🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (30th March 2026 - 69th Edition)

“Good morning, Nostr. I open X and it's "Iran war" this, "Iran war" that. I open Nostr and it's like, "Check this out, Nsite," "I built this game on Nsite," Nostr polls, and just excitement about cool shit. Nostr is a better vibe.”#

@npub1lrnv...qnw5

“Idk who needs to hear this, but “likes” are worthless on Nostr.”#

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://nostrarchives.com/analytics,#

Top 3 Popular Clients:#

👉🏻 Primal web - 682 Users#

👉🏻 Nostur - 522 Users#

👉🏻 Yakihonne - 461 Users#

Top 3 Popular Relays:#

👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 185.1K Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 173.3K Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 153.4K#

According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#

👉🏻 Publishing users last week : 352.0K (+35.2%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 519.4K (+126.7%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.64M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.29 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 174.3K#

According to https://npub.world/stats,#

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 4,534, compared to 3,369 users the week before#

Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @npub1zuua...c2uc https://npub.world/stats by @npub176p7...vgup and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.

1. The Psychology of Zaps#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

2. SIW on NOSTR: NOSTR Explained#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaWJoim1HQ

1. 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: @npub1t3gx...9elk

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcgbhb/

2. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz#

📅 Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM GMT+2
📍 Location: Chez Ginette, 101 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1ve8q...9ka6

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvwtrxyukxdmrxvenvvesx5ukvveexfskzc3k8ynqy4f2

3. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026#

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 1.00 AM PDT
📍 Location: We All Scream Night Club, 517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub18ams...p424

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzq0mhp4ja8fmy48zuk5p6uy37vtk8tx9dqdwcxm32sy8nsaa8gkeyqqwkummnwejkwctn95erqv3k95cnwden8yenxvp4x5mnqd3dxq06jlj6

1. BitTasker: the Decentralized Workforce#

@npub1knvw...n7yc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmoied63ayc

2. Can Content Creators Bypass Gatekeepers With This New Technology?#

@npub1t6jx...ksrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMiPyrr4Oc

@npub1nl8r...f9d0 @npub1jvnp...89sc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn3znrP1Elo

4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 30: There Are Now Two Internets#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDqi_rRBS0

5. What if the platforms disappeared? Nostr, artists, and a decentralized future#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwi0ikRldEU

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 @npub1l2vy...ajft for providing this data.

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

Name: @npub1563z...c9n6
- Zaps Received: 521
- Sats Earned: 1M
Name: @npub1utx0...50e8
- Zaps Received: 345
- Sats Earned: 270k
Name: @npub1f4uy...r407
- Zaps Received: 286
- Sats Earned: 11k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

Name: @npub1dsn6...2h64
- Zaps Sent: 1724
- Sats Spent: 89k
Name: @npub16eum...t6jc
- Zaps Sent: 147
- Sats Spent: 3k
Name: @npub1zqre...x6yw
- Zaps Sent: 143
- Sats Spent: 104k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

Name: @npub12euy...5lgs
- Sats Earned: 5M
- Zaps Received: 6
Name: @npub1563z...c9n6
- Sats Earned: 1M
- Zaps Received: 521
Name: @npub1s0ve...rmq5
- Sats Earned: 610k
- Zaps Received: 5

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

Name: @npub1mdrf...wwjx
- Sats Spent: 5M
- Zaps Sent: 6
Name: @npub19at4...upzr
- Sats Spent: k (Not showing the exact sats amount)
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name: @npub1a953...gpn5
- Sats Spent: 171k
- Zaps Sent: 14

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 142
- Sats Earned: 128k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 38
- Sats Earned: 3k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 52
- Sats Earned: 4k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 128k
- Zaps Received: 142
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 32k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 24k
- Zaps Received: 17

1. Flora - v0.3.0 - New Tool#

Flora is a Chrome extension for decentralized screen recording and sharing on Nostr. This release introduces private encrypted video sharing with public, unlisted, and private modes, including AES-256-GCM encryption and NIP-17-based secure delivery, alongside recipient selection, DM relay checks, and improved sharing UX.

Developed by: @npub1clk6...pup9

Source: https://github.com/shawnyeager/flora-extension/releases/tag/v0.3.0

2. White Noise - v2026.3.23#

White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr and the Marmot protocol with MLS-based encryption. This release focuses on major relay system improvements to reduce connection overload, stabilize message delivery, and optimize login performance, especially for large accounts. It also introduces NIP-C7 reply threading, better handling of deleted messages, real-time metadata updates, in-app bug reporting and support chat, improved error handling, and significant UI/UX refinements, alongside numerous performance optimizations and backend enhancements.

