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#9 image 1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.15 (Pre-release) Divine Mobile is a mobile social/video application built on Nostr, focused on creating, editing, and sharing short-form video content. In this pre-release, the update delivers a large set of improvements, including major video editor upgrades (timeline markers, hold-to-record, playback and audio fixes), improved feed stability and engagement tracking, enhanced DM features (multi-line composer and emoji reactions), notification and authentication reliability fixes, UI/design system refactors, and multiple performance, CI, and crash fixes across the app. Contributed by: @rabble, @Daniel Cadenas, @untreu, @Liz, Alex Frei, Meylis, Meylis, Source: 2. Vanilla HiveTalk - v0.0.5 Summer breeze Vanilla HiveTalk is a real-time communication tool (video conferencing / streaming app) built as a fork of MiroTalk SFU with added Nostr and Bitcoin Lightning integration. In v0.0.5 (“Summer breeze”), the release focuses heavily on security and stability improvements, including removal of vulnerable ngrok integration, fixes for multiple dependency-related security issues (such as serialize-javascript and uuid CVEs), major dependency upgrades, and CI/CD fixes, along with code changes like optional server tunneling, adjusted API defaults, branding updates, and removal of unsafe or deprecated services to improve overall system safety and reliability. Contributed by: @BITKARROT Source: 3. Amber - v6.2.0 Amber is a mobile signing app used to securely approve and sign Nostr events on Android. In v6.2.0, the release adds NIP-44 v3 encryption support with a new approval and preview flow, improves NIP-46 connection handling with auto-accept ping requests, enhances intent validation and history logging, introduces UI improvements like segmented option pickers, and removes legacy signing methods and older auto-approval options for a cleaner and more secure signing experience. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 4. Jumble - v26.6.1 Jumble is a Nostr client focused on exploring relay feeds and social interactions across the Nostr network. In v26.6.1, the release adds the ability to post from another account without switching active logins, introduces configurable Blossom cache server support, improves DM reliability and user experience, adds management for standalone emojis and emoji sets, and includes various translation updates and UI polish. Contributed by: @Cody Source: 5. Nostria - v3.1.45 Nostria is a social networking platform built on Nostr, focused on human connections and noise-free social interaction. This release improves profile loading for accounts with large follow lists, optimizes memory usage through local thumbnail generation in the native app, fixes Lightning and QR-code split payment issues, updates the codebase for compatibility with the latest Angular release, and officially drops the previously planned translucent UI redesign. This was the latest and there was also the release of v3.1.44 last week. Contributed by: @SondreB Source: 6. Primal Android App - 3.5.10 Primal Android App is a mobile Android client for the Nostr network focused on social interaction, content discovery, and Bitcoin-enabled experiences. In v3.5.10, the release delivers two stability fixes: improved NIP-05 verification support for domain-only identifiers and a fix for a wallet creation race condition that could occur during onboarding. Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: 7. Nymchat - v3.68.445 Nymchat is a messaging client built on the Nostr protocol for pseudonymous and temporary communication, with Bitchat bridging support. This release introduces Panic Mode for quickly encrypting data with throwaway keys and rapidly exiting the app, adds stronger identity encryption options using passwords, PINs, passkeys, and biometrics, fixes fullscreen video playback issues, and includes additional security hardening improvements. This was the biggest release, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 8. Wisp - v1.1.1 Wisp is a mobile client for the Nostr social protocol, designed for browsing feeds, posting notes, and interacting with wallets and zaps. In v1.1.1, the release introduces improved post composition with countdown and preview behavior, expanded wallet features (Spark integration, Connect screen redesign, balance display modes, and NWC fixes), stronger security protections like nsec paste blocking, improved login and profile UX, enhanced theme and UI polish, zap message rendering improvements, and thread filtering via web-of-trust, along with various bug fixes and cross-platform parity improvements. Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 Source: 9. Nostrord - v1.4.0 Nostrord is a chat client for the Nostr protocol (NIP-29 groups), focused on messaging, group communication, and multi-platform chat experience. In v1.4.0, the release improves feature parity between web and native apps by aligning composer, uploads, replies, and quoted-event cards, adds in-chat message search across platforms, introduces a native desktop file picker, fixes notification routing through service workers and browser history handling, and ensures group messages are correctly routed through each group’s relay instead of the primary relay. This was the latest release, and there was also another one (v1.3.0) last week. Contributed by: @Anjhc Source: 10. VaultChat - v1.2.0 VaultChat is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app built on the Nostr protocol, focused on private communication without phone numbers, email registration, or centralized servers. This release introduces Remote Panic Wipe functionality that allows users to remotely erase identities from the web using their private key, including support for wipes triggered while the app is closed and executed on next launch, adds a private-key visibility option in Settings for remote wipe usage, upgrades Panic Wipe commands to NIP-44 v2 encryption, and fixes relay handling, instant wipe triggering, and panic-command deduplication issues. Contributed by: blejusca Source: https://github.com/blejusca/VaultChat/releases/tag/1.2.0 #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 days ago
