๐ง Quote of the Week
โi am focused on building out nostr because it has a real chance to obsolete facebook, tiktok, whatsapp, telegram, and xโ
๐ฅ Community Highlights
1. The team leads Jurjen are doing a great work ๐
2. This is a great work by OpenSats ๐
3. Letโs deep dive into Primal Premium ๐
4. This will be a good decision he got in his life ๐ฅ
5. Letโs learn Russian ๐ท๐บ
6. A pleb is happy about achieving 1000 followers โบ๏ธ
7. Arjen is selling his decentralized home ๐
8. Be careful when you buy/sell things on Nostr related apps โ ๏ธ
9. Amethyst is fixing a feature that should be fixed ๐ค
10. A small gift for the christmas from verbiricha ๐
11. This is ๐ฏ% true
12. It takes time to grow in Nostr โณ
13. Seems like this pleb likes Nostr very much ๐
14. What do you need from Nostr nostriches? ๐ค
15. You will meet Nostr in FOSDEM 2026 ๐
๐ฑ Ecosystem Growth
Nostr is growing fast!
According to 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 nostr.watch, there are more than 870 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.
According to npub.world/stats,
During last week:
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Total Users: 4,161, compared to 2,559 users the week before
According to stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
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Total Zaps: 38,187, compared to 36,757 zaps the week before
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Total Zap senders: 2,554, compared to 2,462 plebs the week before
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Total Zap Amount: 9,084,120, compared to 10,041,432 sats the week before
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Total Events: 2,781,949, compared to 3,451,103 events the week before
Many thanks to npub.world/stats by and stats.nostr.band by all the contributors of github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and nostr.watch for providing these insights.
๐ Educational Guides
1. Your Nostr Profile Isnโt Tied to One App
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIVrDQq210
๐ Upcoming Events
1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026
๐ Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 โฐ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST ๐ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers: Chris Curran
๐ Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjccbgb
2. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026
๐ Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 โฐ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST ๐ Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA
๐คนโโ๏ธ Organizers:
๐ Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620
๐ฐ Nostr in the Media
1. Building on Nostr: Open protocols and new possibilities
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Au80NXTimc
2. How X outages drove VPN & Nostr use
www.youtube.com/shorts/jo7-Q5kOvOY
3. AINSLEY COSTELLO: Music, Bitcoin, Nostr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvDPGHE3SM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoO57-lU4UU
4. Nostr Wonโt Go Mainstream
www.youtube.com/shorts/jYZri7XW2js
5. Bitcoin, Nostr & AI: The New Internet Stack Nobody Is Ready For with Aleks Svetski
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3dWk84kT0
โก Most Zapped Last Week
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 zaplife.lol by for providing this data.
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
๐ฅ Top 4: Most Zapped
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Name:
- Zaps Received: 1047
- Sats Earned: 1k
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Name:
- Zaps Received: 804
- Sats Earned: 98k
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Name:
- Zaps Received: 447
- Sats Earned: 44k
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Name:
- Zaps Received: 446
- Sats Earned: 72k
๐ฅ Top 4: Most Zappers
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Name:
- Zaps Sent: 1621
- Sats Spent: 207k
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Name:
- Zaps Sent: 452
- Sats Spent: 8k
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Name:
- Zaps Sent: 350
- Sats Spent: 1k
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Name:
- Zaps Sent: 332
- Sats Spent: 14k
๐ฐ Top 4: Most Sats Received
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Name:
- Sats Earned: 629k
- Zaps Received: 372
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Name:
- Sats Earned: 528k
- Zaps Received: 42
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Name:
- Sats Earned: 360k
- Zaps Received: 11
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Name:
- Sats Earned: 301k
- Zaps Received: 14
๐ฐ Top 4: Most Sats Sent
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Name:
- Sats Spent: 480k
- Zaps Sent: 53
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Name:
- Sats Spent: 455k
- Zaps Sent: 19
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Name:
- Sats Spent: 278k
- Zaps Sent: 140
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Name:
- Sats Spent: 230k
- Zaps Sent: 9
๐ Nostr Memes
๐ ๏ธ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr Monstr - v0.0.7-monstr-alpha-android - New Tool
Nostr Monstr is an early-stage Svelte-based Nostr client with integrated Monero support, aiming to blend decentralized social functionality with strong privacy features. This release focuses on polishing the user experience, including improved text wrapping for cleaner readability, better accessibility labels for screen readers, and small feed refinements that make browsing smoother and more consistent. This was the latest release and there was also one more release (v0.0.6-monstr-alpha-android) last week.
