🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (31st August 2026)
The 91st edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
“Goodmorning Nostr#
Just a daily reminder that no one can shadowban your sunshine on Nostr! Let's propagate some positivity today! Keep your keys safe, your relays synced, and your spirit free.#
Can’t wait to be ignored on an open protocol today. Zero algorithms. Pure chaos. The best part about Nostr is nobody can cancel you except your own personality. ☕️👌🍀🌞#
First rule of Bitcoin. self-custody. First rule of Nostr. self-sovereignty. How did you end up down this rabbit hole, and what are you trying to accomplish here? Are you here to build, push pure signal, drop killer memes, or fight for the mission ? ?#
Drop your story below ? 🫂💜✨️”#
1. A significant loss for a winemaker 😥#
2. A nostrich asks for help from the Nostr community 👇🏻#
3. It is worth checking this out 😍#
4. These kinds of incidents are so disappointing to the user 👇🏻#
5. Starting the day with this kind of Nostr note is so awesome ☕#
6. A huge release from Roadstr 👇🏻#
7. Submissions have closed. Time to judge & reward 😍#
8. A Nostrich enjoyed his 34th birthday with his heritance 🎂#
9. We need these kinds of inspirations for the growth of Nostr 👇🏻#
10. Nostr creator suggests a solution to fix reply spam 👇🏻#
The Nostr growth indicates differently in several sources!#
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 https://nostrhub.io/stats#
👉🏻 1,035 relays on the Nostr network#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
👉🏻 Amethyst - 2243 Users#
👉🏻 Primal - 1671 Users#
👉🏻 Ditto - 409 Users#
According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
👉🏻 Primal iOS - 803 Users - 7.5k Notes#
👉🏻 Amethyst - 768 Users - 13.1k Notes#
👉🏻 Primal Android - 522 Users - 4.3k Notes#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 296.0k Users#
👉🏻 nos.lol - 277.8k Users#
👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 269.1k Users#
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/#
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.65M (+5.0%)#
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.53M (-0.6%)#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.05M#
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.52 BTC#
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 181.0K#
According to https://npub.world/stats#
During last week:#
👉🏻 Total Users: 7,858 users, compared to 10,741 users the week before#
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrhub.io/stats, https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by
1. Lesson 5: Security and privacy, Nos2x, NIP-05, changing relays#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGmQahiwjo
2. Buzz replaces your git password with a signature from your own key#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt5kKoq39PY
3. Buzz: 1 Free Workspace Where AI Agents Are Teammates#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3btNBPGDf4
1. Nostr Atlanta #17 - Rush Hour Avoidance - September 2026#
📅 Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
⏰ Time: 4.30 PM - 6.00 PM (EDT)
📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026#
📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone is not specified)
📍 Location: Munich
🤹♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup
🔗 Event:
3. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026#
📅 Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM (GMT)
📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel, Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire
1. Derek Ross defines Nostr on X#
https://x.com/derekmross/status/2092582888856301986
2. What the Heck Is Nostr? I Didn't Know Either#
https://www.publish0x.com/skylords-bitcoin-lab/what-the-heck-is-nostr-i-didnt-know-either-xokydvq
3. Divine is bringing back six-second looping videos with a modern twist#
4. The Human Rights Foundation Announces Support for 16 Projects Worldwide (Some Nostr projects are also included)#
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/human-rights-foundation-issues-more-grants
5. Vine-inspired video app Divine makes global debut, bans AI-generated content#
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:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 424
- Sats Earned: 195k
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Zaps Received: 346
- Sats Earned: 643k
Name:
@npub1uwje...axfl - Zaps Received: 138
- Sats Earned: 7k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 1482
- Sats Spent: 34k
Name: 匿名応援者
- Zaps Sent: 167
- Sats Spent: 1M
Name:
@npub1vkd8...9g2t - Zaps Sent: 113
- Sats Spent: 3k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name: Blue
- Sats Earned: 841k
- Zaps Received: 13
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 643k
- Zaps Received: 346
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Sats Earned: 197k
- Zaps Received: 426
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name: 匿名応援者
- Sats Spent: 1M
- Zaps Sent: 167
Name:
@npub10amx...j8tf - Sats Spent: 100k
- Zaps Sent: 3
Name:
@npub1u0gq...tkzz - Sats Spent: 63k
- Zaps Sent: 2
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: 103
- Sats Earned: 13k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 63
- Sats Earned: 36k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 40
- Sats Earned: 3k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 55k
- Zaps Received: 3
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 38k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 36k
- Zaps Received: 63
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1. Livelier.live - New Tool#
Livelier.live is a free, open-source Nostr-based tool that helps self-hosted live streamers get discovered when they go live. It bridges live streams to Nostr as NIP-53 live events while keeping the actual video on the streamer’s own server. It also enables two-way live chat without re-hosting or permanently storing stream content.
