🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (03rd August 2026 - 87th Edition)

Here's another thing that came out of this crisis: most of you aren't Nostr maximalists. You've still got one foot on X. To each their own, but this way mass adoption is never going to happen when the important Bitcoin topics aren't primarily discussed here. And no, not even if you say "but I want to pull people from over there to here." Not as long as screenshots of tweets are being shared here instead of the other way around. Don't kid yourselves about that.#

1. This is the day that we feel like we've lost our whole world. So love your parents when they are alive 😢#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)

Nostr was growing slightly for the last week!#

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):#

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 951 Users - 11.0k Notes#

👉🏻 Amethyst - 855 Users - 15.8k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 629 Users - 5.3k Notes#

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

👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 314.9k Users#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 252.0k Users#

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 215.7k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.96M (-22.4%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 6.18M (+28.4%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.99M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.32 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 180.0K#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 7025 users, compared to 5,346 users the week before#

Many thanks to the developers of 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.

1. Jack Dorsey's New App Is Coming for Slack and GitHub (buzz)#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHEMPZ87FLw

2. BitChat: Decentralized P2P Messenger (Full Deep Dive)#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TlYz4WRNI

3. Bitchat - This Open Source Chat App Works Without Wi-Fi or Mobile Data#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIyolSv-3WM

4. Buzz Beginner's Guide: An Open Source, Agent-First Slack?#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkD-PZ9bAo

5. Wtf is Nostr, the open protocol that Buzz is built on?#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI72iHshgwc

6. Building a Buzz AI Agent That Replies to Anyone#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXHZ1hG-8p4

7. Can India Block BitChat? How Messaging Works Without Internet#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6f_0J_io0

1. Edufeed Community Call - August 2026#

📅 Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2026
⏰ Time: 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM GMT+2
📍 Location: Online (https://comenius.de/zoom)

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1f7ja...2fx9

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqna968zp8c45tcgdgzln2c4twqd9xvfqdc6eey964c8fn07kcmjpqqjxgdejx4snyv3s95unwd3h956xzdr995urzvtp94nrqwrxx3snyvpcvgmkv7d37e0

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2026#

📅 Date: Sunday, September 06, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @npub1t3gx...9elk

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/315897653/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

3. 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

1. FiatJaf I Built Nostr Because Twitter Failed#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mWllE9AuKs

2. Inside Buzz: Can This Nostr App Change How AI Teams Work?#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6dkBpybkQ

3. “Slack Killer” Buzz Has a Bigger Ambition#

@npub1cxyr...hz6x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7r7tlF2Cc&

4. Haleen: Saying No To EMI#

@npub1nl8r...f9d0 @npub1e0f0...y34y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6uY61HMEI4

5. Everything Is About To Change#

@npub1sk7m...jraw @npub1guh5...6hjy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psz13Rv_V1k

6. Meet Obelisk: Communities, Calls & Chat on Nostr#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JMbrT5sNHU

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: @npub1f4uy...r407
- Zaps Received: 351
- Sats Earned: 30k
Name: @npub1derg...xzpc
- Zaps Received: 343
- Sats Earned: 39k
Name: @npub1hpnv...tplc
- Zaps Received: 275
- Sats Earned: 592k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers#

Name: @npub1dsn6...2h64
- Zaps Sent: 1548
- Sats Spent: 43k
Name: @npub16eum...t6jc
- Zaps Sent: 180
- Sats Spent: 5k
Name: @npub1u53h...nzt7
- Zaps Sent: 157
- Sats Spent: 204k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received#

Name: @npub1hpnv...tplc
- Sats Earned: 592k
- Zaps Received: 275
Name: @npub1sjnh...2m2n
- Sats Earned: 279k
- Zaps Received: 80
Name: @npub1wxgp...svzl
- Sats Earned: 187k
- Zaps Received: 41

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent#

Name: @npub1u53h...nzt7
- Sats Spent: 204k
- Zaps Sent: 159
Name: tulips
- Sats Spent: “Not visible the sats amount”
- Zaps Sent: 1
Name: @npub1h6sn...3tt5
- Sats Spent: 81k
- Zaps Sent: 155

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: 232
- Sats Earned: 38k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 108
- Sats Earned: 89k
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Zaps Received: 75
- Sats Earned: 27k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats#

⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 200k
- Zaps Received: 2
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 187k
- Zaps Received: 41
⚡View on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
- Sats Earned: 130k
- Zaps Received: 62

1. Bitchat - v1.7.1#

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines local Bluetooth mesh networking for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global messaging. In v1.7.1, the release focuses on security and reliability improvements, including identity-bound encrypted sessions, encrypted private media before BLE transfer, stronger identity protection, improved DM delivery reliability, hardened mesh transport, panic wipe improvements, and fixes for connection, restore, and messaging issues.

