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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (06th October 2025 - 44th Edition)

By Nomishka October 5, 2025
The 44th dose of your Weekly Nostr Newsletter
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (06th October 2025 - 44th Edition)

🧠 Quote of the Week

@Ryan

“You’re free to post what you want. Relay operators are free to host what they want. You’re free to host your own relay. Users are free to block what they want. Clients are free to block what they want. Users are free to use whatever client they want.”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. The latest dose of Revolution.social: Rabble with Adam Aleksic

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2. A lady pleb so happy to be here on Nostr

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3. Nostr doesn’t do this for you

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4. This is an awesome freedom

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5. This pleb has realized the importance of Nostr

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6. This is 100% true

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7. A farmer is being a Nostrich

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8. What do you think about this? Do you agree?

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9. This Pleb proves the freedom on Nostr

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10. Everyone of you can find your joy and happiness in Nostr

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11. Wanna be an influencer? This is the path

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12. Community should help these projects to make Nostr better

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

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

During last week:

  • Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before

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According to https://stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

  • Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before

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  • Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before

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  • Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before

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  • Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before

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Many thanks to 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. NOSTR Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨

@daniella

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhXdsJr8Hw

📅 Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025

  • 📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025

  • ⏰ Time: 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM EDT

  • 📍 Location: Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @NostrValley

  • 🔗 Event: https://nostrvalley.com/schedule

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

3. Nostrasia - November 2025

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. This is how Nostr benefits users

image https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8pQg-MMHzNg

2. Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr

@npub1...lx3vt

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNaZ35KIo8

3. I am sure these comments will make some plebs

@the8thHouse

image https://www.instagram.com/p/DPSED_wkqmt

@Zulfaqar

image https://www.instagram.com/p/DPYZ6WvDXiF

4. This is well said: 100% agree

@jakewoodhouse

image https://x.com/jakewoodhouseio/status/1974546310461005833

⚡ 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

  1. Name: @flash

    • Zaps Received: 678
    • Sats Earned: 47k

  2. Name: @Ryan

    • Zaps Received: 480
    • Sats Earned: 29k

  3. Name: @HODL

    • Zaps Received: 307
    • Sats Earned: 26k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @fuckstr

    • Zaps Sent: 340
    • Sats Spent: 18k

  2. Name: @Rasha

    • Zaps Sent: 249
    • Sats Spent: 3k

  3. Name: @FLjustin

    • Zaps Sent: 213
    • Sats Spent: 29k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @Nostr Hack Day

    • Sats Earned: 227k
    • Zaps Received: 5

  2. Name: @jack

    • Sats Earned: 178k
    • Zaps Received: 8

  3. Name: @jb55

    • Sats Earned: 122k
    • Zaps Received: 108

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: @Rizful.com

    • Sats Spent: 407k
    • Zaps Sent: 39

  2. Name: Patru

    • Sats Spent: 178k
    • Zaps Sent: 1

  3. Name: scrolls of ancient wisdom

    • Sats Spent: 88k
    • Zaps Sent: 36

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqkx8gx4xxrpd5dd9dfmur5znsxggh5g9qn7a9k958ae9a7ndyvvkqy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qqsde476zenj24fg46klp2cexaq7a479yc0fcrk4dn4u7mu823c99cqxd3whm

    • Zaps Received: 83
    • Sats Earned: 32k

  2. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp3pmhdvw9e4u97292avz2lmt55efzpaaf6p8gp5v9ymvd8veszmaqqs0t0hkazpf2qc8dm8s3u72zgu400x8nka7f96m0cyvdn5z9te0e6c0a855a

    • Zaps Received: 64
    • Sats Earned: 7k

  3. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqec8cw0xc5l0j3w9mu5677rx0hy5rmvqp9yef0fxflvqdfhq5v3sqqsxaq5w20ffv6tchg0ew65m3z88rzrq4mcahdpkwlgdpqqun48qxmcxcg3v9

    • Zaps Received: 55
    • Sats Earned: 21k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

  1. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq3svyhng9ld8sv44950j957j9vchdktj7cxumsep9mvvjthc2pjuqqsyarruguha2y3xsujq75j96vr8xncy3hds4uqwkm4lcqe8n4dz7tqa3vznr

