🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (19th January 2026 - 59th Edition)
- 🧠 Quotes of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
- 😂 Nostr Memes
- 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🫡 Credits
🧠 Quotes of the Week
“if you look around, nostr is full of a special kind of people who dont give up easily.”
“Because of Nostr and Bitcoin and the AMAZING peaople behind them, I have hope again. I feel like I can smell the fresh air of freedom again.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. He is gonna travel in South Asia this year ✈️
2. An amazing optimum jargony podcast about Divine! Let’s take a listen and share 🎧
3. Jack explains the new features of Bitchat 👇
4. An amazing Nostr Stats site created by JeffG 👇
5. A nice feature introduced by Geyser 😍
6. We need more podcasts like this 👇
7. This is the method that Nostr grows 😉
8. He is getting a great decision about Nostr 👌
9. Why he is on Nostr? 🤔
10. A Nostrich list for explore 📋
11. Nostr is the one & only solution for this 😎
12. Well said Franny! 💯 agree 👈
13. This comment proves that Nostr is growing 😍
14. A great explanation about Nostr 👏
15. Yeah this world for all of us! 🌏
16. A normie is so happy about Nostr and Bitcoin 😍
17. Yep, All of us never give up 🙅
🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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://nostr.watch, there are more than 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment.
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉 Publishing Users last week: 257.5K (-39.0%)
👉 New Users Last week : 216.8K (+27.5%)
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉 Total Users: 1,712, compared to 1,536 users the week before
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
👉 Total Zaps: 34,417, compared to 40,400 zaps the week before
👉 Total Zap Senders: 2,798, compared to 2,749 plebs the week before
👉 Total Zap Amount: 7,411,136, compared to 6,454,048 sats the week before
👉 Total Events: 2,840,257, compared to 2,780,570 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.
🎓 Educational Guides
1. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 48: Proxy Tags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvh8-CyYok
2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 49: Criptografia de Chave Privada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP-Vvt-GlD0
3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 50: Capacidade de Busca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu2fjqrqOA
4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 51: Listas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CLEocwR5JU
5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 55: Aplicação Assinadora para Android
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqGvN9xVevU
6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 56: Denúncias Reporting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsIHuPYF8k
7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 57: Lightning Zaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUseKL7xDc
8. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 58: Emblemas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztk96YGtiA
9. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 59: Gift Wrap (Embrulho de Presente)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jbvEYKSVQ
10. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 60: Carteiras Cashu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-QseP0idI
📅 Upcoming Events
1. nostr live talk radio
📅 Date: Saturday, January 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT 📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio (Online) 🤹♀️ Organizers: @Corny Chat
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, @Sebastix
🔗 Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDDNPS-posse-content-drupal-nostr
3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcdbcb/
4. 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: @Derek Ross @shawn @OpenMike @ajdav21 @bitkite
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. Nostr KILLS the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNo28yb9wI
2. Exiting the Matrix with Nostr first look full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSVnr_oSmQ
3. Use Syncstr to Sync your Nostr Profile Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XFJMH50mG0
4. Primal for Nostr – A Proper Deep Dive (After Snort Missed the Mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfke_cFXkA
5. Nostr, Bitcoin, and the Quest for Home with Avi Burra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslR87J5KEw
6. NOSTR, Network States, and New Life - It’s all pura vida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhvJTNHg6o
7. Nostr: cenzúraálló közösségi média
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP4HHYMxlog
⚡ 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 https://zaplife.lol by @PABLOF7z for providing this data.
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 534
- Sats Earned: 29k
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Name: @calle
- Zaps Received: 297
- Sats Earned: 51k
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Name: @Jor
- Zaps Received: 254
- Sats Earned: 182k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 3640
- Sats Spent: 110k
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Name: @FLjustin
- Zaps Sent: 188
- Sats Spent: 32k
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Name: @Paul Allen
- Zaps Sent: 148
- Sats Spent: 2k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 492k
- Zaps Received: 193
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Earned: 265k
- Zaps Received: 49
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Name: @leo
- Sats Earned: 182k
- Zaps Received: 9
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 348k
- Zaps Sent: 75
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Name: @npub1...e2jsd
- Sats Spent: “Not mentioned the amount”
- Zaps Sent: 3
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Name: @DamageBDD
- Sats Spent: 170k
- Zaps Sent: 3
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: 75
- Sats Earned: 8k
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- Zaps Received: 80
- Sats Earned: 12k
-
- Zaps Received: 64
- Sats Earned: 34k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 34k
- Zaps Received: 2
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- Sats Earned: 34k
- Zaps Received: 64
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- Sats Earned: 32k
- Zaps Received: 1
😂 Nostr Memes
🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Amber - v4.1.0-pre1
Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that lets users securely approve and sign Nostr actions for apps and services. This pre-release introduces a refreshed UI for login, event handling, and permission screens, refactors relay counters to use the updated Quartz library methods, and fixes an issue where relay connections were not properly closed when adding unsupported relays. These changes improve usability, visual clarity, and connection reliability, resulting in a smoother and more robust signing experience for users.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
2. Mostro - v0.16.0
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange that uses the Lightning Network for payments and Nostr for coordination and messaging. This release refines Mostro’s event model by introducing separate Nostr event kinds for orders, ratings, informational messages, and disputes, and by explicitly including the dispute initiator in dispute events. Alongside documentation updates, these changes improve protocol clarity, interoperability, and auditing, making exchanges easier to reason about for developers and more transparent and reliable for end users participating in Lightning-based P2P trades.
