🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap (14th September 2026) 🚀

“One thing I love about nostr is it's just real people being real. People talk about their good days, their bad days, their blah days, their struggles and joys. People share pictures of their dogs, their coffees, a flower growing from a crack, cool trees, the food they eat just put on a plate with no fancy styling.#
I think it's a big part of why I love it here. For the most part, we aren't trying to impress each other. I don't feel a big Keep Up With the Jones's vibe. It's just people sharing their daily moments and thoughts, not posed with perfect lighting and prose. We try to make each other laugh or relate to one another, but it's just humans being humans. It's really beautiful.”#

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#

👉🏻 1035 relays on the Nostr network#

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 2,054 Users#

👉🏻 Primal - 1,393 Users#

👉🏻 Ditto - 384 Users#

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

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 785 Users - 14.2k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 773 Users - 7.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 545 Users - 5.0k Notes#

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

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 374.7k Users#

👉🏻 nos.lol - 322.8k Users#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 277.3k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.27M (-9.4%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.05M (-5.4%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.08M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.59 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 181.3k Users#

Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (User Relay Preferences from NIP-65):#

👉🏻 relay.mostr.pub - 665.2k#

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 561.9k#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 462.5k#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 12,996 users, compared to 7,143 users the week before#

Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrhub.io/stats, 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQK6-zcNvZM

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: @npub1ve8q...9ka6

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvcfexvexxwrpvgmkvetrxc6xyvtyvfjnxcfcvcfl34sn

2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026#

📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified)
📍 Location: Munich
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqhqmqsq4yn3q08xvk94w75spay4c0p9fzu290p8d5nwkpwgn3f98qqex6atwd93ksttwdaehgu3dd4jk2ar4wqkkuethvf5k2ueddejhyern94mk2mrrdakk2tf3xycxzeryxycqekle0a

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: @npub14muz...r84r @npub1cn67...wt8a

🔗 Event:

https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

1. Why Everyone is Wrong About Jack Dorsey’s New App, Buzz#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFBBzi4dvQ

2. AI Pays Far More Per Megawatt. Why Can't Every Miner Switch?#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ffvT9j8FGc

3. The Bitcoin Nova #111#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzgXgtDzue0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EweyN7v4pME

5. Nostr resonates on Instagram#

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJ5dfwDI_i/

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 these insights.

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: 422
- Sats Earned: 831k
Name: @npub1f4uy...r407
- Zaps Received: 326
- Sats Earned: 59k
Name: @npub12hcy...rdp4
- Zaps Received: 235
- Sats Earned: 107k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

Name: @npub1dsn6...2h64
- Zaps Sent: 1055
- Sats Spent: 29k
Name: @npub1rgnk...sd5y
- Zaps Sent: 98
- Sats Spent: 98
Name: @npub1qz2y...dakn
- Zaps Sent: 97
- Sats Spent: 9k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

Name: @npub1hpnv...tplc
- Sats Earned: 831k
- Zaps Received: 422
Name: @npub16ju3...a7js
- Sats Earned: 347k
- Zaps Received: 2
Name: @npub12hcy...rdp4
- Sats Earned: 107k
- Zaps Received: 235

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

Name: @npub1er8k...ff35
- Sats Spent: 347k
- Zaps Sent: 2
Name: devotoare
- Sats Spent: k (Not appears correctly)
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name: Fullspeedahead
- Sats Spent: 153k
- Zaps Sent: 3

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: 280
- Sats Earned: 46k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 60
- Sats Earned: 40k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 40
- Sats Earned: 54k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 100k
- Zaps Received: 1
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 54k
- Zaps Received: 40
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 50k
- Zaps Received: 4

1. Trackstr - New Tool#

Trackstr is an open-source media tracker and decentralized database for discovering and tracking movies, music, TV shows, and other media, designed as a permissionless alternative to platforms like Letterboxd, Trakt, Last.fm, IMDb, and TMDB.

Developed by: @npub1hznm...l6zh

Source: https://github.com/besoeasy/Trackstr

2. Amethyst - v1.15.2L Bug Fixes and Health Connect Advice#

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android. This release fixes media handling, improves Health Connect with a clearer permission rationale and better source-name caching, separates NIP-22 root-scope replies into dedicated engagement filters, and includes updated translations and platform package metadata. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v1.15.1 & v1.15.0 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1gcxz...nj5z

Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.15.2

3. Earthly - v0.1.10#

Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that helps people turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps. The release v0.1.10 fixes a critical MapLibre attribution-sanitizer vulnerability by upgrading MapLibre GL JS, improves WebGL 2 compatibility messaging and mobile map controls, unifies map-presentation controls, strengthens geometry editing and selection, and refreshes dependencies and TypeScript checks. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.1.9 last week.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