    • Sats Earned: 43k
    • Zaps Received: 3

  2. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq0mhp4ja8fmy48zuk5p6uy37vtk8tx9dqdwcxm32sy8nsaa8gkeyqqs2d65pqpvn5zczyrdq4gjder4h0cu40rscdkvk2yr4srvdj27em7s0q8yhp

    • Sats Earned: 38k
    • Zaps Received: 10

  3. nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzphaw5l7qa8y60p86j0mljnjr5vnvmnm87eat3ntkfgr2689jmf75qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uqzput65vlcjfsm9f6mlkzfe0g08jyx789z06x7en8ut0kn3swsmux0u3x92u

    • Sats Earned: 37k
    • Zaps Received: 1

😂 Nostr Memes

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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Flotilla - 1.3.0

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client designed around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to chat, manage spaces, and interact in a decentralized way. This release introduces optional badges and sounds for notifications, improves link rendering, restores Blossom feature detection for spaces, and enhances the light theme. It also adds more signer status information, simplifies navigation for adding spaces, enables QR code scanning for invite links, streamlines wallet setup with improved receive address settings, switches mobile storage to Capacitor file API, and fixes duplicate DMs.

2. Coop - v0.2.11

Coop is a simple and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, the focus was on improving message handling, with refactoring of the message sending process and follow-up fixes to ensure smoother and more efficient communication within the app.

3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1

Yakihonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter that provides a seamless Nostr experience, allowing users to interact with relays, manage keys securely, and engage with content across platforms. In this release, the app introduced a redesigned app bar with new Black and Ivory themes, a database-first architecture supporting offline mode, relay orbits for easier relay discovery, Nsec bunker integration, updated content boxes and video types, and default custom reactions. Performance optimizations were applied across feeds, notifications, content sharing, and searching, alongside clickable relay URLs, improved handling of Nostr schemes, and various bug fixes for a smoother user experience.

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Mostro-core - v0.6.55

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library for building Nostr-integrated decentralized applications, providing peer-to-peer functionality and support for Lightning Network features. In this release, it introduced order request handling, added an InvalidFiatCurrency error for better validation, and refactored fiat currency checks to streamline operations. The release also improved CI workflows, removed unnecessary artifact creation, fixed formatting and clippy warnings, and added new error enums in tests, all of which enhance stability, reliability, and developer experience for Nostr-based P2P and Lightning Network applications.

2. Aegis - v0.0.2-beta

Aegis is a lightweight, cross-platform Nostr signer that allows users to securely sign events and manage keys using multiple connection methods. In this beta release, Aegis adds support for the NIP-55 Intent Method, enhancing its interoperability with other Nostr tools and enabling seamless event signing across connected applications.

3. GitPlaza - v0.11.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client designed for developers who want to manage Git repositories and issues within the Nostr ecosystem. In this latest release, it adds a search bar for issues, label selection when creating issues, display of issue label chips, support for creating issues with tags derived from content, showing kind numbers for unknown event types, and deduplicating tags when creating events. Performance improvements include faster repo views, optimized database queries, and cleanups on shutdown, while bug fixes address UI notifications, filter persistence, and theme updates.

4. Nostrcheck Server - 0.7.0

Nostrcheck Server is a comprehensive Nostr-based server solution designed for managing services while ensuring data sovereignty within the Nostr ecosystem. This release introduces a brand-new Nostr relay built from scratch with full NIP support and adds multi-tenancy capabilities, allowing different domains to run on a single instance with separate configurations. Other improvements include enhanced security, database, and Redis engines, a new logging system, upgraded AI moderation, legal/privacy/TOS pages, a refactored dashboard, custom file type support, better theming, a key converter frontend, a relay management frontend, an improved install script, and general code cleanup, making the platform more robust, configurable, and user-friendly.

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

1. Nosflare - v7.4.13

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built using Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database, designed for scalability and efficiency without traditional server infrastructure. In this release, a hotfix was introduced to address an issue where durable objects were not utilizing the hibernation API properly. This fix improves resource management and relay performance, ensuring more stable and cost-efficient operation.

👋 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-fourth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

🙌 Credits

Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for giving me this idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!

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

Recap by @Nomishka

#grownostr #nostrrecap #nostr #newsletter
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