🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (22nd June 2026 - 81st Edition)
The 81st edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
“nostr is for people who like freedom.#
And holy shit, apparently nobody likes freedom.”#
1. Every cancer patient should get cured 🙏🏻#
2. Linux is the OS of freedom 🖥️#
3. Waze without the centralized tracking 😍#
4. Nostr is just for plebs who likes freedom 👇🏻#
5. Love and kindness is still exist on Nostr ❤️#
6. A huge difference between the communities of Nostr and X 👇🏻#
7. A nice life lesson from a nostrich 📖#
8. What do you think? 🤔#
9. Let’s help him to test and build Powr 🫱🏻🫲🏿#
10. Is Clave on App Store? 😍#
11. Do you think so? 🫵🏻#
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 - 839 Users - 14.5k Notes#
👉🏻 Primal Android - 662 Users - 6.1k Notes#
👉🏻 Primal Web - 571 Users - 3.5k Notes#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 304.0k#
👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 231.1k#
👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 197.0k#
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 11.03M (-11.0%)#
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 9.01M (-18.2%)#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.89M#
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.99 BTC#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 178.4K#
According to https://npub.world/stats,#
During last week:#
👉🏻 Total Users: 3,772 users, compared to 6,212 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. 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:
🔗 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:
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/310267061/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
1. Your NOSTR Address is Public - Is Your Privacy Already Dead?#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-zqrGj0Ga0
2. Block’s Buzz: The Future of Agent Collaboration#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8QBCMFrs8
3. In Club Megamix vol. 10 : NOSTR People Connect - Laska Bar#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-BFPMfgtoU
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:
@npub1derg...xzpc - Zaps Received: 536
- Sats Earned: 299k
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 287
- Sats Earned: 51k
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Zaps Received: 272
- Sats Earned: 445k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 2585
- Sats Spent: 103k
Name:
@npub1p7dc...6cpu - Zaps Sent: 134
- Sats Spent: 1k
Name:
@npub1hgvt...9jnv - Zaps Sent: 103
- Sats Spent: 4k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name:
@npub1nlwn...svzd - Sats Earned: 916k
- Zaps Received: 178
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 445k
- Zaps Received: 272
Name:
@npub1derg...xzpc - Sats Earned: 299k
- Zaps Received: 536
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name:
@npub1hqaz...t56s - Sats Spent: 419k
- Zaps Sent: 15
Name:
@npub1jutp...f04x - Sats Spent: 220k
- Zaps Sent: 27
Name:
@npub1er8k...ff35 - Sats Spent: 133k
- Zaps Sent: 5
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: 299
- Sats Earned: 78k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 233
- Sats Earned: 97k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 105
- Sats Earned: 200k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 200k
- Zaps Received: 105
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 97k
- Zaps Received: 233
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 76k
- Zaps Received: 32
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1. Roadstr - v0.2.0 - New Tool#
Roadstr is a Nostr-based mapping/navigation tool that enables decentralized reporting and sharing of road events such as hazards, traffic incidents, and other driving alerts. In v0.2.0, it introduces the first signed release with full integration into OsmAnd, including color-coded event markers on maps, bearing-aware proximity alerts within 500 meters, and geohash-based spatial queries for efficient nearby event discovery. It also supports NIP-07 and NIP-46 authentication (including Amber signer integration) with optional ephemeral keys, and adds event expiration handling via NIP-40, making it a privacy-preserving, decentralized alternative to centralized traffic reporting systems like Waze.
Developed by:
2. Amethyst - v1.12.6#
Amethyst is a mobile Nostr client used to browse, post, and interact with the Nostr social network. In v1.12.6, the update focuses mainly on stability, UX polish, and protocol integration improvements, including better feed sorting and race-condition fixes, improved media handling and camera fallback behavior, and more robust signer and relay error handling. It also improves emoji pack deduplication, enhances translation infrastructure via Crowdin automation, adds support for new NIP features (like NIP-5A and NIP-5D), and strengthens Cashu token parsing consistency, making the client more reliable and feature-complete for everyday social use. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.
