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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (03rd November 2026)

By Nomishka November 2, 2026
The 100th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (03rd November 2026)

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@Contra

“Remember when you bought something and just owned it?

Now everything is a subscription, every feature is locked behind a paywall, and every company wants to shove an Al chatbot into your face.

We are paying more money to have a worse experience. That is not “Incredible” progress. Can we not follow suit here on Nostr please!”

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1. That’s really a nice song 🎶

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2. What do you think about this? 🤔

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3. A newbie is trying to connect with other nostriches 🫶

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4. Devs should find solutions for these bugs soon 👇

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5. That’s great starting the spread Nostr from the family 🔥

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6. This note has a deep meaning 👇

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7. Do you feel the same? 🫵

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8. Great news from “Nostrich” 😍

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9. How cool is this? 👇

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10. Let’s wish Mosha happy 17th birthday 🎂

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11. Who will join to spread Nostr? 👈

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12. That’s really a good suggestion ✅

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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

👉🏻 1092 relays on the Nostr network

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 2,690 Users

👉🏻 Primal - 2,498 Users

👉🏻 Ditto - 534 Users

According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics

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

👉🏻 Amethyst - 727 Users - 11.2k Notes

👉🏻 Primal iOS - 694 Users - 6.9k Notes

👉🏻 Primal Android - 460 Users - 4.4k Notes

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

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 481.9k Users

👉🏻 nos.lol - 427.9k Users

👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 313.7k Users

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 3.72M (-50.8%)

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last Week: 3.58M (-52.0%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 7.16M Zaps

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.92 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 183.0k Users

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

👉🏻 relay.mostr.pub - 674.1k Users

👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 673.0k Users

👉🏻 nos.lol - 545.1k Users

According to https://zap.observer

Zapped for the past 7 days,

👉🏻 Zaps - 13,014 Zaps

👉🏻 Sats - 6M Sats

According to https://npub.world/stats

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 6,606 users, compared to 3,123 users the week before

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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.

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1. BitChat: The Messaging App That Works Without Internet

@npub1nzjmlcrfrhr0ws2tc9zu8kt2ymwvpap02s0rq3ywccuycsju0dds5n67g0

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2. Decentralized Git on Nostr

@arbadacarba @conference

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3. New signer pager for the nostr keys

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4. What is Nostr and how it works, simply explained

@Plak | Final Step Bitcoin

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1. Bitcoin, NOSTR and the Future of the Internet

📅 Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 9.00 PM EST
📍 Location: Courtyard by Marriott Naples, 3250 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL, United States
🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @cluborange

🔗 Event:

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https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvctyvy6kgdpex3nxxenyxcerqde3v9snvcenxvzkyws9

2. 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:

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https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

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1. What Is Nostr? The Social Network With No Company Behind It

@Constant

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2. Has anyone tried using Nostr for agents to talk to each other?

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3. How to Build a Market That NO ONE Can Shut Down

@d9dg…6h5w @EricFJ

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4. Satlantis, and Why Nostr Matters

@jordi @XXISATSTREET

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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: Barra

    • Zaps Received: 343
    • Sats Earned: 2M

  2. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Zaps Received: 267
    • Sats Earned: 489k

  3. Name: @flash

    • Zaps Received: 237
    • Sats Earned: 43k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 607
    • Sats Spent: 25k

  2. Name: @

    • Zaps Sent: 301
    • Sats Spent: 12k

  3. Name: @Greeny

    • Zaps Sent: 249
    • Sats Spent: 158k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: Barra

    • Sats Earned: 2M
    • Zaps Received: 343

  2. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Sats Earned: 489k
    • Zaps Received: 267

  3. Name: @3zps…k89n

    • Sats Earned: 382k
    • Zaps Received: 17

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: “The name is not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 669k
    • Zaps Sent: 100

  2. Name: “The name is not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 641k
    • Zaps Sent: 104

  3. Name: “The name is not visible”

    • Sats Spent: 583k
    • Zaps Sent: 83

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: 58
    • Sats Earned: 5k

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    • Zaps Received: 32
    • Sats Earned: 3k

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    • Zaps Received: 31
    • Sats Earned: 2k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

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    • Sats Earned: 150k
    • Zaps Received: 1

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    • Sats Earned: 150k
    • Zaps Received: 1

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    • Sats Earned: 80k
    • Zaps Received: 2

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1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.27

Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form mobile video app built around Vine’s iconic six-second looping format, focusing on human-made content. This version expands its video creation tools with new particle effects, animated masks, keyframes, transitions, sound treatments, and image adjustments. It also introduces interactive stickers for mentions, hashtags, links, and sound credits, alongside improvements to profile layouts, video sharing, and direct messaging. This was the latest, and there was also a pre-release “Divine 1.0.27 — candidate archive (2026-10-30)” last week.

