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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (10th August 2026 - 88th Edition)

By Nomishka August 9, 2026
The 88th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (10th August 2026 - 88th Edition)

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@Gigi

“If you’re thinking about killing yourself because your wallet got drained, please don’t. Please. Please seek help immediately. Money comes and goes, but the hole you would rip into the social fabric around you can NEVER be repaired. Ever. Call a suicide hotline. Call someone. Now.”

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1. If you are passing a hard time, inspire from this real-life lesson and start again 👇🏻

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2. These kinds of notes help to cure the mental level of the plebs who are not only lost funds but also stressed at the moment 🫶🏻

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3. An important piece of advice from a popular Nostrich 👌🏻

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4. A notice from OpenSats 👇🏻

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5. Here is the vlog v.7 of MadMunky 🪵

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6. Helping fellow nostriches would be awesome. That’s humanity 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

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7. Being a father is a very rich feeling in life 👨🏻‍🍼

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8. Derek talks about the attack risk 👇🏻

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9. Let’s pray for his wife’s recovery 🙏🏻

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10. A nostrich celebrated the 22nd year of their marriage with honor feeling about his wife ❤️

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11. This pleb is so glad to be on Nostr 👏🏻

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12. We just have 2 weeks left to submit Nostriches 👇🏻

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Nostr was growing slightly for the last week!

According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now.

According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics

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

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 976 Users - 12.1k Notes

👉🏻 Amethyst - 879 Users - 16.0k Notes

👉🏻 Primal Android - 620 Users - 6.4k Notes

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

👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 316.7k Users

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 255.3k Users

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 220.4k Users

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 6.42M (+29.5%)

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 5.14M (-16.9%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.01M

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.39 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 180.4k

According to https://npub.world/stats

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 7,582 users, compared to 7,025 users the week before

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

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1. Why You Should Not Paste Your Nostr Private Key Into Websites

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2. Nostr Relay Proxy: Deploying a Nostr Relay Service Using Cloudflare Workers

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3. Deploy Buzz on Your Own Kubernetes Cluster

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4. How to login to Nostr for decentralized messaging in the USA

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5. Someone Built Slack for AI Agents, 22k Stars on GitHub

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6. Jack Dorsey’s Buzz: The Open Source Slack for AI Agents Team

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7. The Workspace Built for Human

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1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2026

📅 Date: Sunday, September 06, 2026
⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris

🔗 Event:

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https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/315897653/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026

📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified)
📍 Location: Munich
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup

🔗 Event:

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https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqhqmqsq4yn3q08xvk94w75spay4c0p9fzu290p8d5nwkpwgn3f98qqex6atwd93ksttwdaehgu3dd4jk2ar4wqkkuethvf5k2ueddejhyern94mk2mrrdakk2tf3xycxzeryxycqekle0a

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1. Where is your Energy? Start Building

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2. I created my own website, and it’s uncensorable thanks to NOSTR

@Plak | Final Step Bitcoin

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3. AI iss Rebuilding the Internet: Agents, Secret Messages, and What Comes Next

@Dustin @jesseposner

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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 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: 427
    • Sats Earned: 50k

  2. Name: @Gigi

    • Zaps Received: 327
    • Sats Earned: 34k

  3. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Zaps Received: 249
    • Sats Earned: 832k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 1573
    • Sats Spent: 69k

  2. Name: @BitBees

    • Zaps Sent: 173
    • Sats Spent: 4k

  3. Name: @Turkey

    • Zaps Sent: 163
    • Sats Spent: 8k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Sats Earned: 832k
    • Zaps Received: 249

  2. Name: oshi

    • Sats Earned: 314k
    • Zaps Received: 105

  3. Name: @28f3…5ce3

    • Sats Earned: 250k
    • Zaps Received: 1

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: @agustinkassis

    • Sats Spent: “Not showing correctly” (More than 252k)
    • Zaps Sent: 8

  2. Name: @lemon

    • Sats Spent: 252k
    • Zaps Sent: 139

  3. Name: @JCube

    • Sats Spent: 172k
    • Zaps Sent: 2

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

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    • Zaps Received: 242
    • Sats Earned: 44k

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    • Zaps Received: 84
    • Sats Earned: 16k

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    • Zaps Received: 62
    • Sats Earned: 23k

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    • Sats Earned: 258k
    • Zaps Received: 61

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    • Sats Earned: 236k
    • Zaps Received: 42

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    • Sats Earned: 111k
    • Zaps Received: 2

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1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.19 (Pre-release)

Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form mobile video app built on Nostr, bringing back Vine-style 6-second looping videos with a focus on human-made content. This pre-release adds on-device captions, crossposting, improved video editing and immersive viewing, stronger Nostr relay and NIP-17 handling, multi-account improvements, faster publishing, expanded language support, and numerous fixes across the app.

Contributed by: @rabble @dcadenas @Liz mbradley, Alex Frei, Meylis

2. Stash Bookmark - New Tool

Stash Bookmark is a lightweight Nostr app for Android that lets users bookmark and highlight content they find on Nostr, making it easy to save and revisit important posts.

Developed by: @laoc42

3. Earthly - v0.1.0

Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that lets people turn local knowledge into shared, useful maps. In v0.1.0, the release adds map callouts, making it possible to highlight or annotate specific locations and information on shared maps.

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

4. Amber - v6.4.0

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely handles signing requests from Nostr applications. In v6.4.0, the release redesigns the multi-request approval screen with clearer Approve/Deny controls for individual requests and groups, adds support for 113 additional event kinds with localized labels, and improves handling of denied bunker requests. It also adds light/dark previews for approval screens, improves relay subscription stability, and updates translations across supported languages.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

5. Jumble - v26.8.1

Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds. This release adds image saving, PoW difficulty badges with an option to remember preferred difficulty, and link previews for external content. It also improves profile bio handling and default relay settings, while fixing media autoplay conflicts, unsupported reaction notifications, and unnecessary relay disconnection messages.

Contributed by: @daniel

6. WaveFunc Radio - v0.1.10

WaveFunc Radio is a Nostr-based internet radio directory and player with full-text search capabilities. In v0.1.10, the release focuses on improving the mobile listening experience with a polished mobile player and refinements to the radio signal charts. Although this was the latest, there were a few more releases last week (v0.1.9, v0.1.7, v0.1.6, v0.1.5 & v0.1.4).

Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab

7. Nostur - v1.30.2

Nostur is a Nostr client for iOS. This release improves name and tag autocomplete, private replies, and direct-message media handling with per-conversation cache controls. It also enhances live chat by showing replied-to messages and stream or room titles in notifications. The update fixes crashes, feed loading, video picture-in-picture behavior, GIF search, content expansion, and nested reply layouts, along with updated translations.

Contributed by: @Fabian

8. Nostrord - v2.8.0

Nostrord is a Nostr client focused on NIP-29 group communication. This release adds private groups through NIP-51 kind:10009 lists, introduces browserless Google sign-in on Android, and updates NIP-46 handling by removing the nip44_decrypt_batch extension. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v2.7.0, v2.6.0 & v2.5.1 last week.

Contributed by: @Anjhc

9. NootNote - v1.3.2

NoorNote is a Nostr client for the decentralized social protocol, focused on reading and publishing content. This release improves the article feed by using a friend-of-a-friend network, prevents repeated backlog messages from generating excessive notifications, and fixes Android log exporting from Settings.

Contributed by: @alp

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1. Mostro Core - v0.14.2

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. In v0.14.2, the release updates the chat protocol by replacing gift-wrapped messages with kind 14 envelopes using K_conv/K_sign, along with the corresponding chat implementation and changelog updates.

Contributed by: @negrunch @Pinball Wizard

2. ZSP - v0.4.17

ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays, used by Zapstore. In v0.4.17, the release improves package publishing by cleaning up downloads on exit, preferring forge releases, excluding unsigned APKs, and handling unparseable remote configurations more gracefully.

Contributed by: @franzap

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1. RSSNotes - v0.1.0

RSSNotes is a Nostr relay that works as an RSS-to-Nostr bridge, creating Nostr profiles and notes from RSS feeds. In v0.1.0, the release introduces a rewritten dark-mode GUI, adds a Public/Private option when publishing notes, and moves the database and QR codes to Docker volumes for better persistence.

Contributed by: trinidz

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No Protocol Updates and Releases last week.

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1. Buzz Desktop - v0.5.8

Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you own. This release unifies the agent-adding workflow and improves agent task handoffs by separating the summarizer’s reasoning budget while also adding a development infrastructure change to bind services to loopback. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v0.5.7, v0.5.6, v0.5.5 & v0.5.4 last week.

Contributed by: Wes, Tyler, Paweł Karniej, Taylor Ho

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1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.34

Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that allows users to share their Lightning nodes through Nostr accounts and connect them with compatible web applications. This release focuses on security hardening and reliability, particularly around Lightning swaps, payments, and Nostr debits. It adds stronger verification of swap data before on-chain actions, improves swap settlement and replay protection, prevents incorrect automatic refunds for ambiguous payment failures, and strengthens debit frequency-limit enforcement. No API, configuration, or database changes are required. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.0.33 last week.

Contributed by: @shocknet_justin boufni95

2. Routstr Core - v0.4.5-beta (Pre-release)

Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy for OpenAI-compatible AI APIs with pay-per-request billing. This pre-release improves security and reliability with encrypted node secrets, enhanced provider routing and rate limiting, safer Cashu payments and refunds, wallet and payout fixes, improved billing and cost tracking, and database connection and session handling.

Contributed by: 9qeklajc, @Jeroen Ubbink @redshift

3. Nostr VPN - v4.1.6

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN that uses Nostr for coordination and a FIPS-backed data plane to create secure connections between devices. Version 4.1.6 improves reliability across platforms with better exit-node discovery and connection stability, improved VPN service startup and single-instance behavior, and a simpler device-joining process while retaining QR and manual joining options. There was also the release of v4.1.5 last week.

Contributed by: @Sirius

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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 Eighty-Eighth 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 graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

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