and iOS. It also fixes manual joining flows, roster synchronization, tunnel restarts, and VPN disconnect handling across supported platforms. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v4.1.3 and v4.1.1 last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #infrastructures_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#1 image @BitcoinSandy “I love Nostr…… but there ‘s fuckin noone here. I shall remain though as I believe in it. That to me at my age is where i’m at. I don’t blame younger folk fuckin’ off back to shitsville though tbh” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#3 image Nostr was not growing, and it has had a recession for the last week. According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): 👉🏻 Primal iOS - 837 Users - 9.3k Notes 👉🏻 Amethyst - 757 Users - 12.4k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Android - 573 Users - 5.7k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): 👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 311.2k Users 👉🏻 - 244.1k Users 👉🏻 - 208.4k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 7.65M (-4.7%) 👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 6.63M (-10.4%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.96M 👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.22 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 179.5K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 3,286 users, compared to 2,747 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, by @JeffG, by @Pip the WoT guy, and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#4 image 1. Nostr 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Social Protocol 2. Nostr, an open source database? #education_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#5 image 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1t3gx...9elk 🔗 Event: 2. Edufeed Community Call - August 2026 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM GMT+2 📍 Location: Online (https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/8476421102?pwd=NEpHeTZ1YjVVSE1WQVFNL3VpaFdHQT09#success) 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1f7ja...2fx9 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#6 image 1. Building for Freedom and Mastery on Nostr @AJ 2. I will see you on nostr @Desert Dave 3. Demonstrating Armada by Soapbox, a new community chat app @LittleBit 4. Strange Love’s Alex Nicol on Bitcoin, Nostr, and Reaching New Fans @Alex Nicol #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#9 image 1. Armada - New Tool Armada is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted community chat platform built on the Nostr protocol that delivers a Discord-like experience with servers, channels, threads, voice chat, and moderation without relying on a central company or host. Developed by: @Alex Gleason, @JSKitty, @npub1ye5p...knpr, @npub1sjcq...jx9d, @Derek Ross, Chad Curtis, Daniel Source: 2. Zapstore - 1.1.0 Zapstore is an open Android app store where developers can publish apps directly and communities can curate and discover them through a decentralized model. This release introduces portable encrypted device state with Amber backup support, background auto-updates, device-signed app catalog events, NIP-56 app reporting, diagnostic log exports, and improved app verification before installation. It also enhances offline-first releases, deep link handling, app data management, restore reliability, and update performance. Contributed by: @franzap Source: 3. Earthly - v0.0.1 Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that allows people to create, share, and enrich local knowledge maps using decentralized data. In v0.0.1, the first release introduced the Android app, NIP-50 geo search support, AI chat improvements, automatic icons, and article/context generation features. This was the biggest release of the week, and the latest was v0.0.2. Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab Source: 4. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.5 (The Witch’s Broom Nebula) Alby Lightning Browser Extension is a Bitcoin Lightning wallet extension that brings Lightning and Nostr integration to the web, acting as a wallet interface for multiple Lightning nodes and a signer for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin applications. This release improved onboarding with Alby Hub, removed deprecated wallet connectors, updated swap flows, upgraded security dependencies, and migrated the cryptographic stack to newer versions. Contributed by: @René Aaron, Pavan Joshi Source: 5. NosCall - v0.6.0 NosCall is a secure audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol for decentralized communication. In v0.6.0, the release introduced a built-in Cashu wallet with Lightning and ecash support, added relay-based push notifications using NIP-9A, migrated Android notifications to UnifiedPush, improved iOS VoIP support, and enhanced networking, app lifecycle, and call handling. Contributed by: sana Source: 6. Vector - v0.4.1 (Pre-release) Vector is a decentralized, censorship-resistant messaging platform built on Nostr, providing secure audio, video, and text communication without KYC or advertising. This pre-release introduced Concord