🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (29th June 2026 - 82nd Edition)

“Finally I made the leap to be Nostr exclusive and it feels like a breath of fresh air. X stays up for announcements only.#
This is the right move. The community here is real, the conversations are better, and most importantly I own my identity and my data. No platform standing between me and the people I want to reach.#
Now back to building.#
#NostrOnly”#

Nostr is not growing fast! It seems like it has a bear market.#

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 - 842 Users - 14.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 612 Users - 5.5k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Web - 545 Users - 3.3k Notes#

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

👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 306.0k Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 233.9k Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 199.5k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 9.98M (-9.6%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 8.30M (-7.5%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.91M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.07 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 178.7K#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 3,308 users, compared to 3,772 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.

@npub1qqvt...cn3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5grPh6ya49M

2. Mastering the Nostr Protocol#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r7W6vCy1JQ

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

📅 Date: Sunday, July 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/mlcdqtyjckbhb/

2. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - July 2026#

📅 Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST
📍 Location: TBA

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1lwsm...y86j

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/310267061/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

1. Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Quantum Problem#

@npub14hq5...jjzu

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

2. How RSS, Lightning, and Nostr Power Value‑for‑Value Music#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk1-9tckVN0

3. Nostr Evangelism with Derek Ross#

@npub15c88...ssvx @npub18ams...p424 @npub1klkk...x3vt @npub1tr4d...2y5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ronku3Y3rqk

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: @npub1uwje...axfl
- Zaps Received: 249
- Sats Earned: 12k
Name: @npub1hpnv...tplc
- Zaps Received: 244
- Sats Earned: 496k
Name: @npub1f4uy...r407
- Zaps Received: 243
- Sats Earned: 84k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

Name: @npub1dsn6...2h64
- Zaps Sent: 2967
- Sats Spent: 109k
Name: @npub1k647...nekl
- Zaps Sent: 105
- Sats Spent: 6k
Name: @npub1hgvt...9jnv
- Zaps Sent: 99
- Sats Spent: 6k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

Name: @npub10uth...xdlq
- Sats Earned: 5M
- Zaps Received: 17
Name: @npub17amt...nldk
- Sats Earned: 2M
- Zaps Received: 243
Name: @npub1hpnv...tplc
- Sats Earned: 496k
- Zaps Received: 245

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

Name: @npub1aul5...cxl3
- Sats Spent: 5M
- Zaps Sent: 3
Name: @npub1eq94...er58
- Sats Spent: “Not correctly appears”
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name: @npub1vxz5...78px
- Sats Spent: 398k
- Zaps Sent: 84

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: 230
- Sats Earned: 56k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 77
- Sats Earned: 140k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 76
- Sats Earned: 443k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 500k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 443k
- Zaps Received: 76
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 241k
- Zaps Received: 43

1. Squalk - New Tool#

Squalk is a Nostr-based forum platform that helps manage communities of any size with flexible Simple and Full modes, while integrating real-time chat into every forum for seamless collaboration and discussion.

Developed by: @npub10000...vwqk

Source: https://github.com/dtonon/squalk

2. Sidecar - New Tool#

Sidecar is a Nostr signer that lives in your browser's side panel, securely storing encrypted keys locally while enabling seamless event signing, Nostr authentication, built-in Lightning support, and note publishing across Nostr applications.

Developed by: @npub1aeh2...4nwx

Source: https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar

3. Nymchat - v3.72.517#

Nymchat is a Nostr-based chat client that enables ephemeral, pseudonymous messaging and integrates with Bitchat for temporary peer-to-peer communication. This release includes a hotfix addressing incorrect unread badge counts in the channel sidebar, improving UI accuracy and notification state consistency. Although this was the latest release, there were also v3.72.516 and v3.72.515 last week.

Contributed by: @npub16jdf...33sv

Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v3.72.517

4. Nostur - v1.29.1#

Nostur is an iOS Nostr client that provides social networking features like posts, DMs, zaps, and relay-based communication with support for remote signing and Lightning integrations. In v1.29.1, the release adds QR code scanning for NWC setup, improved interaction UX (tap-and-hold post actions), more efficient DM fetching, visibility of private message relays, npub rendering in profiles, new Spanish and Indonesian translations, enhanced remote signer metadata handling, and several fixes, including multi-device sync issues, DM scrolling glitches, broken GIF integration, and an updated app icon.

