Nov 17, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (17th November 2025 - 50th Edition)

The 50th dose of your weekly NOSTR Newsletter

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is the future

Never been more sure of it”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. We must help to Rabble for his great effort. All together we can do that. Nostr Devs and Community, This is the time to change the system πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

2. This is way the Nostr is growing. Appreciate the work πŸ‘Œ

3. Two Nostr giants bringing Nostr to websummit πŸ‘‡

4. This is how a good dad makes the future of his baby πŸ‘¨β€πŸΌ

5. It is a big loss. Deepest sympathies from all the Nostr community 😒

6. We must protect these Nostriches who has been done a great work πŸ‘‡

7. A new lady pleb is talking in her first post on Nostr πŸ—£οΈ

8. Are you also more interested in text only notes in Nostr? πŸ€”

9. So happy to see these new onboardings 😍

10. A lady nostrich is celebrating her birthday πŸŽ‚

11. 100% Agree about this πŸ‘‡

12. This is a great work by Sebastian πŸ‘

13. We should be on Nostr just if we need a great community and freedom. Not for virality πŸ‘ˆ

🌱 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 890 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

- Total Users: 3,569, compared to 3,178 users the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

- Total Zaps: 37,007, compared to 34,697 zaps the week before

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- Total Zap senders: 3,737, compared to 3,800 plebs the week before

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- Total Zap Amount: 11,092,205, compared to 15,307,417 sats the week before

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- Total Events: 3,011,361, compared to 3,398,971 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. Hivetalk Live Vibe Coding Replay from October 20, 2025

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvoQ0uq4kI

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Vibe Coding on Nostr - November 2025

πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

⏰ Time: 8.00PM WITA (UTC+8)

πŸ“ Location: Discord Join here: discord.com/invite/PrHct9eY6Z

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: www.instagram.com/p/DMXHkSiyfiw

2. Nostrshire - November 2025

πŸ“… Date: Friday, November 21, 2025

⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

πŸ“ Location: Pendulum Hotel Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

3. Nostrasia - November 2025

πŸ“… Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025

⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT+9 (Doors open at 12:30 PM)

πŸ“ Location: Crypto Lounge GOX 6F Tenam Town Building, 2-19-15 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0021, Japan

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

🎟️ Admission: Free

πŸ”— Event: nostrasia.com

4. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - December 2025

πŸ“… Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025

⏰ 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/mlcdqtyhcqbkb

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. How Nostr Is Replacing Big Tech

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjgD9rHZpg

2. Bitcoin Surfing with a Visual Interface Thanks to Nostr

image www.youtube.com/shorts/ay3zn8rpZNM

3. Vine is being rebooted. It’s called Divine

image www.youtube.com/shorts/8qfs25KFOsU

4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 11: Nut November

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWVr09UCHmk

⚑ 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 3: Most Zapped

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 1013
    • Sats Earned: 116k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 484
    • Sats Earned: 57k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 403
    • Sats Earned: 21k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 768
    • Sats Spent: 108k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 294
    • Sats Spent: 882

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 269
    • Sats Spent: 19k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: β€œThe Name not appears”

    • Sats Earned: 981k
    • Zaps Received: 72

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 425k
    • Zaps Received: 345

  3. Name: β€œThe Name not appears”

    • Sats Earned: 203k
    • Zaps Received: 59

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: β€œThe Name not appears”

    • Sats Spent: 431k
    • Zaps Sent: 27

  2. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 351k
    • Zaps Sent: 120

  3. Name: β€œThe Name not appears”

    • Sats Spent: 321k
    • Zaps Sent: 31

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

    • Zaps Received: 70
    • Sats Earned: 33k

    • Zaps Received: 65
    • Sats Earned: 6k

    • Zaps Received: 52
    • Sats Earned: 24k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

    • Sats Earned: 93k
    • Zaps Received: 4

    • Sats Earned: 51k
    • Zaps Received: 7

    • Sats Earned: 46k
    • Zaps Received: 6

πŸ˜‚ Nostr Memes

πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. diVine - New Tool

diVine Web is an OpenVine-compatible Nostr client designed for browsing and sharing short-form looping videos. Built with modern web technologies, including React 18.x, TailwindCSS 3.x, Vite, shadcn/ui, and Nostrify. It offers a fast, responsive, and smooth viewing experience. The client focuses on delivering a seamless Vine-style video feed within the decentralized Nostr ecosystem.

2. Mutable - New Tool

Mutable is a web-based application designed to simplify the management of Nostr mute lists. It allows users to back up, edit, discover, and share their mute lists effortlessly. Mutable also includes Mute-o-Scope, a powerful tool for searching and identifying which public Nostr profiles are muting any given account.

3. White Noise - v0.2.0

White Noise is a secure, private, decentralized chat app built on Nostr and powered by the MLS protocol, and this release adds major upgrades including full media sharing (image uploads, previews, galleries, replies, and Blossom server integration), background sync with push notifications, multi-language support (8 languages), improved group management (adding members, group images, avatars), extensive UI/UX enhancements, faster chat loading, better message syncing, and numerous bug fixes and architectural improvements such as Rust Edition 2024 updates, optimized builds, and refined terminology and caching.