Contributed by:
3. Coracle - 0.6.35#
Coracle is a web-based Nostr client that allows users to browse, post, and interact with the Nostr network directly in the browser, with advanced features like relay selection/management, web-of-trust moderation, and privacy-focused content discovery. In v0.6.35, the update is a small fix addressing an issue where reposts were incorrectly hidden when replies were disabled, improving feed consistency and user experience. This was the latest, and there was also the release of 0.6.34 last week.
Contributed by:
4. Amber - v6.2.2#
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that allows users to securely approve and sign Nostr events and manage NIP-46 bunker connections without exposing private keys directly to applications. In v6.2.2, the release improves connection transparency and security by showing native app icons and client metadata on signing requests, persisting connection details across sessions, and strengthening relay and logging behavior by encrypting stored NIP-46 payloads and reducing sensitive log exposure. It also adds support for event kind 30618, improves relay handling and UI stability, and fixes several crashes and race conditions in active relay management and bunker request processing.
Contributed by:
5. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.3#
Alby Lightning Browser Extension is a Bitcoin Lightning and Nostr-enabled browser extension that connects web applications to Lightning wallets and Nostr features directly in the browser for payments, identity, and integrations. In v3.14.3, the release removes several unmaintained connectors (LaWallet, Kollider, Citadel), replaces the Deezy swap flow with direct Boltz and SideShift links with prefilled destination addresses, and includes broad dependency upgrades across frontend, UI, and crypto libraries, along with security patches, migration to modern noble/scure cryptography stacks, and improvements to tooling such as linting, documentation, and translation sync.
Contributed by:
6. Nostria - v3.1.50#
Nostria is a Nostr-based social platform designed for browsing, posting, and interacting with decentralized social feeds on the Nostr protocol. This release improves notification reliability and introduces performance and database optimizations for event thread handling, making feed updates and threaded conversations faster and more stable.
Contributed by:
7. Nymchat - v3.72.514#
Nymchat is an ephemeral Nostr-based chat client that enables temporary, pseudonymous messaging with optional bridging to Bitchat for offline and mesh communication. This release is a hotfix addressing an issue with group chat “gift wrap” backup handling, improving reliability of encrypted group message recovery and stability in group chat functionality. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by:
8. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.9#
Mostro Mobile Client is a mobile application for interacting with the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform built on Nostr, allowing users to create, manage, and participate in non-custodial BTC trades. In v1.2.9, the release adds a new feature that displays the anti-abuse bond policy from the node information event, improving transparency by letting users see bonding rules defined by the trading node operator.
Contributed by:
9. Nostur - v1.29.0#
Nostur is an iOS Nostr client that allows users to browse, post, and interact with the decentralized Nostr social network, with support for messaging, media, and remote signer integration. This release adds support for replying to zaps and anonymous replies, improves remote signer connectivity and NIP-46 logout handling, enhances media viewing with better thumbnails and gesture-based fullscreen controls, and includes multiple fixes for DM reliability, relay conflicts, feed syncing issues, duplicate posts, missing replies, and stability crashes during account removal.
Contributed by:
10. Wisp - v1.1.2#
Wisp is a minimal, performant Android Nostr client that allows users to browse, post, zap, and interact with the decentralized social network through a lightweight native interface. In v1.1.2, the release improves stability and performance with fixes for wallet transaction ordering, media-heavy note handling, concurrency issues, and UI crashes, while also adding incremental feed filtering, improved spam scoring, and staging build support for testing. It further enhances the wallet experience with cross-platform NWC backup via NIP-78, iOS-parity receive screens, better zap handling, and adds new content support including inline playable music-track cards (kind 36787) along with multiple UX refinements and notification improvements.
Contributed by:
11. Nostrord - v1.5.0#
Nostrord is a Nostr NIP-29 client that enables users to join, manage, and communicate within Nostr-based group chats using standardized relay and group messaging features. In v1.5.0, the release improves group chat functionality and reliability with fixes for NIP-57 zap requests, better Web/Compose parity through shared ViewModels and design tokens, optimistic message sending with delivery status tracking, admin message deletion support via kind 9005, and improved group joining via NIP-29 addresses, along with multiple web UX fixes for keyboard handling, reconnect stability, and chat scroll behavior.
Contributed by:
12. Clave - v1.0.0 (build 102) — App Store launch#
Clave is an iOS NIP-46 remote signer that securely manages Nostr private keys and provides encrypted remote signing services so applications can request signatures without ever accessing the user’s key directly. In v1.0.0, the release introduces App Store launch support with push-woken background signing, improved NIP-44 encrypted permission handling, stronger signature verification with replay protection, multi-account and pairing support via bunker:// and nostrconnect://, per-app trust levels with granular permissions, full activity logging with one-tap unpairing, and improved security controls including client metadata tracking and optional self-hosted proxy support. This was the latest and there were also the pre-releases of v0.2.0 (build 101) and v0.2.0 (build 100) last week.
Contributed by:
13. Dark Wisp - v1.1.0#
Dark Wisp is a minimal Android Nostr client that lets users browse, post, zap, and interact with the decentralized Nostr social network through a fast native interface with built-in wallet and media features. In v1.1.0, the release adds support for multiple Bitcoin payment targets (ZEC, DASH, BCH, LTC), introduces fiat input and richer zap messages with inline images, improves media handling with scrolling galleries and more stable inline video loading, enhances wallet and UI components (including a redesigned Spark wallet and credit-card style UI elements), adds Anon Mode, improves feed performance and spam filtering, and brings multiple fixes for threading, notifications, and performance optimizations.
Contributed by:
14. Nostr Mail Client - v0.13.1#
Nostr Mail Client is a Flutter-based Nostr application that functions as an encrypted email-style messaging client, allowing users to send and receive private messages using the Nostr protocol with external signer app support. In v0.13.1, the release restores NIP-55 signer app login compatibility for apps such as Amber, Aegis, and Primal, and fixes an issue where signer apps were repeatedly prompted to sign contacts after contact creation, improving authentication flow and user experience.
Contributed by:
15. NoorNote - v1.0.1#
NoorNote is a Nostr client for browsing and interacting with the decentralized social network, allowing users to post, reply, repost, and quote content through a mobile-friendly interface. In v1.0.1, the release introduces a streamlined interaction bar on phones by merging Repost and Quote into a single selectable action, and includes UI polish fixes such as improved spacing above quoted reposts in thread views and removal of duplicate headings in profile timelines. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v1.0.0, v0.13.2, and v0.13.1 last week.
Contributed by:
1. Grain - v0.8.0-rc1 (Pre-release)#
GRAIN is a hybrid Nostr system that functions both as a relay operator platform and a developer client library, designed for building and running full-featured Nostr applications in Go. In this pre-release, it evolves into a full Nostr client engine based on the outbox model, allowing applications to route reads and writes across user-specific relays automatically, while also serving as a reference web client built on top of the same core library. The release adds native NIP-44 encryption (v2/v3), NIP-42 relay authentication, improved relay list management (NIP-65/17/51/37), and media handling via Blossom and NIP-96. It also introduces a shared relay pool, streaming multi-relay fetches, and pluggable components for signers and storage, making it both a usable client application and a reusable infrastructure library for developers.
Contributed by:
2. Mostro Core - v0.13.1#
Mostro Core is a developer library written in Rust that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundational core for building the Mostro daemon. In v0.13.1, the update introduces a new PriceTooStale error variant to handle stale price conditions more explicitly, improving trading safety and system correctness, along with general release maintenance and changelog updates.