v2 communities, Discord-style slash commands and bots, disappearing messages, privacy-focused notifications, image metadata controls, performance improvements, and numerous fixes for messaging, media handling, Tor, notifications, and synchronization. There was also the release v.0.4.0 last week. Contributed by: @JSKitty Source: 7. Nostrord - v2.3.0 Nostrord is a NIP-29-compatible Nostr client that provides community and group communication features on top of the Nostr protocol. In v2.3.0, the release added cross-platform user muting, improved NIP-29 moderation support, enhanced group invites and relay handling, added Tor relay support, improved account recovery and signer reliability, and introduced additional security protections for plain-key accounts. Contributed by: @npub1f27g...9swu Source: 8. Nostr Mail Client - v0.14.2 Nostr Mail Client is a Flutter-based email client built on Nostr that enables users to send and receive encrypted emails through the Nostr protocol. In v0.14.2, the release fixed macOS sign-in issues and improved account storage reliability in signed release builds. This was the latest of the week, and there were also the releases of v0.14.1 & v0.14.0. Contributed by: @Russell Source: 9. NoorNote - v1.2.8 NoorNote is a Nostr client for interacting with the decentralized social protocol, providing a user-friendly interface for browsing and engaging with Nostr content. This release improved Nostrord group notifications by preventing missed group posts on slow relays, added optional alerts for users’ own posts, and improved side-column navigation and tab management. Contributed by: @alp Source: 10. Sidecar - v1.4.1 Sidecar is a NIP-07 Nostr signing extension that works inside your browser’s side panel, providing secure key management, event signing, and wallet connectivity while keeping private keys on the user’s device. In v1.4.1, the release improved auto-lock behavior, strengthened PIN security with better brute-force protection, expanded the built-in app directory, and refined the notification interface. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.4.0 last week. Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖 Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#10 image 1. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.5.0 SNSTR is a secure, lightweight TypeScript library for building applications that interact with the Nostr protocol. In v0.5.0, the release eliminates remaining runtime and maintenance debt, improving the library's stability and maintainability ahead of the new version. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.4.0 last week. Contributed by: @npub1s9et...lxzl Source: 2. ZSP - 0.4.13 ZSP is a command-line publishing tool for distributing Android apps to Nostr relays, primarily used by Zapstore. In v0.4.13, the release added a new has-new command, fixed GitLab path handling and APK parsing, and now rejects Wear OS APKs during publishing. Contributed by: @franzap Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. Nostr-Relay - v0.0.247 Nostr-Relay is a Nostr relay built on the Relayer framework that enables communication between Nostr clients and the decentralized network. In v0.0.247, the release adds support for advertising NIP-17 in the supported_nips field, allowing clients to discover that the relay supports private direct messaging features defined by the NIP. This was the latest, and there were 2 more releases (v0.0.246 & v0.0.245) last week. Contributed by: @mattn Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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#12 image 1. Concord - New Protocol Concord is a decentralized protocol built on Nostr that enables end-to-end encrypted communities and channels with Discord-like features, without centralized servers or a controlling company. Developed by: @Derek Ross, @JSKitty, @Alex Gleason, @YuurinBee, Chad Curtis Source: 2. Angor - 0.2.32 (Unstable Release) Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer crowdfunding protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr. This unstable release improved security with stronger key handling and BIP-32/BIP-341 enhancements, refined funding and wallet reliability, added live funder monitoring and project improvements, and included numerous fixes for relay handling, portfolio recovery, logging, and user experience. Contributed by: @dangershony, TheDude, Mist, Kyle, Zaza Source: #protocols_nostr_recap