Contributed by: @npub1sg6p...f63m @npub1wg2m...dzaw Oleksandr Kravchuk, Jozef Koval, chernomortsev evgeny, Vidit Kulshrestha, Kudala Bharani Kumar Reddy, Taksh Kothari, krish rathi, Rod Bahmanyari, heyaim

Source: https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.7.1

2. Amethyst - v1.13.1#

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android that enables users to access the decentralized social network with support for messaging, communities, relays, and other Nostr features. In v1.13.1, the release adds group and channel deletion, long-press actions for relay groups and Concord channels, support for NIP-29 group relay authentication, configurable Home feed content filters, and several fixes and UI improvements for communities, messaging, navigation, highlights, and overall app stability. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.13.0 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1gcxz...nj5z @npub1aeh2...4nwx David Kaspar

Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.13.1

3. Earthly - v0.0.8#

Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that allows communities to create and share location-based knowledge through decentralized maps. In v0.0.8, the release fixes zaps, NWC wallet integrations, and social actions for map entities, improving Lightning payment interactions and user engagement features. This was the biggest release, and v0.0.9 was the latest of the week.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

Source: https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/tag/v0.0.8

4. Jumble - v26.7.2#

Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client focused on exploring relay feeds and interacting with decentralized content. This release adds anonymous replies, improved zap receipt handling with dedicated event pages, an "OP" badge for thread authors, and faster feed loading through WASM signature verification. It also improves media uploads, link previews, memory usage and fixes issues with feed refreshing, thread loading, mobile image saving, direct messages, and profile search.

Contributed by: @npub1syjm...f6wl @npub1aeh2...4nwx

Source: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/releases/tag/v26.7.2

5. Primal Android App - 3.5.25#

Primal is a Nostr social mobile client for Android with an integrated Bitcoin Lightning wallet, offering features such as custom feeds, long-form Reads, advanced search, zaps, and a fast user experience. This release adds a follow mute list, updates remote signer support for the latest protocol changes, improves startup speed, feed loading, caching, and connection recovery, and fixes various issues related to media rendering, relay connections, feed performance, and profile interactions.

Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic, Marko Kocic, akurcubic

Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/3.5.25

6. Shosho - v1.0.0#

Shosho is a Nostr-based live streaming marketplace where creators can broadcast content, interact with audiences, and receive support from fans through zaps and other interactions. In v1.0.0, the release introduces a complete app redesign with a new content-focused home screen, creator tools, notifications, search across creators, streams, clips, and products, instant live stream clipping, and multilingual support. It also improves video presentation, chat threading, performance, profile loading, and overall app stability.

Contributed by: @npub1r0d8...fsft

Source: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/shosho-releases/releases/tag/v1.0.0

7. Nostur - v1.30.1#

Nostur is an iOS client for the Nostr decentralized social protocol. In v1.30.1, the update focuses on stability and performance improvements, including fixes for nested reply expansion, duplicate posting issues, and improvements to media sharing, image previews, image rendering, scrolling, and search performance.

Contributed by: @npub1n0st...lahe

Source: https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.30.1

8. Manent - v2.0.0#

Manent is a private, encrypted space for storing notes and files, built on the Nostr protocol. In v2.0.0, the release introduces note tagging and search functionality, along with minor optimizations and bug fixes to improve the overall user experience. This was the latest release, and there was also “v1.6.0 - Android-only” last week.

Contributed by: @npub10000...vwqk

Source: https://github.com/dtonon/manent/releases/tag/v2.0.0

9. Nostrord - v2.5.0#

Nostrord is a Nostr NIP-29 client for interacting with decentralized groups and communities. In v2.5.0, the release adds improved group handling, including relay-specific group membership, private-group support, thread management, moderation reports, and better NIP-29 community features. It also introduces Android signer login via Amber (NIP-55), Blossom and NIP-96 media upload support, improved mobile keyboard and chat UX, enhanced deep-link handling, and various fixes for authentication, caching, and relay interactions.

Contributed by: @npub1f27g...9swu

Source: https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v2.5.0

10. NoorNote - v1.3.1#

NoorNote is a Nostr client for the decentralized social protocol. This release improves the reading and messaging experience with filters for article feeds to reduce spam, disappearing direct messages with self-destruct timers, smoother onboarding with working DM relays for new accounts, and improved repost notifications that open articles directly in the reader.

Contributed by: @npub175nu...g6w0

Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.3.1

11. Sidecar - v1.7.0#

Sidecar is a Nostr keystore and signer that runs in your browser sidebar, providing secure key management and NIP-07 signing support. This release adds webpage commenting through NIP-22, quick Lightning wallet setup with Rizful, wallet improvements, account management enhancements, tracker-stripping for shared links, and fixes for wallet backup verification, restored wallet balances, keystore storage races, and interface behavior. While this was the latest release, there was also the release of v1.6.0 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1aeh2...4nwx

Source: https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases/tag/v1.7.0

1. ZSP - v0.4.15#

ZSP is a fast CLI tool to publish Android apps to Nostr relays, powering app distribution through Zapstore. In v0.4.15, the release improves security by rejecting NIP-C1 proofs when the private key does not match the certificate, adds direct JKS (Java KeyStore) loading support, and includes minor help documentation updates. Although this was the biggest release, the latest was v0.4.16 last week.

