Nov 3, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (03rd November 2025 - 48th Edition)

The 48th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is high signal social media πŸ€β€

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. These are the signals that indicates Nostr grows 😍

2. You should listen to Rabble’s new one if you are a lover of Nostr and free speech πŸŽ™οΈ

3. Yeah that’s 100% true πŸ’―

4. A Nostr Bitcoiner is becoming the iron man πŸ†

5. Celebrating 1000th order with Nostr πŸ₯³

6. This new pleb will realize that there are no rules here πŸ‘‡

7. This is how you can invest in Nostr for the future πŸ‘‡

8. We are serving to people on Nostr, not algos πŸ‘ˆ

9. A fat zap within one hour for the performances πŸŽ™οΈ

10. This is a great question πŸ€”

11. Aza brought Bitcoin culture to the Bitplebs Summit 2025 😍

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

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

  • Total Users: 4,412, compared to 3,851 users the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

  • Total zaps: 33,541, compared to 47,962 zaps the week before

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  • Total zap senders: 2,799, compared to 3,865 plebs the week before

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  • Total zap amount: 9,124,949, compared to 7,656,984 sats the week before

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  • Total events: 4,090,071, compared to 10,271,175 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 bridge your twitter to Nostr

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. 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

2. 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: nostrasia.com

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. Shakespeare: AI-Powered App Creation on Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZtV7kxkx4

2. What makes apps built on Nostr different

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RBGFK4SmwI

3. How Nostr & Bitcoin Upgrade the Internet

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyBJPPoSr9U

4. Fully Open Source Social Media built on Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJFdPDNw2Q

5. How to get started using Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw3eZwUpPCE

6. Shadrach: Peer-to-Peer Physical Package Delivery Over Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHVSFlBqDI

7. NOSTR Revolution: Why Every Twitter User Needs to Switch TODAY!

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmeEEQ3sV4

8. Arkinox: Fanfares & New Tools for Creators

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxSFiA8Jsk0

9. NOSTR identities

image www.youtube.com/shorts/Mu_kz7D6kHE

10. TKay: Vibe Coding Nostr Onto Niche Hardware

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBhKVr03Fw

11. How Nostr Achieved Massive Growth

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ryLB5tMHCk

12. Nostr Web of Trust (WoT) Can Be B2B

image www.youtube.com/shorts/enkhquWfv9U

13. Has AI Broken the Internet?

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TBThX4C9E

⚑ 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: 843
    • Sats Earned: 190k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 499
    • Sats Earned: 158k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 415
    • Sats Earned: 606k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 957
    • Sats Spent: 39k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 388
    • Sats Spent: 219k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 278
    • Sats Spent: 428k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 1M
    • Zaps Received: 228

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 607k
    • Zaps Received: 416

  3. Name: El notas

    • Sats Earned: 390k
    • Zaps Received: 15

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: β€œName is not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 640k
    • Zaps Sent: 144

  2. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 598k
    • Zaps Sent: 64

  3. Name: β€œName is not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 514k
    • Zaps Sent: 62

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

    • Zaps Received: 168
    • Sats Earned: 119k

    • Zaps Received: 112
    • Sats Earned: 19k

    • Zaps Received: 82
    • Sats Earned: 41k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

    • Sats Earned: 400k
    • Zaps Received: 1

    • Sats Earned: 241k
    • Zaps Received: 59

    • Sats Earned: 119k
    • Zaps Received: 168

πŸ˜‚ Nostr Memes

πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Flotilla - 1.4.0

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of β€œrelays as groups,” enabling users to join and interact within community-based relay spaces. This release introduces message editing, improved synchronization logic, and room management features such as creation permissions, icon picking, and deletion. It also enhances navigation, performance, and mention suggestions while adding support for relay and group member lists, connection status indicators, and fixes for modals and zapper loading. This was the biggest release of the week and the latest release was 1.4.1.

2. Primal Android App - 2.5.22

Primal Android App is Primal’s Android client for the Nostr protocol, designed to deliver a fast, social, and media-rich Nostr experience on mobile. This latest release focuses on stability improvements, specifically fixing a crash issue that occurred when parsing invalid Lightning Network (LN) invoices.

3. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.16.45

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral and persistent chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed to bridge with Bitchat for anonymous and temporary messaging. This release delivers a hotfix resolving an issue where the user context menu failed to correctly identify the right user for blocking or slapping. This was the latest release and there were also some more multiple releases within the week. (v2.16.44, v2.16.42, v2.16.41. v2.16.40)

4. Iris - v2.2.4

Iris is a Nostr client that provides a decentralized interface for messaging, posting, and networking on the Nostr protocol. The v2.2.4 release introduces key improvements, including support for Lightning and Nostr URI handling, a fix for Lightning payment receiving, enhanced profile editing stability, and the ability to send ecash directly within DM view. It also includes refinements to mint metadata, listings, and group metadata transmission, ensuring smoother decentralized interactions and payments across the network. This was the biggest release of the week and the latest release was v2.2.5.

5. Noscall - v0.2.0

Noscall is a secure audio and video calling application built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encrypted communication and cross-platform compatibility for private, censorship-resistant calls. This release introduces several updates, including a new user profile settings page, optimized profile and avatar fetching logic, portrait mode enforcement, and improvements to relay and ICE server lists. It also resolves key issues like contact list refresh errors and the auto-login bug, ensuring a smoother and more reliable communication experience.

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Replicatr - New Developer Tool

Replicatr is a background daemon designed to automatically monitor Nostr relay selections and replicate user events according to the outbox model. It ensures that a user’s published Nostr events are efficiently synchronized and distributed across multiple relays, maintaining data consistency, redundancy, and availability within the decentralized Nostr network.

2. Aegis - v0.3.0

Aegis is a simple and cross-platform Nostr signer designed to securely manage keys and sign events while supporting multiple connection methods for seamless interoperability across clients. This introduces the ability to set up a local relay directly within the app and expands support to iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows, making it more versatile for users across platforms.

3. Gitplaza - v0.17.0

Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling git-related activities and repositories within the Nostr ecosystem. This release introduces several major upgrades, including follow/unfollow functionality, enhanced profile editing (covering relays, contact lists, and hashtags), npub copying, and improved UI elements. It now integrates blog posts into inbox and activity feeds, refines git issue and patch displays, and improves performance by prioritizing key event publishing and data loading while reducing unnecessary allocations. The update also simplifies the interface by removing the Upvote section and noisy reactions/reposts.

🌐 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-Eighth 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 your generous patronage!

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

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