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#11 image 1. Nosflare - 7.9.38 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay designed for Cloudflare Workers with a Cloudflare D1 database, enabling lightweight and scalable relay deployments. This release includes a hotfix that resolves an issue where kind 1059 events were being dropped due to NIP-42 authentication handling, improving relay reliability. This was the latest, and there were also multiple more releases last week. (7.9.37, 7.9.36, 7.9.35, 7.9.34) Contributed by: @Luxas - Source: 2. RSSNOTES - v0.0.16 RSSNOTES is a Nostr relay that acts as an RSS-to-Nostr bridge, automatically creating Nostr profiles and notes from RSS feeds. This release introduces a new HTTP router with subpath support and includes several UI improvements to enhance usability and navigation. Contributed by: trinidz - Source: 3. Citrine - v2.0.0 Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android. This release improves relay performance through optimized indexes, database queries, and Kotlin coroutines, enhances hosting for web apps with per-app ports, updates dependencies, adds FTS search support, expands the event screen interface, and introduces options for viewing and downloading tagged events. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 - Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 weeks ago
#1 image @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 “my only goal with wisp is to make people like nostr and have it not feel so slow and broken” @Economista Austriaco “Most people think the world is getting darker. But quietly, something extraordinary is happening. • Money that cannot be printed: Bitcoin • Speech that cannot be censored: Nostr • Value exchanged directly between people: ⚡ No permission. No gatekeepers. Just individuals building, learning, and creating. The future won’t be fixed by institutions. It will be built by sovereign individuals. And for the first time in history… they have the tools. 🧡💜” #quotes_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 0 months ago
#3 image 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://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 1.44M (+116.7%) 👉🏻 New Users Last week : 307.4K (-60.7%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.57M 👉🏻 All-time BTC Amount : 42.09 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 172.2K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 3,900, compared to 2,691 users the week before image Many thanks to by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 0 months ago
#5 image 1. SXWorldwide - A Variety Extravaganza - March 2026 image 📅 Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026 - Sunday, March 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 4.00 PM CDT and 6.00 PM - 10.00 PM CDT 📍 Location: https://www.sxworldwide.xyz/ (Streaming Worldwide) 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Hash Power Music 🔗 Event: https://www.sxworldwide.xyz/ 2. RUNSTR: DISTRICT 5k - March 2026 image 📅 Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 AM - 10.00 AM EDT 📍 Location: Hains Point, Washington, DC 20024, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @RUNSTR 🔗 Event: 3. Nostr Atlanta #11 - Lunch & Learn - Secret Handshake - March 2026 image 📅 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Club Orange 🔗 Event: 4. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026 image 📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. Manent - v1.0.1 - New Tool Manent is a private, encrypted space for storing notes and files on the Nostr network, giving users full control over their personal data. This release includes a small maintenance update that changes the fallback Blossom server, helping ensure more reliable file storage and access. Developed by: @daniele - Source: 2. Amber - v4.1.3-pre2 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely signs events for Nostr apps on your device. This pre-release improves relay management, updates default profile relays, and enhances notification text and UI elements. It also refines the backup screen, adds clearer signing information, and introduces a bottom-sheet interface for requests. Additional fixes improve relay connections, device compatibility, and overall stability. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 - Source: 3. Oxchat App - v1.5.4 0xchat is a secure messaging app built on the Nostr protocol, designed for private and decentralized communication. This release fixes multiple Linux and app issues, including UI freezes, image display problems, emoji reactions, logout behavior, and relay management bugs. It also improves media handling with video volume controls and enhanced voice playback (scrolling and 2× speed) and adds new relays such as nostr.data.haus and relay.mostr.pub, improving reliability and usability across platforms. Contributed by: @water783 - Source: 4. White Noise - v2026.3.5 White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app that uses the Marmot protocol with MLS and Nostr to enable encrypted messaging. This release focuses on stability and usability improvements, fixing issues with onboarding text, message reactions, media previews, chat UI elements, and translations. It also introduces reply improvements, a media-only chat summary, delivery status indicators, and various performance and build pipeline optimizations, making the app more reliable for secure messaging. Contributed by: @JeffG , @J.G.Montoya.Hodl, @Danny, @pepi, @untreu, Mubarak Auwal - Source: 5. Nymchat - v3.40.155 Nymchat is a lightweight, ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol and bridged with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. This release introduces a hotfix that enhances the quick react popup, improving the speed and usability of emoji reactions in chats. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas - Source: 6. NosCall - v0.5.1 Noscall is a secure audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, designed for private and decentralized communication. This release adds voice message support, optimizes the desktop experience, introduces contact favorites and notes, improves settings organization, enhances themes and accessibility, and includes data export, cleanup, and general bug fixes for a smoother, more reliable experience. Contributed by: sana - Source: 7. Nostur (A Nostr client for iOS) - v1.26.1 Nostur is a social media–oriented client for Nostr, focusing on feeds, messaging, and multimedia content. This release fixes issues with voice message playback, resolves scrolling problems in direct messages, reduces timeout notification spam, and addresses a GIF search bug to improve overall app usability and responsiveness. Contributed by: @Fabian - Source: 8. Angor - v0.2.6 Angor is a decentralized P2P funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr, enabling users to invest in and fund projects directly. This release adds Boltz integration, 1-click investing, and fully functional invest/fund project flows (tested on testnet). The UI is about 70% complete, with updates including Find Projects, Project Details, My Projects, and Funders views, as well as a new Create/Import Wallet flow. Several fixes, validations, and backend connections were also added to improve user experience and ensure smoother investment operations. This release is still not considered stable, with a beta-ready version expected in the next update. Contributed by: @dangershony, TheDude, José Manuel Nieto - Source: 9. Divine - 1.0.6 Divine is a decentralized short-form video sharing app built on the Nostr protocol, inspired by the creativity and simplicity of Vine. This release improves feed speed and playback stability, enhances search and discovery with a new Explore categories tab, and introduces stronger identity features like multi-account support and improved NIP-05 verification. It also upgrades the camera and video editor tools, adds real-time comments and better sharing options, and includes platform improvements with macOS support and experimental Linux builds. Contributed by: @rabble - Source: 10. Wisp - 0.5.1-beta Wisp is a minimal and performance-focused Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds relay hints to e-tags to improve event discovery and enhances profile fetching, helping the app retrieve user data more reliably while maintaining its lightweight and fast experience. This was the latest release, and there were multiple more releases last week. Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 - Source: 11. Yakihonne Web - v5.7.0 Yakihonne is a decentralized social and payments client built on Nostr and Bitcoin, combining social networking with Lightning-powered interactions. The v5.7.0 release introduces an Explore page with media packs and starter packs, custom feeds, and scheduled notes support. It also improves messaging options, adds useful hotkeys for publishing and browsing media, introduces a Trending Notes feed, and fixes several issues related to wallets, notifications, and event signing for a smoother overall experience. Contributed by: Moos - Source: 12. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.0.2 YakiHonne mobile app is a Nostr client for mobile. This release adds support for starter packs, media packs, relay-based trending notes, and scheduled notes. It also improves messaging with non-blocking sending, queueing, and message deletion, while fixing issues related to ecash wallet creation, relay lists, sharing on iOS, currency updates, and hashtag recognition, along with other performance improvements. Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik - Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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#10 image 1. Relayer - v2.2.8 Relayer is a Nostr relay framework for developers, used to build and run custom Nostr relays. This release fixes a context leak in the event processing loop and reduces the lock scope for clientsMu, improving stability and performance when handling events. Contributed by: @mattn - Source: 2. NDK (Nostr Development Kit) - v0.7.1 NDK is a Dart library that simplifies building applications on the Nostr protocol. The v0.7.1 release introduces NIP-42 multi-account authentication, improved relay handling, and new caching and broadcast features. It also adds utilities like fetching NIP-05 data without a pubkey, improves database performance, and includes numerous bug fixes and stability improvements for Flutter and Dart-based Nostr apps. Contributed by: @leo, @Russell, frnandu - Source: 3. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.3 SNSTR is a lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol, designed to help developers build secure Nostr-based applications. This release strengthens relay authentication, publishing, and timeout handling for better reliability. It also adds helpers for NIP-42 authentication, NIP-29 group management, NIP-56 and NIP-70 moderation, and NIP-86 relay management, along with shared signer abstractions for local keys, NIP-07, and remote signers. These improvements make SNSTR more robust and developer-friendly for building Nostr integrations. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.3.2 last week. Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev - Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
#1 image @Justin Moon “My parents have never been able to figure out any of the freedom tech tools I’ve made, but we moved the family group chat to Pika yesterday and they love it. Momma’s got an NSEC!” #quote_nostr_recap
