Sep 7, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 08th September 2025 πŸš€

40th Edition

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is the most wholesome community in the internet.”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. The latest revolution.social: This time with Taylor Lorenz

2. A Tremendous Nostrich is celebrating Father’s day with his lovely daughter

3. Seems like they had a nice meetup

4. The Nostr creator is not a real #Nostr lover?

5. This protocol is gonna be awesome

6. It should always give incentives to attract more plebs

7. This Nostrich is doing a lot with vlogs on Nostr

8. Nostr needs time to get better

9. A dad proudly speaks about his daughter

10. First Nostr posting of a lady artist

11. Pavle celebrates the special day with Nostr

12. Some people just talk and practically don't use Nostr

13. There won’t be any regret sticking with Nostr

14. These vloggers make the Nostr better

15. This musician has realized the value of Nostr

16. Somehow this is the truth

🌱 Ecosystem Growth

Nostr is growing fast!

Overview

  • Pubkeys: 44535020
  • Users: 1192736
  • Trusted users: 195964
  • Events: 606526111
  • Posts: 160882484
  • Zaps: 5418739
  • Zap amount: 2521736791 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 900 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

During last week:

Total zaps: 35,202, compared to 38,343 zaps the week before

Total zap senders: 750, compared to 1,114 plebs the week before

Total zap receivers: 172, compared to 293 plebs the week before

Total zap amount: 10,235,498, compared to 9,592,827 sats the week before

Total events: 2,277,641, compared to 2,509,074 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.

πŸŽ“ Educational Guides

1. X to Nostr in seconds

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Atlanta #7 - Satochip Smartcard Giveaway! - September 2025

  • πŸ“… Date: Monday, September 15, 2025

  • ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT

  • πŸ“ Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1 Atlanta, GA, USA

  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Andrew L. and Stephen D.

πŸ”— Event: www.meetup.com/atlbitlab/events/310666846

2. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025

  • πŸ“… Date: Sunday, October 05, 2025
  • ⏰ Time: Unspecified. Contact
  • πŸ“ Location: Berlin, Germany
  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event:

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

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. Bitcoin Asia Yakihonne Side Event

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjA8-E4SyPE

2. How to earn Bitcoin without a large following with Nostr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6KHGjb3B8

⚑ 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: 519
    • Sats Earned: 78k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 364
    • Sats Earned: 142k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 356
    • Sats Earned: 46k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 314
    • Sats Spent: 8k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 230
    • Sats Spent: 2k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 167
    • Sats Spent: 25k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 460k
    • Zaps Received: 332

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 254k
    • Zaps Received: 59

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 199k
    • Zaps Received: 1

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 272k
    • Zaps Sent: 24

  2. Name: Bill

    • Sats Spent: 207k
    • Zaps Sent: 2

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 106k
    • Zaps Sent: 14

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

    • Zaps Received: 180
    • Sats Earned: 44k

    • Zaps Received: 115
    • Sats Earned: 11k

    • Zaps Received: 89
    • Sats Earned: 8k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

    • Sats Earned: 250k
    • Zaps Received: 3

    • Sats Earned: 118k
    • Zaps Received: 81

    • Sats Earned: 93k
    • Zaps Received: 19

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πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Amethyst - v1.03.0: Built-in video recording

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android, and this release adds built-in video recording with a new β€œrecord and post video” button. This update improves live streaming by activating streams in the top feed bubble, enhances visibility of authors, and enables custom TextToSpeech engines. It also fixes crashing relay URIs, relay settings duplication, and streaming flag issues while improving crash report handling. Other refinements include better URL error handling, memory management for follow lists, basic support for expiring DMs, and smoother posting, streaming, and relay management.

2. Coracle - 0.6.20

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the power of multiple relays, letting users browse, filter, zap, and create custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This latest release fixes duplicate follow actions in onboarding, feed controls changing themselves, long-form topic chips, and a scroll bug. It also removes global feeds, ensures only non-muted events count in reply counts, improves Zap receipt fetching, and fixes the "show anyway" button behavior.

3. Nowser - 1.3.0

Nowser is a secure Nostr key management and signing app for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, supporting multiple authentication methods. This release includes Android shortcut image resizing, fixes for download status updates and web app client issues (Following.space, Nostter), sets Android WebView dark mode, changes the default NESC relay, upgrades the Flutter version, and applies various UI and bug fixes.

4. Oxchat App - v1.4.11

0xchat App is a secure messaging application built on the Nostr protocol, enabling private and decentralized communication without relying on central servers. The latest release, v1.4.11, removes MLS group functionality, adds support for the Urdu language, and fixes several bugs to improve overall stability and user experience.

5. Coop - v0.2.5

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. This release addresses performance issues by fixing high CPU usage and correcting the handling of list indices, resulting in smoother and more efficient operation. This was the latest release, and there was also a release of v0.2.4 last week.

6. Primal Android App - 2.5.8

Primal Android App is Primal’s Nostr client for Android devices, offering a seamless way to connect and engage on Nostr. This release introduces full wallet support for NWC with features like balance tracking, transaction history, invoice creation, and payments, along with a new live streaming player. This update also delivers a visual facelift and important stability fixes for an improved user experience.

7. Nostr Ynstant Messenger (NYM) - v1.9.11

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with integration to Bitchat. This release introduces a hotfix that highlights a user’s own messages and adds a new Bitchat-style theme with multicolored users, enhancing both usability and the overall chat experience. This was the latest release, and there were also releases of v1.8.11, v1.8.10, v1.7.9, v1.6.9, v1.5.9, v1.5.8, v1.5.7, and v1.5.6 last week.

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.5.1

Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library that streamlines building on Nostr by providing tools and utilities for developers. The latest release includes fixes for parsing rumor events without signatures, dependency updates, and improvements to NIP-46 support with bunkers, mock remote signer, tests, and event signer. It also adds user agent configuration, documentation updates, an AI guide, caching fixes, and overall stability enhancements.

2. Nostr Game Engine (ngengine) - 0.1.1

Ngengine is a game engine and framework for building games and applications integrated with the Nostr ecosystem and peer-to-peer networking. This release introduces numerous bug fixes and improvements, with the standout feature being in-game advertising powered by the Nostrads protocol, enabling privacy-friendly and permissionless ads within the Nostr ecosystem.

🌐 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 fortieth 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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