#10 image 1. Grantless - New Developer Tool Grantless is a decentralized, community-funded grants platform for supporting open-source projects. Built on the Catallax protocol and powered by Nostr, it enables transparent crowdfunding, collaboration, and funding distribution without centralized control. Developed by: @vinney...axkl Source: 2. Mostro Core - v0.12.1 Mostro Core is a developer library (SDK/core infrastructure component) used to build decentralized applications and power the Mostro daemon. This release adds a new WaitingMakerBond order status, fixes ABI preservation for Wasm compatibility, and updates internal order-state handling while keeping the release focused on compatibility and stability improvements rather than user-facing features. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 3. Nostrame - v1.1.1 Nostrame is a browser extension (NIP-07 signer tool) used to securely sign Nostr events from web applications without exposing private keys. It's a signing utility that enables web apps to interact with Nostr. In v1.1.1, the release mainly fixes compatibility issues with nostr-tools v2 and improves Brave extension context handling to ensure more stable signing behavior across Chromium-based browsers. There was another release of the month, which is v1.1.2 (latest). Contributed by: toxicafunk Source: 4. Nostr VPN - v4.0.70 Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN using a FIPS-backed data plane for secure peer-to-peer networking. In v4.0.70, the release updates FIPS components (fips-core 0.3.52 and fips-endpoint 0.3.28), improves performance testing and CI validation under heavy encryption and TCP load, strengthens throughput and latency checks with better queue-pressure simulation and recovery validation, and fixes a major issue where sustained bulk traffic could starve handshake and control packets, along with a macOS installer fix for resolving Cargo output paths correctly during binary swaps. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 days ago
#11 image 1. Grain - v0.7.1 GRAIN is primarily a powerful relay and infrastructure platform for relay operators, while also providing a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. This release focuses entirely on stability and memory-leak fixes, resolving several long-running relay issues including leaked authentication state tied to closed connections, background goroutines persisting after config reloads, upstream relay disconnect leaks, and unbounded backup-relay forwarding processes. The update introduces proper cleanup, bounded forwarding behavior, and improved connection lifecycle management to keep long-running relays stable and memory usage flat under heavy or prolonged operation. Contributed by: @OceanSlim Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 days ago
#12 image 1. Angor - 0.2.29 (Unstable Release) Angor is a decentralized protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr, used to enable peer-to-peer funding workflows rather than serving as a user-facing app or simple SDK. This Unstable Release adds early CLI and MCP server implementation planning, improves CLI tooling for testing workflows, introduces multi-user UAT funding test scenarios, fixes Lightning invoice network switching issues, improves wallet recovery and data-wipe behavior, and includes several stability fixes and UI/layout improvements while explicitly remaining in an experimental/unstable phase. Contributed by: @dangershony, TheDude, Zaza Source: #protocols_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
#1 image @jb55 “Theres enough stuff built here, starting to think the most valuable use of my time is to start promoting freedom tech on social media like instagram. Posting every day, viral hooks, etc. not sure what else will bring the masses here more effectively. Otherwise all this work is at risk of becoming a tech graveyard” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 6 days ago
#3 image Nostr is growing fast! 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 - 809 Users - 13.1k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Android - 688 Users - 7.1k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Web - 559 Users - 3.7k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): 👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 297.9k 👉🏻 - 223.3k 👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 187.0k According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 3.41M (+131.0%) 👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 9.18M (+228.4%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.83M 👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.80 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 177.6K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 9,126, compared to 7,852 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ 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 1 week ago
