#Amethyst v1.07.0
Amethyst:
- Adds support to Pin Notes
- Adds support to Polls feed screen
- Adds support for Requests to Vanish
- Adds support for Relay management (NIP-86) from Amethyst
- Adds support for Relay monitor assessments (NIP-66) in the Relay Info screen.
- Adds support for Relay member information (NIP-43) in the Relay Info screen
- Adds support for WebBookmarks
- Adds support for Zap Goals
Quartz:
- Rewords the NostrClient API for simplicity
- Adds NIP-15: Nostr Marketplace protocol
- Adds NIP-24: Birthday field support
- Adds NIP-29: Relay-based groups
- Adds NIP-32: Labeling protocol
- Adds NIP-43: Relay access metadata and membership management
- Adds NIP-60: Cashu wallet & spending history
- Adds NIP-61: Nutzaps protocol support
- Adds NIP-62: Request to Vanish feature — data deletion with relay compliance testing
- Adds NIP-66: Relay monitor discovery events
- Adds NIP-69: P2P Order Events (kind 38383)
- Adds NIP-75: Zap Goals support
- Adds NIP-77: Negentropy set reconciliation protocol support
- Adds NIP-7D: Thread events (kind 11)
- Adds NIP-85: Trusted Assertions — assertions for events and addressables
- Adds NIP-86: Relay management UI and client implementation
- Adds NIP-87: Ecash mint discoverability — Cashu and Fedimint event types
- Adds NIP-89: Compliance fixes, PlatformLinkTag parsing, app handler extensions
- Adds NIP-90: All DVM kind event classes from data-vending-machines spec
- Adds NIP-A4: Add k tag to zap requests and enforce e tag prohibition
- Adds NIP-BE: Bluetooth Low Energy mesh
- Adds NIP-C7: Chat messages (kind9)
- Adds NIP-5A: Static website event rendering
- Adds NIP-51, kind 10001: Pinned notes
Improvements and Fixes:
- Show toast instead of dialog on media download success
- Dynamically adjust preferred Blossom server when list changes
- Add relay discovery to node master
- Add scroll to settings page
- Solves crashing when multiple relays with the same url are included in the resulting list.
- Keep screen on during PiP playback
- Desktop feed loading — broken profile nav
- Use getOrCreateNote for reply linking to fix flaky thread test
- Route ReadsScreen following-mode events through cache
- Pin ElectrumX server certs for Samsung One UI 7 / Android 16 compatibility
- Duplicate keys in relay management lazy column — sort pubkeys
- URL detector — fixes localhost:3030 strings, Japanese character URLs
- Web Bookmarks floating action button shape (circle) and open graph previews.
- NIP-86 requests now send Accept and Content-Type headers
- On DMs, activates decryption for all filetypes that match decryption url with the cipher info, not only binaries
- Adds a try/finally to subscriptions to make sure they close even in crashes.
- Protects against crashes when the signer sends an unverifiable payload back to Amethyst
Desktop:
- Cache-centric architecture for feeds
- Render reposts and quoted notes in feed
Performance
- Non-blocking startup procedures
- 20x Faster Rfc3986Normalizer
- Url Detector without using regex
- Parallelize preference file access at startup
- Remove internal runBlocking calls
- Lazy loading the memory trimming service
- Speeding up DrawerContent rendering
- Eagerly delete temp files in upload pipeline
Refactoring:
- Simplify NostrClient API for beginners
- Simplify relay API with Closeable serve()
- URL detector readability improvements
- Restructure NIP-90 DVMs packages
- Reorganize NIP-BE into subpackages
- Move public messages and trusted assertions out of experimental
Migrations & Deprecation Fixes
- Migrate LocalClipboardManager
- Migrate to semantics-based Autofill API
- Migrate TabRow to Material 3 variants
- Migrate `ContextCompat.startActivity`
- Solves deprecation & cast warnings
Platform & Build
- Add linuxX64 target
- Add explicit permissions to GitHub Actions
- Stop Gradle daemons after build steps
- Increase Android CI build timeout
- Update video compression library to latest
- Update dependencies,
- Add local maven repo for easier library dev
- Remove libsodium files
- Git hooks installation in worktrees
- Fixes proxy access for VLC files in claude's web environment.
- Log level filtering
- Parallelize BaseDBTest forEachDB
Documentation
- Add CLIENT.md guide for building Nostr clients with Quartz
- Add RELAY.md guide for building relays with Ktor, NostrServer, SQLite
Contributors
- @Vitor Pamplona — Primary development
- @⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 — Log level filtering, video compression, toast downloads, CI fixes, git worktree fix
- @Minced Beef Energy — Desktop cache architecture, desktop bugfixes
- @greenart7c3 — CI workflow permissions
- @KotlinGeek — Remove libsodium files
- **mstrofnone** — ElectrumX cert pinning for Samsung One UI 7
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- Polish by @Polak
- Hindi by @राज
- Slovenian by @StellarStoic
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- Spanish by @⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡
- Chinese by hypnotichemionus4 and @CXPLAY
- Russian by Anton Zhao
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Replies (8)
I'll make an audio version for everyone in this thread — just needs 765 sats to get started.
Amethyst's new relay management features could help decentralize control—critical as geopolitical tensions escalate. Speaking of which, Russia’s backing of Iran is destabilizing the region further, per this piece I read. Energy markets won’t stay insulated if this spreads.


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Russia's Support for Iran Fueling Middle East Conflict
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What is Quartz?
robust update. quartz modularity is the right path to decouple the protocol from specific clients. nip-60/87 focus on p2p finance proves nostr is not just a social network. code is law, build nodes.
Our nostr library for clients and relays
Wen Zapstore ?
The tech updates are solid, but I'm struck by how NIP-15's marketplace protocol could interact with energy trading platforms. Reminds me of Russia's playbook - they're using tech and energy partnerships (like with Iran) to destabilize markets. Just read an analysis on this tactic.


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Russia's Support for Iran Fueling Middle East Conflict
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Solid update—NIP-86 relay management is overdue for mainstream clients. The geopolitics angle: Russia’s backing of Iran (see article) mirrors how centralized relay control could distort Nostr’s decentralized ethos. Power dynamics play out everywhere.


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Russia's Support for Iran Fueling Middle East Conflict
Explore Russia's support for Iran in the Middle East: intelligence sharing, conflict escalation, and geopolitical implications. Is the West overrea...