=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Ryan “You're free to post what you want. Relay operators are free to host what they want. You're free to host your own relay. Users are free to block what they want. Clients are free to block what they want. Users are free to use whatever client they want.” #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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before - Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before Many thanks to

statistics - npub.world

by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman, 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 Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨ @Daniella ✨ #education_nostr_recap

============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. This is how Nostr benefits users 2. Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr @Max 3. I am sure these comments will make some plebs @the8thHouse

Instagram

@alyope on Instagram: "I’ve been on Nostr for a few months now (it’s that random link in my bio), and I’m still hopeful that social media is heading toward a more decentralized future in the next decade or so. The platforms we’ve all used over the past 15–20 years have changed how we live, but if you’re not at least a little concerned about how centralized and controlled these platforms have become (especially with censorship becoming more obvious), then it really doesn’t matter what app you’re on, how rich or connected you are, or how much influence you think you have. Even if you had a trillion-dollar deal with the biggest company in the world, if you’re an artist, streamer, politician, talk show host, it doesn’t matter. The threat remains the same, you can be silenced or erased. Enter Nostr, an open and decentralized protocol, you can build anything on. There are already some variations of existing decentralized platforms, so it probably won’t be the only one out there, and I’m sure more will pop up as the general public becomes aggravated with being unable to express themselves. Decentralized protocols are a necessary shift for the sake of humanity. As of right now, these are my reasons as to why Nostr is important: 1. You actually own your stuff. Your posts, your art, whatever you share—it’s signed by you. No one can sell it, steal it, or use it without your say. 2. No Censorship There’s no central company or mod team deciding who gets to speak. No shadowbans, no deplatforming, no secret blacklists. 3. You choose your feed. No weird algorithms or ad-driven feeds. Just the people and content you want to see. The next two decades is about bringing people to the forefront of the stage. It’s unscripted. It’s ugly - the stories, the places, the things, and even its normal people. But the truth is oh so beautiful, isn’t it?"

5 likes, 0 comments - alyope on October 1, 2025: "I’ve been on Nostr for a few months now (it’s that random link in my bio), and I&#x...

@Zulfaqar

Instagram

Zulfaqar on Instagram: "NOSTR is the only way forward. All of these social media platforms have been compromised. Protocols like NOSTR are about to rocket. As are in person real life communities. Posting for the sake of posting and going viral is over. Post for the few, build strong relationships."

0 likes, 0 comments - zulfeh7 on October 4, 2025: "NOSTR is the only way forward. All of these social media platforms have been compromised. Prot...

4. This is well said: 100% agree @Jake Woodhouse

X (formerly Twitter)

Jake Woodhouse (@jakewoodhouseio) on X

Social media should not have "owners." Nostr fixes this.

#media_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Flotilla - 1.3.0 Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client designed around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to chat, manage spaces, and interact in a decentralized way. This release introduces optional badges and sounds for notifications, improves link rendering, restores Blossom feature detection for spaces, and enhances the light theme. It also adds more signer status information, simplifies navigation for adding spaces, enables QR code scanning for invite links, streamlines wallet setup with improved receive address settings, switches mobile storage to Capacitor file API, and fixes duplicate DMs. Developed by: @hodlbod Source:

GitHub

Release 1.3.0 · coracle-social/flotilla

What's Changed Add optional badge and sound for notifications Improve link rendering Remove imgproxy Bring back blossom feature detection for spac...

2. Coop - v0.2.11 Coop is a simple and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, the focus was on improving message handling, with refactoring of the message sending process and follow-up fixes to ensure smoother and more efficient communication within the app. Developed by: @reya Source:

GitHub

Release v0.2.11 · lumehq/coop

What's Changed chore: refactor message sending by @reyamir in #172 chore: follow up on #172 by @reyamir in #173 Full Changelog: v0.2.10...v0.2.11

3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1 Yakihonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter that provides a seamless Nostr experience, allowing users to interact with relays, manage keys securely, and engage with content across platforms. In this release, the app introduced a redesigned app bar with new Black and Ivory themes, a database-first architecture supporting offline mode, relay orbits for easier relay discovery, Nsec bunker integration, updated content boxes and video types, and default custom reactions. Performance optimizations were applied across feeds, notifications, content sharing, and searching, alongside clickable relay URLs, improved handling of Nostr schemes, and various bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: Boukhalfa Seddik Source:

GitHub

Release YakiHonne-1.9.1 · YakiHonne/yakihonne-mobile-app

[1.9.1] - 2025-10-05 Added Redesigned app bar and new themes: Black & Ivory. Database-first architecture with offline mode. Relay orbits for relay...

