#1 🧠 Quote of the Week @Efrat Fenigson “Can’t wait to have Nostr as my dominant channel. I swear” #quote_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. The New Year wish of a popular nostrich 🎆 View quoted note → 2. This is the way that celebrate the new year effectively 👇 View quoted note → 3. This is so ambitious 👇 View quoted note → 4. Let’s go a house tour 😉 View quoted note → 5. This pleb has got scammed 😥 View quoted note → 6. Let’s keep patience and pray him 🙏 View quoted note → 7. A New Year celebration with his wife 🎉 View quoted note → 8. There is a huge thing to learn from this video 🎞️ View quoted note → 9. The new year wish and positive vibe from a Primal team member 👇 View quoted note → 10. The life recap in 2025 👇 View quoted note → 11. What do you think about this suggestion? 🫵 View quoted note → 12. Expressing gratitude to teachers on 17th birthday of Genesis block 🫡 View quoted note → 13. Let’s tag musicians and artists 🙂 View quoted note → 14. The first Plebchain Radio episode in 2026 🗓️ View quoted note → 15. The gratitude of the Nostur creator to the users 🫡 View quoted note → 16. The thing is happening what should happen View quoted note → #community_nostr_recap

#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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉 Total Users: 5,288, compared to 9,018 users the week before According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: 👉 Total Zaps: 35,015, compared to 35,236 zaps the week before 👉 Total Zap senders: 2,721, compared to 4,107 plebs the week before 👉 Total Zap Amount: 6,611,280, compared to 8,696,789 sats the week before 👉 Total Events: 3,207,983, compared to 3,852,282 events the week before Many thanks to

statistics - npub.world

by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

#4 🎓 Educational Guides 1. Nostr for Beginners: 3 Apps You Need to Know @Bytemalte #education_nostr_recap

#5 📅 Upcoming Events 1. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix 🔗 Event:

FOSDEM 2026 - POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin, Sun, Feb 1, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Newbies welcome -- we will discuss Nostr and Bitcoin. Also, we can help you set up your free Nostr account, free Bitcoin Lightning wallet, etc. Ho...

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Nostr Nights #1, Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Date: February 2, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CT Please RSVP — Space is Limited Overview: Nostr Nights is a quarterly meetup for anyone passi...

#events_nostr_recap

#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 18: 2026, Year of the Builder @MAKE SONGS LONGER 2. Freedom Tech vs the Surveillance State: White Noise, Bitcoin & Nostr @JeffG 3. Take back control of your digital life with nostr @Wild Burro 4. How Nostr works as censorship resistant social 5. Introducing Pidgeon, a privacy‑first Nostr scheduler @Car, @npub1qkfn...ertp #media_nostr_recap

#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Mostro - v0.15.6 Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin Lightning exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling decentralized, trust-minimized trading without centralized custody. This version advances the development fund system with Phase 4 audit events published via Nostr, configurable funding infrastructure, and clearer documentation, while fixing amount calculation issues in buyer/seller messages and aligning premium logic with the LNP2P bot. These changes improve transparency, correctness, and sustainability of the platform, giving users more reliable trades and developers a clearer, auditable funding and architecture model. Contributed by: @Catrya, @negrunch, @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.15.6 · MostroP2P/mostro

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

2. Aegis - v0.3.5 Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer designed to let users securely sign events and connect to Nostr apps using multiple connection methods. This release adds Dark Mode, improves app icon rendering, and refines UI layouts for a cleaner, more consistent experience, while fixing iOS iCloud Private Relay conflicts and event parsing issues. Together, these updates make Aegis more visually polished, more reliable across platforms, and smoother to use when signing and interacting with Nostr applications. Contributed by: @ZharlieW Source:

GitHub

Release v0.3.5 release · ZharlieW/Aegis

Added Dark Mode Improved application icon display Optimized various UI elements and layouts Fixed potential conflicts with iOS iCloud Private Relay...

3. Plebs - v2.7.32 Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol, enabling users to publish, discover, and watch videos without relying on centralized intermediaries. This release delivers quick stability improvements by removing a non-functional nostr.band relay and adding the 24242.io Blossom host, resulting in more reliable content hosting, smoother playback, and a more dependable experience for viewers and creators alike. Contributed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v2.7.32 · Spl0itable/plebs-app

Hotfix: removed dead nostr.band relay Hotfix: added 24242.io blossom host

4. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.24.62 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight Nostr-based chat client that supports both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with interoperability with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary conversations. The v2.24.62 release is a hotfix that removes the dead nostr.band relay, improving reliability, reducing connection issues, and ensuring smoother message delivery for users. Contributed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v2.24.62 · Spl0itable/NYM

Hotfix: removed dead nostr.band

#tools_nostr_recap

#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. File Drop - New Developer tool File Drop is a private, decentralized file-sharing system built for Nostr and the open web. It provides a single, flexible storage backend that can be integrated into any app or workflow, from Nostr clients and pastebin-style posts to screenshot tools, forums, and social platforms. File Drop enables durable, anonymous file hosting without relying on centralized services, giving users a simple way to share files while staying in control of their privacy. Developed by: @besoeasy Source:

GitHub

GitHub - besoeasy/file-drop: A decentralized, open-source solution for sharing images, videos, and any other files.

