ποΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap π (17th August 2026 - 89th Edition)
The 89th edition of your weekly Nostr Newsletter.
βSo here's what I'm thinking. I'm going on a cruise and will be mostly away from the Nostr. For the next #TwoWeeks while I'm away, I want to use that time to turn the "Two Weeks" meme into reality! It's time to SHIP! Both for ME and for YOU!#
The challenge: Build something that grows Nostr.#
Reply to this note with what you've built by August 27th. That gives me a nice stack of apps to review, test, and demo when I'm back on land.β#
1. Nostr unofficial CEO ensures the build gets done even if he is away π¨π»βπ»#
2. Nostr workout tracker Progressive Web App officially stable π₯#
3. Nice music that every bitcoiner should listen π§#
4. A huge White Noise release is on its way π#
5. The move of a Spanish Olympic skateboarderβs life πΉ#
6. Anyone canβt say that privacy isnβt important ππ»#
7. A nice capture of a solar eclipse π#
8. Letβs wish him luck for the win ππ»ββοΈ π΄π»ββοΈ ππ»ββοΈ#
9. A nice suggestion from the Nostr founder ππ»#
10. Being altruistic is always so nice π«Άπ»#
11. A pretty nostrich celebrated her birthday π#
12. The people who love even animals have the best hearts in this world β€οΈ#
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://nostrarchives.com/analytics#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
ππ» Primal iOS - 908 Users - 9.9k Notes#
ππ» Amethyst - 814 Users - 13.9k Notes#
ππ» Primal Android - 576 Users - 5.8k Notes#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
ππ» relay.damus.io - 259.8k Users#
ππ» relay.primal.net - 224.8k Users#
ππ» nos.lol - 206.4k Users#
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/#
ππ» Publishing Users last week: 4.94M (-23.1%)#
ππ» New Publishing Users Last week: 4.22M (-17.9%)#
ππ» All-time Zap Count: 7.03M#
ππ» All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.43 BTC#
ππ» All-time Zap Senders: 180.6K#
According to https://npub.world/stats#
During last week:#
ππ» Total Users: 17,262 users, compared to 7,582 users the week before#
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by
1. Nostr Explained: Your Data, Your Rules#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mofGQUgO6bw
2. What Is a Nostr Relay? The Servers Behind the Network#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_5rwMZx4s
3. How Diogel Helps Protect Your Nostr Keys#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmPKbTNAHA
4. What Is a NIP-07 Signer? A Safer Way to Use Nostr Websites#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BvmcEl0V5w
5. Hermes Agent: Buzz Integration (Nostr Workspace)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4HJ672VOI
6. Desktop PosterChan Nostr client overview#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY41ttlW_4w
7. What NOSTR is, why it was created, and how it marks the end of internet censorship (Lesson 1)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9nyJjPmvXA
8. Block open-sourced Buzz!#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdT-qB1z80c
1. Prague Nostr Meetup - August 2026#
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Date: Thursday, August 20, 2026
β° Time: 6.30 PM onwards GMT+2
π Location: AutonomnΓ centrum 254, ArgentinskΓ‘ 783/18, 170 00 Praha 7-HoleΕ‘ovice, Czechia
π€ΉββοΈ Organizers:
π Event:
2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026#
π
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
β° Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified)
π Location: Munich
π€ΉββοΈ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup
π Event:
1. The Bitcoin Nova #106#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3KMn_upf2A
2. How Music Side Project Helps Musicians SelfβHost, Own Their Data & Join the V4V Movement#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_3fQb0J9zE
3. Building HiveTalk w/ Karrot#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb3A0_GZ2uY
4. Buzz: Block's Open-Source Slack for AI Agents (Honest Review 2026)#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSx5DM4qQWM
Nostrβs 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:#
π₯ Top 3: Most Zapped#
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 427
- Sats Earned: 130k
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Zaps Received: 259
- Sats Earned: 663k
Name:
@npub14hq5...jjzu - Zaps Received: 226
- Sats Earned: 20k
π₯ Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 682
