Dec 15, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (15th December 2025 - 54th Edition)

The 54th Edition of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

🧠 Quotes of the Week

β€œnostr is now more important than ever. True pseudonymity is possible here. It isn't on X, or any other centralized platform.”

β€œI get way more engagement on Nostr than Twitter with the same content since the algo change.

Feels like I got rugged there and rescued here.”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. Surely this meeting will get many benefits to the Nostr world πŸ”₯

2. These suggestions are great for a Nostr project 😍

3. This is well said by Gigi πŸ’―

4. An amazing solution for the Nostr login system πŸ‘Œ

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5. It includes Nostr login too 😍

6. A Nostr legend is celebrating his birthday πŸŽ‚

7. Beware of these kind of scams on Nostr ⚠️

8. Nostr is the best social media protocol ✌️

9. This pleb loves Nostr a lot 🫢

10. Let’s help him to find a job 🚨

11. Let’s enjoy an impressive Nostr song 🎧

12. Nostr is the solution for most of the things πŸ‘‡

13. Primal member proposes his thoughts to Jack πŸ‘‡

14. This is a great work πŸ‘

15. Don’t let the social media corps to own your data. The freedom is here πŸ‘ˆ

16. Nostr is always better than X πŸ˜‰

🌱 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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment.

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

  • Total Users: 1690, compared to 4,161 users the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

  • Total Zaps: 33,021, compared to 38,187 zaps the week before

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  • Total Zap senders: 2,586, compared to 2,554 plebs the week before

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  • Total Zap Amount: 7,958,264, compared to 9,084,120 sats the week before

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  • Total Events: 3,533,128, compared to 2,783,435 events the week before

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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.

πŸŽ“ Educational Guides

1. FREE EMBED CODE FOR NOSTR FEED/TESTIMONIALS ON WEBSITES!

2. From kind, to NIP, to building custom feeds

3. AI job search | Schema for jobstr.work | Nostr + MCP + LLM

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CnCwQmh_TE

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026

πŸ“… Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Chris Curran

πŸ”— Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjccbgb

2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026

πŸ“… Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) πŸ“ Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management UniversitΓ© libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: FOSDEM,

πŸ”— Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/posse-content-drupal-nostr

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026

πŸ“… Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST πŸ“ Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. Let’s explore the Nostr alternatives for the big tech apps

image stacker.news/items/1314935

2. A Myth About Nostr KILLED in 40 Seconds

image www.youtube.com/shorts/yj0Z-nhDZNI

3. Nostr talk in Curacao - Bitcoin Villa 2025

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3T-Cy-6gdg

4. You’ll never use your phone the same after this

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIbLTIgGIu4

5. Soapbox Sessions Episode 15: Mo Users, Mo Problems & Nostr E-Commerce

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdMpDFS35c

6. Nostr: A Decentralized Identity Protocol

image www.youtube.com/shorts/v1jTiIv2IXU

⚑ 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:

πŸ”₯ Top 4: Most Zapped

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 1018
    • Sats Earned: 1k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 808
    • Sats Earned: 65k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 393
    • Sats Earned: 795k

  4. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 390
    • Sats Earned: 58k

πŸ”₯ Top 4: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 756
    • Sats Spent: 55k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 306
    • Sats Spent: 984

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 254
    • Sats Spent: 7k

  4. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 158
    • Sats Spent: 790

πŸ’° Top 4: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 1M
    • Zaps Received: 63

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 838k
    • Zaps Received: 398

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 284k
    • Zaps Received: 123

  4. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 162k
    • Zaps Received: 54

πŸ’° Top 4: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 640k
    • Zaps Sent: 5

  2. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 134k
    • Zaps Sent: 44

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 127k
    • Zaps Sent: 53

  4. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 111k
    • Zaps Sent: 14

πŸ˜‚ Nostr Memes

πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Grimoire - New Tool

Grimoire is a Nostr client made for magicians which is a kind of digital spellbook where ideas, experiments, and knowledge are shared freely on the decentralized web. It’s a place to explore, create, and connect through the open Nostr network, without gatekeepers, algorithms, or platforms getting in the way.

