🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (11th May 2026 - 75th Edition)
The 75th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
“Make the internet weird again. Build something nobody asked for. Post something that doesn't have a target audience. Be yourself on a protocol that nobody can deplatform. #keepnostrweird”#
1. Divine is getting popular day by day 😍#
2. Paul met an Iranian freedom fighter 👇🏻#
3. Ivy is on Divine now 😍#
4. Let’s enjoy some music 🎧#
5. A lady nostrich makes an effort to promote her book 📗#
6. A physician onboards to Nostr 👨🏻⚕️#
7. A great opportunity for the vendors who accept Bitcoin 🤩#
8. As always, an incentive from Derek 💪🏻#
9. A YouTube kids alternative? 😱#
10. A very self-satisfied wine businessman 🍷#
11. This is a really good news from Ditto 🥳#
Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
👉🏻 Amethyst - 741 Users - 11.0k Notes#
👉🏻 Primal Android - 665 Users - 7.2k Notes#
👉🏻 Primal Web - 621 Users - 3.9k Notes#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io - 210.0k Users#
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink - 198.2k Users#
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net - 173.9k Users#
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 523.4K (-30.9%)#
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 441.1K (+13.1%)#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.77M#
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.65 BTC#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 176.2K#
According to https://npub.world/stats,#
During last week:#
👉🏻 Total Users: 9,851, compared to 6,468 users the week before#
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by
No Educational Guides for last week.#
1. Nostr Nights #2 @ Bitcoin Park Nashville - May 2026#
📅 Date: Monday, May 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CDT
📍 Location: Bitcoin Park, 1910, 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Davidson County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, 37212, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
2. Murcia Meetup 2140 - May 2026#
📅 Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026
⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 7.30 PM CEST
📍 Location: Montessori British School Murcia, C. Ermita Vieja, 26B, 30006 Murcia, Spain
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
https://www.satlantis.io/events/2204/murcia-meetup-2140
3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026#
📅 Date: Sunday, June 07, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcjbkb/
1. AI + Bitcoin + Nostr = Freedom Tech Stack#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5dCrLWRgM
2. Substr - a community-first social app on NOSTR#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKCB7I6Z_g
3. Why We Choose Convenience Over Freedom Nostr, Privacy & Bitcoin#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSBX_uuIx8
4. Building Censorship-Resistant P2P Bitcoin Trading on Nostr#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtN3dTFprw
5. Soapbox Sessions: NosVegas - Our Recap of the Bitcoin Conference 2026#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTqdB1dqo0
6. Soapbox Sessions Episode 35: Too Hot for TikTok (Full Episode)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWhuhPITmc
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
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:#
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Zaps Received: 339
- Sats Earned: 835k
Name:
@npub1utx0...50e8 - Zaps Received: 235
- Sats Earned: 38k
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 231
- Sats Earned: 34k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 2812
- Sats Spent: 99k
Name:
@npub1f4qf...l37g - Zaps Sent: 152
- Sats Spent: 3k
Name:
@npub1zqre...x6yw - Zaps Sent: 124
- Sats Spent: 26k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 835k
- Zaps Received: 339
Name:
@npub10uth...xdlq - Sats Earned: 307k
- Zaps Received: 21
Name:
@npub103m9...d3h5 - Sats Earned: 181k
- Zaps Received: 116
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name: “The name is not visible”
- Sats Spent: 177k
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name:
@npub1fgtd...qccm - Sats Spent: 160k
- Zaps Sent: 22
Name:
@npub13q8e...6vpv - Sats Spent: 126k
- Zaps Sent: 12
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: 155
- Sats Earned: 27k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 115
- Sats Earned: 30k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 66
- Sats Earned: 5k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 100k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 42k
- Zaps Received: 2
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 33k
- Zaps Received: 31
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1. Tamagostrich - New Tool#
Tamagostrich is a decentralized virtual pet built on the Nostr protocol where your baby ostrich companion, Nori, evolves through your social activity such as zaps, reactions, mentions, and followers. Unlike traditional tamagotchi-style apps, your pet’s stats, levels, and achievements are stored directly on Nostr via NIP-78, allowing seamless syncing across devices and real-time interaction with the network.