A decentralized, open-source solution for sharing images, videos, and any other files. - besoeasy/file-drop

2. nostr-spring-boot-starter - v0.5.0 nostr-spring-boot-starter is a Java/Spring Boot starter framework for building Nostr clients and custom relay software, providing ready-made components to create scalable, efficient Nostr applications with minimal setup. This release focuses on major dependency upgrades, including Spring Boot, Nostr protocol libraries, Lightning/Bitcoin components, and tooling along with added example applications and improved build, linting, and security tooling, resulting in better performance, long-term compatibility, and a smoother development experience for developers building production-ready Nostr services. Contributed by: Thebora Kompanioni Source:

GitHub

Release v0.5.0 · theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starter

0.5.0 - 2026-01-02 Changed upgrade: update spring-boot from v3.4.4 to v3.5.8 upgrade: update spring-shell from v3.4.0 to v3.4.1 upgrade: update sq...

3. Gitplaza - v0.26.1 Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on collaborative software development, using Nostr to manage git repositories, patches, releases, and related discussions in a decentralized way. The v0.26.1 release improves how comment threads are fetched using smarter gossip relay selection, updates release note tagging to match the latest spec, boosts performance through reduced allocations and data cloning, fixes several UI and caching bugs, and refines event labeling for better clarity, resulting in a faster, more reliable, and clearer experience when tracking and collaborating on git activity over Nostr. Contributed by: @dluvian Source:

Cookie monster!

#dev-tools_nostr_recap

#11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases 1. Nosflare - v7.9.32 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built specifically for Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare D1, enabling scalable, low-maintenance relay deployment without traditional servers. This release delivers a focused hotfix that improves tag handling in relay queries, ensuring more accurate event filtering and retrieval, which benefits users and client developers by making feeds more reliable and reducing inconsistencies when querying events by tags. This was the latest release and there were also more multiple releases last week. (v7.9.31, v7.9.29, v7.8.29, v7.7.29, v7.7.27, v7.7.26, v7.7.23, v7.7.22, v7.7.21, v7.7.20, v7.7.19) Contributed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v7.9.32 · Spl0itable/nosflare

Hotfix: tag handling in queries

#relays_nostr_recap

#1 🧠 Quote of the Week @miljan “Nostr is your final destination on the internet. It’s not your backup.” #quote_nostr_recap

#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://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉 Total Users: 9,018, compared to 1,629 users the week before According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: 👉 Total Zaps: 35,236, compared to 29,803 zaps the week before 👉 Total Zap senders: 4,107, compared to 3,118 plebs the week before 👉 Total Zap Amount: 8,696,789, compared to 7,097,182 sats the week before 👉 Total Events: 3,849,431, compared to 3,704,444 events the week before Many thanks to

statistics - npub.world

by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

#4 🎓 Educational Guides 1. How to Build Your Own Sovereign TV Station on Nostr 📡 @Avi Burra View article → #education_nostr_recap

#5 📅 Upcoming Events 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin, Sun, Jan 4, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Newbies welcome -- we will discuss Nostr and Bitcoin. Also, we can help you set up your free Nostr account, free Bitcoin Lightning wallet, etc. Ho...

2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix 🔗 Event:

FOSDEM 2026 - POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Nostr Nights #1, Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Date: February 2, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CT Please RSVP — Space is Limited Overview: Nostr Nights is a quarterly meetup for anyone passi...

#events_nostr_recap

#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 17: Dad’s Approval @Derek Ross, @MAKE SONGS LONGER 2. XChat app - Private Messenger built on Nostr 3. Shakespeare is for everyone

X (formerly Twitter)

Soapbox (@SoapboxTech) on X

Shakespeare is for everyone to be able to build anything. DevRel Derek Ross explained recently during a presentation at Nostr Valley in State College!

4. NOSTR isn't a 'hedge' to centralised communication platforms

X (formerly Twitter)

Daniel Prince (@Princey21M) on X

Fire wasn't a 'hedge' to the cold. Water isn't a 'hedge' to thirst. Permanent shelter wasn't a ’hedge’ against the elements. Sanitation wasn...

#media_nostr_recap

#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Zapstore - 1.0-rc1 Zapstore is a decentralized app marketplace powered by Nostr, letting users discover, install, and update apps through their social network. This release introduces a refreshed UI, a rewritten package manager for more reliable installs, curated app stacks, background update checks, improved security prompts, and better performance and stability, making app discovery and updates smoother, safer, and more user-friendly. Contributed by: @franzap Source:

GitHub

Release Merry Christmas · zapstore/zapstore

1.0-rc1 Feature: Refreshed UI across the entire app with cleaner layouts, better spacing, and modern design patterns Feature: Complete package man...

2. Servus - v0.1.12 Servus is a minimalist, self-hosted social media server packaged as a single executable, making it easy to deploy and run without complex infrastructure. This release improves theme support by allowing theme customizations to be stored and reused, and enhances the site creation process with optional imports of Instagram and Twitter archives as well as automatic keypair generation, making setup faster, personalization easier, and onboarding more convenient for new users. Contributed by: @ibz Source:

GitHub

Release v0.1.12 · servus-social/servus

store and reuse theme customization improve theme support when creating a new site: optionally import IG archive optionally import Twitter archive...