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4. Amethyst - v1.04.0

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android that allows secure and decentralized social interactions. This release introduces full support for creating, managing, deleting, and viewing follow lists and follow packs, along with a new β€œMy Lists” menu and improved top-bar feed filters. Media handling has been enhanced with better video compression, new codecs, and an image gallery, while startup and large list loading are faster. The Quartz migration to Kotlin Multiplatform boosts performance, cryptographic operations, and UI responsiveness. Overall, users benefit from smoother navigation, faster event processing, richer media experiences, and improved reliability across feeds and messages. This was the biggest release of last week and the latest two releases were v1.04.1, v1.04.2.

5. Mostro - v0.15.5

Mostro is a peer-to-peer Lightning Network exchange platform on Nostr that enables direct crypto trading between users. In this release, it restored local changelog.md creation, added protobuf to the Rust publish stage, improved the last trade index response, introduced order_expires_at for orders, and updated GitHub Actions workflows. These changes make trading more reliable and transparent, allow users to manage order expiration more effectively, and streamline the development and release process for smoother updates.

6. Flotilla - 1.5.3

Flotilla is a Nostr client designed like Discord, where β€œrelays act as groups,” enabling users to chat and organize spaces in a decentralized way. In this release it added a space edit form, improved room syncing, returned clearer blossom errors, fixed access-restricted bugs, added a room detail dialog, corrected the self-hosting link, tweaked card shadows, and ensured users automatically join spaces when visiting them. These changes make the app more user-friendly, reliable, and visually consistent, improving navigation and reducing errors for users.

7. Oxchat App - v1.5.0.95

Oxchat is a user-facing secure chat app built on Nostr. This release adds built-in Tor support for accessing onion relays and Cashu mints, introduces NIP-17 DMs with delivery status, redesigns the Discover tab to showcase NApps via NIP-07, and brings back NIP-28 channels for creating and searching channels. These updates enhance privacy, make messaging and group interactions more reliable, and expand access to decentralized apps and fun features for users.

8. Shosho - v0.10.1

Shosho is a mobile live-streaming app with Nostr integration, allowing users to broadcast over RTMP similar to Facebook Live. This release fixes Android Picture-in-Picture button issues, corrects preview height on the broadcast screen for some devices, and adds a required iOS permission string for profile image access. These updates improve usability on Android devices and ensure proper image permissions on iOS, making streaming and profile editing smoother for users.

9. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.19.54

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a chat client built on the Nostr protocol, supporting both ephemeral and persistent messaging with anonymous bridging via Bitchat. This release adds message deletion requests from relays, persistent identity creation during onboarding, and new Nostr Connect/Bunker connection methods. Hotfixes improve bunker URL connections and ensure redacted messages auto-delete, enhancing privacy, control, and reliability for users. This was the biggest release of the week and there were also more releases (v2.22.57, v2.22.56, v2.21.56, v2.20.56, v2.18.53) last week.

10. Peridot - v1.2.0

Peridot is a desktop Nostr bunker app, designed to protect your Nostr identity and let you verify requests before apps access them. This release introduces a simplified view to preview follow updates before signing, making it easier and safer for users to manage their connections and control what actions they approve. This was the latest release of the week and there was also the release of v1.1.0 last week.

11. Keychat - v1.36.9+6469

Keychat is a secure chat application built on Nostr, Bitcoin Ecash, Signal, and MLS protocols. This release added emoji reactions and GIFs, shows the encryption type in chats, makes links clickable, and fixed eCash proof issues, notification re-enabling, and a Linux library error, enhancing usability, transparency, and cross-platform reliability for users.

12. NosCall - v0.3.0

NosCall is a secure audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, providing end-to-end encrypted calls across platforms. In v0.3.0, it added personal QR code sharing and scanning for easy discovery, and enhanced the contacts page with a β€œPeople You May Know” section. These changes make it easier for users to connect with others securely and quickly while improving contact management.

13. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.0.4

Mostro Mobile Client is a modern, secure mobile app for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. In this release it introduced a dynamic countdown timer for pending orders, showing precise day/hour formats and progress, plus notifications when a configured Lightning address is used for payments. It also fixed payment method resets when switching currencies and resolved desktop build workflow issues. These updates improve order tracking accuracy, payment transparency, and overall user experience.

🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

1. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.1.10

SNSTR is a lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol. This release fixes packaging issues for ESM bundlers like Next.js, Turbopack, and Vite, ensuring all compiled files are correctly included and imports resolve without errors. This makes it easier for developers to integrate SNSTR into projects without manual workarounds, improving reliability and developer experience. This was the latest release and there were also some multiple releases (v0.1.6, v0.1.7, v0.1.8 and v0.1.9) last week.

2. Gitplaza - v0.18.0

Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client, focused on managing git-related activity over Nostr. This release adds repost events, a status bar for relay messages, Tor support, improved event rebroadcasting, profile enhancements, and better handling of Nostr URIs and markdown. UI improvements include filling more screen space, inline event collapsing, and toast notifications. Bug fixes and relay timeout increases improve reliability, while git patches were removed from feeds. These changes give users a more robust, readable, and developer-friendly Nostr experience.

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.

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 Fiftieth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

πŸ™Œ Credits

  • Thank you for giving me this 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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