Developed by:
2. Amber - v6.1.0-pre2 (Pre-release)#
Amber is an Android application used to securely sign Nostr events while keeping private keys isolated on the device, typically interacting with other apps via bunker/NIP-46 style remote signing flows. This Pre-release improves the connection and signing experience with better UI when pairing apps, crash fixes, improved bunker request handling, account display updates (name and npub), bulk permission selection, validation screens for invalid requests, rate limiting for intent-based signing requests, startup/boot behavior controls, service management improvements, and general stability and UX refinements across signing and authorization flows.
Contributed by:
3. Jumble - v26.5.4#
Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client designed for browsing, interacting with, and exploring relay-based feeds, supporting core social actions like posting, replying, liking, reposting, and notifications across the Nostr network. This release introduces a custom emoji picker with emoji pack tabs, improves video and Markdown rendering, enhances event lookup using relay hints, enables proper YouTube playback in Electron via local HTTP serving, improves notification reliability and state persistence, and includes several UI refinements such as updated icons, consistent button styling, and better navigation behavior. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v26.5.3 & v26.5.2 last week.
Contributed by:
4. Nostria - v3.1.42#
Nostria is a decentralized social platform built on the Nostr protocol, designed as a user-owned social network for communication, content sharing, and community interaction without centralized control or data exploitation. This release fixes layout issues in the fullscreen media player, improving playback experience and UI consistency, building on prior updates that addressed live streaming stability and other media-related functionality. This was the latest, and there were also 4 more releases last week. (v3.1.41, v3.1.40, v3.1.39, v3.1.38)
Contributed by:
5. White Noise - v2026.5.7#
White Noise is a privacy-focused decentralized chat app using Marmot, MLS, and Nostr for encrypted peer-to-peer messaging, with controls for blocking, muting, and media sharing. This release improves blocking behavior across the app, adds end-to-end video support, enhances offline handling, enables encrypted local storage, and includes security, performance, and UI improvements.
Contributed by:
6. Nymchat - v3.61.322#
Nymchat is a lightweight decentralized chat app on Nostr (bridged with Bitchat) for temporary, anonymous messaging. This release focuses on stability and UI fixes, improving reactions, avatars, media handling, haptics, and chat visibility behavior, while resolving multiple bugs in group chats, private messages, and dynamic interface elements. This release had the most hotfixes of the week, and there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by:
7. NosCall - v0.5.2#
NosCall is a secure, cross-platform audio and video calling app built on Nostr with end-to-end encrypted communication. This release improves calling reliability and WebRTC behavior, strengthens signaling and event verification (NIP-AC support), unifies call handling, enhances group and favorites UI, improves connection lifecycle and authentication screens, and fixes multiple connectivity and device-handling issues.
Contributed by: sana
8. Divine Mobile - 1.0.12#
Divine is a dark-mode short-form video app built on Nostr for creating, watching, and interacting with loop-based video content, including comments, DMs, and social discovery features. This is the mobile app for it. This release restores and improves comments with reply notifications, enhances audio and video tools (searchable audio picker, reusable tracks, smoother looping playback), improves messaging reliability with offline DM queuing, refines navigation, feeds, and profile behavior, fixes multiple UI and notification issues, and strengthens privacy and security in the Nostr bridge across mobile platforms.
Contributed by:
9. Wisp - v1.0.3#
Wisp is a lightweight Android client for browsing and interacting with Nostr social feeds, including posts, replies, zaps, and direct messages. The v1.0.3 release improves media handling and performance (thumbhash images, looping videos, smoother relay connection handling), enhances UI spacing and visibility, adds features like post undo timers and zap display improvements, optimizes background behavior such as encrypted DM persistence, and removes Tor support while refining overall stability and responsiveness. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v1.0.4 & v1.0.5 last week.
