🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (09th February 2026-62nd Edition)
The 62nd edition of your weekly Nostr Newsletter.
🧠 Quotes of the Week#
“Nostr is the only place where you can be told to 'Stay Humble, Stack Sats' by a bot while getting canceled by a guy whose entire personality is a 24-word seed phrase. Truly the peak of human evolution. Gm 🫂✨️”
“i love nostr. some people are freaking out over the fiat price of bitcoin and we're posting memes, hoping it goes lower, and we're still building apps, empowering communities, people, and agents to live in the decentralized social future.”
🔥 Community Highlights#
1. This is a must-read note by Bitcoiners 👇🏻#
2. Nostr is the solution for these kind of troubles 👇🏻#
3. In every situation just do this 😆#
4. This is what you should realize 🫵🏻#
5. A life lesson from a tremendous character 📖#
6. A thought from the founder of Nostr 👇🏻#
7. Strengthening the Freedom Social media while Bitcoin price is getting lower 😍#
8. Welcome to the Freedom Social media 🤝🏻#
9. Some tremendous Nostriches are in a one pic 🫶🏻#
10. This is so true 👌🏻#
11. A DJ lady is onboarding to Nostr 🎚️ 🎛️ 🎚️#
12. This is 💯% true. What is your opinion? 🤔#
13. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 😍#
14. Let’s keep growing Nostr 🤝🏻#
🌱 Ecosystem Growth#
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://stats.andotherstuff.org/,#
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 595.2K (+72.5%)#
👉🏻 New Users Last week : 402.1K (+5.9%)#
👉🏻 All time Zap Count : 6.46M#
👉🏻 All time Sats Amount : 41.83 BTC#
👉🏻 All time Zap Senders : 170.3K#
According to https://npub.world/stats,#
During last week:#
👉🏻 Total Users: 2,913, compared to 2,513 users the week before#
Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by
🎓 Educational Guides#
1. Chat Extension: Paid support chat, and embedible chat widget!#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsAi4YrsAOk
2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 69: Eventos de Vídeo#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQtC0h-oCk
3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 70: Comunidades Moderadas (Estilo Reddit)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUFuvZCLAW0
4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 71: IDs de Conteúdo Externo#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaGDrt5y0Z8
5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 72: Objetivos de Zap Zap Goals#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6X6fkglTSg
6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 73: Sincronização Negentropy (Negentropy Syncing)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YcQamFGTw
7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 74: Dados arbitrários de aplicativos customizados#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC90FpWp4Hc
8. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 75: Threads Tópicos Encadeamentos#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ9tn2btS-A
📅 Upcoming Events#
1. Nostr live talk radio - February 2026#
📅 Date: Saturday, February 14, 2026
⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM GMT
📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio
🤹♀️ Organizers:
2. Nostr Atlanta #10 - Lunch & Learn - Decentralized Web Tech#
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 2.00 PM EST
📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers:
3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - March 2026#
📅 Date: Sunday, March 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers:
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcfbcb/
📰 Nostr in the Media#
1. NOSTR isn’t another social platform#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Dx2ATkfX0
2. Onlynips | Let's update you on the world of NOSTR#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsu4o7Dq7BI
3. Soapbox Sessions Episode 23 - BeCLAWS the Robots Want to Be Free, We Built CLAWSTR!#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GLRVyaW1c
⚡ Most Zapped Last Week#
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 creators who received/sent the most engagement:#
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped#
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 553
- Sats Earned: 88k
Name:
@npub1rtlq...jtfs - Zaps Received: 316
- Sats Earned: 21k
Name:
@npub1utx0...50e8 - Zaps Received: 263
- Sats Earned: 22k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 2162
- Sats Spent: 90k
Name:
@npub1zqre...x6yw - Zaps Sent: 279
- Sats Spent: 131k
Name:
@npub1sjcq...jx9d - Zaps Sent: 206
- Sats Spent: 13k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 583k
- Zaps Received: 143
Name:
@npub153xm...ryu8 - Sats Earned: 464k
- Zaps Received: 133
Name:
@npub10uth...xdlq - Sats Earned: 362k
- Zaps Received: 46
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name:
@npub1ygzs...a2m5 - Sats Spent: 458k
- Zaps Sent: 6
Name:
@npub1d0us...5c5w - Sats Spent: 209k
- Zaps Sent: 4
Name:
@npub1zqre...x6yw - Sats Spent: 131k
- Zaps Sent: 280
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: 47
- Sats Earned: 12k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 49
- Sats Earned: 8k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 40
- Sats Earned: 1k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 72k
- Zaps Received: 13
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 32k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 21k
- Zaps Received: 31
😂 Nostr Memes#
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases#
1. NostrPress - New Tool#
NostrPress is a publishing tool that converts a Nostr profile into a fast, fully static blog. It allows users to write and publish articles on Nostr and automatically generate a standalone website that can be hosted anywhere. NostrPress supports local media, RSS feeds, and ensures full ownership of content with zero platform lock-in.