Contributed by: @Pinball Wizard @negrunch
3. Mostro CLI - v0.14.5
Mostro CLI is a command-line tool for end users and operators that connects to the Mostro ecosystem and displays new replaceable events, such as orders, directly from Nostr in a simple, text-based interface. This release adds premium information to the listorders table, making order listings more informative, removes unnecessary dependencies like dotenv to simplify setup, updates documentation to clarify that running a Lightning node is not required, and includes several internal fixes. Together, these changes make Mostro CLI easier to install, clearer to use, and more useful for quickly monitoring Mostro activity and order data from the terminal.
Contributed by: @Pinball Wizard @negrunch
4. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.14.1 : 🧹✨🌌 The Witch’s Broom Nebula
Alby Lightning Browser Extension acts as a Bitcoin Lightning wallet and a Nostr key signer, providing deep integration with Lightning, Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain services. This release fixes the extension on Firefox for Android, ensures the correct icon displays in Chrome dark mode, disables context menus on Android, and detects the browser theme for proper icon updates, improving usability, visual consistency, and cross-browser compatibility for end users.
Contributed by: Pavan Joshi Source: https://github.com/getAlby/lightning-browser-extension/releases/tag/v3.14.1
5. Bitchat - v1.5.0
Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that uses both local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline messaging and the Nostr protocol for global communication. This release adds support for voice notes and images over the mesh, introduces a new mesh routing algorithm, integrates a Tor framework for improved privacy, and implements security audit fixes. These updates enhance user experience by enabling richer media messaging, improving offline and global message delivery, and increasing overall security and reliability of communications.
Contributed by: @jack @calle Islam, a1denvalu3, Jithin Renji, Vinicius Moreira, Nadim Kobeissi, Will Han, Mike A., A, chernomortsev evgeny, Chris
6. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.26.69
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight chat client built on the Nostr protocol that supports both ephemeral and persistent messaging, bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary communication. This release introduces peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, allowing users to exchange files directly without relying on central servers. This improves privacy, decentralization, and convenience, giving users more control over how their data is shared. This was the one and only release of the week that adds a feature and there were also some multiple hotfix releases last week. (v2.26.73, v2.26.72, v2.26.71, v2.26.70, v2.25.69, v2.25.68, v2.25.67, v2.25.66, v2.25.65)
Contributed by: @Luxas
7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.0.7
Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, enabling decentralized trading and encrypted communication. This release adds an in-app logging system for easier debugging, a push notification system with encrypted token registration for real-time alerts, and encrypted file messaging for secure attachments. It also introduces a backup account reminder, fixes issues with order creation times and background notifications, unifies brand colors, improves UI elements, and updates trade and info event handling. These changes make the app more reliable, secure, and user-friendly, enhancing the trading and messaging experience on mobile.
Contributed by: @negrunch
8. Angor - 0.2.3
Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables trust-minimized project funding and investment without intermediaries. This release enhances real-world usability by adding automatic monitoring of Bitcoin addresses to invest incoming funds, clearer handling of unconfirmed and reserved balances, and support for Liquid mainnet, while significantly improving the project creation experience with a revamped Create Project v2 flow, new wizard stages, better visuals, and added business logic. Performance and maintainability are improved through deferred loading of project statistics, cleanup of unused investor and founder classes, minor type fixes, and better subscription handling, resulting in a smoother, more robust, and more scalable funding experience for both founders and investors.
Contributed by: @dangershony José Manuel Nieto, TheDude, RITANKAR SAHA
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Pomade - New Developer tool
Pomade is a recovery protocol and implementation designed for Nostr multisig signers, enabling secure coordination and restoration of access when signers are lost, unavailable, or compromised, without weakening the multisig security model.
Developed by: @hodlbod
2. Mostro Core - v0.7.0
Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer and Nostr event primitives used to build decentralized exchange applications, serving as the core foundation for the Mostro daemon. This release fixes order data handling by correctly including created_at and expires_at fields, and introduces a breaking change that separates distinct Nostr event kinds for orders, ratings, and related actions. These updates improve protocol correctness, clarity, and long-term extensibility, making it easier and safer for developers to build, maintain, and evolve applications on top of the Mostro ecosystem.
Contributed by: @negrunch @Catrya
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Citrine - v1.0.1
Citrine is an Android Nostr relay that allows users to host and relay Nostr events on mobile devices. This release improves performance in the content resolver, fixes a potential SQL injection vulnerability, and adds proper error handling, making the relay more secure, reliable, and efficient for end users.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v1.0.1
👋 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-ninth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap, and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
🫡 Credits
👉🏻 Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
👉🏻 A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!
👉🏻 Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff for this recap!
👉🏻 Recap by @Nomishka
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