3. Amber - v4.0.6 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to securely handle key management and event signing for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This version improves reliability and performance by adding signer-side caching, fixing multiple crashes (including permission screens, invalid Nostr Connect URIs, and decryption errors), improving UI recomposition, and making relay connections more robust by retrying failed connect events, resulting in a smoother, safer experience for end users and developers who rely on Amber as a secure signing backend for their Nostr applications. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source:

GitHub

Release Release v4.0.6 · greenart7c3/Amber

Amber 4.0.6 Remove get_public_key from content provider Handle parsing errors when trying to decrypt content to show the content for the user Fix ...

4. Aegis - v0.3.4 Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr event signer that allows users to securely create and manage Nostr events across multiple connection methods. In version 0.3.4, it adds support for the nip55 nostrsigner scheme, enables importing and exporting local relay data, fixes potential local relay socket errors, optimizes the application creation process, and refines the local relay user interface, improving reliability, usability, and overall user experience. Contributed by: @ZharlieW Source:

GitHub

Release v0.3.4 release · ZharlieW/Aegis

Support the nip55 nostrsigner: scheme Import/export local relay data Fix potential local relay socket error issues Optimize the application creatio...

5. Keychat - v1.38.1+6489 Keychat is a secure chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, designed for private messaging across multiple platforms. In this version, it adds UnifiedPush support on Android and Linux for push notifications, introduces biometric authentication for privacy-sensitive operations, and refactors app directory initialization and reset logic, enhancing security, reliability, and user convenience. Contributed by: kcdev Source:

GitHub

Release v1.38.1+6489 · keychat-io/keychat-app

Keychat 1.38.1+6489 Android and Linux support UnifiedPush for push notifications. Added biometric authentication for privacy operations. Refactore...

6. Monster - v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android Monstr is a Svelte + Vite Nostr client with Android support via Capacitor, offering timeline feeds, posting, replies, reposts, Lightning zaps, Monero tipping, wallet management, and accessibility features. In this version, it fixes an initialization hang, tweaks the Composer modal, and ensures Nsec Android logins are persisted, improving stability and usability for end users. Contributed by: boshi-chan Source:

GitHub

Release v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android · boshi-chan/nostr-monstr

Initialization hang fix, Composer modal tweaked, Nsec Android login persisted

7. Nostur - v1.25 Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for end users to access feeds, DMs, bookmarks, and media across multiple accounts. Version 1.25 introduces a new desktop multi-column mode (via Nostur Pro) with customizable columns, enhanced private DM and group chat support, dedicated voice message and short video feeds, improved audio compatibility, Relay Autopilot toggle for custom feeds, and better handling of quoted posts, alongside numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, making the app more versatile and user-friendly. Contributed by: @npub1n0st...lahe Source:

GitHub

Release Nostur v1.25 · nostur-com/nostur-ios-public

New in this release: New desktop multi-column mode: Activate by enabling Nostur Pro in Settings. Add columns for: Notifications, DMs, Bookmarks, C...

#tools_nostr_recap

#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. nostr-java - v1.1.1 nostr-java is a Java SDK that helps developers create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays from Java applications. This release focuses on refactoring WebSocket handling and improving integration tests, resulting in more reliable relay connections, better test stability, and a stronger foundation for developers building Nostr-based apps in Java. Contributed by: @398ja Source:

GitHub

Release v1.1.1 · tcheeric/nostr-java

What's Changed Refactor WebSocket handling and improve test robustness by @tcheeric in #498 Refactor WebSocket handling and update integration tes...

#dev-tools_nostr_recap

#1 🧠 Quote of the Week @fiatjaf “Instead of ‘protocol’ we should call Nostr a ‘system’.” #quote_nostr_recap

#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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1,629, compared to 1,690 users the week before According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total Zaps: 29,803, compared to 33,052 zaps the week before - Total Zap senders: 3,118, compared to 2,589 plebs the week before - Total Zap Amount: 7,097,192, compared to 7,961,647 sats the week before - Total Events: 3,702,272, compared to 3,536,158 events the week before Many thanks to

statistics - npub.world

by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of

GitHub

GitHub - aljazceru/awesome-nostr: nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things

nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things - GitHub - aljazce...

and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

#4 🎓 Educational Guides 1. Nostr Start Guide for Beginners | Account setup & wallet connect for Zaps @ForrestHODL 2. Nostr Basics @Cahlen #education_nostr_recap

#5 📅 Upcoming Events 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin, Sun, Jan 4, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Newbies welcome -- we will discuss Nostr and Bitcoin. Also, we can help you set up your free Nostr account, free Bitcoin Lightning wallet, etc. Ho...

2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix 🔗 Event:

FOSDEM 2026 - POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod 🔗 Event:

Meetup

Nostr Nights #1, Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Date: February 2, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CT Please RSVP — Space is Limited Overview: Nostr Nights is a quarterly meetup for anyone passi...

#events_nostr_recap