🧠 Quote of the Week

“Freedom of speech is not under attack.

People willingly lock themselves in cells.”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. What do you think?

2. His Vlog #33 on Nostr

3. Paul is doing a great job

4. Are you Nostr-only?

5. Yes, That’s Nostr

6. Nostr moment of US

7. This is well said by jimmysong

8. We should listen to these ideas also to make Nostr better

9. Vlogger tries to make his vlogs better

10. Nice to see that this pleb is so satisfied about Nostr

11. These kind of conversations can attract new plebs

12. Yes, they willingly lock themselves

🌱 Ecosystem Growth

Nostr is growing fast!

Overview

- Pubkeys: 44867082

- Users: 1194210

- Trusted users: 195030

- Events: 611323979

- Posts: 162601567

- Zaps: 5479278

- Zap amount: 2536762943 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: 32,029, compared to 31,931 zaps the week before

- Total zap senders: 672, compared to 671 plebs the week before

- Total zap amount: 8,583,958, compared to 7,308,787 sats the week before

- Total events: 2,326,691, compared to 2,666,715 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. How to Save & Share Nostr Notes as Images

www.youtube.com/shorts/VXG9rGohBoo

📅 Upcoming Events

1. Operation Kidstr (Online meetup) - September 2025

📅 Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 ⏰ Time: 6.30pm UTC 📍 Location: Hivetalk (Online meetup) 🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event:

2. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025

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

🔗 Event:

3. 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

4. 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

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. Building Bitcoin Use Cases and Online Communities with Nostr

Will Casarin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNdvhaycDQ

2. Nostr: A Wholesome Social Media Experience?

www.youtube.com/shorts/oaXXYV9si_A

3. Damus vs Amethyst: iOS User Shares Nostr App

www.youtube.com/shorts/I2YKlgfZAfI

4. Nostr is much more than just a twitter alternative

www.youtube.com/shorts/HjjnT2pZJP4

⚡ 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: 636 Sats Earned: 106k

2. Name: Zaps Received: 485 Sats Earned: 34k

3. Name: Zaps Received: 266 Sats Earned: 892k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: Zaps Sent: 316 Sats Spent: 40k

2. Name: Zaps Sent: 238 Sats Spent: 6k

3. Name: Zaps Sent: 218 Sats Spent: 5k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: Sats Earned: 892k Zaps Received: 266

2. Name: Sats Earned: 208k Zaps Received: 127

3. Name: Sats Earned: 195k Zaps Received: 65

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: “Name is not visible” Sats Spent: 515k Zaps Sent: 147

2. Name: Sats Spent: 422k Zaps Sent: 96

3. Name: “Name is not visible” Sats Spent: 272k Zaps Sent: 88

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Zaps Received: 83 Sats Earned: 9k

2. Zaps Received: 59 Sats Earned: 16k

3. Zaps Received: 65 Sats Earned: 6k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. Sats Earned: 101k Zaps Received: 11

2. Sats Earned: 101k Zaps Received: 7

3. Sats Earned: 100k Zaps Received: 1

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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Nostrmo - 3.4.0

Nostrmo is a cross-platform Nostr client built with Flutter, supporting Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. This release focuses on a new relay pool implementation along with several bug fixes and enhancements. Key updates include support for index relays and proof-of-work (POW), UI changes to event components, improved parsing of messages using NIP-44 before falling back to NIP-04, adjustments to emoji link handling, a larger close button for image previews, and a confirmation step before logout. It also fixes issues with follow packs, moving them to the first tab for easier access, making this version more reliable and user-friendly.

