🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (12th October 2026)

• “At the risk of sounding sickly I must say I’ve found some amazing people here on Nostr since I rejoined 2 weeks ago (I absconded for personal reasons 3 years ago).
• It feels like the early daze of the web again. There’s vibrance and resonance here. There’s quality over quantity. People actually talk to each other － Not in abundance, which is agreeable to an otrovert such as little ol’ me, but in mostly proportional bytes.
• The tech is even more interesting than it was the first time around and hats off to those of you who are building new things on Nostr. Thank you. That was the whole point all along and now it’s happening.
• It’s never going to be just a feed. Indeed, it’s a journey.
• Love.”
• 1. Another huge release from Divine? 🔥
• 2. This would be awesome 😍
• 3. Great news from Amethyst founder 👇🏻
• 4. Love songs? A nice one from Ivy Lumy 🎵
• 5. Nostr won’t ban you ever 👈🏻
• 6. It’s time to lean towards decentralized platforms 👎🏻
• 7. So curious about this new feature. Aren’t you? 👇🏻
• 8. Do you agree with this definition? 🤔
• 9. This is such a disgusting hack. Be careful 😞
• 10. This is the way to grow Nostr. Hats off to Pegah 👇🏻
• 11. Do you have this conversation with yourself daily too? 😅
• 12. This is really a good sign 😍
• 13. An article worth reading 🔖
• 1. What Is Nostr? Keys, Relays and Clients Explained
• 2. Nostr Clients and Relays: How a Post Travels
• 3. Nostr WoT: One Identity, Wherever You Go
• 4. Why Nostr — and why your audience was never yours
• 5. Nostr Connect: Use Your Remote Signer in the Browser
• 6. Why NOSTR Will Free You From Social Media Hell!
• 7. Lesson 6: How to run your own relay
• 8. How to Back Up and Migrate Nostr Events with Nostr WoT
• 1. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026
• 1. Another nostr stream
• 2. Coinos Version 3
• 3. WoT: Are We the Baddies?
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 1. Amethyst - v1.17.0 (Cordn and several updates)
• 2. Earthly - v0.1.20
• 3. Amber - v6.6.7
• 4. Flotilla - 1.12.0
• 5. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.8.12
• 6. Nostr Mail Client - v0.18.0
• 7. NoorNote - v1.9.0
• 8. Sidecar - v1.15.9
• 9. PsstPsst - v26.10.4
• 1. Nostr Java - v2.4.2
• 2. Mostro Core - v0.17.3
• 3. NDK - v0.11.0-dev.0 (Pre-release)
• 1. GRAIN - v0.8.1
• 2. Nostream - v3.3.0
• 1. Mostro - v0.19.3
• 1. Buzz Desktop - v0.5.28
• 1. Routstr Core - v0.5.0

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§“At the risk of sounding sickly I must say I’ve found some amazing people here on Nostr since I rejoined 2 weeks ago (I absconded for personal reasons 3 years ago).

§It feels like the early daze of the web again. There’s vibrance and resonance here. There’s quality over quantity. People actually talk to each other － Not in abundance, which is agreeable to an otrovert such as little ol’ me, but in mostly proportional bytes.

§The tech is even more interesting than it was the first time around and hats off to those of you who are building new things on Nostr. Thank you. That was the whole point all along and now it’s happening.

§It’s never going to be just a feed. Indeed, it’s a journey.

§Love.”

§1. Another huge release from Divine? 🔥

§2. This would be awesome 😍

§3. Great news from Amethyst founder 👇🏻

§4. Love songs? A nice one from Ivy Lumy 🎵

§5. Nostr won’t ban you ever 👈🏻

§6. It’s time to lean towards decentralized platforms 👎🏻

§7. So curious about this new feature. Aren’t you? 👇🏻

§8. Do you agree with this definition? 🤔

§9. This is such a disgusting hack. Be careful 😞

§10. This is the way to grow Nostr. Hats off to Pegah 👇🏻

§11. Do you have this conversation with yourself daily too? 😅

§12. This is really a good sign 😍

§13. An article worth reading 🔖

by Dyne.org Feb 5, 2026 · Edited

The Future Was Federated

A dissertation on a journey through the evolution of decentralized social media and the necessity for active, conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.