#4 image 1. Evade Censorship with Nostr @Max 2. How to have UNCENSORABLE internet using NostrVPN #education_nostr_recap
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#5 image 1. Nostr meetup - June 2026 📅 Date: Monday, June 01, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.06 PM GMT+5:30 📍 Location: Online 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: ca10921e 🔗 Event: 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, June 07, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event: 3. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST 📍 Location: TBA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @2140.wtf #blockworkgallery 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#6 image 1. Living 100% on Bitcoin, Nostr & Nature @paul keating, @Efrat Fenigson 2. GitHub is cracking - the Hungarian Nostr alternative is being built 3. Bitcoin, Nostr & Freedom Tech @Jordi Llonch Esteve 4. VaultChat — Private Nostr Messenger 5. The Internet: A Corporate Hijacking of Digital Freedom? #media_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. VaultChat - v1.0.0 (Groups, EN/RO, Decoy PIN) - New Tool VaultChat is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app built on the Nostr protocol that removes the need for phone numbers, email registration, or centralized servers. In its first major release, v1.0.0, VaultChat introduces encrypted family and business group chats, English and Romanian localization with automatic language detection, and a Decoy PIN feature that opens a fake empty inbox for plausible deniability. The release also highlights core privacy and security features including NIP-44 v2 end-to-end encryption, biometric and PIN protection, AES-256-GCM encrypted local storage, screenshot blocking, synchronized conversation deletion, and cryptographic identity-based accounts. This was the latest and there were also some more releases last week. Developed by: blejusca Source: https://github.com/blejusca/VaultChat/releases/tag/1.0.0 2. Amber - v6.1.0 Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. This release improves the app connection and pairing experience, enhances permission management with bulk select/deselect options, fixes several crashes and bunker dialog issues, adds rate limiting for incoming signing intents, improves relay authentication handling, supports PSBT signing, introduces better lifecycle controls for the background service, and adds encrypted application backup and restore for moving signers between devices. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 3. Jumble - v26.5.7 Jumble is a Nostr client designed for browsing relay feeds, posting content, and interacting with the Nostr social graph. The v26.5.7 release adds a GIF picker for posts and DMs, introduces a local drafts system with background retry for unsent posts, redesigns the post editor for a cleaner layout, improves thread and media handling (including correct repost rendering and preserved video aspect ratios), enhances search with suggested follows, improves DM usability and identity verification, strengthens privacy by stripping sensitive metadata from image uploads, and fixes multiple UI and interaction issues across posts, links, and zap counting. Contributed by: @Leo Wandersleb Source: 4. Nostria - v3.1.44 Nostria is a Nostr client designed for browsing and interacting with decentralized content. This release adds a “Curated” filter for music discovery, introduces a toggle to filter specific music categories, and removes the previous limit on the number of tracks that can be loaded, improving browsing flexibility and content discovery. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v3.1.43 last week. Contributed by: @SondreB Source: 5. Shosho - v0.16.0 Shosho is a Nostr client for live streaming and commerce that enables RTMP-based live broadcasting with integrated Nostr identity, allowing creators to stream, interact with audiences, and manage commerce features within the same platform. The v0.16.0 release introduces a shopping cart system for in-stream purchases, a full seller hub for creating shops and managing products, inventory, shipping, and promotions, and a help center for streamers and sellers, while also adding short-form clips to the feed, improving browsing and stream loading performance, integrating Nostr login for shop management, and fixing playback and UI stability issues. Contributed by: @Rod Source: 6. Nymchat - v3.67.421 Nymchat is a messaging client designed for lightweight, ephemeral, and pseudonymous chat over the Nostr protocol, with bridging support to Bitchat for temporary messaging flows. This release is a hotfix update that adds notifications for missed audio/video calls and resolves an issue where chat conversations were not properly scrollable, improving basic communication reliability and user experience. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 7. Vector - v0.4.0 (Pre-release) Vector Messenger is a chat app built on the Nostr protocol for censorship-resistant messaging with privacy-focused features. This pre-release introduces a major core rewrite (vector-core) improving performance and stability, adds Tor integration, multi-account support, NIP-46 remote signers, message deletion, custom emoji packs, chat wallpapers, and improved decentralized file handling with Blossom failover. It also enhances group chat syncing, UI/UX (redesigned chat layout, gestures, navigation), and adds AI agent tooling for automation and developer integrations, along with multiple fixes for messaging reliability, media handling, and network resilience. Contributed by: @JSKitty Source: 8. Nostur iOS - v1.28.0 Nostur is a lightweight Nostr client for iOS that lets users browse, post, and interact with decentralized social feeds over relays. In v1.28.0, it adds privacy and usability upgrades including private zaps, custom emojis, muted words filtering, improved relay controls (including the ability to block specific relays and view detailed relay stats), better DM handling with reactions and file improvements, and expanded feed features like Hot/Zapped/Funny/Gallery refresh controls on macOS. The update also improves media handling (video, audio stripping options, thumbnails), fixes multiple rendering and playback bugs, and enhances overall stability across feeds, replies, and relay connectivity. Contributed by: Fabian Source: 9. Nostr VPN - v4.0.48 Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed data plane. In v4.0.48, the release improves VPN reliability and persistence by restoring Android always-on and boot-start tunnels from saved configurations, refreshing network and DNS state before tunnel startup, and surfacing lockdown/connection status more clearly, while also enhancing the CLI and desktop updater to use a secure Nostr/hashtree/Blossom update pipeline with better Windows handling. It further fixes cross-platform routing issues such as stable peer identity preservation, MagicDNS and DNS forwarder selection, join-request state accuracy, and iOS packet-tunnel configuration handling, along with UI polish like improved launcher icon rendering across platforms. This was the latest, and there were also a few more updates last week (v4.0.40, v4.0.41, v4.0.42, v4.0.45, v4.0.47). Contributed by: @Sirius Source: 10. Nostrord - v1.2.0 Nostrord is a chat client built on the Nostr protocol for participating in decentralized group and private messaging. In v1.2.0, the release improves overall chat stability and cross-platform consistency with fixes for mobile and web keyboard behavior, scrolling, and media rendering, resolves NIP-46 authentication issues like banner flicker and reconnect problems, adds a multi-account chooser on sign-out, and introduces a full React/web rewrite to match native functionality, alongside general UI and performance polish across chat and navigation. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.1.0 last week. Contributed by: @Anjhc Source: 11. Pyramid - v1.2.10 Pyramid is a Nostr-based community tool that enables users to create and manage hierarchical, community-focused relay structures for organizing social interaction on the protocol. In v1.2.10, the update includes a fix ensuring users can still reject requests even when they have no remaining capacity or limits, improving control and moderation behavior in edge cases while maintaining stable community request handling within the system. 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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#10 image 1. Nostr Java - v1.3.0 Nostr Java is a SDK for building applications on the Nostr protocol using Java. The v1.3.0 release refactors WebSocket handling for improved reliability, enhances NIP-44 key derivation and error handling, improves test robustness, and updates multiple development and publishing dependencies across the project. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v2.0.4, v2.0.5, v2.0.6, and v2.0.7 last week. Contributed by: Eric T Source: 2. Noscrypt - v0.1.14 Noscrypt is a cryptography library for building Nostr applications in C. This release is a non-breaking maintenance update that improves memory safety, testing, and dependency tracking, fixes a latent buffer-sizing bug, updates bundled cryptography libraries including libsecp256k1 and mbedTLS, removes unused vendor components to reduce repo size, and strengthens build reliability by treating compiler warnings as errors. Contributed by: @ChipTuner Source: 3. Mostro Core - v0.12.0 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer foundation for the Mostro ecosystem. The v0.12.0 release introduces protocol types for 2-of-3 multisig escrow support, improves Cashu escrow-related functionality, fixes response validation for escrow events and per-proof signatures, and includes internal maintenance and changelog updates. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 4. Routstr Core - v0.4.4-beta (Pre-release) Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy for AI services that sits in front of OpenAI-compatible APIs and enables pay-per-request billing using decentralized payment and routing logic. In the v0.4.4-beta pre-release, it improves request and token handling (preventing empty tokens, fixing swapping and upstream forwarding), enforces provider fee calculation rules, adds provider metadata in responses, and improves logging and version reporting. It also includes fixes for balance handling, invoice processing (RIP-08 lightning invoices), SELinux/podman compatibility, and security-related components such as TEE fixes and dependency cleanup, while refining overall stability of the billing and routing pipeline. Contributed by: @redshift, 9qeklajc Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. GRAIN - v0.7.0 GRAIN is a comprehensive Nostr infrastructure project that combines a configurable relay server for operators with a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. The v0.7.0 release introduces a full web-based relay administration dashboard with live configuration editing, owner-authenticated management using NIP-86 and NIP-98, improved login and signer persistence flows, expanded theming and UI customization, enhanced DM privacy protections for gift-wrapped messages, improved blacklist and mute-list synchronization, support for multiple backup relays, and major operational, security, and usability improvements for relay operators and developers managing Nostr infrastructure. Contributed by: @OceanSlim - Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#1 image @farooq “i open twitter and all i see is distractions and mainstream propaganda which makes me anxious. i open nostr and i feel a completely different vibe, there's still hope.” quote_nostr_recap