- Sats Spent: 14k
Name:
@npub1h6sn...3tt5 - Zaps Sent: 247
- Sats Spent: 93k
Name:
@npub1dge9...5uq3 - Zaps Sent: 110
- Sats Spent: 3k
π° Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 663k
- Zaps Received: 259
Name:
@npub1v60t...j4rp - Sats Earned: 221k
- Zaps Received: 188
Name:
@npub1q6ps...0kxr - Sats Earned: 152k
- Zaps Received: 45
π° Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name:
@npub1pc57...dmza - Sats Spent: 200k
- Zaps Sent: 2
Name: βThe name is not visibleβ
- Sats Spent: 111k
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name:
@npub1v9v5...jnm3 - Sats Spent: 111k
- Zaps Sent: 27
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:#
π₯ Top 3: Most Zapped#
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 93
- Sats Earned: 14k
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 61
- Sats Earned: 11k
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 32
- Sats Earned: 671
π₯ Top 3: Most Sats#
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 200k
- Zaps Received: 2
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 103k
- Zaps Received: 2
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 100k
- Zaps Received: 1
β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) β‘View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
1. Workstr Web - v1.0.0 - New Tool#
Workstr Web is a local-first Nostr workout tracker designed to keep your fitness data usable even without an account, server, or internet connection. This release adds three starter workout programs, offline exercise images, and better handling of rest timers when the PWA is suspended. It also introduces a zap-first support panel with live funding information from NIP-57 receipts, while improving Android signer links and keeping starter content from overwriting workouts users have already customized.
Developed by: sette7blo, Workstr7blo,
2. Earthly - v0.1.4#
Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that lets people turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps. This release focuses on stabilizing mobile map authoring and brings the latest improvements together for the release. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.1.3, v0.1.2 & v0.1.1 last week.
Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab
3. Amber - v6.5.1#
Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that securely handles signing requests for Nostr apps. The release v6.5.1 improves key management by re-encrypting NIP-46 connection secrets during Keystore key rotation and fixes a crash in the Edit Permission screen caused by an invalid local key. There was another release of v6.5.0 last week.
Contributed by:
4. Nostria - v4.1.71#
Nostria is a decentralized social media platform and Nostr client that brings social networking, content discovery, and media into one open ecosystem. This release improves the podcast experience by showing the duration of each episode and includes several other small refinements to make listening and browsing podcasts smoother. This was the latest release of the week, and there were also the releases of v4.1.70, v4.1.69, v4.1.68, v4.1.67 & v4.1.53 last week.
Contributed by:
5. Nymchat - v3.73.520#
Nymchat is a feature-rich, ephemeral chat client built on Nostr, with Bitchat integration for pseudonymous and temporary messaging. This release is a hotfix release that addresses two issues: an inline script that was breaking the Content Security Policy (CSP), and stale messages incorrectly appearing as new.
Contributed by:
6. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.3.2#
Mostro Mobile Client is a modern mobile app for trading Bitcoin peer-to-peer through the Mostro ecosystem. This release adds support for Mostroβs new kind-14 chat envelopes and improves dispute conversations with more reliable message filtering, durable cursors, and a migration away from gift-wrapped chat messages. This was the latest, and there was also another release (v1.3.1) last week.
Contributed by:
7. Vector - v0.4.3#
Vector is a free, open-source, decentralized chat platform focused on private, censorship-resistant communication without KYC, advertising, or metadata tracking. This release is a follow-up patch that fixes Tor connectivity on Windows, improves cross-client stability, and resolves issues with phantom typing indicators and dissolved communities not syncing correctly across devices. This was the latest release, and there were also one release and a lot more pre-releases last week.