Contributed by: @npub1peps...grxw @npub1ven4...ddfh @npub1zuua...c2uc @npub1mmfa...xvtp @npub17t7q...75k0

Source: https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise/releases/tag/v2026.3.23

3. Amethyst - v1.06.0: Polls, Wallets, New Media Player, etc#

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android. This release adds polls (NIP-85), wallets (NIP-47), calendar (NIP-52), code snippets (NIP-C0), PayTo (NIP-A3), Blossom URIs, long-form posts, voice messages, and basic chess support. It improves DMs, push notifications, media playback, relay management, search, and profiles, adds encrypted uploads, and enhances UI/UX with Material 3 updates. Desktop and Quartz gains NIP-45/NIP-42 relays, NIP-46 Bunker login, multi-column layouts, and QR signer pairing, alongside performance, accessibility, and translation improvements. This was the biggest release, and there were 3 more releases of the week. (v1.06.1, v1.06.2, v1.06.3)

Contributed by: hypnotichemionus4, @npub1w4us...0jr5 @npub1e2yu...3eef @npub1k0jr...dczd @npub1aeh2...4nwx @npub1a3tx...kq4k @npub12cfj...y76c @npub1dnvs...h0tp @npub106ef...r8fz @npub16gjy...wyrm @npub1ww6h...w5e6 @npub1qqqq...eecw @npub13qtw...x23t @npub1luhy...q903

Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.06.0

4. Amber - v5.0.4#

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android. The v5.0.4 release improves offline mode by disabling services, Tor, and notifications, fixes connection and encryption issues, adds a 30-second timeout for profile subscriptions, enhances performance when handling multiple requests, and resolves UI bugs with connect screen tabs, alt tags, and QR code accept/reject buttons. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v5.0.3 and v5.0.2 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1w4us...0jr5

Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v5.0.4

5. Mostro - v0.17.1#

Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network P2P exchange built on Nostr. This release adds Nostr-based exchange rate publishing, includes the Mostro pubkey in order events, removes database encryption, updates default routing fee settings, improves testing coverage for event emissions, and refines GitHub workflows and documentation.

Contributed by: Zakir Jiwani, codaMW, @npub1qqqq...rfkq @npub1qqpn...l2ng

Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.17.1

6. Aegis - v0.4.0#

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer supporting multiple connection methods. This release adds selectable authorization modes, improves the language picker with native language names, and fixes various QR scanning and UI bugs.

Contributed by: Zzzz

Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.4.0

7. Comet - alpha-0eb7eb5#

Comet is a note-taking app for Nostr. This release refines the app’s architecture with a hexagonal restructuring, moves the editor and other modules into feature-specific layers, adds numerous unit tests, improves CI and type compatibility, refreshes the relay allowlist, fixes ESLint and typecheck issues, and enhances the build and deployment pipeline for more reliable web releases. This was the biggest release, and there were also a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli

Source: https://github.com/nodetec/comet/releases/tag/alpha-0eb7eb5

8. Primal Android App - 3.0.17#

Primal Android app is the Android app of Primal Nostr client. This release adds deep-linking via primalconnect://, improves wallet exports and transaction handling, updates poll and zap display logic, migrates to ZXing for scanning on AOSP, fixes clipboard, feed paging, and UI issues, enhances LN invoice creation, and improves transaction animations and dev tools for better wallet visibility.

Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic

Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/3.0.17

9. Nymchat - v3.56.256#

Nymchat is a lightweight ephemeral Nostr chat client with Bitchat bridging. This release includes hotfixes for double-sanitized mention modals and restrictions on special characters in channel names. This was the latest release, and there were a whole bunch more releases last week.

Contributed by: @npub16jdf...33sv

Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v3.56.256

10. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.2#

Mostro Mobile Client is the secure mobile app for Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading platform. This release adds German language support and NIP-13 proof-of-work for events, and fixes background service startup, chat history loss after reconnect, and image rendering in P2P messages.

Contributed by: Andrea Diaz, @npub1hht9...xsry @npub1catr...euhz

Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mobile/releases/tag/v1.2.2

11. Wisp - v0.15.5-beta#

Wisp is a minimal, performant Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds support for connecting to local relays, includes related translation updates, and introduces minor version and maintenance changes. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: @npub1utx0...50e8

Source: https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v0.15.5-beta

12. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.0.3#

YakiHonne mobile app is a decentralized mobile client built on the Nostr protocol, offering a privacy-focused and censorship-resistant social experience. This release introduces relay reviews and join requests, expanded nested replies, auto-translation for notes, NWC multi-relay support, and improvements to paid notes and dashboards, along with multiple bug fixes, performance enhancements, and UI improvements.

Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik

Source: https://github.com/YakiHonne/mobile-app/releases/tag/YakiHonne-2.0.3

1. Nuxtstack - New Developer Tool#

Nuxtstack is a rapid application development (RAD) framework built on Nuxt and Vue, using only JavaScript and no React or TypeScript involved. Inspired by MKStack, it serves as a boilerplate and starter template optimized for fast prototyping and AI-assisted workflows with agents like Goose or Claude Desktop. Nuxtstack is designed to help developers quickly build Nostr-based apps and websites in minutes, streamlining the development process with a focus on simplicity, speed, and AI integration.

Developed by: @npub1qe3e...zefe

Source: https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nuxtstack

2. Routstr - v0.4.2#

Routstr is a decentralized protocol for private, permissionless AI inference using Nostr for discovery and Cashu for payments. The v0.4.2 release improves payment handling and enforcement, enhances child key management, fixes balance, refund, and migration issues, adds better model visibility and routing, and includes UI, analytics, and documentation updates for improved reliability and usability.

Contributed by: shroominic, Evan, 9qeklajc, @npub1ftt0...edsh

Source: https://github.com/Routstr/routstr-core/releases/tag/v0.4.2

No Relay Updates and Release for last week.#

Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this 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 Sixty-Ninth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

Thank you @npub1l77t...swft for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @npub1wmr3...g240 for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @npub1nu5r...hjyn for helping me with the content and making graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

Recap by @npub19hs0...5jcn

🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (30th March 2026 - 69th Edition)

“Good morning, Nostr. I open X and it's "Iran war" this, "Iran war" that. I open Nostr and it's like, "Check this out, Nsite," "I built this game on Nsite," Nostr polls, and just excitement about cool shit. Nostr is a better vibe.”#

“Idk who needs to hear this, but “likes” are worthless on Nostr.”#

1. Nice to see that a lot of plebs love music 😍#

2. Leeeeeeeets Gooooooo! 🤛🏻#

3. Keep this in mind for your success 👇🏻#

4. This selection would be so healing 😇#

5. Respect to this decision 🫡#

6. Let’s suggest a way for him to celebrate 🥳#

7. The selection is yours and the result will be according to your decision 👈🏻#

8. This is how the centralization controls your life without you knowing 😢#

9. A nice opportunity for the right person 😉#

10. A popular lady nostrich celebrated her birthday 🎂#

11. This is awesome 🤩#

12. They won’t harm us as long as we don’t harm them 🐍#

13. She has left all social media except Nostr 😍#

14. He has realized it 🤘🏻#

15. This is so true! 👇🏻#

16. Let’s help for the preview process 💻#

According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,#

Top 3 Popular Clients:#

👉🏻 Primal web - 682 Users#

👉🏻 Nostur - 522 Users#

👉🏻 Yakihonne - 461 Users#

Top 3 Popular Relays:#

👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 185.1K Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 173.3K Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 153.4K#

According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#

👉🏻 Publishing users last week : 352.0K (+35.2%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 519.4K (+126.7%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.64M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.29 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 174.3K#

According to https://npub.world/stats,#

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 4,534, compared to 3,369 users the week before#

1. The Psychology of Zaps#

2. SIW on NOSTR: NOSTR Explained#

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

2. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz#

3. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026#

1. BitTasker: the Decentralized Workforce#

2. Can Content Creators Bypass Gatekeepers With This New Technology?#

3. Radio Detox with M.K. Fain: The Internet You Actually Want Radio Detox 8 subscribers Subscribe#

4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 30: There Are Now Two Internets#

5. What if the platforms disappeared? Nostr, artists, and a decentralized future#

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

1. Flora - v0.3.0 - New Tool#

2. White Noise - v2026.3.23#

3. Amethyst - v1.06.0: Polls, Wallets, New Media Player, etc#

4. Amber - v5.0.4#

5. Mostro - v0.17.1#

6. Aegis - v0.4.0#

7. Comet - alpha-0eb7eb5#

8. Primal Android App - 3.0.17#

9. Nymchat - v3.56.256#

10. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.2#

11. Wisp - v0.15.5-beta#

12. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.0.3#

1. Nuxtstack - New Developer Tool#

2. Routstr - v0.4.2#

No Relay Updates and Release for last week.#

Nomishka

Comments & Discussions (0)