Contributed by: Fabian

Source: https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.29.1

5. Roadstr - v0.3.0#

Roadstr is a decentralized road event reporting client built on the Nostr protocol, designed to let users share and receive real-time traffic and road incident data (similar to a “Waze without centralized tracking”) using signed Nostr events and geospatial tagging. This release introduces a new Metric/Imperial unit toggle for speed and distance display, adds a live value indicator for the speed threshold slider, simplifies the main UI by moving keys and settings into the toolbar overflow menu to declutter the event feed, and improves usability with larger, more accessible report-type buttons optimized for easier tapping on mobile screens.

Contributed by: @npub1m2mv...r8p9

Source: https://github.com/jooray/roadstr/releases/tag/v0.3.0

6. NoorNote - v1.1.1#

NoorNote is a Nostr social client for mobile and desktop focused on simple posting, zaps, and community interaction tools. In v1.1.1, it adds sidebar login/logout on mobile, improves zap UX with a sending state and double-zap protection, and introduces admin moderation features to hide, edit, or exclude authors in Community Dhikr. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.

Contributed by: @npub175nu...g6w0

Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.1.1

1. Noscrypt - v0.1.15#

Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C that provides low-level cryptographic primitives used to support secure signing and encryption for Nostr applications. In v0.1.15, the release fixes a header-level issue by restoring the missing NC_CC calling convention macro definition (affecting only imports, not ABI compatibility), updates Linux CI setup to use mise-en-place for dependency management, and upgrades the Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk test dependency from 18.5.1 to 18.7.0 to improve build and test environment consistency.

Contributed by: @npub1qdjn...fqm7

Source: https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt/releases/tag/v0.1.15

2. RX Nostr - rx-nostr@3.7.5#

RX-Nostr is a JavaScript/TypeScript library designed to manage high-quality, reactive communication with multiple Nostr relays, providing developers with flexible tools for handling event streams, subscriptions, and WebSocket-based relay interactions. In v3.7.5, the release fixes an issue where certain WebSocket implementations could unexpectedly throw errors, improving stability and reliability of relay communication across different runtime environments.

Contributed by: kuuote

Source: https://github.com/penpenpng/rx-nostr/releases/tag/rx-nostr%403.7.5

3. Mostro Core - v0.14.0#

Mostro Core is a Rust-based peer-to-peer library that provides the foundational networking and protocol logic for building decentralized Mostro applications and daemons. This release adds support for an optional fee_token field in CashuLockProof to improve flexible payment handling, upgrades dependencies including sqlx to v0.9 while raising the minimum supported Rust version to 1.94, and includes maintenance fixes such as correcting automated version bump handling to rely on cargo release, along with general changelog and release process updates. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.13.2 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1qqqq...rfkq @npub1qqpn...l2ng

Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.14.0

4. Mostro CLI - v0.16.0#

Mostro CLI is a command-line client for interacting with Mostro (a peer-to-peer Bitcoin and Lightning exchange that operates over the Nostr) allowing users and operators to manage trades, messaging, and transport-layer communication directly from the terminal. This release introduces protocol and transport upgrades including Phase 2 and Phase 3 support for protocol-v2 (NIP-44 direct transport), automatic transport detection, and improved DM handling, along with multiple reliability and UX fixes such as waiting for relay connections before requests, making DM fetches transport-aware, improving Proof-of-Work detection and rejection handling, and ensuring correct admin dispute and settlement flows, plus security hardening for local mnemonic storage and dependency updates to align with the latest mostro-core foundation.

Contributed by: @npub1qqqq...rfkq @npub1zvye...vfj0

Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.16.0

5. Nostr VPN - v4.0.87#

Nostr VPN is a private mesh VPN system inspired by Tailscale, built on a FIPS-backed data plane to provide encrypted peer-to-peer connectivity and routing between nodes. In v4.0.87, the release improves mesh reliability by refreshing stale embedded FIPS direct paths using fresher tunnel data when available, ensuring that active control traffic does not mask dead payload routes and reducing unnecessary endpoint churn by preferring updated and valid routing paths for encrypted communication. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v4.0.85 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1g53m...drvk

Source: https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn/releases/tag/v4.0.87

1. Nostream - v3.0.0#

Nostream is a TypeScript-based Nostr relay. In v3.0.0, the release introduces major improvements including expanded protocol support (NIP-17 encrypted DMs, NIP-44 v2, NIP-42 authentication, NIP-62 vanish events, NIP-65 relay lists, NIP-13 proof-of-work, NIP-45 event counts, and additional relay features), stronger performance and reliability (rate limiting, caching, query optimization, improved connection handling, Docker and Redis fixes), enhanced security and dependency upgrades addressing vulnerabilities, and upgraded developer tooling such as event import/export, compression support, CLI/TUI unification, benchmarking and test coverage improvements, plus new capabilities like i2p support and geohash-based filtering.