Contributed by:
8. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.4.0#
Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension that lets you manage your Nostr identity, sign events, and make Lightning payments directly from your browser. This release adds post-quantum cryptographic keys derived from an existing BIP-39 seed, allowing Nostr users to prepare their identities and encrypted messages for future quantum threats. It also adds key attestations, proof of possession, post-quantum direct messaging through NIP-44/NIP-59, and an offline CLI for generating the keys.
Contributed by: Leon Acosta
9. NoorNote - v1.3.3#
NoorNote is a Nostr client for decentralized social networking, with a focus on a smooth experience across different platforms. This version improves diagnostics by bringing crash capture, list-sync traces, and relay-pool snapshots to the Web, while making diagnostic logs easier to export. Desktop and Web users can now export logs with a single click, making troubleshooting and reporting issues much simpler.
Contributed by:
10. Sidecar - v1.8.0#
Sidecar is a browser-sidebar Nostr keystore and signer that keeps your keys, signing, and wallet tools close at hand while you browse. The latest v1.8.0 adds a new Bauhaus theme and custom display fonts for each theme, while also improving the signing experience, relay connections, wallet reliability, and NIP-65-based follow-list handling. It also adds safer secret handling by automatically clearing copied secrets from the clipboard after 60 seconds.
Contributed by:
1. Mostro Core - v0.14.5#
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer foundation for building Mostro and other decentralized applications. This release fixes an issue with gift wraps by ensuring the rumor ID is properly serialized, improving the reliability of encrypted Nostr message handling. Although this was the latest, there were also two more releases (v0.14.4 & v0.14.3) last week.
Contributed by:
1. Citrine - v3.1.0#
Citrine is an Android Nostr relay that lets users run and manage relay infrastructure directly from their device. This release adds NIP-29 group support, NIP-86 relay management, event rebroadcasting, nsite support, improved access controls, and performance improvements across WebSocket and query handling.
Contributed by:
1. Mostro - v0.18.4#
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer Lightning exchange built on Nostr. This release fixes an issue with persisting taken_at during pre-trade take operations, improving the reliability of trade state handling. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.18.3 (they asked not to use this version), v018.2 & v0.18.1 last week.
Contributed by:
1. Buzz - v0.5.9#
Buzz is a Nostr-based collaborative workspace where humans and AI agents can work together on a relay you control. The latest desktop release, v0.5.9, brings a smoother onboarding experience, restores invitations to private channels, and improves how the app handles local storage and cached data. It also adds NIP-AM agent-usage support, along with several fixes to agent reliability, member mentions, prompts, and session handling. This seems like the first and biggest release of the week, and there were also the releases of v0.5.14, v0.5.11 & v0.5.10 last week.
Contributed by: Wes, Tyler, Will Pfleger, Atish Patel, klopez4212, Cameron Hotchkies
1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.36#
Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that lets users share and connect their Lightning nodes through Nostr accounts with compatible apps. This release improves reliability by making WebRTC support optional, preventing startup failures on platforms where wrtc cannot be installed, and fixes the install scriptβs backup-restore behavior. No migration or configuration changes are required. This was the latest of the week, and there was also the release v0.0.35 last week.
Contributed by: Justin (shocknet)
2. Nostr VPN - v4.1.7#
Nostr VPN is a private, Nostr-based mesh VPN inspired by Tailscale. It connects devices securely through a FIPS-backed data plane, with support for private networking and exit nodes. This latest release improves paid-exit discovery, connection status, pricing, selling, settlement, and reselling of VPN access.
Contributed by:
1. Sandstr - New Exploration Tool#
Sandstr is a browser-based way to explore and compare Nostr clients without installing anything or using real keys. It offers interactive simulations of popular clients with guided tours and mock data, all running locally in your browser with no backend, network connection, or real crypto involved. Itβs a simple, privacy-friendly way to get a feel for different Nostr clients before trying the real thing.
Developed by:
Nostr is built by plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.
Iβm 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 Ninth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and letβs keep #GrowNostr together.
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