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

2. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - v3.15.1 (🏹🌌 The Great Nebula in Orion)

Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning browser extension that connects users to Lightning wallets and provides signing support for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin. Version 3.15.1 tightens payment validation by allowing webln.keysend() to accept only positive whole-number satoshi amounts, rejecting invalid formats before requesting user approval. The same validation applies to keysend payments initiated directly from the extension. The release also updates browser compatibility data and development tools, including GitHub Actions running on Node 24.

Contributed by: @René Aaron

3. Jumble - v26.10.1

Jumble is a user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds and interacting with content across the network. This release introduces a long-form article editor, system notifications, cross-device muted-word syncing, relay monitoring, video playback speed controls, and the ability to disable DMs. It also adds group chat message viewing and support for browsing Git repositories, issues, and pull requests, alongside redesigned image galleries, faster publishing, improved media previews, and several bug fixes.

Contributed by: @Cody

4. YakiHonne Mobile App - 2.1.1

YakiHonne is a decentralized social media app built on the Nostr protocol, offering a censorship-resistant and privacy-focused way to connect and share content. Version 2.1.1 introduces an All profile filter that brings together notes, replies, mentions, highlights, and pins without duplicates. The update also improves overall app stability and fixes several issues affecting media editing and export, notifications, wallet and Cashu payments, messaging, scheduled notes, account management, and other features.

Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik

5. Manent - v3.0.1 - linux preview (Pre-release)

Manent is a private, encrypted notes and file storage app built on Nostr, allowing users to keep their personal information securely. This pre-release is a Linux-only maintenance release that enables voice-note recording without requiring FFmpeg, with the app capturing raw audio and creating WAV files directly. It also adds PulseAudio utilities as a dependency for Debian and RPM packages, ensuring recording works on fresh installations, and provides clearer installation guidance when the required tools are missing.

Contributed by: @dtonon

6. Roadbeacon - v0.5.1

Roadbeacon is a decentralized road event reporting system that aims to offer a Waze-like experience without centralized tracking. Version 0.5.1 improves its MeshCore integration by automatically recovering when the radio disconnects, explaining why road events are not being received, and allowing users to request the #roadstr channel directly through MeshCore Open. It also adds a shortcut to open MeshCore Open settings, support for the registered Road Events data type 0x0150 alongside the development type 0xFF52, and an optional flood region setting to control the radio’s message coverage. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.4.2, v0.4.1 & v0.4.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Juraj

7. Nostr WoT Extension - v0.8.20

Nostr WoT Extension is a browser extension for signing Nostr requests, managing accounts, sending Lightning payments, and optionally exploring social connections through a Web of Trust. Version 0.8.20 standardizes Lightning addresses to use the @nostrwot.com domain across wallet features, including address claims, copying, receive QR codes, and profile updates. Existing @zaps.nostr-wot.com addresses continue to work with the same wallet, while custom-provider addresses remain unchanged. There was also the release of v0.8.19 last week.

Contributed by: @leon

8. Nostr Mail Client - v0.19.1

Nostr Mail Client is a Flutter-based email app that lets users send and receive encrypted emails through the Nostr protocol. This release improves the email composition experience on mobile and web, including a more compact signature toolbar and fixes for typing, text formatting, and email selection. It also resolves delivery issues when sending emails through relays that require authentication, improves reply and forward formatting, and addresses several interface and usability issues across supported platforms.

Contributed by: @Russell

9. NoorNote - v1.9.5

NoorNote is a client for Nostr, the decentralized social protocol, designed for interacting with content across the network. This release adds support for resolving NIP-58 badges to display their actual names, descriptions, and images. The update also fixes nested replies in comment threads, improves quote loading inside reposts when relays respond slowly, and corrects German interface labels. There was also the release of v1.9.4 last week.

Contributed by: @alp

10. White Noise Android - v2026.10.27

White Noise Android is an Android messaging client for the White Noise protocol, powered by Marmot bindings for private, decentralized communication. This version updates the app to the final MarmotKit 0.14.0 release, bringing on-device transcription of received audio, agent setup in new messages, and improved group relay information. The update also improves message forwarding, dictation, translation, and read-aloud synchronization, alongside more reliable attachment downloads, recovery flows, and notification handling. For added security, animated images are now decoded in a separate process without permissions.

Contributed by: @Danny, the Cyber Guy @jeffg Datawav, Mubarak Auwal

11. Verdana - v0.1.2

Verdana is a NApp runner for desktop and Android that allows users to discover and launch applications built for the Nostr ecosystem. Version 0.1.2 adds support for handling nostr: and nostrapps.com links, suggesting available NApps when no suitable app handler is found. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.1.1 last week.

Contributed by: @fiatjaf

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1. NDK (Nostr Development Kit) - v0.11.0-dev.2 (Pre-release)

NDK (Nostr Development Kit) is a Dart library that simplifies building Nostr applications by providing tools for interacting with relays, events, and other protocol features. This pre-release adds NIP-49 private-key encryption, on-demand relay information fetching, cached relay details, and improved Blossom upload checks. It also strengthens key-handling security, improves relay connection and request error reporting, and fixes issues with event broadcasting, zaps, relay lists, and network communication. This pre-release includes breaking changes to request handling, broadcasting, and relay information fetching.

Contributed by: frnandu, @Russell @leo

2. ZSP - v2.0.0

ZSP is a fast command-line tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays, and is used by Zapstore to distribute applications. Version 2.0.0 introduces an entirely revamped, agent-friendly experience, making the publishing workflow more accessible to AI agents and automated tools.

Contributed by: @franzap

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1. Nostream - @3.9.0

Nostream is a Nostr relay written in TypeScript that enables users to host and manage their own Nostr infrastructure. This release adds peering information to the relay’s NIP-11 document, allowing other relays to discover available feeds, connection details, payment terms, and proof-of-work requirements before connecting. It also lets clients see their subscription tier, improves Docker networking to prevent address conflicts, adds automatic retries for temporary Cloudflare deployment failures, and introduces an official production relay setup guide. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of “nostream@3.10.1”, “nostream@3.10.0” & “nostream-website@1.3.4” last week.

Contributed by: Ricardo Cabral, Chappie, Priyanshu Bharti, Abhay

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1. Mostro - v0.20.2

Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr and the Lightning Network, enabling users to trade bitcoin directly. Version 0.20.2 adds a stablecoin pricing provider with fixed fiat pegs and treats BTC, LBTC, and RBTC as equivalent at a 1:1 ratio in sats. It also improves fiat-to-sats rounding, order limit checks, bond HTLC timing, and Lightning invoice descriptions, alongside pricing and reputation documentation updates.

Contributed by: @negrunch

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1. Flotilla - 1.14.0

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the idea of “relays as groups,” allowing people to communicate and interact in shared spaces. This release brings several improvements to the social experience, including article and poll creation, a unified activity stream, zaps and quote posts, reaction and zap counts, and easier member discovery. It also adds on-device voice-note transcription, quotation-style highlights, and a Share to Chat option, alongside improvements to mobile navigation, calls, relay authentication, and draft uploads.

Contributed by: @hodlbod

2. Pubkey Quest - v0.1.47

Pubkey Quest is a web-based, D&D-style RPG that uses a player’s Nostr identity to generate a unique character and lets them explore a persistent world stored on Nostr relays. This release adds a sortable and filterable items table to the project wiki, making it easier to browse and organize game items. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.1.46 last week.

Contributed by: @OceanSlim

3. Sidecar - v1.16.5

Sidecar is a Nostr keystore and signer that lives in the browser sidebar, allowing users to manage their accounts and approve signing requests while browsing. Version 1.16.5 adds automatic EXIF metadata removal from photos before upload, a panel zoom setting, and an emoji picker in the composer. The update also redesigns the composer toolbar, improves image handling and auto-lock behavior, and makes uploads to users’ own Blossom servers more reliable. Several fixes further improve account importing, attachment previews, poll counts, and the layout of the narrow sidebar. Although this was the latest, there were also the releases of v1.16.4 & v1.16.3 last week.

Contributed by: @daniel

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1. Nostr VPN - v4.1.19

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN that uses Nostr-related infrastructure and a FIPS-based data plane to connect devices securely. This version improves network joining and automatic reconnections, fixes desktop networking and control issues, and strengthens connection security. The update also adds appearance options and IPv6 exit-route support on Windows, while further work is still needed to reduce idle CPU usage on iPhone.

Contributed by: @Sirius @s0vt…9adx max, Tom

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No Exploration Tools Updates and Releases for last week.

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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 Hundredth 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 your 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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