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#2 image 1. Stay calm, positive and ambitious in hard situations like this and make your path yourself with the resources you have 💪🏻 View quoted note → 2. Great news from Divine 😍 View quoted note → 3. A must-watch episode for Bitcoiners 👇🏻 View quoted note → 4. A cute cat “Jingle” onboarding to Nostr 🐱 View quoted note → 5. Nostria is getting better day by day 😍 View quoted note → 6. If you work alone, you’ll go fast. But if you collaborate, you’ll go far 👈🏻 View quoted note → 7. There is so many love, humanity and grace in Nostr ❤️ View quoted note → 8. A great opportunity from Claude to you open-source devs 🫵🏻 View quoted note → 9. Some valuable ideas from founder to grow Nostr pleb base 👇🏻 View quoted note → 10. Let’s access English courses through Nostr 👨🏻‍💻 View quoted note → 11. Hard times can come to everyone. Let’s help her in this hard time 🤝🏻 View quoted note → 12. Music is a divine medicine to everyone 🎵 View quoted note → 13. Just English? Nope, Let’s learn Russian also through Nostr 👨🏻‍💻 View quoted note → 14. Localization is very important to get access to Nostriches with various nationalities 👌🏻 View quoted note → 15. Let’s start Nostr spreading process from the family ❤️ View quoted note → #community_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 month ago
#3 image 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://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 666.1K (+152.3%) 👉🏻 New Users Last week : 781.3K (+31.8%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.54M 👉🏻 All-time BTC Amount : 42.02 BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 171.7k According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 2,691, compared to 2,592 users the week before image Many thanks to by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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#4 image 1. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 90: Blossom media @Agiota 2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 91: Protocolo de Comunicação Nostr BLE 3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 92: Trechos de Código (Code Snippets) 4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 93: Chats 5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 94: Mensagens E2EE usando o protocolo Messaging Layer Security 6. Safebox Nosfabrica @Tim Bouma #education_nostr_recap
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#5 image 1. Nostr Atlanta 11 - Lunch & Learn - Secret Handshake - March 2026 📅 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Club Orange 🔗 Event: 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026 📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris 🔗 Event: #events_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. Wisp - v0.2.3-beta - New Tool Wisp is a minimal, high-performance Android client for Nostr, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It emphasizes decentralization, smart relay routing, and a smooth native experience. This beta version fixes stale wallet states, improves link rendering, and clears quote targets to prevent stale replies. The update also enhances fullscreen video handling, rotation support, and broadcast progress visibility. Notifications are streamlined by merging Zaps into reaction groups, preventing duplicate cards for a cleaner interface. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v0.2.2-beta, v0.2.1-beta, v0.2.0-beta, v0.1.6-alpha, v0.1.5-alpha, v0.1.4-alpha, v0.1.3-alpha, v0.1.2-alpha, and v0.1.1-alpha last week. Developed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 - Source: 2. Coracle - 0.6.31 Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol designed to highlight Nostr’s unique features, including relay selection and management, web-of-trust moderation, content recommendations, and privacy protection. This update upgrades CapacitorJS, updates the NIP-55 signer library, and fixes a crash in UserContent when the mute list is empty, improving stability and user experience. Contributed by: @hodlbod - Source: 3. Amber - v4.1.3-pre1 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that enables secure signing of Nostr events directly from your mobile device. This pre-release improves relay management by updating default profile relays, enhances backup and notification interfaces, fixes issues with relay icons and device-specific compatibility, and introduces features like displaying the signing account and reporting unknown event kinds. It’s designed to provide a smooth, reliable, and secure signing experience for Nostr users on Android. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 - Source: 4. Aegis - v0.3.9 Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that supports multiple connection methods for securely authorizing events across apps. This release improves multilingual support by adding and refining translations while also fixing language-switching (i18n) bugs. It introduces clearer loading states and error messages in browser and activity pages for better usability. Additionally, UI optimizations and improved theme compatibility make the overall experience smoother and more consistent across devices. Contributed by: ZharlieW - Source: 5. Shosho - v0.13.0 Shosho is a mobile live streaming app with RTMP support and Nostr integration, offering a decentralized alternative to platforms like Facebook Live. This release introduces the ability to download stream replays as MP4 files and adds NIP-05 verification for Nostr profiles. Streaming performance has been improved, including better stability on low-bandwidth connections and older devices, along with fixes for iOS streaming to Zap.Stream. The RTMP publisher has been migrated to the Expo Modules API and New Architecture, and chat now displays bech32 IDs more clearly. Overall, this release enhances reliability, performance, and usability for decentralized live streamers. Contributed by: @Rod - Source: 6. Nymchat - v3.31.115 Nymchat is a lightweight, ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, bridged with Bitchat to enable anonymous and temporary messaging. This release delivers a hotfix addressing an issue where emojis were incorrectly converted into SVG icons. This update ensures messages render properly and maintains a smooth, distraction-free chat experience. Designed for privacy-focused communication, Nymchat keeps conversations simple, fast, and transient. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas - Source: 7. Vector - v0.3.1 Vector Messenger is a free, open-source, decentralized, and censorship-resistant chat platform built for private communication without KYC, ads, or metadata tracking. This pre-release adds enhanced group management, improved Android notifications, faster networking, and GPU-accelerated voice-to-text. It also introduces folder compression for sharing, customizable encryption options, deterministic full-history sync, and support for older Android devices. Major performance, memory, media, and reliability improvements make the app significantly faster and more stable overall. Contributed by: @JSKitty - Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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#10 image 1. Outbox Model: What Actually Works - New Developer Tool “Outbox Model: What Actually Works” is a method for Nostr clients that improves relay reliability and event recall by filtering dead relays, introducing randomness in relay selection, and learning from relay performance. Developed by: @elsat - Source: https://github.com/nostrability/outbox 2. did-nostr: Nostr DID Method Specification - New Developer Specification/Protocol did-nostr: Nostr DID Method Specification is an unofficial draft defining how to create, resolve, and use decentralized identifiers (DIDs) on the Nostr network, enabling identity management, social profiles, and relay interactions while addressing security and privacy considerations. Developed by: @Melvin Carvalho - Source: 3. Nostr Java - v2.0.0 Nostr Java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that provides tools to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays. The latest v2.0.0 release simplifies the library from 9 modules to 4, adds configurable WebSocket buffer sizes for handling large events, and includes several bug fixes and stability improvements, making it more lightweight and efficient for developers building Nostr-based applications. Contributed by: Eric T - Source: 4. ZSP - v0.3.4 ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays, used by Zapstore to distribute releases. This update defaults to the new NIP format, improves cache handling by deleting stale entries when overwriting releases, and ensures proper event replacement using updated timestamps. It also optimizes GitHub sourcing by first querying /releases/latest for a faster single-request path and prevents fetching pre-releases by default, making publishing more reliable and efficient. Contributed by: @franzap - Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. Citrine - v2.0.0-pre2 Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android that focuses on high performance and smooth operation for mobile users. This pre-release improves relay performance through optimized indexes, database queries, and Kotlin coroutine management. It enhances hosting for web apps by assigning each app its own port, upgrades the event screen interface, supports full-text search queries, and allows expanding events directly from the event screen. Citrine is designed to provide a fast, reliable, and feature-rich relay experience on Android. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 - Source: 2. HAVEN - v1.2.2 HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is a sovereign personal relay for the Nostr protocol, designed to securely store and back up sensitive events such as eCash, private chats, and drafts. This release includes maintenance updates, such as cleaning up configuration files and updating repository references. While this update focuses on housekeeping changes, HAVEN continues to provide a reliable and privacy-focused solution for safeguarding important Nostr data under your own control. This is the latest, and there was also the release of v1.2.1 last week. Contributed by: Anthony Accioly - Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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#1 image @walker “Sometimes I sit back in awe of the fact that we’re able to communicate on a decentralized, open-source communication protocol created by a pseudonymous developer and we can zap each other money via a decentralized, open-source monetary protocol created by another pseudonymous when we see a meme we like. Idk man, it’s fucking wild. Grateful to be alive and aware at this moment in timespace.” @Btc Andres “Twitter down. Nostr is never down.” #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 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 256.5k (-27.5%) 👉🏻 New Users Last week : 584.8K (+301.7%) 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.52M 👉🏻 All-time BTC Amount : 41.97BTC 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 171.3k According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: 👉🏻 Total Users: 2,592, compared to 2,180 users the week before image Many thanks to by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap