🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (27th July 2026 - 86th Edition)

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@Alan ₿

“The great thing about #Nostr is, unlike other social media platforms, it has no overhead. No pressure to meet certain metrics by a certain date. No runway. It can simply grow organically. Bullish.”#

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1. Whaaaaat? A new version of Divine? Let’s explore 😍#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

2. This legendary nostrich is interested a lot about this workspace 👇🏻#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

3. India invites centralization with deporting the decentralization 🤮#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

4. This note would be so useful for you to get rid of Google’s snooping 🫵🏻#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

5. An expensive photo worth hundreds of pounds 😉#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

6. Nostr is not dead 👇🏻#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

7. A heartbreaking day for Sat’s oil family 😢#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

8. This would be a nice try 👌🏻#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

9. This is 💯% true#

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10. Yeah, that's true 💯#

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11. Nostr is the goat of social media 🫶🏻#

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Nostr is not growing fast and at a flat point at the moment.#

According to <<<https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr>>>, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now.

According to <<<>>>,#

Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 872 Users - 8.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Amethyst - 767 Users - 13.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 549 Users - 5.1k Notes#

Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#

👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 313.0k Users#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 249.0k Users#

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 213.0k Users#

According to <<<>>>,#

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 6.39M (-16.5%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.82M (-27.4%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.97M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.28 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 179.8K#

According to <<<>>>,#

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 5,346 users, compared to 3,286 users the week before#

Many thanks to the developers of <<<https://nostrarchives.com/analytics>>>, <<<https://stats.andotherstuff.org/>>> by @JeffG <<<https://npub.world/stats>>> by @Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of <<<https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr>>> for providing these insights.

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@jack

1. Buzz by Block: 1 Relay Replaces Slack, GitHub, and Your Glue Code#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BomqO_8iQs>>>

2. Block/Buzz Collaborative Workspace: How Signed Agent Identity Replaces Shared Tokens#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avfUUZ8ClU>>>

3. Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes! THIS IS WAY BETTER!#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAu7rBSt0Wk>>>

4. The Twitter CEO Is Back…#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrdCP2H1wQ>>>

5. Inside Buzz: The Relay Where Humans and AI Share a Cryptographic Workspace#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K794WDEGvgk>>>

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1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026#

📅 Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris

🔗 Event:

<<<https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjclbdb/?eventOrigin=group_events_list>>>

2. Edufeed Community Call - August 2026#

📅 Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM GMT+2 📍 Location: Online (<<<https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/8476421102?pwd=NEpHeTZ1YjVVSE1WQVFNL3VpaFdHQT09#success>>>)

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Jörg Lohrer

🔗 Event:

<<<https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqna968zp8c45tcgdgzln2c4twqd9xvfqdc6eey964c8fn07kcmjpqqjxgdejx4snyv3s95unwd3h956xzdr995urzvtp94nrqwrxx3snyvpcvgmkv7d37e0>>>

3. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026#

📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified) 📍 Location: Munich 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup

🔗 Event:

<<<https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqhqmqsq4yn3q08xvk94w75spay4c0p9fzu290p8d5nwkpwgn3f98qqex6atwd93ksttwdaehgu3dd4jk2ar4wqkkuethvf5k2ueddejhyern94mk2mrrdakk2tf3xycxzeryxycqekle0a>>>

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1. Jack Dorsey’s Buzz: The Open-Source Slack for AI Agents#

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYfPXkUEm0>>>

2. GM Fiatjaf and Friends! — The Future of Nostr#

@Ben Arc @Constant

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Ml5tXF2bg>>>

3. Bitcoin Security Consortium, Buzz Launches, Wavelength Brings Bitcoin to Any App#

@PresidioBitcoin

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2z-NATJC10>>>

4. Big Tech's Replacement Is Already Running#

@BTC Prague @Jeff Booth @Francis Mars @Tanja

<<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKMcnOTUag>>>

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Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

Thanks to <<<https://zaplife.lol>>> by @PABLOF7z for providing these insights.

Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:#

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

1. Name: @FLASH

   • Zaps Received: 474

   • Sats Earned: 41k

2. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot

   • Zaps Received: 307

   • Sats Earned: 546k

3. Name: @Contra

   • Zaps Received: 178

   • Sats Earned: 32k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

1. Name: @AQSTR

   • Zaps Sent: 1024

   • Sats Spent: 25k

2. Name: @Piotr

   • Zaps Sent: 229

   • Sats Spent: 81k

3. Name: 匿名応援者

   • Zaps Sent: 141

   • Sats Spent: 1M

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

1. Name: RYUNOSUKE

   • Sats Earned: 1M

   • Zaps Received: 25

2. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot

   • Sats Earned: 546k

   • Zaps Received: 307

3. Name: @RABBIT HOLE RECAP

   • Sats Earned: 361k

   • Zaps Received: 19

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

1. Name: 匿名応援者

   • Sats Spent: 1M

   • Zaps Sent: 141

2. Name: @silent.link

   • Sats Spent: 210k

   • Zaps Sent: 1

3. Name: @roaming

   • Sats Spent: 118k

   • Zaps Sent: 16

Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:#

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

1. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Zaps Received: 350

   • Sats Earned: 89k

2. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Zaps Received: 44

   • Sats Earned: 21k

3. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Zaps Received: 30

   • Sats Earned: 2k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

1. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Sats Earned: 140k

   • Zaps Received: 25

2. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Sats Earned: 130k

   • Zaps Received: 3

3. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

   • Sats Earned: 89k

   • Zaps Received: 350

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1. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
2. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
3. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
4. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
5. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
6. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
7. ⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

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1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.17#

Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form video app built on Nostr that brings back Vine-style looping videos with human-created content. In 1.0.17, the release adds a new Stop Motion camera and editor, improved video editing tools, duplicate drafts, stronger publishing reliability, and better offline support. It also includes various fixes for Nostr interactions, direct messages, media handling, security, and overall app stability.

Contributed by: @rabble @Daniel Cadenas @Liz matthew bradley, Alex Frei, Meylis, Toby Kohlhagen

• Source: <<<https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile/releases/tag/1.0.17>>>

2. Earthly - v0.0.7#

Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that helps people turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps. In v0.0.7, the release added persistent Android sessions and fixed the Nostr dialog. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.0.6, v0.0.5, and v0.0.3 last week.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

• Source: <<<https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/tag/v0.0.7>>>

3. Amber - v6.3.0#

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that allows users to securely manage keys and approve Nostr event signing requests from other applications. In v6.3.0, the release improved multi-request approval handling, added support for Expert List and Expert Pack events, introduced privacy settings to disable logs and activity stats, improved Tor and relay handling, and fixed various UI, build, and translation issues.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

• Source: <<<https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.3.0>>>

4. Nostur - v1.30.0#

Nostur is a Nostr client for iOS that allows users to interact with the decentralized social protocol through mobile devices. In v1.30.0, the release added nested replies rendering, media sharing support, chat mention autocomplete, disappearing messages in DMs, improved media handling, video uploads, link previews, and fixed various issues across messaging, notifications, profiles, zaps, and live content.

Contributed by: @Fabian

• Source: <<<https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.30.0>>>

5. Wisp - v1.2.1#

Wisp is a minimal and performant Android client for the Nostr protocol, designed for a lightweight user experience. In v1.2.1, the release improves UI consistency with iOS-style timestamps, adds NIP-05 and follow badges, updates the app icon and splash screen experience, and fixes crashes caused by invalid image metadata dimensions in notes. Although this was the latest, there was also the release of v1.2.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖 @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

• Source: <<<https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v1.2.1>>>

6. Manent - v1.5.0#

Manent is a private and encrypted space for storing notes and files, built on Nostr. In v1.5.0, the release introduces a new dark mode experience and includes minor improvements and fixes to enhance the overall user experience.

Contributed by: @daniele

• Source: <<<https://github.com/dtonon/manent/releases/tag/v1.5.0>>>

7. Nostrord - v2.4.0#

Nostrord is a Nostr NIP-29 client for interacting with decentralized groups and communities. In v2.4.0, the release adds Google/pomegranate login support for desktop and Android, introduces pronounceable autogenerated group IDs, improves connection reliability by fixing reconnect and socket issues, and adds NIP-29 subgroups as Discord-style channels for better community organization.

Contributed by: @Anjhc

• Source: <<<https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v2.4.0>>>

8. Dark Wisp - v1.2.1#

Dark Wisp is a minimal and performant Android client for the Nostr protocol, focused on providing a lightweight user experience. In v1.2.1, the release introduces new branding with a dark-wisp launcher icon and welcome screen updates, adds collapsible reply threads with improved UI polish, and fixes crashes caused by invalid blurhash image dimensions. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.2.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖 @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

• Source: <<<https://github.com/barrydeen/dark-wisp-android/releases/tag/v1.2.1>>>

9. NoorNote - v1.3.0#

NoorNote is a client for Nostr, providing a modern experience for browsing, messaging, and interacting with Nostr content. In v1.3.0, the release adds NIP-53 live activity cards across feeds and notifications, introduces NIP-68 image tagging, adds soft mute controls through NIP-78, improves messaging and zap interactions, and enhances relay insights and wallet reliability.

Contributed by: @alp

• Source: <<<https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.3.0>>>

10. Sidecar - v1.5.1#

Sidecar is a NIP-07 Nostr signing extension that runs in your browser's side panel, providing secure key management and signing for Nostr applications. In v1.5.1, the update adds a timed auto-sign mode for trusted sites, a pinned Lightning wallet balance bar with NIP-47 notifications, and various UI improvements for readability, wallet interactions, and signing flows. This was the latest of the week, and there was also v1.5.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖

• Source: <<<https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases/tag/v1.5.1>>>

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1. Zapstore - 1.1.1#

Zapstore is an open Android app store built on Nostr, allowing developers to publish apps directly while enabling community-driven discovery and curation. This release updated the welcome copy on the search screen and store listing metadata while fixing repeated device-key backup decryption during Amber session restore, trust dialog hangs when a publisher has no kind-0 profile, and the paused download button state.

Contributed by: @franzap

• Source: <<<https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/releases/tag/1.1.1>>>

2. ZSP - 0.4.14#

ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays and is used by Zapstore for app distribution. This release fixed app name and icon extraction issues, improved GitLab download path parsing, added Fastlane as a metadata source, introduced Tor fallback with retries for failed requests, and added default image compression.

Contributed by: @franzap

• Source: <<<https://github.com/zapstore/zsp/releases/tag/v0.4.14>>>

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No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.#

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1. Angor - 0.2.34 (Unstable release)#

Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables users to create and participate in decentralized investment projects. This unstable release fixed recovery scan crashes, improved spend scanning, added shared investment fee estimation and Nostr investment synchronization between the web app and desktop, improved parallel investment scanning, and fixed several UI issues including Android crashes and mobile navigation inconsistencies. This was the latest release of the week and was also another one, that was 0.2.33.

Contributed by: @dangershony Zaza

• Source: <<<https://github.com/block-core/angor/releases/tag/v0.2.34>>>

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1. Buzz - v0.4.26#

Buzz is a workspace where humans and agents collaborate together on a relay you own, built around decentralized infrastructure. In v0.4.26, the release improves mobile pairing QR code presentation, refines community management flows, updates documentation, and adds clearer setup guidance for macOS local network access and CLI runtime configuration. This was the latest, and there were also a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: Wes, klopez4212

• Source: <<<https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/v0.4.26>>>

2. Pyramid - v1.3.1#

Pyramid is a community-building platform for Nostr that helps users create and manage vibrant communities through a hierarchical relay system. In v1.3.1, the release fixes an issue where event statistics were incorrectly displayed for non-members who did not have any events, improving the accuracy of community data.

Contributed by: @fiatjaf

• Source: <<<https://github.com/fiatjaf/pyramid/releases/tag/v1.3.1>>>

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1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.32#

Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that allows users to share their Lightning node through Nostr accounts and connect easily with compatible web applications. This release fixed missing payment push notifications by improving service startup order, reduced false sanity-check failures for nodes with large LND histories, and introduced a TypeScript build update without runtime changes.

Contributed by: Justin (shocknet)

• Source: <<<https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub/releases/tag/v0.0.32>>>

2. Nostr-VPN - v4.1.4#

Nostr-VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed data plane, using Nostr for decentralized coordination. In v4.1.4, the release improves cross-platform network joining, strengthens mobile tunnel management, enhances QR-based device approvals, and expands physical device testing for Android and iOS. It also fixes manual joining flows, roster synchronization, tunnel restarts, and VPN disconnect handling across supported platforms. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v4.1.3 and v4.1.1 last week.

Contributed by: @Sirius

• Source: <<<https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn/releases/tag/v4.1.4>>>

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Nostr is built by plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.

I’m committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Eighty-Sixth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

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