🧠 Quote of the Week

“we, here, the tiny handful of us using Nostr might be the only people in the entire world who care about free speech enough to want to protect it.”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. Bitcoin plebs, this Revolution.Social episode would be really interested for you

2. Actually, why are you on Nostr?

3. This is the truth that everyone should understand

4. When you use Nostr and other social media, you realize the preciousness of Nostr

5. This is the progress we need in Nostr

6. How much plebs love Nostr

7. A request of a Nostr Bitcoiner from the Nostr community

8. Nostr has answers for many problems

9. What do you think about this?

10. Nostr word spreads to the world step by step

11. Both are correct

12. Yeah for now; some are still not aware of Nostr

13. The family vlog with the new cute member

🌱 Ecosystem Growth

Nostr is growing fast!

Overview

• Pubkeys: 45031934
• Users: 1195150
• Trusted users: 187745
• Events: 613689586
• Posts: 163353365
• Zaps: 5514634
• Zap amount: 2546778742 sats

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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

During last week:

- Total zaps: 34,070, compared to 32,162 zaps the week before

- Total zap senders: 2,609, compared to 805 plebs the week before

- Total zap amount: 10,279,977, compared to 8,584,091 sats the week before

- Total events: 2,275,515, compared to 2,331,002 events the week before

Many thanks to stats.nostr.band by all the contributors of github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and nostr.watch for providing these insights.

🎓 Educational Guides

1. The killer feature of Nostr

2. Nostr - Decentralized protocol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3XKHhoWww

📅 Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025

📅 Date: Sunday, October 05, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10.00am and open-ended CEST 📍 Location: Cafe Holzmarktperle, Holzmarktstrasse 25, 10243 Berlin, Germany 🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event:

2. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025

📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025 ⏰ Time: 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM EDT 📍 Location: Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event: nostrvalley.com/schedule

3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

📅 Date: Sunday, November 02, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran

🔗 Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcpbdb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

4. Nostrasia - November 2025

📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025 ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT+9 (Doors open at 12:30 PM) 📍 Location: Crypto Lounge GOX, 6F Tenam Town Building, 2-19-15 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0021, Japan

🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event:

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. What’s the status of Nostr.Band?

www.youtube.com/shorts/LnnSbBPLV7A

2. Nostr lets you build community

www.youtube.com/shorts/Ukk-Xxfvi5k

3. Lana Direct Messages based on NOSTR

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri6jBBa8Fg

4. From Likes to Sats: How Nostr Changes the Game

www.linkedin.com/posts/onramp-mena_bitcoin-nostr-digitalassets-activity-7376601452947079168-qViN

5. A Nostr Standard: Reclaiming Your Identity from the Algorithm

www.instagram.com/reel/DO8sUkuDr9L

⚡ Most Zapped Last Week

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 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:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 1064
   • Sats Earned: 1k

2. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 867
   • Sats Earned: 190k

3. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 498
   • Sats Earned: 92k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 464
   • Sats Spent: 4k

2. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 302
   • Sats Spent: 16k

3. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 251
   • Sats Spent: 11k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 766k
   • Zaps Received: 462

2. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 427k
   • Zaps Received: 60

3. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 296k
   • Zaps Received: 108

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 303k
   • Zaps Sent: 62

2. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 291k
   • Zaps Sent: 9

3. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 113k
   • Zaps Sent: 6

Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. • Zaps Received: 98
   • Sats Earned: 23k

2. • Zaps Received: 58
   • Sats Earned: 6k

3. • Zaps Received: 57
   • Sats Earned: 8k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. • Sats Earned: 59k
   • Zaps Received: 37

2. • Sats Earned: 52k
   • Zaps Received: 2

3. • Sats Earned: 48k
   • Zaps Received: 26

😂 Nostr Memes

🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. PODSTR - New tool

A Nostr-powered podcast platform for single creators that blends decentralized publishing with Podcasting 2.0. It supports npub-authenticated publishing, Blossom or external hosting, rich metadata, Lightning payments, auto-generated RSS feeds, a mobile-friendly player, and community interaction through comments, zaps, and social features - all built on open Nostr protocols.

Developed by: Source: github.com/derekross/podstr

2. White Noise - v0.1.4

White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr, using the MLS protocol for encrypted group messaging. This release brings a major backend refactor for improved stability, performance, and relay handling, alongside Android-specific security fixes and numerous bug resolutions. It also adds features like editable group names, secure message drafts, and a key package management screen. With redesigned chat sheets, better emoji/reaction handling, skeleton loaders, and consistent UI polish, White Noise is now faster, more stable, and more user-friendly across platforms.