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#13 image 1. Buzz - v0.4.18 Buzz is a collaborative workspace built on Nostr where humans and AI agents can work together through a relay you control. In v0.4.18, the release fixed community access issues by improving recovery for first-time community joins and restoring visibility for communities after access problems. This was the latest and there were also a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: Bradley Axen, morgmart, Tyler, Wes, Pavlenex, Atish Patel, Kalvin C Source: #workspaces_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#14 image 1. Relayer - v2.2.14 Relayer is a framework for building and running Nostr relay servers, providing tools and infrastructure for developers creating custom relay implementations. This release fixes the release workflow project paths after example projects were moved, improving the reliability of the release process. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v2.2.13 & v2.2.12 last week. Contributed by: @mattn Source: 2. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.31 Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node management platform that allows users to share and control their Lightning nodes through Nostr while enabling integration with compatible web applications. In v0.0.31, the release added compatibility with LND 0.20.x by updating internal gRPC support, ensuring Lightning.Pub continues to work with the latest Lightning node version. Contributed by: Justin (shocknet) Source: 3. Nostr-VPN - v4.0.98 Nostr-VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed peer-to-peer data plane, using Nostr for secure peer discovery and coordination. This release improved production network topology testing, added persistent LAN discovery settings, integrated StartOS packaging, strengthened WSS-based peer connections, and improved routing, WebRTC handling, security validation, and network reliability. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v4.0.96 & v4.0.95 last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #infrastructures_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#1 image @M “I am grateful for the time, sacrifice, and dedication of all the Bitcoin / Nostr developers and plebs around the world. That certainly deserves to be said. It is sometimes thankless work, but keep pushing forward and hang in there. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this open space. I appreciate you 🫡 Thanks!!” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
#3 image Nostr was not growing, and it has had a recession for the last week. According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): 👉🏻 Amethyst - 820 Users - 13.8k Notes 👉🏻 Primal iOS - 817 Users - 8.2k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Android - 588 Users - 4.9k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): 👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 309.5k Users 👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 240.0k Users 👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 204.8k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 8.03M (-14.5%) 👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 7.41M (-11.0%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.95M 👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.19 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 179.3k According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 2,747 users, compared to 5,630 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, by @JeffG, by @Pip the WoT guy, and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
#5 image 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1t3gx...9elk 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. OpenDiscord - New Tool OpenDiscord is a Nostr-based decentralized communication platform that combines Discord's intuitive server/channel organization and real-time voice lobbies with the open, censorship-resistant nature of the Nostr protocol. Developed by: Sofi Gros Source: 2. Divine Mobile - 1.0.16 Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form video mobile app built on Nostr that brings back Vine’s 6-second looping video format while keeping content human-made and giving users ownership of their content, followers, and identity. This release improves app reliability, security, performance, moderation, localization, and user experience across feeds, video creation, messaging, authentication, storage, notifications, and Nostr integrations. It also adds enhancements to the video editor, camera features, DM capabilities, content protection, database encryption, and platform support for iOS, Android, macOS, and web. Contributed by: @rabble, @npub138he...rdr2, @untreu, @npub1pmwz...4nu6, matthew bradley, Alex Frei, Meylis Source: 3. Jumble - v26.7.1 Jumble is a Nostr client for browsing relay feeds, messaging, and interacting with decentralized social content. In v26.7.1, the release adds Linux ARM64 support, enhances direct messaging with new message menus and a “scroll to latest” button, redesigns media uploads with Blossom as the default service, improves emoji management and notification filtering, and fixes numerous issues affecting DMs, media handling, the post editor, image orientation, and scrolling behavior. Contributed by: @npub1syjm...f6wl Source: 4. Bitchat - v1.7.0 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networking with Nostr for offline and online communication without accounts or central servers. This release adds live push-to-talk voice for DMs and mesh channels, improves mesh connectivity with peer healing and internet bridging, adds store-and-forward messaging for unreachable peers, strengthens signed media/file transfers, and improves reliability across voice, media, geo notes, testing, and app experience. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.6.0 & v1.5.4 last week. Contributed by: @jack Source: 5. Nymchat - v3.73.519 Nymchat is a privacy-focused ephemeral chat client built on Nostr, with integration for Bitchat-style pseudonymous temporary messaging. This release adds full app localization support and introduces automatic message translation into the user's preferred language, improving accessibility for global users. This was the latest, and there was another release last week (v3.72.519). Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Manent - v1.4.1 Manent is a private, encrypted notes and file storage app built on Nostr that allows users to securely store and manage their personal information with data ownership and privacy in mind. This release improves usability and reliability by enhancing toolbar interactions, adding a clearer logout warning flow, fixing sensitive note decryption issues, handling interrupted publishes correctly, resolving Android signer login problems with Amber, and improving scrolling in the bunker login interface. This was the latest release, and there was also v1.4.0 last week. Contributed by: @npub10000...vwqk Source: 7. Nostrord - v2.2.0 Nostrord is a NIP-29 compatible Nostr client focused on group communication and direct messaging, enabling users to interact with decentralized communities and conversations. In v2.2.0, the release adds a master toggle to disable all direct-message features, improves direct messaging capabilities with richer interactions, and fixes desktop-related issues, including the Windows app icon and nostrord:// deep links. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v2.1.1 & v2.1.0 last week. Contributed by: @npub1f27g...9swu, @npub1ye5p...knpr Source: 8. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.3.86 Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension that manages Nostr identities, signs events, and enables Lightning payments directly from the browser while keeping user keys encrypted locally. This release redesigns the home screen with a unified Account card, strengthens security through spending cap enforcement for Lightning approvals, identity protection during account switching, signature verification for relay data, NIP-49 encrypted key backups, and clearer signing prompts. It also improves privacy by removing unnecessary browser permissions. Contributed by: Leon Acosta Source: 9. NoorNote - v1.2.7 NoorNote is a Nostr client that provides access to the decentralized social protocol with features focused on identity, messaging, and community experiences. This release improves profile recognition by ensuring names and pictures display consistently, fixes false unread direct message indicators, preserves dismissed prayer reminders in Nostr-Majlis, and adds a clearer onboarding relay preview showing which relays will be configured before setup. This was the latest release of the week, and there were also a few more releases last week. Contributed by: @alp Source: 10. Sidecar - v1.3.0 Sidecar is a browser-based Nostr keystore and signer that securely manages identities, keys, wallet connections, and event signing through a convenient sidebar interface. In v1.3.0, the release adds encrypted vault backups, NIP-49 key import/export, NIP-05 verification, improved signing prompts, multi-account safety, and enhanced site activity management. It also strengthens security with wallet spending limits, protected extension messaging, automatic keystore lockout after failed unlock attempts, and smoother account switching, approvals, notifications, and overall usability. Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖 Source: 11. Kubo - v2026.07.05 Kubo is a child-safe video platform built on Nostr that allows parents to curate their children’s content experience using Web of Trust filters and trusted communities. This release adds a new tablet mode for child feeds with a customizable video grid layout, introduces photo sharing in group chats, and improves usability by keeping important buttons accessible above the keyboard on Android and ensuring parent navigation remains available on tablets and larger screens. 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nostrrecap 4 months ago
#10 image 1. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.4 SNSTR is a lightweight TypeScript library for building applications that interact with the Nostr protocol. In v0.3.4, the release centralizes NIP-01 event validation, strengthens relay security by enforcing stricter validation of signed events and tag formats, adds configurable timestamp drift settings for relays, and improves reliability through better timestamp validation and more robust asynchronous validation testing. Contributed by: @npub1s9et...lxzl Source: 2. Routstr Core - v0.4.4 Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy that sits in front of OpenAI-compatible APIs and handles pay-per-request billing. In v0.4.4, the release improves payment configuration, Lightning and Cashu handling, API compatibility, provider forwarding, streaming support, pricing accuracy, security protections, key management, rate limiting, and Docker/deployment reliability. Contributed by: @npub1qqqq...ll4h, @npub1wetq...j2dp, @npub18gr2...u9su, @redshift, 9qeklajc Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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