#tools_nostr_recap

====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. Nosflare - v7.4.13 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built using Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database, designed for scalability and efficiency without traditional server infrastructure. In this release, a hotfix was introduced to address an issue where durable objects were not utilizing the hibernation API properly. This fix improves resource management and relay performance, ensuring more stable and cost-efficient operation. Developed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v4.4.13 · Spl0itable/nosflare

v7.4.13

#relays_nostr_recap

=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @The Daniel 🖖 “we, here, the tiny handful of us using Nostr might be the only people in the entire world who care about free speech enough to want to protect it.” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 45031934 - Users: 1195150 - Trusted users: 187745 - Events: 613689586 - Posts: 163353365 - Zaps: 5514634 - Zap amount: 2546778742 sats 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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 34,070, compared to 32,162 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 2,609, compared to 805 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 10,279,977, compared to 8,584,091 sats the week before - Total events: 2,275,515, compared to 2,331,002 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, 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

============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. What’s the status of Nostr.Band? @Soapbox 2. Nostr lets you build community 3. Lana Direct Messages based on NOSTR 4. From Likes to Sats: How Nostr Changes the Game

Nostr: A New Model for Content Creation and Payment | Onramp MENA posted on the topic | LinkedIn

From Likes to Sats: How Nostr Changes the Game Traditional social media runs on attention. But decentralized protocols like Nostr are showing a n...

5. A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm

Instagram

Jake Woodhouse on Instagram: "A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm What would a truly open social media network look like? @paulinthejungle and I explore the vision behind Nostr and Primal, a world where users hold their own keys, control their feeds, and own their digital identity. Watch the full episode: https://jakewoodhouse.link/ep84-youtube #bitcoin #crypto #nostr #investing #bitcoin2025 #primal #nostr"

1 likes, 0 comments - jakewoodhouseio on September 23, 2025: "A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm What would a truly ope...

#media_nostr_recap

================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. PODSTR - New tool A Nostr-powered podcast platform for single creators that blends decentralized publishing with Podcasting 2.0. It supports npub-authenticated publishing, Blossom or external hosting, rich metadata, Lightning payments, auto-generated RSS feeds, a mobile-friendly player, and community interaction through comments, zaps, and social features - all built on open Nostr protocols. Developed by: @Derek Ross Source:

GitHub

GitHub - derekross/podstr: A application that marries Nostr and Podcasting 2.0

A application that marries Nostr and Podcasting 2.0 - derekross/podstr

2. White Noise - v0.1.4 White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr, using the MLS protocol for encrypted group messaging. This release brings a major backend refactor for improved stability, performance, and relay handling, alongside Android-specific security fixes and numerous bug resolutions. It also adds features like editable group names, secure message drafts, and a key package management screen. With redesigned chat sheets, better emoji/reaction handling, skeleton loaders, and consistent UI polish, White Noise is now faster, more stable, and more user-friendly across platforms. Developed by: @JeffG , @pepi, @Mubarak Ibrahim, @npub1gcs5...e8d0, @untreu, @npub1jgm0...669p, Delcin Maria Koilraj Source:

GitHub

Release v0.1.4 · marmot-protocol/whitenoise

Big Plans... 🦫 Thank you to everyone who tested v0.1.3 and gave us feedback. As the saying goes, everyone has a plan until they get punched in t...

3. Gitplaza - v0.10.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized for managing Git-related activity on the Nostr network. In this release, it introduces a web-of-trust indicator based on follows, upvotes, reposts, and proof-of-work. Users can toggle pubkey selection in feeds, toggle content types, retry keystore lookups, and see profile names of referenced events. Performance improvements include discarding outdated query tasks, optimizing subscription filters, and reducing database queries. Bug fixes address deadlocks, and enhancements allow loading names in Zap receipts and making top Zap chips interactive. Developed by: @dluvian Source:

Cookie monster!

4. Coracle - 0.6.23 Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol focused on enhancing the user experience with features like relay selection and management, web-of-trust based moderation, content recommendations, and privacy protection. The latest release adds a loading indicator when following or unfollowing users and introduces relay fallback support for Zaps. Developed by: @hodlbod Source:

GitHub

Release 0.6.23 · coracle-social/coracle

What's Changed Show loading when following/unfollowing Add relay fallback to zaps Full Changelog: 0.6.20...0.6.23

5. Mostro - v0.14.5 Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling users to trade directly over a decentralized network. This release includes a bug fix ensuring that makers are always notified when their orders are taken, improving the reliability of order notifications. Developed by: @negrunch Source:

GitHub

GitHub - MostroP2P/mostro at v0.14.5

Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr - GitHub - MostroP2P/mostro at v0.14.5

6. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 - v3.13.0 Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning Browser Extension that brings deep Lightning and Nostr integration to the web, providing a wallet interface for multiple Lightning nodes and a key signer for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin. This release adds important features and fixes, including LNbits connector improvements, support for connecting CLN nodes through NWC, a Ukrainian locale, a right-click menu to pay invoices or addresses, revamped “Pin Extension” screen layout, metadata support for transactions, and various UI and bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: @pavanj, @René Aaron, Dunsin Source:

GitHub

Release 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 · getAlby/lightning-browser-extension

TL;DR 🚀 This release brings important fixes and new features: ⚡ LNbits connector fixes 🔗 CLN nodes can now connect through NWC 🌐 Added U...