Developed by: Alejandro

2. Amber - v4.0.4

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages keys and signs events. This update fixes a NullPointerException, improves performance on the activity screen, and adds translations for some event kinds, enhancing stability, usability, and accessibility for users managing Nostr events on Android. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v4.0.3 last week.

Developed by:

3. Flotilla - 1.6.2

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client that organizes communication around the concept of "relays as groups," providing users with a group chat experience on the Nostr network. This update fixes modal scrolling and style issues, improving the user interface and interaction for a smoother, more visually consistent chat experience. This makes it easier and more pleasant for end users to navigate conversations and group features.

Developed by:

4. Coop - v0.3.0

Coop is a fast, cross-platform Nostr client designed for secure messaging. This update introduces a custom gossip implementation, support for multiple keystores, improved handling of direct messages, outbound DM relay hints, and the experimental NIP-4e feature (disabled by default). It also refines the UI, revamps onboarding, updates the user profile popup and search bar, and adds a Nostr-based auto-updater. These changes enhance message security, improve usability, and streamline user interactions, offering a more reliable and polished messaging experience.

Developed by:

5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.24.61

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight chat client built on the Nostr protocol, offering both ephemeral and persistent messaging while bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary chats. This release adds the ability to toggle read receipts in private messages and includes a hotfix lowering the price of certain in-app shop items. These changes give users more privacy control and improve in-app usability. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v2.23.60 last week.

Developed by:

6. Keychat - v1.37.3+6478

Keychat is an end-user chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols. This update refines the browser interface with a redesigned menu and improved user-customizable settings, allows multiple identities to add the same account as a friend, and adds a "Check Status" button to monitor failed or pending transactions, enhancing usability, transparency, and overall user experience.

Developed by: kcdev

7. NosCall - v0.4.1

NosCall is a communication app that provides secure audio and video calling built on the Nostr protocol. This release improves the pop-up UI on the Me page for a smoother, more polished experience and fixes several known issues, resulting in better stability, performance, and overall call reliability for users.

Developed by:

🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

1. Loom Site - New Developer Tool

Loom Site is a decentralized compute marketplace built on Nostr, where individual threads of computing power are woven together into a shared network, enabling open, permissionless collaboration without centralized control.

Developed by:

2. UX Patterns for Nostr Apps - New Developer Tool

UX Patterns for Nostr Apps is a collection of evidence-based design patterns that help developers build Nostr applications people actually want to use, combining practical insights with best practices for usability, engagement, and intuitive decentralized experiences.

Developed by:

3. rx-nostr - @3.6.2

rx-nostr is a library that enables high-quality, flexible communication with multiple Nostr relays. This update fixes bugs by resetting retry counts upon reconnections and properly flushing requests when authentication fails, while also correcting a documentation typo, improving reliability and clarity for developers integrating Nostr communication into their applications.

Developed by: penpenpng

4. Gitplaza - v0.25.0

Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity. This release introduces an advanced kind filter for the inbox feed, includes regular zaps in filters, and simplifies tab text formatting. Performance improvements optimize comment tree loading, reduce unnecessary database queries, use cached comment branches for faster display, and lower unknown profile requests, resulting in a faster, more efficient, and smoother user experience. This was the biggest release and there was also the releases of v0.24.0, v0.25.1 last week.

Developed by:

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

1. Nosflare - v8.9.26

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built on Cloudflare’s infrastructure using CFNDB (Cloudflare Nostr Database) with Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and R2 Object Storage. This release delivers a critical hotfix addressing a bug that could cause websocket failures, ensuring more stable and reliable connections for users and applications relying on the relay.

Developed by:

πŸ‘‹ 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 Fifty-Fourth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

🫑 Credits

Thank you for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to for your generous patronage!

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

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