Developed by: boshi-chan
2. Coracle - 0.6.28
Coracle is a feature-rich web client built for the Nostr protocol, designed to give users fine-grained control over relay selection, web-of-trust moderation, personalized content recommendations, and stronger privacy while browsing the network. In this release, the update fixes issues with topic feeds and ensures images load properly even when imgproxy is disabled, resulting in smoother content discovery and more reliable media viewing, making the overall user experience more consistent and dependable.
Developed by:
3. Nostui - v0.1.1
Nostui is a lightweight, terminal-based Nostr client built for fast, keyboard-driven browsing. This release focuses on modernizing and streamlining the app. The update includes wide-ranging dependency upgrades, major nostr-sdk improvements, refactored TUI components, and cleanup of deprecated APIs, along with the addition of the new EventSet system for more efficient event handling. Together, these changes make nostui faster, more stable, more protocol-compatible, and smoother to use across different platforms, giving users a more reliable and future-ready experience.
Developed by: pin
4. Amber - v4.0.3-pre2
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages usersโ private keys (nsecs) and facilitates signing events across multiple accounts and relays. This update improves account management by adding export/import functionality, separates relay requests per account, updates relay handling when accounts or apps change, and optimizes key loading by only loading private keys on demand. It also introduces a redesigned encryption/decryption UI, supports ping requests via bunker, separates logs and history into dedicated databases, adds crash reporting, and fixes several issues including account export, cache clearing on logout, and relay display. These updates enhance security, usability, and reliability for users managing multiple Nostr accounts and relays on Android.
Developed by:
5. Nowser - 1.4.0
Nowser is a secure Nostr key management and signing app for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux that supports multiple authentication methods. This release adds App Links support, fixes the Connect Dialog bug that appeared multiple times after removing an app connection, and ensures remote signing info is properly deleted when an app is removed. It also introduces NostrConnect URL support for remote logins, encrypts/decrypts remote signing info, and initializes the relay list with additional indexer relays, improving cross-platform usability, security, and integration with other Nostr apps.
Developed by:
6. Aegis - v0.3.3 iOS & Mac release
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that lets users securely sign events and connect to multiple Nostr apps with ease. This release improves stability with automatic restarts after local relay I/O errors, assigns different signer pubkeys per app for better isolation, and adds clearer guidance such as explaining why PWAs require WSS login. Users also get a smoother experience through an improved Application Info page, proper data clearing on logout, and fixes for login issues, timestamp errors, and the recurring โDisconnectedโ notification.
Developed by:
7. Flotilla - 1.6.1
Flotilla is a Discord-style Nostr client built around the concept of โrelays as groups,โ giving users a familiar, server-based community experience powered by Nostr. In this version, the update sharpens the interface and reliability by fixing stretched profile images, improving the handling of relay URLs, and refining time-based chat partitioning so conversations load more naturally. It also boosts media and interaction stability with better authenticated image access, a corrected image detail dialog, smoother zapper loading, and restored recent events in feeds, making group chats feel more consistent and responsive. This was the latest and there was also one more release (1.6.0) last week.