Contributed by: @npub1wf4p...dgh9

Source: https://github.com/zapstore/zsp/releases/tag/v0.4.15

No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.#

No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.#

1. Buzz - v0.5.3#

Buzz is a Nostr-based workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate through relays you own. This release introduces improvements for agent collaboration, including local Pocket voice imports, upgraded text-to-speech models, automatic huddle transcription for agents, improved agent activity UI, and OpenRouter provider support. It also adds encrypted key backups, password-protected backups, higher hosted community limits, improved relay reliability, better community management, and various performance and stability improvements. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.5.2, v0.5.1 and v0.5.0 last week.

Contributed by: Tyler, mr-r0b0t.eth, Will Pfleger, Ziga Drev, Nick Kampe, Danny Sheehan, Tansky, Sean Gearin, Trey Wood, Haseeb Azhar, kiranmagic7, Mic Neale, Michael Neale, John Matthew Tennant, Wes, klopez4212, Sam W, Kalvin C, Taylor Ho, Alex Kemper, Clay Delk, Bradley Axen, Sumit Madan, fenner888, Cameron Hotchkies, Matthew Beckley, thomaspblock, Joah Gerstenberg, Amp, David Hamilton

Source: https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/desktop-v0.5.3

2. Pyramid - v1.3.2#

Pyramid is a Nostr community management system that enables users to build and organize communities through a hierarchical relay structure. In v1.3.2, the release includes a small improvement to group management by updating the wording used when deleting groups.

Contributed by: @npub180cv...h6w6

Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/pyramid/releases/tag/v1.3.2

3. Obelisk - The Comeback Release#

Obelisk is a Discord alternative with Nostr login, offering group chat, voice, video, and direct messaging without email, passwords, or centralized servers. In The Comeback release, development resumes with support for audio messages, a sticker, emoji, and GIF marketplace, Nostr feeds for discovering people across public relays, and overall performance improvements. The platform continues to support NIP-29 communities, Nostr DMs, Blossom media, installable PWAs, and peer-to-peer voice and video calls.

Contributed by: Fabricio333

Source: https://github.com/obelisk-app/obelisk/releases/tag/the-comeback

No Infrastructure Updates and 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 Eighty-Seventh Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

Thank you @npub1l77t...swft for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @npub1wmr3...g240 for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @npub1nu5r...hjyn for helping me with the content and graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

Recap by @npub19hs0...5jcn

🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (03rd August 2026 - 87th Edition)

1. This is the day that we feel like we've lost our whole world. So love your parents when they are alive 😢#

2. Vlog v.6 of a very nice creation by MadMunky 🔥#

3. It’s great that Bitchat could share without internet now 👇🏻#

4. One of the happiest days in the life of a nostrich couple ❤️#

5. This podcast is worth watching 🎙️#

6. He is gonna distract a bit from Amethyst 👇🏻#

7. They celebrate this happy moment with their cats and Nostr community 👶🏻#

8. Nice news from Shosho 👌🏻#

9. A very popular nostrich couple celebrates their 20th anniversary ❤️#

10. Decentralized chat, now on your smartwatch. 😍#

11. What do you think about this statement? 🫵🏻#

Nostr was growing slightly for the last week!#

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

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

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 951 Users - 11.0k Notes#

👉🏻 Amethyst - 855 Users - 15.8k Notes#

👉🏻 Primal Android - 629 Users - 5.3k Notes#

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

👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 314.9k Users#

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 252.0k Users#

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 215.7k Users#

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.96M (-22.4%)#

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 6.18M (+28.4%)#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.99M#

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.32 BTC#

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 180.0K#

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

During last week:#

👉🏻 Total Users: 7025 users, compared to 5,346 users the week before#

1. Jack Dorsey's New App Is Coming for Slack and GitHub (buzz)#

2. BitChat: Decentralized P2P Messenger (Full Deep Dive)#

3. Bitchat - This Open Source Chat App Works Without Wi-Fi or Mobile Data#

4. Buzz Beginner's Guide: An Open Source, Agent-First Slack?#

5. Wtf is Nostr, the open protocol that Buzz is built on?#

6. Building a Buzz AI Agent That Replies to Anyone#

7. Can India Block BitChat? How Messaging Works Without Internet#

1. Edufeed Community Call - August 2026#

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2026#

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

1. FiatJaf I Built Nostr Because Twitter Failed#

2. Inside Buzz: Can This Nostr App Change How AI Teams Work?#

3. “Slack Killer” Buzz Has a Bigger Ambition#

4. Haleen: Saying No To EMI#

5. Everything Is About To Change#

6. Meet Obelisk: Communities, Calls & Chat on Nostr#

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. Bitchat - v1.7.1#

2. Amethyst - v1.13.1#

3. Earthly - v0.0.8#

4. Jumble - v26.7.2#

5. Primal Android App - 3.5.25#

6. Shosho - v1.0.0#

7. Nostur - v1.30.1#

8. Manent - v2.0.0#

9. Nostrord - v2.5.0#

10. NoorNote - v1.3.1#

11. Sidecar - v1.7.0#

1. ZSP - v0.4.15#

No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.#

No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.#

1. Buzz - v0.5.3#

2. Pyramid - v1.3.2#

3. Obelisk - The Comeback Release#

No Infrastructure Updates and Releases for last week.#

Nomishka

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