Contributed by:
10. Nostrord - v1.0.2#
Nostrord is a Nostr client focused on NIP-29 group and community interactions across multiple platforms. The v1.0.2 release adds a new group sharing modal with support for nostr:naddr identifiers and direct links, making it easier to share and access Nostr groups and communities. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v1.0.1 & v1.0.0 last week.
Contributed by:
11. Clave - v0.2.0 build 71 - bunker pair-cap fix + AppState refactor#
Clave is an iOS remote signer that keeps Nostr private keys securely stored in the iPhone Keychain while allowing apps to sign events through encrypted push notifications without keeping the signer app open. This release fixes a bunker pairing limit bypass by enforcing stricter connection caps, improves same-device nostrconnect pairing guidance and UX, and prevents repeated QR-triggered approval prompts after cancelled scans. This was the latest, and there were also 3 more releases last week.
Contributed by:
1. Mostro Core - v0.11.0#
Mostro Core is a Rust-based peer-to-peer library for decentralized applications, serving as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. The v0.11.0 release adds new bond-related trading flows including PayBondInvoice, a WaitingTakerBond status, and a BondResolution payload for admin settle/cancel actions, along with improved validation, tighter test coverage, and general protocol refinements to strengthen reliability in P2P trading logic.
Contributed by:
2. Routstr Core - v0.4.3#
Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based backend that sits in front of OpenAI-compatible APIs to enable pay-per-request AI inference using Nostr for discovery and Cashu for Bitcoin micropayments. The v0.4.3 release improves model routing and billing reliability, adds LiteLLM and Anthropic forwarding, enhances refund and balance handling, strengthens logging and API behavior, and fixes multiple issues in streaming, deployment, and upstream API compatibility.
Contributed by:
3. Nostr VPN - v4.0.10#
Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style decentralized mesh VPN system built in Rust, using a FIPS-backed data plane to enable encrypted peer-to-peer networking and cross-platform device connectivity via CLI and native clients. This release improves network performance through major packet-processing optimizations, significantly increases throughput on TCP/UDP streams, and introduces a redesigned device pairing flow (invite/join separation, improved QR and LAN discovery, multi-interface multicast support, and clearer UX). It also fixes multiple platform-specific networking issues (especially Windows multicast and macOS config stability), strengthens WireGuard upstream support with safer userspace routing and testing modes, and adds new tooling for controlled VPN exit-node behavior and reliability testing across platforms. This was the latest, and there were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: Michael Balaban
1. GRAIN - v0.6.0#
GRAIN is a Nostr relay focused on high-performance, fine-grained relay control for operators, while also providing a Go client library for building Nostr applications. This release introduces key protocol support including NIP-40 event expiration, NIP-50 full-text search, NIP-70 protected events, and NIP-45 event counts, along with major production hardening such as improved connection handling, AUTH normalization fixes, better slow-consumer backpressure, corrected NIP-01 rejection responses, and safer default configurations for more stable deployments.
Contributed by:
2. Citrine - v3.0.0-pre1 (Pre-release)#
Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay application that allows devices to act as relay nodes, forwarding and storing Nostr events while also supporting advanced relay features like aggregation and privacy routing. This pre-release improves WebSocket performance, adds built-in Tor support for enhanced privacy, introduces relay aggregation capabilities, optimizes event downloading performance, and includes a new event analytics view with a pie chart for better insight into stored data.
Contributed by:
1. Angor - v0.2.22 (Alpha)#
Angor is an alpha-stage decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr for project fundraising and transaction-based crowdfunding. The v0.2.22 release improves web and mobile stability with better transaction handling, error reporting, and data persistence in the project creation flow, adds iOS Keychain support, and fixes issues in uploads, navigation state, and API response handling. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.2.21 & v0.2.20 last week.
Contributed by:
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Recap by
Nomishka
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nomishka@getalby.com Author of #nostrrecap | Bitcoin Advocate 🌟 | Frontend Dev from Sri Lanka 💻 | Studying Nostr 📚 | Motorbiker 🏍️ | Swimmer 🏊♂️ | Dog Lover 🐶 | #HTML #CSS #VanillaJS #SolidJS #Astro #React #WCAG #W3C