Developed by:
2. Communitator - New Tool#
Communitator is a Nostr web application that helps community leaders create and share relay templates for new users. With one click, users can apply a template to automatically update their Nostr relay lists, Blossom servers, and DM relays.
Developed by:
3. Earthly - v0.1.6#
Earthly is a collaborative Nostr-based map editor that lets people turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps by creating and editing map entities together. This release makes chat and entity editing explicit, giving users clearer control over when they are communicating and modifying map content.
Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab
4. Jumble - v26.8.3#
Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds, letting users browse Nostr content, interact with profiles and notes, manage notifications, and connect to relays. Its latest release improves relay reconnection reliability, link previews, Nostr reference handling, sign-in security, notifications, encryption key syncing, and desktop persistence.
Contributed by:
5. YakiHonne Web - v6.0.1#
Yakihonne Web is a decentralized social payment client built on Nostr and Bitcoin, combining social networking, publishing, paid content, and Lightning-based payments. The latest release improves the publishing and premium content experience, adds a dedicated pricing page, supports kind 1111 comments and replies, and fixes issues with the AI Assistant, Second Reader, comment threads, and profile editing.
Contributed by:
6. Nymchat - v3.75.543#
Nymchat is a feature-rich, ephemeral geohash and Bluetooth mesh chat client built on Nostr and bridged with Bitchat for pseudonymous, temporary messaging. The latest release adds message threads across channels, private messages, and group chats, upgrades Nymbot Premium to post-quantum encrypted private messaging, and includes numerous bug fixes. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.
Contributed by:
7. WaveFunc - 0.1.11#
WaveFunc Radio is a Nostr-based internet radio directory and player with full-text search capabilities, allowing users to discover and listen to radio stations through a decentralized platform. The latest release adds MusicBrainz lookups through Blossom while reducing relay bandwidth usage and strengthening production policies.
Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab
8. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.4.0#
Mostro Mobile Client is a modern, secure mobile client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, enabling users to manage trades, invoices, orders, disputes, and Lightning payments. The latest release adds trusted communities for Argentina and Brazil, improves invoice availability and settled-order payouts, supports insecure WebSocket relays in debug builds, and includes several bug fixes for order handling, disputes, payments, and app reliability.
Contributed by:
9. Nostur - v1.31.0#
Nostur is a Nostr client for iOS and macOS that provides a feature-rich interface for browsing feeds, profiles, posts, replies, media, badges, live chats, and discovering content across Nostr relays. This release improves feed performance, media playback and discovery, badge management, live chat, private replies, post and thread loading, links and search, relay management, and spam filtering, while adding tools for importing and exporting blocked-account lists and managing Web of Trust settings.
Contributed by:
10. Nostrord - v2.10.0#
Nostrord is a NIP-29 Nostr client focused on group conversations, direct messaging, and chat, allowing users to interact with Nostr groups and private communications across devices. This release improves DM navigation and message delivery, adds file attachment support across clients, introduces private groups, typed @mentions, better chat reactions and message handling, and fixes issues with notifications, quoted events, links, media, and Android performance.
Contributed by:
11. NoorNote - v1.4.0#
NoorNote is a Nostr client for the decentralized social protocol, offering social feeds, articles, messaging, profiles, zaps, and NIP-29 group interactions. The latest release adds personal Nostr analytics with post, engagement, follow, and zap statistics, improves article feeds and NIP-29 group chat displays, and fixes scrolling, timeline loading, DM notifications, and relay hints, while also bringing broader stability improvements through stricter linting and expanded automated testing.
Contributed by:
12. Sidecar - v1.10.0#
Sidecar is a Nostr keystore and signer that runs in your browser sidebar, providing secure identity and wallet management for Nostr applications. This release adds new themes, per-theme balance animations, bookmarks, improved notification handling for muted users, the PIN-change wallet fix, safer auto-pay requirements, clipboard invoice detection, Lightning address resolution when sending, and a dynamically sized bio editor.
