Oct 12, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (13th October 2025 - 45th Edition)

The 45th dose of your weekly Nostr Recap.

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is a village and it's going to take all of us to build it. Don't hold back.”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. The latest episode of Revolution.social: Great discussion among Rabble and David Bollier

2. Nostr is the best and neutral for everything

3. Follow the new npub of Adam Soltys

4. Spend time with your family and loved ones to not have regrets in the future

5. Let’s wish this pleb to get better and be able to fly again soon

6. Yes, Nostr has just a small scale for now. But the signal is high

7. Let’s build the Nostr village together

8. A question from the head creator to the Nostr community

9. A Nostrich is trying to boost his professional skills with his first photography book

10. This is the way to get healthy

11. Lovely couple celebrates their first anniversary

12. She knows the famous secret

🌱 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: 2,552, compared to 1,519 zaps the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

- Total zaps: 37,499, compared to 35,950 zaps the week before

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- Total zap senders: 2,847, compared to 2,677 plebs the week before

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- Total zap amount: 6,831,789, compared to 6,292,007 sats the week before

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- Total events: 2,651,955, compared to 2,507,267 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 USE NOSTR | Mini tutorial using PRIMAL

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4qSw0NLSw

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025

πŸ“… Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025 ⏰ Time: 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM EDT πŸ“ Location: Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: nostrvalley.com/schedule

2. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025

πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT+5:30 πŸ“ Location: Paloma de Goa, 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

3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

πŸ“… Date: Sunday, November 02, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, USA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Chris Curran

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

4. 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. Escape The Social Media Matrix with Bitcoin & Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPNBIeuqw8

2. Nostr vs RSS

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSR9ybLqNuQ

3. No More Nostr Service Providers (NSPs) and Why That Matters

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRnq7WP1iVY

4. Derek Ross is at Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtabqaEs7P0

5. Vibe Code Mastery for Nostr DMs

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJ734pvqdw

6. Identity: Passwords to PIN to Nostr!

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

7. Nostr in spanish

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wZ0uDi3qI

⚑ 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: 1024
    • Sats Earned: 1k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 796
    • Sats Earned: 186k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 446
    • Sats Earned: 538k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 1733
    • Sats Spent: 66k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 1490
    • Sats Spent: 73k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 426
    • Sats Spent: 34k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 538k
    • Zaps Received: 446

  2. Name: β€œAnonymous”

    • Sats Earned: 451k
    • Zaps Received: 8

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 430k
    • Zaps Received: 20

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 871k
    • Zaps Sent: 51

  2. Name: β€œAnonymous”

    • Sats Spent: 430k
    • Zaps Sent: 4

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 317k
    • Zaps Sent: 32

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

    • Zaps Received: 132
    • Sats Earned: 360k

    • Zaps Received: 107
    • Sats Earned: 60k

    • Zaps Received: 86
    • Sats Earned: 18k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

    • Sats Earned: 360k
    • Zaps Received: 132

    • Sats Earned: 100k
    • Zaps Received: 3

    • Sats Earned: 60k
    • Zaps Received: 107

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πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Peridot - New Tool

Peridot is a Nostr bunker application for desktop that securely stores and manages your Nostr keys locally, allowing safe signing and relay communication without exposing private keys to external clients.

2. Nostr Gatekeeper - New Tool

Nostr Gatekeeper is a reliable Nostr Connect bunker that securely handles signing requests and key management, ensuring smooth and safe interaction between Nostr clients and your private keys.

3. Coracle - 0.6.24

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to unlock the full potential of multiple relays, enabling users to browse, filter, zap, and create custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release introduces the use of a new shipyard public key and includes minor optimizations to improve performance and stability.

4. Primal Android App - 2.5.17

The Primal Android app is an end-user tool for Nostr, providing a feature-rich Android client for browsing, interacting with, and streaming content within the Nostr ecosystem. In this version, it introduced delete repost for notes, live stream caching, rewind and fast-forward with seek bar support, deep link handling, and expanded QR code support for NEVENT, NADDR, and nprofile types. It also improved usability with collapsible stream player, stream control popups, and stream-ended state handling. Numerous fixes addressed UX issues, chat scrolling, zap/message display, stream playback, thread screen jumps, crashes, and video background behavior, while maintenance updates included an upgrade to Kotlin 2.2 and migration to PlayerSurface for note video previews.

5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.9.13

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is an end-user Nostr-based chat client designed for both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with integration to Bitchat for anonymous and temporary communications. In version v2.9.13, it introduced default image blurring with optional unblur, and added support for NIP-72 communities, enabling community-based moderation and enhanced control over shared content.

6. Gitplaza - v0.13.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activities, providing features for browsing repositories, viewing users, and tracking activity with trust indicators. In this release, it added a β€œRepos” tab and a β€œPeople” tab with search bars, introduced a hashtag filter in the activity feed, added repo topic chips, enabled searching for repos in profile views, and displayed trust indicators in various views. It also fixed issues with the top zap chip and removed the now-obsolete β€œExplore” tab.

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Nostr-java - v0.5.1

Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that provides developers with tools to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays. This release, introduces major improvements including enhanced documentation with API references and how-to guides, better error handling with dedicated exceptions, validation tests, and significant code refactoring for cleaner, more reliable performance. It also features CI/CD workflow enhancements, dependency updates, and automated quality checks, making it a robust and developer-friendly library for integrating Nostr functionality into Java applications.

2. Noscrypt - v0.1.13

Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C, designed to handle the cryptographic operations required by the Nostr protocol. The latest update improves compatibility and performance with updates to vnlib.core (version 0.1.3) and MSTest (version 3.11.0). It includes revised build scripts using a centralized Directory.Build.props file, modernized shell commands for Task v3.45, and enhanced testing accuracy through stricter exception handling. Additionally, parallel builds are now supported across all platforms with cmake -j, making the library faster and more efficient for developers implementing secure Nostr functionality.

3. Mostro-core - v0.6.56

Mostro-core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for building decentralized applications on Nostr, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. In this release, it introduced the SynchUserTradeIndex Action to synchronize the last trade index, improved verification checks and session restoration, aligned actions with updated protocol specifications, and included minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

4. Mostro CLI - v0.14.0

Mostro CLI is a simple command-line interface for interacting with Mostro, displaying new replaceable events, and supporting trade and order management on Nostr. In this version, it added improved error logging, rabbit fixes, enhanced gift wrap decryption, handling of user-initiated disputes, correct last trade index calculations, and support for invalid fiat currency. It also introduced a first testable version with the last_trade_index command, improved message parsing and management, refined database operations to avoid UNIQUE constraint errors, and included various refactors, CI improvements, and documentation updates for better usability and maintainability. This is the biggest update, and the latest update was v0.14.1 last week.

🌐 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 forty-fifth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

πŸ™Œ Credits

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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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