Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:

Replies (100)

This is amazing. When do you sleep? Answer: never. Is the overall idea that one could use only HAVEN relay?
You will still need other public relays to read about other people, the idea is everything in your graph (your notes, and reactions/replies/zaps to your notes) are highly available to the entire network and backed up It also should make dms and group chats more private on nostr So when clients want to show information about you, they have the perfect single relay with all the information
Good to see more types of relays popping up.
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»'s avatar utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
View quoted note →
🀩
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»'s avatar utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
View quoted note →
Is this something that’s only useful in a client like Amethyst? I’ve seen briefly in screenshots that it has slots for different types of relays (I’ve seen dm relays in 0xchat) but I haven’t seen this in clients like Damus or Nostur. Is it useful for them as well?
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»'s avatar utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
View quoted note →
We have 3 good candidates for being included in today.
Chris's avatar Chris
Relay Wizard now let's you choose between multiple relay implementations, including a nip29 relay that supports groups. If you have a relay you'd like to see implemented let me know. Try it out at relaywizard.com #grownostr #relays If you don't even know where to get started with setting up a server or hooking up a domain name you can also check out relayrunner.org
View quoted note →
Thank you for the hard work and the deep thought that I do know went into this. And thank you for a user friendly breakdown. Creation is divinity. 🫑
yep, this stuff is about controlling who uploads to it not how
Yeeees, more exploration of All-in-1 relay (and even media server) solutions! Here for it 😍. Can't wait for setups like these that integrate monetization and scale to the community level.
Yes, fantastic work. Thank you publishing. What about file storage? Do we already have a way to break dependency to external file servers like nostr.build for images and small videos, or is there a way for your relay to also safeguard these resources?
Lethal Lee's avatar
Lethal Lee 1 year ago
I like this. I’ll try it out. Any recommendations for an iOS client that will support this setup? By chance did the name come from Metal Gear?
Great! Excited to see Haven boosts Nostr’s decentralization!
Hey utxo, I'm running multiple NICs with a dual-stack network, and unfortunately, the hardcoded binding to 0.0.0.0:3355 is causing issues for me. Would you be open to contributions if I created a small PR to make the binding address and port configurable (while still defaulting to 0.0.0.0:3355)?
I managed to run a containerised deployment with Podman/Podman Compose on macOS Sequoia. It builds fine and should work on bare metal, but I haven't tested that yet.
This reminds me, I'm not using an S3-compatible solution for backup. So far, I've had to set the backup provider to a placeholder value and the interval to a large number to avoid the '🚫 We only support AWS at this time' errors. Is there a better way to disable backups through the settings? Otherwise, I'm happy to contribute a flag to disable backups altogether.
Hey @calle you are outdated about nostr relays we have relays that communicate with other relays here is one example
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»'s avatar utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
View quoted note →
Reply with a link to your haven relay for 1000 sat zap 😎🐸
utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»'s avatar utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
Introducing HAVEN - The Ultimate Relay For Sovereign Individuals image HAVEN (High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr) is the next evolution of personal relays that take self sovereignty and decentralization to the next level. It's a 4-in-1 Relay with: - Private Relay - for your drafts, ecash/nutsacks and anything else only you should be able to see - Chat Relay - for your web of trust to be able to send you DMs or to host private group chats. - Inbox Relay - for people to send reactions, zaps and likes to your notes. It also pulls these notes from other relays in real time. Protected by web of trust - Outbox Relay - for others to read from. This will contain all the notes that only you publish. Anyone can read, only you can write. Every note sent to your outbox relay will be BLASTR'd to other relays. It also has many SMART relay features, including: - It imports all your old notes to your outbox relay, and imports any note you're tagged in to your inbox relay - It protects your relays using your Web of Trust - It automatically backs up all your notes to a 3rd party cloud (currently only AWS S3 support - more soonβ„’) - It blastr's your notes to other relays Amethyst users will love this relay because it gives you every relay you need to complete the relay configuration. It is my hope with this relay that we can significantly increase the decentralization of Nostr by giving people an extremely powerful and reliable personal relay that gives them control over the longevity and privacy of their notes. With more people running personal relays, clients should be more inclined to implement the outbox/inbox model. You can see HAVEN in action on my personal relay: - wss://relay.utxo.one/outbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/inbox - wss://relay.utxo.one/chat - wss://relay.utxo.one/private I am extremely excited about this release and can't wait to see what the nostriches think of it! To get started, follow the instructions in the README here:
View quoted note →
Steve's avatar
Steve 1 year ago
Go ahead and smack me for saying this but when will I find Haven in the Umbrel app store?
Do i have to configure something for the authentication to occur? or does the client do it for me? nostrudel just tells me sending to it failed, because it requires auth. couldn't find a way to authenticate.
Sorry, on vacation so haven’t checked nostr in a while. I haven’t looked at this but shouldn’t be too hard for ya to set upπŸ€™
↑