Contributed by:
13. Workstr Web - v2.0.0#
Workstr Web is a static, local-first Nostr workout tracker PWA that helps users manage workouts, programs, recovery, and training history. The v2.0.0 release adds encrypted Nostr sync accounts and auto-backup, improved signer connections and recovery, more efficient encrypted backups, redesigned workout and recovery interfaces, improved workout history and program views, automatic PWA updates, and numerous sync and backup reliability fixes.
Contributed by: Workstr7blo, sette7blo
14. Roadstr - v0.5.0#
Roadstr is an open-source, decentralized navigation app for Android built on the Nostr protocol. The v0.5.0 release adds an optional MapLibre-based 3D map engine with tilt and rotation, map styling, destination search, multi-stop routing, route alternatives, public transport itineraries, hazard alerts, turn-by-turn navigation, rerouting, and voice guidance, while keeping the original map renderer available. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.4.29, v0.4.28 & v0.4.27 last week.
Contributed by:
1. Pakstr - New Developer Tool#
Pakstr is an open-source tool that turns a web app into a signed, installable Android APK and publishes it to Zap Store in a single CI step. Using just a Nostr nsec, it handles APK signing and Zap Store authentication without requiring the Android SDK, Gradle, or manually managed keystores, making it simple to package and release web apps as Android applications.
Developed by:
2. Dart Nostr - v11.0.0 - Encrypted messaging, zaps, media & identity: everything a Nostr client needs#
Dart Nostr is a production-grade Dart and Flutter SDK for building Nostr applications, providing developers with a complete toolkit for social clients, encrypted messaging, wallets, creator platforms, and other Nostr-based apps. Release v11.0.0 adds end-to-end encrypted messaging with group chats and file attachments, Lightning zaps and payments, decentralized media and file support, seed-phrase identity management, Nostr link handling, password-encrypted key backups, social features, relay authentication, and signer-agnostic key management, while also improving reliability, reconnection, caching, memory safety, and cross-platform support.
Developed by: Anas Fikhi
3. NDK - v0.9.1#
NDK (Nostr Development Kit) is a Dart library that enhances the Nostr development experience by providing developers with tools for relay connections, event handling, authentication, caching, subscriptions, and encryption. This release introduces major connection-management and reliability improvements, including better handling of authentication, reconnects, subscriptions, request replay, caching, and relay connectivity, while adding post-quantum hybrid encryption for direct messages using ML-KEM-1024 and binding connections to individual identities. It also includes breaking changes to relay connection handling and replaces the GPL-licensed Crystals-Dilithium implementation with FIPS 204 (ML-DSA).
Contributed by: frnandu,
4. snow-actions/nostr - v2.0.0#
snow-actions/nostr is a GitHub Actions developer tool that lets workflows create and publish Nostr events directly to Nostr relays, with support for automated event publishing and relay response handling. This release upgrades the runtime to Node.js 24 and modernizes the action’s JavaScript/ESM, bundling, dependencies, testing, linting, and WebSocket implementation. Although this was the latest of the week, there was also the release v1.9.0 last week.
Contributed by:
No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.#
No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.#
1. Buzz - v0.5.20#
Buzz is a Nostr-based workspace where humans and AI agents can collaborate through a relay you own, combining messaging, projects, workflows, and agent-powered collaboration in a shared environment. The release v0.5.20 adds KLIPY GIF search to message composers and improves automatic mention handling, along with fixes to release attribution and CI workflows. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.5.19 last week.
Contributed by: Will Pfleger, Wes, klopez4212
1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.40#
Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that lets users connect and share Lightning nodes through Nostr identities with compatible applications. This release is a bug-fix release focused on improving liquidity-provider balance accounting, correcting provider recovery fee calculations after crashes, and fixing on-chain payment deduplication so multiple outputs in the same transaction are tracked correctly. The release requires no API, configuration, database migration, or manual migration changes. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.0.39 last week.
Contributed by:
2. Originless - v1.0.2 - Lightweight standalone node (Nostr offloaded)#
Originless is a multipurpose decentralized storage backend for apps, agents, pastebins, screenshots, and static sites, providing fast and reliable IPFS storage, pinning, anonymized media uploads, and gateway proxying. The latest release simplifies the node by removing built-in Nostr scraping, mirroring, and archiving in favor of a separate Nostr backup integration, while also cleaning up its API and telemetry, reducing dependencies, and streamlining its container setup. While this was the latest of the week, there were also the releases of v1.0.1 & v1.0.0 last week.
Contributed by:
No Nostr Exploration Tools releases for last week.#
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 Ninety First Nostr Recap & share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
Thank you
A big shoutout to
Thank you, my younger brother
Recap by
Nomishka
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