§The Nostr growth indicates differently in several sources!

§According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in the Nostr ecosystem.

§According to https://nostrhub.io/stats

§👉🏻 1,046 relays on the Nostr network

§Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):

§👉🏻 Amethyst - 4,564 Users

§👉🏻 Primal - 2,330

§👉🏻 Ditto - 510

§According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics

§Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):

§👉🏻 Amethyst - 730 Users - 12.3k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal iOS - 680 Users - 6.2k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal Android - 424 Users - 3.6k Notes

§Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):

§👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 435.8k Users

§👉🏻 nos.lol - 382.6k Users

§👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 294.9k Users

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

§👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 4.74M (+16.5%)

§👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 4.62M (+0.7%)

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.12M Zaps

§👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.77 BTC

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 182.3K Users

§Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (User Relay Preferences from NIP-65):

§👉🏻 http://relay.mostr.pub - 675.8K

§👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net - 626.0K

§👉🏻 http://nos.lol - 499.7K

§According to https://zap.observer

§Zapped for the past 7 days,

§👉🏻 Zaps - 12,124

§👉🏻 Sats - 4.7M

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

§During last week:

§👉🏻 Total Users: 2,253 users, compared to 2,997 users the week before

Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrhub.io/stats, https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, by @jeffg https://zap.observer by @The Fishcake🐶🐾 https://npub.world/stats by @pip and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.

§1. What Is Nostr? Keys, Relays and Clients Explained

§2. Nostr Clients and Relays: How a Post Travels

§3. Nostr WoT: One Identity, Wherever You Go

§4. Why Nostr — and why your audience was never yours

§5. Nostr Connect: Use Your Remote Signer in the Browser

§6. Why NOSTR Will Free You From Social Media Hell!

@chtx…f7kg

§7. Lesson 6: How to run your own relay

@AreaBitcoin

§8. How to Back Up and Migrate Nostr Events with Nostr WoT

§1. NOSTRSHIRE - November 2026

📅 Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM (GMT)
📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel, Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Nostrshire @Nathan Day

🔗 Event:

https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

§1. Another nostr stream

§2. Coinos Version 3

§3. WoT: Are We the Baddies?

@Constant @AviBurra @Sirius

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 these insights.

§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: 303
   • Sats Earned: 29k

2. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Zaps Received: 283
   • Sats Earned: 501k

3. Name: @corndalorian

   • Zaps Received: 162
   • Sats Earned: 16k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @aqstr

   • Zaps Sent: 1233
   • Sats Spent: 63k

2. Name: @

   • Zaps Sent: 169
   • Sats Spent: 12k

3. Name: Tux pepe

   • Zaps Sent: 136
   • Sats Spent: 1k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 501k
   • Zaps Received: 283

2. Name: Rachel-Ann Mabulay

   • Sats Earned: 224k
   • Zaps Received: 12

3. Name: Rose Otero

   • Sats Earned: 204k
   • Zaps Received: 7

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @8zpw…evlw

   • Sats Spent: 1M
   • Zaps Sent: 23

2. Name: @BitBetBot

   • Sats Spent: 149k
   • Zaps Sent: 30

3. Name: @m4mv…de73

   • Sats Spent: 140k
   • Zaps Sent: 2

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

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

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   • Sats Earned: 70k

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   • Sats Earned: 24k

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§1. Amethyst - v1.17.0 (Cordn and several updates)

Amethyst is an Android Nostr client for decentralized social networking, messaging, media, and other protocol features. In v1.17.0, it introduces Cordn group messaging and expands support for decentralized lists, geocaching, calendar events, video posts, and music status sharing. The release also improves QR scanning and key backup security, adds backup conflict resolution, strengthens Marmot and Concord group messaging, and brings browser improvements, Tor connection support, and numerous Nostr protocol compatibility and stability fixes.

