🧠 Quote of the Week

“Nostr is your final destination on the internet. It’s not your backup.”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. Always listen to your dad, respect and take care of him ❤️

2. If you missed Bitchill last time, they are coming back 😍

3. An amazing christmas gift till run out the wallet 🎁

4. What about yours? 🎯

5. The Christmas wish of a tremendous character 🎄

6. Let’s enjoy Santa baby 👀

7. Nostr is your final destination on the internet 👈

8. Closing the challenge with honoring to the promise 🫡

9. Health is very important in your life 👇

10. Let’s recommend her some plebs 👇

11. A nice poem with warm Christmas wishes 🎄

12. This pleb is so happy about the annual progress of Nostr 🥳

13. Bitcoin Walk looks back the year of 2025 🚶

14. A lady nostrich celebrates her birthday 🚶

15. A pleb talks about his 2025 🗓️

16. The new wave of OpenSats grants 🌊

🌱 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 npub.world/stats,

During last week:

👉 Total Users: 9,018, compared to 1,629 users the week before

According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

👉 Total Zaps: 35,236, compared to 29,803 zaps the week before

👉 Total Zap senders: 4,107, compared to 3,118 plebs the week before

👉 Total Zap Amount: 8,696,789, compared to 7,097,182 sats the week before

👉 Total Events: 3,849,431, compared to 3,704,444 events the week before

Many thanks to npub.world/stats by

🎓 Educational Guides

1. How to Build Your Own Sovereign TV Station on Nostr 📡

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📅 Upcoming Events

1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026

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

🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjccbgb

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

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

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM,

🔗 Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDDNPS-posse-content-drupal-nostr

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026

📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA

🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 17: Dad’s Approval

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvOgofiHnpI

2. XChat app - Private Messenger built on Nostr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNt1pM3N0Vo

3. Shakespeare is for everyone

x.com/SoapboxTech/status/2004696821747073298

4. NOSTR isn't a 'hedge' to centralised communication platforms

x.com/Princey21M/status/2004969306224799928

⚡ 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

Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name:

   4d784205
   • Zaps Received: 587
   • Sats Earned: 473k

2. Name:

   6e468422
   • Zaps Received: 459
   • Sats Earned: 51k

3. Name:

   b866ce76
   • Zaps Received: 347
   • Sats Earned: 894k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name:

   6c27a5aa
   • Zaps Sent: 3165
   • Sats Spent: 150k

2. Name:

   a4a6e5f4
   • Zaps Sent: 385
   • Sats Spent: 9k

3. Name:

   6a325947
   • Zaps Sent: 302
   • Sats Spent: 1k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name:

   7f177706
   • Sats Earned: 1M
   • Zaps Received: 44

2. Name:

   b866ce76
   • Sats Earned: 894k
   • Zaps Received: 347

3. Name:

   4d784205
   • Sats Earned: 473k
   • Zaps Received: 587

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name:

   ef3f4ef0
   • Sats Spent: 1M
   • Zaps Sent: 3

2. Name:

   70c48e4b
   • Sats Spent: Not visible
   • Zaps Sent: 4

3. Name:

   24e72306
   • Sats Spent: 184k
   • Zaps Sent: 59

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. • Zaps Received: 87
   • Sats Earned: 17k

2. • Zaps Received: 83
   • Sats Earned: 10k

3. • Zaps Received: 79
   • Sats Earned: 19k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. • Sats Earned: 70k
   • Zaps Received: 3

2. • Sats Earned: 29k
   • Zaps Received: 52

3. • Sats Earned: 28k
   • Zaps Received: 27

😂 Nostr Memes

🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Zapstore - 1.0-rc1

Zapstore is a decentralized app marketplace powered by Nostr, letting users discover, install, and update apps through their social network. This release introduces a refreshed UI, a rewritten package manager for more reliable installs, curated app stacks, background update checks, improved security prompts, and better performance and stability, making app discovery and updates smoother, safer, and more user-friendly.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/zapstore/zapstore/releases/tag/1.0-rc1

2. Servus - v0.1.12

Servus is a minimalist, self-hosted social media server packaged as a single executable, making it easy to deploy and run without complex infrastructure. This release improves theme support by allowing theme customizations to be stored and reused, and enhances the site creation process with optional imports of Instagram and Twitter archives as well as automatic keypair generation, making setup faster, personalization easier, and onboarding more convenient for new users.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/servussocial/servus/releases/tag/v0.1.12

3. Amber - v4.0.6

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to securely handle key management and event signing for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This version improves reliability and performance by adding signer-side caching, fixing multiple crashes (including permission screens, invalid Nostr Connect URIs, and decryption errors), improving UI recomposition, and making relay connections more robust by retrying failed connect events, resulting in a smoother, safer experience for end users and developers who rely on Amber as a secure signing backend for their Nostr applications.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.6

4. Aegis - v0.3.4

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr event signer that allows users to securely create and manage Nostr events across multiple connection methods. In version 0.3.4, it adds support for the nip55 nostrsigner scheme, enables importing and exporting local relay data, fixes potential local relay socket errors, optimizes the application creation process, and refines the local relay user interface, improving reliability, usability, and overall user experience.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.4

5. Keychat - v1.38.1+6489

Keychat is a secure chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, designed for private messaging across multiple platforms. In this version, it adds UnifiedPush support on Android and Linux for push notifications, introduces biometric authentication for privacy-sensitive operations, and refactors app directory initialization and reset logic, enhancing security, reliability, and user convenience.

Contributed by: kcdev

• Source: github.com/keychat-io/keychat-app/releases/tag/v1.38.1+6489

6. Monster - v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android

Monstr is a Svelte + Vite Nostr client with Android support via Capacitor, offering timeline feeds, posting, replies, reposts, Lightning zaps, Monero tipping, wallet management, and accessibility features. In this version, it fixes an initialization hang, tweaks the Composer modal, and ensures Nsec Android logins are persisted, improving stability and usability for end users.

Contributed by: boshi-chan

• Source: github.com/boshi-chan/nostr-monstr/releases/tag/v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android

7. Nostur - v1.25

Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for end users to access feeds, DMs, bookmarks, and media across multiple accounts. Version 1.25 introduces a new desktop multi-column mode (via Nostur Pro) with customizable columns, enhanced private DM and group chat support, dedicated voice message and short video feeds, improved audio compatibility, Relay Autopilot toggle for custom feeds, and better handling of quoted posts, alongside numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, making the app more versatile and user-friendly.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.25.0

🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

1. nostr-java - v1.1.1

nostr-java is a Java SDK that helps developers create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays from Java applications. This release focuses on refactoring WebSocket handling and improving integration tests, resulting in more reliable relay connections, better test stability, and a stronger foundation for developers building Nostr-based apps in Java.

Contributed by:

• Source: github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java/releases/tag/v1.1.1

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

🫡 Credits

Thank you

A big shoutout to

Thank you, my brother

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