7. Coop - v0.2.10 Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, it brings several improvements, including a refactored input component for better performance, fixes for double messages and duplicate replies, and a new context menu for quick profile viewing. Additionally, it now consistently calls get_public_key on NIP-46, ensuring more reliable key handling. These updates make Coop more stable, user-friendly, and efficient for everyday messaging. This was the latest release, and there was the release of v0.2.9 last week. Developed by: @reya Source:

GitHub

Release v0.2.10 · lumehq/coop

What's Changed chore: refactor the input component by @reyamir in #165 chore: fix double message on sent by @reyamir in #166 chore: fix duplicate ...

8. Bitchat - v1.4.3-actual Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global connectivity, eliminating the need for accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. In this release, it introduces a general localization framework with support for multiple languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Nepali, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Arabic, and Hebrew. Additionally, it now includes Mermaid diagrams for packet structures and externalized strings to improve localization. These updates make Bitchat more accessible to a global audience while enhancing clarity and developer support. Developed by: @jack, Mattia Marchese Source:

GitHub

Release 1.4.3 · permissionlesstech/bitchat

localization release: added general localization framework languages: english, italian, spanish, german, brazilian portugese, chinese, nepalise, i...

#tools_nostr_recap

=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Android Signer (NIP-55) - New Developer tool A Nostr-based library that allows applications to interact with Android signers following the NIP-55 protocol. It provides secure, standardized, and verifiable signing of Nostr events directly on Android devices, enabling developers to integrate trusted event signing, authentication, and value-for-value operations within their apps. Developed by: @Yuki Kishimoto Source:

GitHub

GitHub - rust-nostr/android-signer: A library to interact with Android Signers (NIP-55)

A library to interact with Android Signers (NIP-55) - rust-nostr/android-signer

2. Mostro Core - v0.6.54 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. In this release it fixes issues by removing targets that do not support dynamic linking and includes general release updates for stability. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.6.54 · MostroP2P/mostro-core

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...

3. Mostro CLI - v0.13.6 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for interacting with the Mostro P2P Lightning Network exchange on Nostr. This release updates removed Android builds, eliminated unnecessary dependencies (like sqlx, protobuf, and openssl) from GitHub Actions and Rust workflows, added strict tag checking in cliff.toml, improved changelog handling, and bumped the release version for consistency. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v0.13.5 and v0.13.4 also last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source:

GitHub

Release Release v0.13.6 · MostroP2P/mostro-cli

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...

#dev-tools_nostr_recap

====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. CFRelay - 0.0.4 CFRelay is a Nostr relay built on Cloudflare Workers, offering a lightweight and easily deployable relay solution. This release improves configuration management by moving many settings into wrangler.toml for easier setup and adds support for Cloudflare one-click deploy, making deployment more seamless and user-friendly. Developed by: @DASHU Source:

GitHub

Release 0.0.4 · haorendashu/cfrelay

Change list: Move many config to file wrangler.toml . Add support to cloudflare oneclick deploy .

2. Nosflare - v7.4.11 Nosflare is a Nostr relay (a server-side application that handles event storage and distribution) built serverless using Cloudflare Worker and D1 database. This release includes a hotfix that lowers the archive batch size and adds daily database optimization. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases of v7.4.10, v7.4.9, v7.4.8, v7.3.8, and v7.3.7 last week. Developed by: @Luxas Source:

GitHub

Release v7.4.11 · Spl0itable/nosflare

Hotfix: major code revert required to fix bug that allowed for runaway durable object billable usage Hotfix: fixed event tags in archival process

#relays_nostr_recap

=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @TKay “Freedom of speech is not under attack. People willingly lock themselves in cells.” #quote_nostr_recap

=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 44867082 - Users: 1194210 - Trusted users: 195030 - Events: 611323979 - Posts: 162601567 - Zaps: 5479278 - Zap amount: 2536762943 sats 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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 32,029, compared to 31,931 zaps the week before - Total zap senders: 672, compared to 671 plebs the week before - Total zap amount: 8,583,958, compared to 7,308,787 sats the week before - Total events: 2,326,691, compared to 2,666,715 events the week before Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by @brugeman, 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. How to Save & Share Nostr Notes as Images @primal #education_nostr_recap

============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. This video will answer some of your questions about relays @Bohemia 2. What Are Nostr Signer Apps and How They Protect Your Nostr Private Key @Momo #education_nostr_recap