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#3 image Nostr is growing fast! 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 - 840 Users - 15.6k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Android - 692 Users - 7.3k Notes 👉🏻 Primal Web - 617 Users - 4.2k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): 👉🏻 - 219.9k 👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 218.4k 👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 184.7k According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 1.48M (+109.6%) 👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 2.79M (+181.3%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.81M 👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.75 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 177.3k According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 7,852, compared to 4,863 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ 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 2 weeks ago
#5 image 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, June 07, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event: 2. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST 📍 Location: TBA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @2140.wtf #blockworkgallery 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. Amethyst - v1.11.0: Calendars and OnChain Zaps Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android focused on decentralized social networking, Bitcoin integration, and advanced protocol support. This release introduces major additions including NIP-52 calendar events with reminders, expanded on-chain Bitcoin zap features, Marmot/MLS group message replies, contact list navigation, and enhanced profile/payment tools. It also improves privacy, notifications, media handling, search, translations, desktop stability, and overall app performance while adding numerous UI refinements and bug fixes across feeds, zaps, uploads, playback, and relay handling. Contributed by: @Vitor Pamplona, @greenart7c3, @Quentin, David Kaspar, Róbert Nagy, mstrofnone Source: 2. Amber - v6.1.0-pre3 (Pre-release) Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages keys and signing requests for Nostr applications. This pre-release improves app connection flows with a redesigned permissions experience, better bunker handling, and support for PSBT signing, while also adding intent rate limiting, boot-service controls, beta auto-update support, expanded auto-sign options, and multiple fixes for crashes, relay authentication, startup behavior, and signer request handling. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 3. Mostro - v0.17.4 Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr. This release introduces a major multi-phase anti-abuse bond system with concurrent taker bonds, dispute slashing, forfeited states, payout confirmation flows, and improved bond lifecycle management, alongside NIP-59 dual-key gift wrap transport support, new environment variable key handling, price provider reliability improvements, dispute solver permissions, and multiple fixes and documentation updates across trading, payments, and dispute resolution flows. Contributed by: @negrunch, @Pinball Wizard, @Andrea Díaz Correia, @Catrya, codaMW Source: 4. White Noise - v2026.5.22 White Noise is a private, decentralized messaging application built on the Nostr protocol that uses the Marmot protocol for MLS-based group encryption and keypair-based identity management. This release adds cross-platform push notifications for iOS and Android, markdown rendering in chats, improved group management (add/leave members), deep linking to chats, profiles, and settings, media and message sharing improvements, multilingual support including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and multiple reliability fixes across chat state handling, QR scanning, external signer recovery, and notification systems. Contributed by: @JeffG , @J.G.Montoya.Hodl, @Danny the Cyber Guy, @pepi, Mubarak Auwal, stupidloud, Datawav Source: 5. Nymchat - v3.66.409 Nymchat is a lightweight, feature-rich messaging application built on the Nostr protocol, designed for pseudonymous and temporary communication with additional bridging to Bitchat for short-lived chats. This release is a focused hotfix update that improves performance and responsiveness by moving typing indicator signing and cryptographic processing to a background worker, reducing UI blocking during real-time messaging. Although this was the latest, there were also a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Keychat - v1.41.1+6513 Keychat is a cross-platform messaging application that combines Bitcoin Ecash, the Nostr protocol, Signal Protocol, and MLS-based group encryption to enable secure, private communication with media sharing, file transfers, and relay-aware messaging features. This release improves security and forward secrecy by deleting Signal one-time prekeys after successful decryption, enhances chat UX with URL previews and improved media downloading, adds