Developed by: Delcin Maria Koilraj Source: github.com/parres-hq/whitenoise_flutter/releases/tag/v0.1.4

3. Gitplaza - v0.10.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized for managing Git-related activity on the Nostr network. In this release, it introduces a web-of-trust indicator based on follows, upvotes, reposts, and proof-of-work. Users can toggle pubkey selection in feeds, toggle content types, retry keystore lookups, and see profile names of referenced events. Performance improvements include discarding outdated query tasks, optimizing subscription filters, and reducing database queries. Bug fixes address deadlocks, and enhancements allow loading names in Zap receipts and making top Zap chips interactive.

Developed by: Source: codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.10.0

4. Coracle - 0.6.23

Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol focused on enhancing the user experience with features like relay selection and management, web-of-trust based moderation, content recommendations, and privacy protection. The latest release adds a loading indicator when following or unfollowing users and introduces relay fallback support for Zaps.

Developed by: Source: github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.23

5. Mostro - v0.14.5

Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling users to trade directly over a decentralized network. This release includes a bug fix ensuring that makers are always notified when their orders are taken, improving the reliability of order notifications.

Developed by: Source: github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/tree/v0.14.5

6. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 - v3.13.0

Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning Browser Extension that brings deep Lightning and Nostr integration to the web, providing a wallet interface for multiple Lightning nodes and a key signer for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin. This release adds important features and fixes, including LNbits connector improvements, support for connecting CLN nodes through NWC, a Ukrainian locale, a right-click menu to pay invoices or addresses, revamped “Pin Extension” screen layout, metadata support for transactions, and various UI and bug fixes for a smoother user experience.

Developed by: Dunsin Source: github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/releases/tag/v3.13.0

7. Coop - v0.2.10

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, it brings several improvements, including a refactored input component for better performance, fixes for double messages and duplicate replies, and a new context menu for quick profile viewing. Additionally, it now consistently calls get_public_key on NIP-46, ensuring more reliable key handling. These updates make Coop more stable, user-friendly, and efficient for everyday messaging. This was the latest release, and there was the release of v0.2.9 last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.10

8. Bitchat - v1.4.3-actual

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global connectivity, eliminating the need for accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. In this release, it introduces a general localization framework with support for multiple languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Nepali, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Arabic, and Hebrew. Additionally, it now includes Mermaid diagrams for packet structures and externalized strings to improve localization. These updates make Bitchat more accessible to a global audience while enhancing clarity and developer support.

Developed by: Mattia Marchese Source: github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.4.3-actual

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Android Signer (NIP-55) - New Developer tool

A Nostr-based library that allows applications to interact with Android signers following the NIP-55 protocol. It provides secure, standardized, and verifiable signing of Nostr events directly on Android devices, enabling developers to integrate trusted event signing, authentication, and value-for-value operations within their apps.

Developed by: Source: github.com/rust-nostr/android-signer

2. Mostro Core - v0.6.54

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. In this release it fixes issues by removing targets that do not support dynamic linking and includes general release updates for stability.

Developed by: Source: github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.6.54

3. Mostro CLI - v0.13.6

Mostro CLI is a command-line client for interacting with the Mostro P2P Lightning Network exchange on Nostr. This release updates removed Android builds, eliminated unnecessary dependencies (like sqlx, protobuf, and openssl) from GitHub Actions and Rust workflows, added strict tag checking in cliff.toml, improved changelog handling, and bumped the release version for consistency. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v0.13.5 and v0.13.4 also last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.13.6

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

1. CFRelay - 0.0.4

CFRelay is a Nostr relay built on Cloudflare Workers, offering a lightweight and easily deployable relay solution. This release improves configuration management by moving many settings into wrangler.toml for easier setup and adds support for Cloudflare one-click deploy, making deployment more seamless and user-friendly.

Developed by: Source: github.com/haorendashu/cfrelay/releases/tag/0.0.4

2. Nosflare - v7.4.11

Nosflare is a Nostr relay (a server-side application that handles event storage and distribution) built serverless using Cloudflare Worker and D1 database. This release includes a hotfix that lowers the archive batch size and adds daily database optimization. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases of v7.4.10, v7.4.9, v7.4.8, v7.3.8, and v7.3.7 last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v7.4.11

👋 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.

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 forty-third recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

🙌 Credits

Thank you for giving me this idea!

A big shoutout to for his generous patronage!

Thank you, my brother for helping me to make the graphic stuff in this recap!

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