Contributed by: Ricardo Cabral, Radosvet Petrov, XD22, Mahmoud Khedr, Anshuman, Khadar vali, archief2910, khushal, Mohit Davar, Saniddhya Dubey, Chetan Reddy Kodidela, Kanishka.., Divyanshu Kumar, Priyanshu Bharti, Abhinav Rathee, Tharupahan Jayawardana, kartik, Kushagra Kinra, Yash Agarwal, FerryxFerryx349, Vikash Siwach, Sagar

Source: https://github.com/cameri/nostream/releases/tag/v3.0.0

1. Angor - v0.2.31 (Unstable Release)#

Angor is a decentralized protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr, used to enable peer-to-peer funding workflows. This unstable release improves protocol stability and tooling with consolidated BCIP/NIP documentation, cross-platform distribution updates (portable Windows executables, signed macOS DMGs, and Android APK publishing to ZapStore), fixes for relay race conditions and subscription recovery, improved network switching behavior, and several validation and UX-related fixes such as funding date constraints, spinner state handling, and relay reconnection reliability.

Contributed by: @npub1ldsm...zsk3 TheDude, Zaza

Source: https://github.com/block-core/angor/releases/tag/v0.2.31

1. Buzz - v0.3.35#

Buzz is a self-hosted Nostr-based workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate in shared channels using signed relay events instead of a traditional backend. This release improves desktop performance and stability (module splitting, debounced queries, virtualized timeline fixes, GNOME notification fixes), enhances collaboration features (agent management in sidebar, unread/DM parity, cross-pod notifications), adds media handling improvements (HEIC/HEIF to JPEG transcoding), strengthens agent policy controls, and continues development of multi-tenant relay support and runtime hardening. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: Wes

Source: https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/v0.3.35

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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (29th June 2026 - 82nd Edition)

“Finally I made the leap to be Nostr exclusive and it feels like a breath of fresh air. X stays up for announcements only.#

This is the right move. The community here is real, the conversations are better, and most importantly I own my identity and my data. No platform standing between me and the people I want to reach.#

Now back to building.#

#NostrOnly”#

1. We should admire his effort 👏#

2. A wise decision for leaping from centralization to decentralization 🤩#

3. Helping people when they are in trouble should be greatly appreciated 👌🏻#

4. No gatekeepers. No middlemen. The creation distributes directly for us 😍#

5. Clave got accepted by App Store 🥳#

6. Let’s test the latest Nostr signer 👇🏻#

7. How would be the signal in 5 years? 🤔#

8. A pretty nostrich celebrated her birthday 🎂#

9. Let’s wish her a quick recovery 🙏🏻#

10. A nice thing to try out 👇🏻#

11. An article that worth reading 👇🏻#

12. A lovely gift from a nostrich to her lovely mom ❤️#

Nostr is not growing fast! It seems like it has a bear market.#

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

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 842 Users - 14.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 612 Users - 5.5k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Web - 545 Users - 3.3k Notes#

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

👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 306.0k Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 233.9k Users#

👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 199.5k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 9.98M (-9.6%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 8.30M (-7.5%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.91M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.07 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 178.7K#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 3,308 users, compared to 3,772 users the week before#

1. Nostr Explained: The Future of Decentralized Social Media#

2. Mastering the Nostr Protocol#

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

2. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - July 2026#

1. Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Quantum Problem#

2. How RSS, Lightning, and Nostr Power Value‑for‑Value Music#

3. Nostr Evangelism with Derek Ross#

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. Squalk - New Tool#

2. Sidecar - New Tool#

3. Nymchat - v3.72.517#

4. Nostur - v1.29.1#

5. Roadstr - v0.3.0#

6. NoorNote - v1.1.1#

1. Noscrypt - v0.1.15#

2. RX Nostr - rx-nostr@3.7.5#

3. Mostro Core - v0.14.0#

4. Mostro CLI - v0.16.0#

5. Nostr VPN - v4.0.87#

1. Nostream - v3.0.0#

1. Angor - v0.2.31 (Unstable Release)#

1. Buzz - v0.3.35#

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