automatic update checking, refactors core message and relay handling for better reliability, removes voice message support, improves relay metadata loading (including paid relay configs), and includes significant Android build optimizations and expanded test coverage for stability. Contributed by: kcdev, jack-keychat Source: 7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.7 Mostro Mobile Client is a mobile application that allows users to interact with the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading system built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. The v1.2.7 release adds a new Venezuela community node, improves P2P chat reliability with push wake-up and whitelist support, and enhances session restore behavior by providing clearer outcomes when recovery actions fail or cannot be completed. Contributed by: @negrunch, @Andrea Díaz Correia, @Catrya Source: 8. Divine Mobile - 1.0.14 Divine Mobile is a dark-mode-focused short-form video mobile application built on the Nostr protocol that enables users to create, edit, share, and interact with loop-based video content alongside messaging and profile features. This release significantly enhances the editing experience with clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, and audio extraction from clips, improves messaging with emoji reactions, lightweight markdown support, better inbox previews, and more reliable delivery, strengthens profile features including banner uploads and verified account indicators, and adds clip trash with 30-day recovery, along with improvements to feed performance, search, notifications, and overall stability across the app. Contributed by: @rabble, @Daniel Cadenas, @untreu, Meylis, matthew bradley, Liz Sweigart, Alex Frei, Oscar Source: 9. Wisp - v1.1.0 Wisp is a lightweight Android client for the Nostr protocol designed for fast, minimal, and performance-focused social interaction, including posting, messaging, media viewing, and zapping features. The v1.1.0 release introduces improved wallet and zap handling with fiat-style input and private zaps, enhanced authentication with Google sign-in and encrypted Nostr key backup, support for remote signer details, auto-translate for notes, improved media browsing with swipe galleries, and private messaging features using NIP-17 gift wrapping and DIP-03 routing, while also refining relay behavior, onboarding flows, and removing local relay and NIP-55 remote signer support for a simplified architecture. Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻, @The Daniel 🖖, @greenart7c3 Source: 10. Nostr VPN - v4.0.39 Nostr VPN is a decentralized mesh VPN system built around the Nostr protocol and a FIPS-backed data plane that enables peer-to-peer connectivity, NAT traversal, and encrypted networking between devices across platforms. This release introduces built-in public FIPS bootstrap nodes for fallback connectivity, improved relay-based peer discovery controls, native WireGuard configuration import, TCP-based transport for restrictive networks, and a manual network join feature, along with major UI and networking improvements across all platforms including better diagnostics, peer management, invite handling, and performance optimizations, while also enhancing Linux, macOS, Windows, and containerized deployment stability. This was the latest and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: 11. Nostrord - v1.0.3 Nostrord is a client application built for interacting with Nostr groups (NIP-29), providing features such as messaging, notifications, multi-account support, and relay-based event tracking across different platforms. This release improves security with OS keychain-based local key storage and passphrase fallback, enhances usability with tappable bunker QR login for Android, adds an offline relay management experience, introduces a notification center for cross-relay event tracking, improves multi-account handling, and includes various UI, video, metadata, and CI/testing improvements. Contributed by: @Anjhc Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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#10 image 1. Mostro Core - v0.11.5 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for the Mostro daemon. The v0.11.5 release introduces a new BondSlashed action for handling slashed bond events within the protocol, alongside changelog updates and related implementation refinements. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.11.4 last week. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 2. Mostro CLI - v0.15.3 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin and Lightning exchange built on Nostr. This release adds support for the AddBondInvoice action, improves invoice reply validation and event pinning behavior, refines submission timeout handling, and includes documentation and changelog updates. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. Citrine - v3.0.0-pre2 (Pre-release) Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay and relay aggregator that supports event storage, filtering, and synchronization across multiple relays. This pre-release adds Negentropy (NIP-77) sync support, external signer and NIP-42 authentication integration, mute-list enforcement, improved relay aggregation controls, better protection against reposted or sensitive events, reduced battery usage, performance optimizations in event handling, and a redesigned settings and networking interface with enhanced local, Wi-Fi, and Tor address management. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: #relays_nostr_recap