Contributed by:
3. ZSP - v0.4.11#
ZSP is a command-line tool used to publish Android apps to Nostr relays, primarily supporting distribution workflows for Zapstore. In v0.4.11, the release includes a fix for publishing order, improving the correctness and reliability of app publishing sequences when pushing updates to Nostr relays.
Contributed by:
4. Nostr VPN - v4.0.82#
Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN that provides secure peer-to-peer networking using a FIPS-backed data plane, enabling encrypted and policy-controlled connectivity between devices over a decentralized architecture. In v4.0.82, the release fixes a Windows startup crash caused by loading the hidden paid-route UI markup, ensuring that the buy/sell/wallet paid-exit interface remains properly disabled unless explicitly enabled, improving stability and feature gating consistency on Windows builds. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.
Contributed by:
5. Buzz - v0.3.26#
Buzz is a self-hostable Nostr-based workspace platform that functions as a relay-backed collaboration system where humans and AI agents share the same rooms, with all messages, workflows, approvals, and development events represented as signed Nostr events in a unified audit log. This release improves stability and collaboration features with CI and caching optimizations, better desktop threading and navigation behavior, fixes for relay reconnect and message consistency, enhanced agent and CLI tooling (including ephemeral channels, git workflow commands, and MCP improvements), and multiple UX refinements such as improved unread indicators, sidebar navigation, and thread handling for more reliable real-time collaboration between users and agents. This was the latest, and there were the releases of v0.3.25 and v0.3.24 also last week.
Contributed by: Will Pfleger
1. nostr-relay - v0.0.240#
nostr-relay is a Nostr relay that stores and forwards Nostr events between clients according to relay rules, acting as a backend node in the Nostr network. In this release, the update focuses on improving documentation and deployability, including clearer guidance for storage backends, configuration, systemd setup, and Docker usage, along with a restructured README with a better-organized table of contents to make setup and maintenance easier for relay operators. This was the latest release, and the releases of v0.0.239 and v0.0.235 were also in last week.
Contributed by:
2. Nosflare - v7.9.45#
Nosflare is a Nostr relay designed to run on Cloudflare Workers with a D1 database, providing storage and forwarding of Nostr events in a fully serverless environment. In v7.9.45, the update is a small hotfix addressing an issue with the cron trigger used for database cleanup, ensuring scheduled maintenance tasks run correctly and keeping the relay stable and consistent.
Contributed by:
3. Citrine - v3.0.1#
Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android that stores, forwards, and serves Nostr events to clients on the network. In v3.0.1, the release includes a stability fix addressing a crash that occurred when attempting to unregister an already unregistered Pokey receiver, improving overall reliability of relay operations on Android. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v3.0.0 last week.
Contributed by:
1. Mostro - v0.17.5#
Mostro is a decentralized peer-to-peer Lightning Network exchange protocol and application framework built on Nostr, enabling non-custodial BTC trading between users without intermediaries. In v0.17.5, the system introduces anti-abuse bonds, where traders optionally lock small deposits that are refunded on successful trade completion or partially slashed if users abandon or disrupt trades, improving marketplace reliability while preserving non-custodial design. The release also expands pricing infrastructure with multi-source aggregation and backup quoters, strengthens dispute and timeout handling across multiple trade phases, and improves documentation and operator configuration for bond and escrow behavior.
Contributed by:
1. Social Agents Prototype - New AI Tool#
Social Agents Prototype is an experimental AI tool built on Nostr that explores decentralized agent-to-agent communication. Agents broadcast atomic questions across the network, allowing only relevant agents to respond. Every message sent and received passes through a human approval gate, ensuring users remain in control while enabling transparent, decentralized AI collaboration.
Developed by: Sruly Rosenblat
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-First Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
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Author of #nostrrecap | Bitcoin Advocate 🌟 | Frontend Dev from Sri Lanka 💻 | Studying Nostr 📚 | Motorbiker 🏍️ | Swimmer 🏊♂️ | Dog Lover 🐶 | #HTML #CSS #VanillaJS #SolidJS #Astro #React #WCAG #W3C
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