Source: https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/tag/v0.1.10

4. Amber - v6.6.3#

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android. This release fixes the “start service on boot” setting after app updates, resolves an offline-mode crash caused by WorkManager, corrects a Russian translation, and fixes a release build failure related to an AGP 9.4.0 regression. There was also the release of v6.6.2 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1w4us...0jr5

Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.6.3

5. Keycast - v2.0.0-rc.1 (Pre-release)#

Keycast is a self-hosted remote signer for Nostr. This pre-release introduces the rebuilt signer with multiplexed NIP-46 support, shared and per-key relay routing, durable request handling, team workspaces, encrypted key storage, invitations, sessions, customizable signing policies, audit history, encrypted backups, recovery and root-key rotation, along with improved documentation and verified, coordinated releases for the API, signer, and web components.

Contributed by: @npub1zuua...c2uc

Source: https://github.com/marmot-protocol/keycast/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.1

6. Nostria - v4.1.77#

Nostria is a social network built on Nostr for human connections. This release improves desktop notifications for a better user experience. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v4.1.76 & v4.1.75 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1zl3g...jajh

Source: https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria/releases/tag/v4.1.77

7. Nostr WoT Extension - 0.7.0#

Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension for Nostr that manages identities, signs events, and sends Lightning payments directly from the browser. The release v0.7.0 strengthens security and privacy with encrypted wallet data and improved account isolation, fixes NWC and wallet issues, improves Lightning and WebLN payment compatibility, enhances request approvals and account management, adds encrypted seed and post-quantum backup imports, and brings improvements to relay handling, profile/activity interfaces, accessibility, and local event decryption.

Contributed by: Leon Acosta

Source: https://github.com/nostr-wot/nostr-wot-extension/releases/tag/v0.7.0

8. NoorNote - v1.5.4#

NoorNote is a Nostr client for decentralized social networking. This release improves notification management by automatically clearing prayer and holiday reminders after their respective times, while ensuring deleted likes, reposts, quotes, replies, and zaps are removed from stats, timelines, and likes lists, with users’ own likes appearing instantly. This was the latest of the week, and there were also the releases of v1.5.3 & v1.5.2 last week.

Contributed by: @npub175nu...g6w0

Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.5.4

1. Relayer - v2.2.21#

Relayer is a Nostr relay framework for building custom relays. This release fixes an issue where pending REQ requests could incorrectly restore subscriptions that had already been closed or replaced, improving subscription lifecycle reliability. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v2.2.20 & v2.2.19 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1937v...haj6

Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/relayer/releases/tag/v2.2.21

2. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.10.0-dev.3#

Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library that enhances the Nostr development experience. This pre-release improves cache and Rust verifier performance, fixes metadata, deletion-coordinate, event visibility, BIP-321, TBS, and LNURL wallet handling, adds an LNbits wallet provider, packed Rust event verification, and optional maximum-fee support for NWC payments, while introducing the breaking loadHiddenEvents cache feature. There were also 2 more pre-releases last week (v0.10.0-dev.2 & v0.10.0-dev.1) as well.

Contributed by: frnandu, @npub1kg4s...w5te Leo

Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.10.0-dev.3

3. NostrDVM - 1.1.8#

NostrDVM is a framework for running NIP-90 Nostr Data Vending Machines (DVMs). This release adds a Twitter-like algorithm DVM based on X’s open-source code, along with fixes. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of 1.1.7, 1.1.6, 1.1.5 & 1.1.4 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1nxa4...a6q8

Source: https://github.com/believethehype/nostrdvm/releases/tag/1.1.8

1. GRAIN - v0.8.0-rc2 (Pre-release)#

GRAIN is a comprehensive Nostr solution that combines a powerful relay with a Go client library for developers. The pre-release improves relay durability by preventing silent write loss, fixing retention cleanup, adding database map-usage protection, and strengthening reader stability. It also introduces self-discovering NIP-66 relay monitoring, makes NIP-11 metadata reflect the actual configuration, adds self-healing config migration and new purge controls, and improves client-side REQ handling and documentation.

Contributed by: @npub1zmc6...7f60

Source: https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain/releases/tag/v0.8.0-rc2

2. Nostr-relay - v0.0.264#

Nostr-relay is a Nostr relay built on the relayer framework. This release adds client address logging for every accepted event, making relay activity easier to monitor and trace. This was the latest, and there were also a few more releases last week.

Contributed by: @npub1937v...haj6

Source: https://github.com/mattn/nostr-relay/releases/tag/v0.0.264

3. Citrine - v3.1.1#

Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android. The release v3.1.1 fixes NIP-42 authentication and access-control issues, scopes subscription IDs per connection, improves NIP-45 COUNT handling, corrects NIP-01 event filtering and replaceable-event tie-breaking, standardizes relay responses, and updates NIP-11 and NIP-86 support with improved relay management controls.

