๐๏ธ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap ๐ (26th October 2026)
The 99th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
โThe best people on Nostr tend to be independent thinkers, but the strongest independent thinkers aren't attached to being right. They're attached to discovering what's true.โ#
1. Do you still think to hang on to centralized platforms? ๐ซต#
2. One of the best days in the life of a nostrich ๐จโ๐ผ#
3. This is really disgusting ๐คฎ#
4. Thatโs indeed great news ๐ฅณ#
5. This is really a good sign ๐#
6. Who are the other two? ๐#
7. Decreasing the barriers to join Nostr is really awesome. Isnโt it? ๐#
8. The community of France is tending to decentralization ๐ฅ#
9. This is really heartbreaking note ๐ข#
10. Do you agree nostriches? ๐#
11. This is well said! ๐#
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 the Nostr ecosystem.#
According to https://nostrhub.io/stats#
๐๐ป 1,070 relays on the Nostr network#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
๐๐ป Amethyst - 2,573 Users#
๐๐ป Primal - 2,510 Users#
๐๐ป Ditto - 514 Users#
According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics#
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):#
๐๐ป Primal iOS - 674 Users - 6.6k Notes#
๐๐ป Amethyst - 669 Users - 11.3k Notes#
๐๐ป Primal Android - 423 Users - 4.4k Notes#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):#
๐๐ป relay.primal.net - 461.5k Users#
๐๐ป nos.lol - 407.9k Users#
๐๐ป relay.damus.io - 308.0k Users#
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/#
๐๐ป Publishing Users last week: 3.53M (-21.9%)#
๐๐ป New Publishing Users Last week: 7.65M (+154.3%)#
๐๐ป All-time Zap Count: 7.15M Zaps#
๐๐ป All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.85 BTC#
๐๐ป All-time Zap Senders: 182.7K Users#
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (User Relay Preferences from NIP-65):#
๐๐ป relay.mostr.pub - 674.7k Users#
๐๐ป relay.primal.net - 652.4k Users#
๐๐ป nos.lol - 525.4k Users#
According to https://zap.observer#
Zapped for the past 7 days,#
๐๐ป Zaps - 13,767 Zaps#
๐๐ป Sats - 3.8M Sats#
According to https://npub.world/stats#
During last week:#
๐๐ป Total Users: 3,123 users, compared to 2,930 users the week before#
Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrhub.io/stats, https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, by
1. Create a Nostr Account with a Passkey#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1RiU-VqM_k
2. What is Nostr and why it's important for the future of Internet, decentralization etc#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Rkb_nd9E4
3. Nostr: Your Backup Plan Against Social Media Censorship#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrqvftBwiA
1. Bitcoin, NOSTR and the Future of the Internet#
๐
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
โฐ Time: 7.00 PM - 9.00 PM EST
๐ Location: Courtyard by Marriott Naples, 3250 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL, United States
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers:
๐ Event:
2. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026#
๐
Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
โฐ Time: 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM (GMT)
๐ Location: Pendulum Hotel, Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers:
๐ Event:
https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire
1. Nostr Is Infrastructure#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwesuZEPEro
2. Bitcoin/Money Nostr/Social Spaces/Naming#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rmiOI1PWQ
3. Brainstorm: Search Through the People You Trust#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KAUrOYPT_I
4. Bots Need Nostr Even More Than We Do#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39lW48iBv8U
5. Don't Lose Your Shit: Defending Your Profile Data from Rogue Clients#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1LOQQ24gk
6. Nobody Joins a Protocol: What We Learned Building Zap Cooking#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJw-ENi6FU
7. The Curious Pair: A Podcast Vending Machine#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbCfoxYS3Ao
8. Vibe Check: The State of Nostr Culture#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYpHH6qRH7Y
9. Sell Your Content, Not Your Soul#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSK40W5ZLUA
10. Math Sovereignty#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7VST4Glzs
Nostrโs 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:#
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped#
Name:
@npub1f4uy...r407 - Zaps Received: 373
- Sats Earned: 140k
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Zaps Received: 277
- Sats Earned: 391k
Name:
@npub1uwje...axfl - Zaps Received: 187
- Sats Earned: 10k
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zappers#
Name:
@npub1dsn6...2h64 - Zaps Sent: 1807
- Sats Spent: 72k
Name: Bram
- Zaps Sent: 257
- Sats Spent: 11k
Name:
@npub1dge9...5uq3 - Zaps Sent: 189
- Sats Spent: 5k
๐ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Received#
Name: ๅชๅ่
- Sats Earned: 793k
- Zaps Received: 2
Name:
@npub1hpnv...tplc - Sats Earned: 391k
- Zaps Received: 277
Name:
@npub1ynnj...u3gk - Sats Earned: 193k
- Zaps Received: 23
๐ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Sent#
Name: ๅฟๅๅฟๆด่
- Sats Spent: โNot visibleโ
- Zaps Sent: 161
Name:
@npub1ynnj...u3gk - Sats Spent: 252k
- Zaps Sent: 34
Name: โName is not visibleโ
- Sats Spent: โNot visibleโ
- Zaps Sent: 1
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:#
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped#
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 88
- Sats Earned: 880
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 61
- Sats Earned: 107k
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Zaps Received: 48
- Sats Earned: 480
๐ฅ Top 3: Most Sats#
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 110k
- Zaps Received: 5
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 107k
- Zaps Received: 61
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) - Sats Earned: 100k
- Zaps Received: 2
โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...) โกView on Nostr (nevent1qvz...)
1. Ngrind - v0.1.0 - New Tool#
Ngrind is a Nostr proof-of-work mining tool that uses a GPU or CPU to generate vanity public keys (npubs) and mine NIP-13 proof-of-work events. This version introduces CUDA, wgpu, and CPU backends, a command-line tool with resumable searches, a desktop interface with switchable backends, and a browser-based version. It also adds support for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Contributed by:
2. Divine Mobile - 1.0.25#
Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form video mobile app built on Nostr that brings back Vine-style six-second looping videos, focusing on human-made content rather than AI-generated content. This version expands the video editor with motion-tracking stickers and text, new transitions, shape masks, one-tap stabilization, and animated audio visualizers. It also adds hashtag following, video replies enabled by default, recording backups to the phoneโs gallery, and the ability to dismiss chats without losing their history. The release further improves recording reliability, editing and exporting performance, messaging, feed loading, and search for Nostr profiles and videos. This was the one & only release of the week, and there were also three more pre-releases (Divine1.0.26-beta.production.497811ce593a723d152442541f70c0c1961dd2a8, Divine 1.0.26-beta.production.fce7a4f943bdb1c9cf01ceb8eb457a0c3c4d8fcd & Divine 1.0.26-beta.production.43e5fef66260ce6d4c9719634268130ba8bc70ca) last week.
Contributed by:
3. Bitchat - v1.8.0#
Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networking for offline communication with Nostr for internet-based messaging, without accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This version significantly improves performance in busy location-based chats, making participant lists and scrolling much smoother, even in rooms with hundreds of people. It also adds persistent chat drafts, quick-join location channels, improved identity verification, and safer chat controls, alongside security hardening, privacy improvements, expanded localization, and general bug fixes.
Contributed by:
4. Amethyst - v1.20.0#
Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android and desktop. This release introduces an in-app Nostr developer toolkit, an improved emoji picker with support for custom emoji packs, hand-drawn GIF posts, and enhanced NIP-46 remote signing. It also improves video playback, feed navigation, relay connections, media handling, and community features, alongside security fixes and expanded translations.
Contributed by:
5. Zapstore - 1.1.3#
Zapstore is an open Android app store where developers can publish apps directly and communities can curate them. This release improves app identity handling when catalog signing keys change, makes comments, replies, reports, and saved apps more reliable, and improves file discovery through relays. It also preserves local app copies when listings disappear and ensures replacement listings and installable files are stored before removing older entries.
Contributed by:
6. Earthly - v0.1.22#
Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that lets people create and share maps using local knowledge. This release improves relay connectivity and recovery, adds shared reaction and comment counts without downloading every reaction, and calculates zap totals from actual payment receipts. It also strengthens wallet synchronization and remote signing, improves comment threading, and adds safeguards for invalid map geometry and schema validation.
Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab
7. Nostr Polls - v2.0.0 - Color Block#
Nostr Polls is a Nostr client for creating and voting in polls, publishing notes, messaging, and exploring content such as articles, music, movies, games, topics, and follow packs. Version 2.0.0 introduces the Color Block design, with customizable color palettes and visual effects, redesigned navigation and feeds, and an immersive scrolling experience. The updated poll composer adds ready-made templates such as Yes/No and This or That, voting-end presets, spam-protection settings, and duplicate-option warnings.
Contributed by:
8. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.1.0#
YakiHonne Mobile App is a decentralized social platform mobile app built on Nostr, offering censorship-resistant social networking, messaging, content discovery, and wallet features. Release 2.1.0 adds spam-filtered reply controls and lets users publish NIP-84 highlights from notes, articles, and browser content. It also improves feed loading and background performance, speeds up access to cached direct messages, notifications, and feeds, and fixes quote-posting behavior.
Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik
9. Yakihonne Web - v6.0.5#
Yakihonne Web is a Nostr client for publishing and discovering content, including notes and long-form articles. Version 6.0.5 introduces text highlights that can be shared as notes and appear across home feeds, relay feeds, and profiles, with support for reactions, reposts, comments, and zaps. It also adds article and highlight reposting, an optional spam filter for comments, consistent lowercase hashtags, and several editor, rendering, and general bug fixes.
Contributed by:
10. WaveFunc - v0.1.12#
WaveFunc Radio is a Nostr-based internet radio directory and player that lets users discover stations through full-text search and listen online. Version 0.1.12 adds a public supporter list with avatars, totals, and recent messages, optional messages when sending support zaps, and station sharing through links and Nostr notes. It also improves comment counts, updates the underlying Nostr runtime and wallet integrations, and adds optional privacy and relay-discovery features, alongside Android, deployment, and maintenance fixes.
Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab
11. Nostur - v1.34.0#
Nostur is an iOS Nostr client for browsing feeds, sharing posts, messaging, and interacting with content. This release improves navigation and media layouts for iPhone Duo, adds square photo cropping, clearer upload progress with retry options, and a more spacious reply composer. It also improves direct-message delivery and attachment uploads with automatic server fallback, restores line breaks in DMs, enhances image and GIF viewing, and adds background Web of Trust updates while charging. The release also includes relay reconnection fixes, profile-update improvements, and updated translations.
Contributed by:
12. Manent - v3.0.0#
Manent is a private, encrypted notes and file app built on Nostr, keeping personal content encrypted while syncing across devices. Version 3.0.0 introduces voice notes with on-device transcription, audio playback with interactive waveforms, and tools to edit, copy, or re-transcribe transcripts. It also adds audio search filters, improved media playback on Windows, Linux packages for multiple distributions, and more reliable syncing from relays that require authentication. The release includes recording enhancements, note display improvements, and a more consistent release process.
Contributed by:
13. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.8.18#
Nostr WoT is a browser extension for signing Nostr requests, managing accounts, sending Lightning payments, and optionally exploring social connections through Web of Trust. Version 0.8.18 streamlines account import and recovery into a single flow, automatically detects supported formats, and previews public identities before saving. It also adds support for recovering compatible Nosskey backups without changing the original identity, updates to the stable @nostr-wot/identity v1.1.0, and fixes Wi-Fi sound pairing on 44.1 kHz audio devices. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v0.8.17, v0.8.16, v0.8.15 & v0.8.14 last week.
Contributed by:
14. Nostr Mail Client - v0.19.0#
Nostr Mail Client is a Flutter-based email app built on Nostr that lets users send and receive encrypted emails. This release adds multiple email signatures with images, flexible login using an nsec, ncryptsec, or bunker URL, and options to move emails into folders or apply tags. It also improves relay configuration handling, speeds up inbox access after login, increases screen-reader accessibility on the web, and fixes email notifications, unsaved profile changes, and Windows startup issues.
Contributed by:
15. Sidecar - v1.16.2#
Sidecar is a browser-sidebar Nostr keystore and signer that also provides wallet integrations for managing Bitcoin and Lightning payments. This release adds Blitz and LNbits to its wallet directory, introduces a Spark wallet filter, and improves panel performance by loading the video-player library only when a livestream is played. It also adjusts the account overview while videos are open, reduces wallet balance refreshes, and prevents repeated lock-screen alerts from Blitz wallets. There was also the release of v1.16.1 last week.
