Oct 20, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (20th October 2025 - 46th Edition)

The 46th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is the final destination for your content.

Owned by you, viewable in many apps, monetizable, & censorship resistant.

This will become more obvious over time”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. This time Rabble invited to Harper for Revolution.social

2. He didn’t forget to thank us too

3. This is the truth about Nostr

4. Nostr series #8 by Hodl

5. There is a concern to think twice in this statement

6. Do you agree with this?

7. You also feel Nostr like this?

8. Let’s see why his Nostr experience is better these days

9. Just wakeup on Yakihonne plebs

10. She celebrates 3k with quality over quantity on Nostr

11. These frustrations should be solved on Nostr

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

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

- Total Users: 2,580, compared to 2,552 zaps the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

- Total zaps: 40,668, compared to 37,499 zaps the week before

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- Total zap senders: 2,668, compared to 2,847 plebs the week before

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- Total zap amount: 8,246,204, compared to 6,831,789 sats the week before

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- Total events: 2,764,277, compared to 2,654,882 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. How to easily sync your Twitter to Nostr

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025

  • πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

  • ⏰ Time: 5.45 PM - 6.30 PM GMT+5:30

  • πŸ“ Location: Paloma de Goa Resort Novo vaddo, Sernabatim, Colva, Goa 403708, India

  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

  • 🎟️ Registration: Open to all Pass holders. Venue TBA soon! No registration required. Just show up!

  • πŸ”— Event: cream-bellflower-e9a.notion.site/Nostrclass-2824c5c745c28058815fdff7b05f56c9

www.satlantis.io/events/1133/NOSTR-Beyond-Social-Media

2. Nostr Vancouver meetup - October 2025

  • πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

  • ⏰ Time: 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM PDT

  • πŸ“ Location: DCTRL 436 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T5, Canada

  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Martin Montero

  • πŸ”— Event: luma.com/3tpxlv3k

3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

4. 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

5. Nostrasia - November 2025

  • πŸ“… Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025

  • ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 9:00 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:

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. First-ever Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 : Q&A session

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYum10HaxY

2. What’s Nostr’s Biggest Allure?

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f3Cs7BlJSc

3. NOSTR Social Media Explained: Decentralized Future with Bitcoin & Free Speech

image www.youtube.com/shorts/GXkTt3UXCwo

4. What is NOSTR? Decentralized Identity & Rewards

image www.youtube.com/shorts/lIT4OOTxOas

⚑ 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: 1022
    • Sats Earned: 1k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 820
    • Sats Earned: 135k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 464
    • Sats Earned: 48k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 1640
    • Sats Spent: 49k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 532
    • Sats Spent: 32k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 358
    • Sats Spent: 169k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 1M
    • Zaps Received: 1

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 1M
    • Zaps Received: 117

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 525k
    • Zaps Received: 394

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 1M
    • Zaps Sent: 2

  2. Name: β€œNot showing the name”

    • Sats Spent: 522k
    • Zaps Sent: 10

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 332k
    • Zaps Sent: 86

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

1.

  • Zaps Received: 80
  • Sats Earned: 58k

2.

  • Zaps Received: 58
  • Sats Earned: 7k

3.

  • Zaps Received: 55
  • Sats Earned: 38k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

1.

  • Sats Earned: 1M
  • Zaps Received: 10

2.

  • Sats Earned: 58k
  • Zaps Received: 80

3.

  • Sats Earned: 38k
  • Zaps Received: 55

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πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Coracle - 0.6.25

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the full power of multiple relays, allowing users to browse, filter, zap, and build custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release, adds the display of β€œa” tags on highlights and disables imgproxy by default for improved performance and flexibility.

2. Mostro - v0.15.0

Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange platform built on the Lightning Network and Nostr, enabling decentralized trading between users without intermediaries. This release introduces the removal of the OpenSSL dependency in favor of Rust TLS for improved security, adds manifest signature support, and refines order request handling. It also fixes issues related to trade index messaging and payment failure calculations, while improving dispute error messages and overall performance. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v0.15.1 last week.

3. Flotilla - 1.3.1

Flotilla is an end-user Nostr client designed like Discord, using the concept of β€œrelays as groups” to enable chat and community interactions. This release fixes a memory leak in the storage adapter and reduces the number of annoying toast messages, improving performance and user experience.

4. Bitchat - v1.4.4

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global messaging, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release focuses heavily on localization and modularization, adding new languages, unifying string handling, and refactoring modules like Tor and PeerID services. It also improves private chat deduplication, fixes stale messages and ghost peers, optimizes performance for location notes, enhances QR verification, and addresses various test and build issues to ensure a more stable, secure, and efficient messaging experience across platforms.

5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.13.25

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with Bitchat integration. In this release it added the ability to copy user public keys directly from context menus, introduced kind 10000 mute list support for blocking users and keywords, and fixed several bugs, including issues with blocked users’ nicks, geohash explorer resets, and nostr profile data preservation. This was the biggest release and there were also some multiple releases last week.

6. Gitplaza - v0.14.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling Git-related activities within the Nostr ecosystem. In this release it added features to show repository topics, edit repository events, list maintainers, display all Git servers and websites in the repo view, include nutzap events in the inbox, and populate the hashtag filter with followed hashtags, while improving performance by preventing README.md requests from blocking subsequent actions.

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. ContextVM SDK - New Developer tool

ContextVM SDK is a JavaScript/TypeScript software development kit that implements the Context Vending Machine Protocol, acting as a bridge between Nostr and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It enables developers to create, expose, and access decentralized computational services, allowing applications to securely exchange contextual data and AI capabilities across distributed networks.

2. Nostr-java - v1.0.1

Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that enables developers to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays with ease. This release refines event handling, adds Sonatype Central publishing credentials, and updates Maven configuration and settings for improved central publishing and API management. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.0 last week.

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

1. Nosflare - v7.4.14

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built to run on Cloudflare Workers with support for Cloudflare D1 and R2 Object Storage, offering a scalable and efficient relay infrastructure for the Nostr network. The latest update, v7.4.14, introduces a stale session expiry mechanism to improve connection stability and lowers the REQ rate limit per minute to optimize performance and prevent excessive relay load.

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 forty-sixth 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 his generous patronage!

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

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