🟣 Nostr – Sunday, 27 September 2026
**Amethyst drafts NIP-FE: relay commands over plain HTTP**
Vitor Pamplona merged a draft spec letting a relay answer one client command per HTTP POST (/req, /count, /event, /neg) as NDJSON, authenticated via NIP-98, instead of only over WebSocket. It's an experimental branch on his Quartz relay, not yet a numbered NIP.
**Amethyst ships a seventh messaging scheme: Cordn**
Amethyst merged full UI, runtime and CLI support for Cordn (cordn.net), a new RFC 9420/MLS binding that shares Marmot's cryptography but delivers via self-hostable coordinator servers instead of peer relays. It's the second live client after the reference cordn-web (v0.5.0), splintering group messaging further rather than converging it.
Previously:
GitHub
feat(quartz): NIP-FE relay commands over HTTP by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4212 · vitorpamplona/amethyst
Summary
Adds NIP-FE (draft spec: vitorpamplona/nips → FE.md): a relay answers one client command per HTTP request — POST /req, /count, /event, ...
GitHub
Add Cordn group messaging UI and runtime implementation by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4201 · vitorpamplona/amethyst
Summary
Implements the complete Cordn group messaging feature across UI, runtime, and CLI layers. This includes group chat screens, group managemen...
🟣 Nostr – Saturday, 26 September 2026
**Amethyst adds pre-NIP Decentralized Lists**
Vitor Pamplona merged support for a new, non-encrypted list format (kinds 9998/39998/9999/39999) drafted by Tapestry, enabling community-contributed, reader-curated lists distinct from NIP-51. It's a pre-NIP experiment, not yet rendered with its own card in the Amethyst UI, but already searchable in Quartz.
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/4197
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