Developed by:nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
8. 0xchat App - v1.5.1.98 release
0xchat App is a secure messaging application built on the Nostr protocol. Itโs designed for everyday chatting with strong privacy. This release adds support for multiple search relays to improve discovery, integrates Google ML Kit translation for smoother multilingual chats, fixes issues with searching and subscribing to โmoments,โ and improves the UI on Android by adding bottom padding so gestures donโt cover important controls, making the overall experience more reliable, accessible, and comfortable for users. This was the latest release and there was another release (v1.5.1) last week.
Developed by:
9.Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.23.59
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a chat app built on the Nostr protocol, offering both ephemeral and persistent messaging while also bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary conversations. In this update, it introduces geohash-based channels that automatically link users to relays connected to their geographic area, and it adds partial interoperability for private messages between Bitchat and Nym. These improvements make the app more flexible, more connected, and better suited for users who want fast, location-aware chatting with enhanced anonymous messaging capabilities. This was the biggest release of the week and the latest was v2.23.60.
Developed by:
๐ Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Relatr - New Developer Tool
Relatr is a decentralized trust-scoring service designed for Nostr. It analyzes how closely connected users are within the social graph and blends that with additional profile-quality and validation signals. By combining these factors, Relatr generates personalized trust scores that help users better evaluate identities, filter content, and navigate the Nostr ecosystem with more confidence.
Developed by: ContextVM-org
- Source: github.com/ContextVM/relatr
2. Nostr PHP - 1.9.3
Nostr-PHP is a PHP helper library that makes it easier for developers to integrate Nostr functionality into their applications. This release adds support for PHP 8.5 while deprecating PHP 8.1, replaces an abandoned ChaCha20 package to keep the library secure and maintained, and introduces a new example showing how to perform Vertex profile searches. These updates improve compatibility, security, and developer usability, making the library more dependable for modern PHP environments.
Developed by:
3. rx-nostr - @3.6.2
rx-nostr is a developer library designed for high-quality, flexible communication with multiple Nostr relays, enabling developers to efficiently send, receive, and manage events across the Nostr network. This update fixes bugs by resetting retry counts on reconnections and flushing requests that fail due to authentication issues, ensuring more reliable communication and fewer message delivery errors. Additionally, documentation typos were corrected, improving clarity for developers. These changes enhance stability, reliability, and developer experience when integrating rx-nostr into applications.
Developed by:
4. Nostr Webhost (hostr) - v0.1.9
Nostr Webhost (hostr) is a command-line tool for hosting Single Page Applications (SPAs) on the Nostr network, leveraging its distributed relay servers to deploy and access apps seamlessly. This update adds a health check endpoint to monitor relay connectivity, improving reliability and easier troubleshooting for developers. It also removes executable permissions from the Docker entrypoint script, enhancing security and preventing accidental execution issues. These changes make deployment more stable, secure, and easier to maintain.
Developed by:
5. Gitplaza - v0.23.0
Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git repositories. This update adds a starred repos tab, organizes discussions, quotes, reactions, git events, reposts, and zaps under separate tabs, enables searching non-Git events, and allows editing the Blossom server list in the profile view. It also shows the starred repo count, fixes parsing of unusual e-tags, removes the "Posts" tab (replaced with "Other"), and upgrades dependencies for improved stability and performance. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v0.22.0 last week.
Developed by:
๐ Relay Updates and Releases
1. Nosflare - v8.9.23
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built on Cloudflareโs infrastructure, designed for fast, resilient event storage and delivery using its custom CFNDB system. In this release, it removes outdated D1 database code, adds an option to disable ConnectionDO sharding, and updates the documentation with clearer sharding explanations. These changes simplify the codebase, give operators more control over performance tuning, and make it easier for users and developers to understand how the relay scales, leading to smoother, more predictable reliability overall. This was the biggest release and there were more multiple releases (v8.9.25, v8.9.24, v8.8.23, v8.8.22, v8.8.21, v8.7.21, v8.7.19, v8.7.18, v8.7.17) last week.
Developed by:
๐ 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.
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 Fifty-Third Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and letโs keep #GrowNostr together.
๐ซก Credits
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