Contributed by: @npub1w4us...0jr5

Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v3.1.1

1. Angor - v0.2.35#

Angor is a decentralized P2P funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr. This release improves investment scanning performance with bounded parallel processing, fixes claim and project-loading issues, improves indexer failure handling, adds UX/UI improvements including dark-mode and markdown editor fixes, and prevents unacknowledged NIP-65 lists from blocking project deployment.

Contributed by: @npub1ldsm...zsk3 Zaza

Source: https://github.com/block-core/angor/releases/tag/v0.2.35

No Workspace Updates and Releases for last week.#

1. Routstr Core - v0.4.7#

Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy for OpenAI-compatible APIs that handles pay-per-request billing. This release improves error reporting and package dependencies, preserves upstream USD costs alongside billed costs, strengthens Cashu payment validation and security, validates pre-auth image URL destinations, removes child-key and balance-limit features, and updates completion and payment handling.

Contributed by: @npub1wetq...j2dp 9qeklajc, @npub1ftt0...edsh

Source: https://github.com/Routstr/routstr-core/releases/tag/v0.4.7

2. Nostr VPN - v4.1.10#

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN powered by an independently evolved FIPS data plane. This release improves cross-platform reliability for Cashu-paid exits, including connection recovery and billing with manual or automatic exit selection, while improving device joining and iPhone approval handling after peer VPN restarts.

Contributed by: @npub1g53m...drvk

Source: https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn/releases/tag/v4.1.10

1. Boris - v0.12.5#

Boris is a reading list for the Nostr world that turns Nostr bookmarks into a calm, focused reading experience. The release v0.12.5 fixes nearly invisible article and highlight text when using the Paper White theme with system settings, with improved theme-specific color rules and verified compatibility across all theme combinations. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.12.4 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1derg...xzpc

Source: https://github.com/dergigi/boris/releases/tag/v0.12.5

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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap (14th September 2026) 🚀

1. A popular nostrich enters into marriage life 💍#

2. Wanna listen to a nice track? Put on your headphones 🎧#

3. This would be so interesting 👇🏻#

4. These onboarding are very important for Nostr 👇🏻#

5. The winemaker keeps getting losses with the impact of some animals 🍷#

6. An announcement from OpenSats 👇🏻#

7. These notes prove that Nostr is the best 💪🏻#

8. We should change this Nostr situation 😔#

9. Great news regarding the Nostrich client 🔥#

10. This is the specialty of Nostr 🫶🏻#

11. What is your comment regarding this? 🤔#

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#

👉🏻 1035 relays on the Nostr network#

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 2,054 Users#

👉🏻 Primal - 1,393 Users#

👉🏻 Ditto - 384 Users#

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

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 785 Users - 14.2k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 773 Users - 7.6k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 545 Users - 5.0k Notes#

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

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 374.7k Users#

👉🏻 nos.lol - 322.8k Users#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 277.3k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.27M (-9.4%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.05M (-5.4%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.08M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.59 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 181.3k Users#

Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (User Relay Preferences from NIP-65):#

👉🏻 relay.mostr.pub - 665.2k#

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 561.9k#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 462.5k#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 12,996 users, compared to 7,143 users the week before#

1. How to Connect Nostr to Social Magnum & Publish Posts#

1. Nostr Atlanta #17 - Rush Hour Avoidance - September 2026#

2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026#

3. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026#

1. Why Everyone is Wrong About Jack Dorsey’s New App, Buzz#

2. AI Pays Far More Per Megawatt. Why Can't Every Miner Switch?#

3. The Bitcoin Nova #111#

4. The Like Button Killed Connection: Rethinking Social Networks from First Principles#

5. Nostr resonates on Instagram#

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. Trackstr - New Tool#

2. Amethyst - v1.15.2L Bug Fixes and Health Connect Advice#

3. Earthly - v0.1.10#

4. Amber - v6.6.3#

5. Keycast - v2.0.0-rc.1 (Pre-release)#

6. Nostria - v4.1.77#

7. Nostr WoT Extension - 0.7.0#

8. NoorNote - v1.5.4#

1. Relayer - v2.2.21#

2. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.10.0-dev.3#

3. NostrDVM - 1.1.8#

1. GRAIN - v0.8.0-rc2 (Pre-release)#

2. Nostr-relay - v0.0.264#

3. Citrine - v3.1.1#

1. Angor - v0.2.35#

No Workspace Updates and Releases for last week.#

1. Routstr Core - v0.4.7#

2. Nostr VPN - v4.1.10#

1. Boris - v0.12.5#

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