Developed by: Source: github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo/releases/tag/3.4.0

2. Amber - v4.0.2

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that keeps users’ nsec keys secure in a dedicated app. This release introduces improvements such as building from the local repo via Dockerfile, displaying all accounts in the backup screen, and automatically showing the backup dialog if any account requires backup. It also enables Gradle configuration cache for faster builds, fixes migration issues from older versions, and corrects a broken README link, making the app more stable and user-friendly. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v4.0.2-pre1 last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.2

3. Aegis - v0.0.1-beta

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer designed to securely sign events and support multiple connection methods, making it easier for users to manage their Nostr activity across different platforms. The v0.0.1-beta release marks its initial beta version, introducing key features such as support for NIP-46 (local relay), which allows communication with apps via a local relay, and NIP-55 (Content Resolver), enhancing the ability to fetch and resolve content on Nostr. Additionally, this release enables multi-account login, giving users the flexibility to manage multiple Nostr identities from a single interface.

Developed by: ZharlieW Source: github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.0.1-beta

4. Flotilla - 1.2.4

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to communicate and organize discussions across multiple relays in a familiar chat interface. This release adds direct message alerts and a dedicated alert settings page, provides instructions for key downloads, and introduces an option for relays to strip signatures. It now detects relays that mostly refuse requests, compresses and uploads profile images, defaults to the system theme, updates the icon set with a refactored inclusion method, and switches from localStorage to Capacitor’s preferences for storage. These improvements enhance usability, reliability, and overall user experience across the app. This was the biggest release, and the latest release was 1.2.5 last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.2.4

5. Coop - v0.2.8

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. This release improves user profile handling, enables resending of failed messages, and refactors event fetching. It also adds a “seen-on-relays” viewer per message, detects user DM relays when opening the chat panel, and includes additional UI improvements for a smoother messaging experience.

Developed by: Source: github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.8

6. Primal Android App - 2.5.11

The Primal Android app is Primal's Android client for Nostr, enabling secure messaging, live streaming, and content interaction. This release introduces Picture-in-Picture support and background playback for live streams, proper chat and zap loading logic, breath animations on large streaming pills, and automatic updates for stale streams. Connectivity indicators and video handling have been improved, while padding, deep-linking crashes, and overlapping or slow-loading zap items have been fixed. The release also enables publishing profile metadata with enhanced privacy, removes click indicators from stream chats, reduces the live stream stale threshold to 1 hour, and adds a ZapStore publish flow.

Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/tree/2.5.11

7. Bitchat - 1.4.2

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app using both local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and the Nostr protocol for global reach, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release adds options to enable or disable Tor for privacy and gates default relay connections behind mutual favorites. Other updates include preventing GitHub language stats skewing, setting the macOS app category to Social Media, and centralizing the marketing version as a single source of truth. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of 1.4.1 and 1.4.0 (geotags) last week.

Developed by: Islam Source: github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.4.2

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Mostro-CLI - v0.13.3

Mostro-CLI is a command-line client for Mostro (the Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr). The latest release, v0.13.3, delivers key improvements, including a fix for the wrong key in the execute_admin_add_solver function, enhancements to the changelog, and updates to cargo.toml. It also introduces a new helper for handling all admin dispute commands, alongside several bug fixes and refinements. This release strengthens reliability while simplifying dispute management and admin operations. There were also releases of v0.13.2, v0.13.1, and v0.13.0 also last week.

Developed by: Source: github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.13.3

2. Snstr - v0.1.4

Snstr (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) is a developer tool for enhancing Nostr development across Node, React Native, and Web, providing secure and environment-aware cryptographic functions. This release lazy-loads Node crypto only in Node, ensures environment-specific NIP‑04 selection, and strengthens decrypt behavior to throw on wrong-key attempts. It hardens RN/Web entries to avoid accidental Node imports, updates security validation, and relaxes timing thresholds for improved test stability. Existing behavior remains compatible with synchronous NIP‑04 signatures and retains 0.1.3 improvements. RN/Expo users should install snstr@0.1.4, clear the Metro cache, and import react-native-get-random-values once at startup. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.1.3 last week.

Developed by: Austin Kelsay Source: github.com/AustinKelsay/snstr/releases/tag/v0.1.4

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.

👋 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 usually split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort, But with this recap I am unable to split it with the publishing and editing issues in habla and highlighter. This time using Yakihonne. I hope to split zaps again in the next Nostr recaps when the issues are solved. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this forty second 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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