Developed by:
2. Coracle - 0.6.29#
Coracle is a web-based Nostr client focused on advanced relay management, privacy, and web-of-trust moderation to improve content discovery and user control. This release adds topics and commenting on highlights, introduces a new list navigation item, updates default relays and the Welshman version, and removes Glitchtip.
Contributed by:
3. Nostrmo - 3.5.0#
Nostrmo is a cross-platform Nostr client built with Flutter for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. The 3.5.0 release introduces a new custom feed and outbox model, replacing old feeds with editable custom feeds (including General, Mentions, and Relay feeds), adds feed editing pages and data sync, improves local relay support with adjustable size and subscriptions, enhances content decoding for uppercase links, and includes general bug fixes for improved stability.
Contributed by:
4. Amber - v4.1.2-pre1#
Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that securely manages keys and signs events for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This pre-release fixes missing relay trusted score displays, resolves JSON parsing issues for non-Nostr encrypt/decrypt requests, migrates the account model from LiveData to Flow, switches bunker secrets to full UUIDs, refactors components into separate files, removes unused dependencies, and upgrades to Gradle plugin 9.
Contributed by:
5. Aegis - v0.3.7#
Aegis is a simple cross-platform Nostr signer that securely manages keys and signs events for apps through multiple connection methods. This release adds support for the Nostr App Browser and introduces NIP-07 signing compatibility, improving integration with web-based Nostr applications.
Contributed by:
6. Igloo Desktop - v1.0.3#
Igloo Desktop is a Frostr-based desktop signer and key management app for securely managing Nostr keys and signing events. This release introduces a new onboarding and share-import flow, relay planning with normalization and priority merging, a preload-based Electron API architecture, and a signer keep-alive system, along with major security hardening (IPC validation, Electron isolation, SSRF-aware relay checks), improved recovery UX, reduced race conditions, and expanded testing.
Contributed by:
7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.1.0#
Mostro Mobile Client is a modern, secure mobile app for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, enabling users to trade Bitcoin directly using Nostr. This release introduces a complete background-capable logging system with export support, improved push notifications with new settings and better Android background handling, Phase 2 UI refinements and internationalization, smoother relay updates using additive initialization, and general stability, branding, and reliability improvements.
Contribute by:
8. Angor - v0.2.5#
Angor is a decentralized P2P funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr. The v0.2.5 release adds a revamped Funds section (V2), improves the InvoiceView UI and ViewModel for better UX and stability, and introduces configurable NIP-96 image servers in settings. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.2.4 last week.
Contributed by:
9. Ridestr - v0.2.0 - The RoadFlare Release#
Ridestr is a decentralized rideshare platform built on Nostr with Cashu payments. The v0.2.0 “RoadFlare Release” adds a personal network feature to follow trusted drivers, see when they’re online, and request rides directly. Payments are now more reliable with automatic escrow recovery, faster processing, and improved wallet syncing across devices. Other improvements include more stable driver detection, enhanced relay connection handling, better cross-device wallet synchronization, and stronger key storage security. This was the biggest release, and there were also the releases of v0.2.1, v0.2.2, and v0.2.3 last week.
Contributed by:
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases#
1. Nostr PHP - 1.9.4#
Nostr PHP is a helper library that enables PHP developers to interact with the Nostr protocol, making it easier to create, sign, and send events. This release introduces a timeout property to the request class, allowing better control over network request duration and improving reliability when communicating with relays.
Contributed by:
2. ZSP - v0.3.1#
ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays. The v0.3.1 release adds support for reading all values from .env files, fixes F-Droid arm64-v8a detection, enables fully offline keystore linking, resolves GitLab issues with trailing query parameters, introduces a new offline mode, and adds a Content-Digest header for Blossom uploads.
Contributed by:
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases#
No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.#
👋 Stay in Touch & Zap#
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 Second Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
🫡 Credits#
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