Contributed by: @VitorPamplona jeremyd, David Kaspar, OptIn, atesfurkan

• Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.17.0

§2. Earthly - v0.1.20

Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that helps people turn local knowledge into shared maps. This release introduces a compact map-style button that cycles between OpenStreetMap, Satellite, and Combined views, while preserving map settings such as layer opacity and road labels. It also adds access to map settings on desktop and mobile, using cloudless Sentinel-2 imagery without requiring an account or API key. Stories remains the default tab when browsing maps. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.1.19, v0.1.18 & v0.1.17 last week.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

• Source: https://github.com/zeSchlausKwab/earthly/releases/tag/v0.1.20

§3. Amber - v6.6.7

Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that lets applications request signatures securely. This release improves relay reconnection after network issues, VPN changes, and switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data. It also fixes browser signing requests failing in browsers such as DuckDuckGo and a crash involving permissions for deleted or reset applications.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

• Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.6.7

§4. Flotilla - 1.12.0

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the idea of “relays as groups,” bringing communities and conversations together. Release 1.12.0 adds cross-platform screen sharing during calls, a redesigned content library, profile locations with a member map, improved notifications, voice notes, calendar reminders, and rich link previews. It also improves message handling, privacy settings, and upload reliability while fixing several interface and content-loading issues.

Contributed by: @hodlbod

• Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.12.0

§5. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.8.12

Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension that provides Nostr Web of Trust features, NIP-07 signing, and a built-in Lightning wallet. Version 0.8.12 introduces password-free archive downloads and imports, verifying that imported events belong to your account and have valid signatures. It also keeps support for older encrypted exports and improves the positioning of archive dialogs. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.8.11 last week.

Contributed by: Leon Acosta

• Source: https://github.com/nostr-wot/nostr-wot-extension/releases/tag/v0.8.12

§6. Nostr Mail Client - v0.18.0

Nostr Mail Client is a Flutter-based email app built on Nostr that lets users send and receive encrypted emails. This release introduces sender requests and spam management, community-shared themes, private relay management, and a Windows installer. It also improves email identity handling, contact details, logout security, and cross-device syncing, while fixing several issues affecting email display and app stability.

Contributed by: @Russell

• Source: https://github.com/nogringo/nostr-mail-client/releases/tag/v0.18.0

§7. NoorNote - v1.9.0

NoorNote is a Nostr client for publishing and discovering decentralized content. The release v1.9.0 adds recipe publishing and browsing, lets users open shared recipe packs, and introduces full support for NIP-5A websites (nsites), including a website grid on profiles. The update also improves relay stability, enables Android to open nostr: links directly, and adds useful actions for unfamiliar event types. There was also the release of v1.8.3 last week.

Contributed by: @alp

• Source: https://github.com/77elements/noornote/releases/tag/v1.9.0

§8. Sidecar - v1.15.9

Sidecar is a browser-sidebar Nostr keystore and signer that helps users manage their Nostr identity and sign events. This release fixes Blossom server discovery during media uploads, allowing it to find servers declared through the account’s relays and retry failed lookups instead of defaulting to nostr.build. It also improves upload progress indicators, keeps the composer toolbar stable during proof-of-work mining, and updates the composer’s close button and draft layout. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.15.8, v1.15.7 & v1.15.6 last week.

Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel 🖖

• Source: https://github.com/dmnyc/sidecar/releases/tag/v1.15.9

§9. PsstPsst - v26.10.4

PsstPsst is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that lets people communicate without a phone number, using Nostr or Bluetooth. This version adds pause-and-resume downloads for attachments and the ability to resend messages. It also improves contact syncing, video controls, message forwarding, attachment sharing, and emoji display, while fixing missing messages during history sync. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v26.10.3 & v26.10.2 last week.