Contributed by:
16. Anagram - v0.9.7#
Anagram is a private messaging app built on Nostr, supporting direct messages, group chats, and audio and video calls powered by Iroh. Version 0.9.7 introduces an iOS release, making the app available on Apple mobile devices, and adds an automated release-checking process to improve release management. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.9.6 & v0.9.5 last week.
Contributed by: Vlad Stan
1. Granary - v12.0#
Granary is a social web translator that converts posts, profiles, and other content between social platforms and formats, including Nostr, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Farcaster. This release adds Mastodon account and status conversion, expands support for Bluesky events, RSVPs, polls, and quoted posts, and improves cross-platform media handling. It also introduces a Micropub source, adds HTML sanitization by default, and strengthens security by preventing unsafe URLs from being rendered as links.
Contributed by:
1. Granary - v12.0#
Granary is a social web translator that converts posts, profiles, and other content between social platforms and formats, including Nostr, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Farcaster. This release adds Mastodon account and status conversion, expands support for Bluesky events, RSVPs, polls, and quoted posts, and improves cross-platform media handling. It also introduces a Micropub source, adds HTML sanitization by default, and strengthens security by preventing unsafe URLs from being rendered as links.
Contributed by:
1. Mostro - v0.20.1#
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange that uses the Lightning Network and Nostr. Version 0.20.1 improves reputation management by adding reputation export and re-binding features, fixes payout checks and Lightning Network synchronization handling, and adjusts relay and delayed-payout warnings for more reliable monitoring.
Contributed by:
1. Pubkey Quest - v0.1.45#
Pubkey Quest is a web-based D&D-style RPG that creates a unique character from your Nostr identity and lets you explore a persistent world stored on Nostr relays. This release updates starting gear by providing rations for every character and adding a Priestโs Pack as an equipment choice. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by:
1. Nsite-gateway - v3.6.6#
Nsite-gateway is a Deno and Hono-based gateway that serves static websites published on Nostr using the nsite protocol. This release updates the Docker base image to Deno 2.9.8, upgrades Applesauce packages to v7 and refreshes dependencies, restores event expiration tracking with an upstream timer fix, and updates Hono.
Contributed by:
2. Nostr Media Uploads for WordPress - 0.17#
Nostr Media Uploads for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that lets users host media from their Nostr clients on their own WordPress installation. This release improves Blossom authorization checks and makes mirrored media downloads more secure.
Contributed by:
3. Nostr VPN - v4.1.18#
Nostr VPN is a private mesh VPN similar to Tailscale, using Nostr for decentralized coordination and a data plane powered by its independently evolved FIPS implementation. Version 4.1.18 improves peer discovery, network joining, and paid internet connections. It also fixes signed update discovery and ensures existing settings and identities are preserved across platforms. Paid exit nodes are not supported on iOS.
Contributed by:
4. Orchard - v0.3.0#
Orchard is a permissionless Flatpak app store that combines Flatpak distribution with Nostrโs trust model, allowing publishers to distribute apps directly without a central review gate. This version adds compatibility with NIP-82 software releases and prepares Flatpak assets for publication through ngit and other NIP-82-compatible tools.
Contributed by: DanConwayDev
No Exploration Tools 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.
Iโm 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-ninth Nostr Recap & share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and letโs keep #GrowNostr together.
Thank you
A big shoutout to
Thank you, my younger brother
Recap by
Nomishka
Author of #nostrrecap | Bitcoin Advocate ๐ | Frontend Dev from Sri Lanka ๐ป | Studying Nostr ๐ | Motorbiker ๐๏ธ | Swimmer ๐โโ๏ธ | Dog Lover ๐ถ | #HTML #CSS #VanillaJS #SolidJS #Astro #React #WCAG #W3C
nomishka@getalby.com Author of #nostrrecap | Bitcoin Advocate ๐ | Frontend Dev from Sri Lanka ๐ป | Studying Nostr ๐ | Motorbiker ๐๏ธ | Swimmer ๐โโ๏ธ | Dog Lover ๐ถ | #HTML #CSS #VanillaJS #SolidJS #Astro #React #WCAG #W3C