🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (16th March 2026 - 67th Edition)

The 67th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀
(16th March 2026 - 67th Edition)

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@🟠 isolabellart

“Nostr isn’t a social network.

It’s what comes after social networks.

Here you don’t choose a platform.

You choose the client you prefer.

You don’t follow an algorithm.

You follow people.

You don’t have an account owned by a company.

You have a key.

And that key is your identity everywhere.”


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1. A really interesting discussion about Divine 😍

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2. Centralization doesn’t let us do the things we need in the way we need 🤮

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3. Here is Jingle treats #2 😺

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4. Let’s consult Nostr Doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️

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5. Waiting for this tool and so curious 😍

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6. Music is a medicine for everyone. Check this out 🎵

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7. Switching from Twitter to Nostr would be so awesome 🫣

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8. Nice and truth explanation about Nostr 😍

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9. An unforgettable moment of a nostrich father 👨🏻‍🍼

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10. An unforgettable, beautiful day in life for two Nostr parents 👶🏻

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11. A pretty lady onboards to Nostr with nice expectations 👇🏻

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12. A filmmaker is being a Nostrich 🎬

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13. An amazing poem with a nice scene 😍

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14. This discussion would be so amazing to watch 😍

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Nostr is growing fast!

According to https://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 https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 389.7K (-73.0%)

👉🏻 New Users Last week : 179.9K (-41.5%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.59M

👉🏻 All-time BTC Amount : 42.15 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 173.0K

According to https://npub.world/stats,

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 2,960, compared to 3,900 users the week before

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Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.


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1. Você sabe como funciona um RELAY NOSTR?

@Agiota

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2. kheAI: the Intelligence Terminal for Nostr & Web3 Economy

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1. Nostr Atlanta #11 - Lunch & Learn - Secret Handshake - March 2026

📅 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @cluborange

🔗 Event: image https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvwtpxpsnvctyxsmnvwfsxf3nsde3x9snwv3cvgjgs8vg

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026

📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris

🔗 Event: image https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcgbhb/


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1. NOSTR youtube, decentralized, vibe coding CIA

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2. Could the Felca Law KILL Bitcoin and Nostr in Brazil?

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3. Are You Prepared for What’s Coming? Bitcoiners Built the Escape Route

@cj8z…rz4u @paulinthejungle

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4. White Noise for Dark Times

@JeffG

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5. Sanatçının İkilemi: Bitcoin ve Nostr ile alternatif bir çıkış güzergahı

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6. Soapbox Sessions Episode 28: Meta Bought the Bot Farm. We Built Our Own!

@Team Soapbox @Derek Ross @heatherlarson

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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 https://zaplife.lol by @PABLOF7z for providing this data.

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. Name: @flash

    • Zaps Received: 375
    • Sats Earned: 193k
  2. Name: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

    • Zaps Received: 285
    • Sats Earned: 43k
  3. Name: @leonGONGbanger

    • Zaps Received: 269
    • Sats Earned: 13k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 2418
    • Sats Spent: 79k
  2. Name: @BitBees

    • Zaps Sent: 215
    • Sats Spent: 5k
  3. Name: @Jay

    • Zaps Sent: 199
    • Sats Spent: 55k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @flash

    • Sats Earned: 193k
    • Zaps Received: 375
  2. Name: @Yojimble

    • Sats Earned: 165k
    • Zaps Received: 28
  3. Name: @RabbitHoleRecap

    • Sats Earned: 161k
    • Zaps Received: 28

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

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    • Sats Spent: 121k
    • Zaps Sent: 1
  2. Name: “Name not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 121k
    • Zaps Sent: 1
  3. Name: “Name not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 111k
    • Zaps Sent: 1

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

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    • Zaps Received: 44
    • Sats Earned: 11k
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    • Zaps Received: 43
    • Sats Earned: 34k
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    • Zaps Received: 27
    • Sats Earned: 3k

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    • Sats Earned: 100k
    • Zaps Received: 3
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    • Sats Earned: 34k
    • Zaps Received: 43
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    • Sats Earned: 21k
    • Zaps Received: 1

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    Dear nostr devs, it’s time to let the follower count thing go. Get rid of them. It’s for our own good.

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1. Nostr Doctor - New Tool

Nostr Doctor is a diagnostic tool that helps Nostr users find and fix common account issues. By entering a pubkey and signing in if needed, it guides users through solutions for problems like dead relays, large follow lists, oversized profile images, NIP-05 mismatches, and poor indexer coverage.

Developed by: @JeffG @hzrd149

2. Flora - New Tool

Flora is a Chrome extension for quick screen recording and sharing. Recordings are stored on Blossom servers you choose and can be published directly to Nostr, enabling simple, decentralized sharing without accounts or centralized platforms.

Developed by: @shawn

3. Amber - v4.1.3

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely signs events for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This release improves relay management, updates default profile relays, and enhances request handling with a bottom-sheet interface and clearer “Sign as” information. It also adds relay-based client auth permissions, improves notifications and UI elements, and fixes several crashes and connection issues to make signing more reliable. This was the latest, and there were also two more releases last week. (v4.1.3-pre4, v4.1.3-pre3)

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

4. Mostro - v0.16.5

Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr. This latest release focuses on refactoring dependency injection with AppContext, removing outdated encryption/password paths, adding a –decrypt-db CLI command for migrations, expanding unit and mutation tests, and general improvements to make the platform more maintainable and secure. There was another release of v0.16.4 also last week.

Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq Sergey B.

5. Notedeck - v0.8.0-rc2

Notedeck is a modern, multiplatform Nostr client built with Rust. This pre-release introduces a Nostr-based auto-update system with SHA256 verification, real-time note stats, profile “View As User” mode, giftwrap support (NIP-59), clipboard image pasting, and NIP-11 relay limitations support, along with multiple bug fixes to improve stability and cross-platform usability. This was the latest, and there was also one more pre-release of the week. (v0.8.0-rc1)

Contributed by: @xtsc…kk5s

6. Aegis - v0.3.10

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer supporting multiple connection methods. This release adds remote sign-in via QR code, introduces optional full/selective authorization for apps, displays native language names in settings, and fixes session timing, scan UI, and scan logic issues.

Contributed by: Zzzz

7. Oxchat - v1.5.5

0xchat is a secure, open-source chat app built on the Nostr protocol. This release improves image and voice uploads on Windows and Linux, introduces multi-level relay and profile picture fallbacks, fixes account-switch crashes, adds one-tap cache clearing, sets FileDrop as the default file server, limits voice messages to 3 minutes, integrates the 0xchat-core code, and adds Docker support for Linux.

Contributed by: @0td4…x2wl

8. Comet - alpha-dad9e24

Comet is a note-taking app for Nostr. The latest update adds replaceable gift wraps with HMAC’d d-tags to allow relays to update notes without accumulating edits and automatically re-pushes all existing notes when a user changes identity, gracefully skipping undecryptable events from the previous key. There were some more multiple releases also last week.

Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli

9. Nymchat - v3.47.169

Nymchat is a lightweight, ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, bridged with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. This release adds LibreTranslate-powered translation, recommends followings in new messages, and routes media, translation, and URL unfurling through a proxy for improved performance and privacy. This was the most feature-rich release, and there were also a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: @Luxas

10. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.1

Mostro Mobile Client is a secure, modern mobile client for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform. The v1.2.1 release introduces a QR scanner for NWC wallet import, multimedia rendering in dispute chats, auto-closing dispute UIs, support for HalCash payments, French translation, enhanced notification tap handling, shared key encryption for dispute chats, and several UI and workflow improvements, alongside 11 bug fixes to improve stability and usability.

Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq

11. Vector - v0.3.2

Vector Messenger is a free, open-source, decentralized, and censorship-resistant chat platform that requires no KYC, blocks metadata tracking, and never shows ads. This release adds image spoilers, rich link previews, mentions and pings, emoji shortcodes, group muting, tap-to-react, music metadata support, cancelable uploads, and failed message recovery. It also improves the audio engine across platforms (especially Linux), file transfer UX, group sync via MLS, and attachment handling, while fixing message bubble overflows, notifications, image sizing, media key handling, search inputs, Android issues, and file integrity verification.

Contributed by: Kevan, alltheseas

12. Wisp - v0.6.0-beta

Wisp is a minimal, high-performance Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds a relay health browser, default DM relay support with private zaps, NIP-23 long-form article reading, npub read-only login, custom colorschemes, and draft-saving in the compose screen, while also fixing feed scroll preservation, wallet display issues, video playback via Tor, and other stability improvements. This was the biggest, and there were also multiple more releases last week.

Contributed by: @RogueHashrate Barry Deen

13. Manent - v1.1.0

Manent is a private, encrypted note and file management app built on Nostr. The v1.1.0 release adds inbound sharing for mobile devices and updates the app icon for improved visual clarity. This was the latest, and there was another release named v1.0.2 last week.

Contributed by: @dtonon


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1. ZSP - v0.4.1

ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays. This latest release adds a flag to skip certificate linking and fixes an etag bug that previously required the override-release option. There was also the v0.4.0 release last week.

Contributed by: @franzap


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1. Nosflare - 7.9.38

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay designed for Cloudflare Workers with a Cloudflare D1 database, enabling lightweight and scalable relay deployments. This release includes a hotfix that resolves an issue where kind 1059 events were being dropped due to NIP-42 authentication handling, improving relay reliability. This was the latest, and there were also multiple more releases last week. (7.9.37, 7.9.36, 7.9.35, 7.9.34)

Contributed by: @Luxas

2. RSSNOTES - v0.0.16

RSSNOTES is a Nostr relay that acts as an RSS-to-Nostr bridge, automatically creating Nostr profiles and notes from RSS feeds. This release introduces a new HTTP router with subpath support and includes several UI improvements to enhance usability and navigation.

Contributed by: trinidz

3. Citrine - v2.0.0

Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android. This release improves relay performance through optimized indexes, database queries, and Kotlin coroutines, enhances hosting for web apps with per-app ports, updates dependencies, adds FTS search support, expands the event screen interface, and introduces options for viewing and downloading tagged events.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3


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


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Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @samalka for helping me with the content and making graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

Recap by @Nomishka


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