Contributed by: @Cody

• Source: https://github.com/CodyTseng/psstpsst/releases/tag/v26.10.4

§1. Nostr Java - v2.4.2

Nostr Java is a Java library for generating, signing, and publishing Nostr events. The release v2.4.2 fixes GenericEvent.update() to preserve a preset created_at timestamp instead of overwriting it.

Contributed by: Eric T

• Source: https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java/releases/tag/v2.4.2

§2. Mostro Core - v0.17.3

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that powers the Mostro daemon for peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading over Nostr. This release aligns the user-info action with the protocol specification, adds a way to retrieve your own reputation, and rejects user-info requests made outside the restore wrapper. There was also the release of v0.17.1 last week.

Contributed by: @negrunch @Pinball Wizard

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.17.3

§3. NDK - v0.11.0-dev.0 (Pre-release)

NDK (Nostr Development Kit) is a Dart library that helps developers build Nostr applications. This pre-release adds relay switching support to the NIP-46 event signer and an AuthHandler to request consent before an identity authenticates, alongside fixes for WebSocket user-agent handling, d-tag trimming, and request timeout cleanup. This pre-release includes breaking changes.

Contributed by: @Russell @leo

• Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.11.0-dev.0

§1. GRAIN - v0.8.1

GRAIN is a comprehensive Nostr solution that provides a powerful relay for operators and a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. In v0.8.1, the client library gains safer multi-user support with separate authentication and relay settings for each user. It also fixes event filtering and time-window queries, verifies incoming event IDs and signatures, and improves session handling and HTTPS cookie security. The relay itself is unaffected by this release. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.8.0 last week.

Contributed by: @OceanSlim

• Source: https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain/releases/tag/v0.8.1

§2. Nostream - v3.3.0

Nostream is a Nostr relay written in TypeScript that stores and serves events to Nostr clients. This release adds configurable event-storage backend selection, network health warnings when NIP-11 information differs from probe results, and optional backoff timings in rate-limit responses. It also improves relay monitoring with read/write latency probes, NIP-42 authentication detection, mirror-target checks, and richer NIP-66 discovery data.

Contributed by: Ricardo Cabral, Chappie, Abhay, Anshuman

• Source: https://github.com/cameri/nostream/releases/tag/v3.3.0

§1. Mostro - v0.19.3

Mostro is a censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. This release adds trust-list imports, user reputation sharing, payer history tracking, and support for makers to choose their preferred Cashu mint. It also improves payment handling and fixes LNURL requests that were incorrectly using system proxies.

Contributed by: @negrunch @Pinball Wizard

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.19.3

§1. Buzz Desktop - v0.5.28

Buzz is a Nostr-based workspace where people and AI agents collaborate through a relay they control. This release raises the hosted community limit to 50 and adds tools to browse and moderate all communities from the Admin Console. The release also improves Windows notifications, OpenAI-compatible endpoint settings, mobile channel management, thread replies, and push notifications, alongside relay and infrastructure updates. This was the latest release of the week, and there was also v0.5.27.

Contributed by: Bradley Axen, Will Pfleger, Tom Brow, Luke Tornquist, VSCteam, Kalvin C, Ian Oberst, klopez4212, Bartok, chiller, Junchao Yan, Tyler, Salman Mohammed, tbedor-square2, tbedor, Logan Johnson, Carlos Jimenez, benthecarman, olympusbuildz

• Source: https://github.com/block/buzz/releases/tag/desktop-v0.5.28

§1. Routstr Core - v0.5.0

Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy that enables pay-per-request access to OpenAI-compatible AI APIs. This release improves payment handling with better Lightning refunds and Cashu token support, expands AI provider integrations, and adds model routing to find cheaper providers. It also introduces request-level logging, private node onboarding, automatic Nostr identity generation, and improved timeout handling, performance, and billing accuracy.

Contributed by: @Juraj @redshift Saleh Alghusson, 9qeklajc

• Source: https://github.com/Routstr/routstr-core/releases/tag/v0.5.0

§No Exploration Tools Updates and Releases for last week.

Nostr is built by plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr 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 Ninety-Seventh Nostr Recap & share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

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