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🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (26th January 2026 - 60th Edition)

By Nomishka January 26, 2026
The 60th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter.
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (26th January 2026 - 60th Edition)

🧠 Quotes of the Week

@geyser

“Geyser has been permanently banned from Instagram.

No explanation given.

As a result, we’ll be fully migrating all our Instagram content on Nostr.

Boycott Instagram, choose Nostr. 💪”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. New DiVine UI updates first of all in Nostr 😍

rabble
Jan 24, 2026 15:00

New UI updates for DiVine before we push to ZapStore for our initial Android beta release.

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2. Getting rid of the life sentence after more than 11 years 🕊️

RealRossU
Jan 21, 2026 18:13

One year ago today, a prison guard banged on my cell door and said: YOU’RE FREE!!

After more than 11 years under a life sentence, I walked out of max security prison with Leaf Erikson, the little plant I was growing in my cell.

Leaf and I are so grateful for our second chance at life.

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3. Ultimate onboarding experience for Nostr from Paul Keating 😍

paulinthejungle
Jan 22, 2026 17:19

I still can’t believe I built this…

Gift Nostr accounts, propose content to Nostr users, and migrate your existing social media accounts.

Instagram. TikTok. Twitter. Substack.

My site never sees your key or a new users’ key. How? Check the comments.

I’m sure this will break, but damn I’ve been having fun building this.

Will make a proper tutorial video after battle hardening it.

Nostr is the final destination for your content. We need more bridges over here and powerful onboarding tools for our power users.

Taking a screen break. Let me know how it goes.. I’m nervous.

https://ownyourposts.com

https://blossom.primal.net/28710f4d39565fdf85af414996572678c002491c1dae352c3574854632add201.mov

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4. This proves how the centralized platforms disrespect freedom 👇🏻

geyser
Jan 20, 2026 14:55

Geyser has been permanently banned from Instagram.

No explanation given.

As a result, we’ll be fully migrating all our Instagram content on Nostr.

Boycott Instagram, choose Nostr. 💪

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5. Let’s join Nostr wellness check 🤘🏻

mcshane
Jan 23, 2026 17:17

protocol wellness check

if you’re an active nostr please interact with this post in some form

would like to follow more people

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6. Do you know what a pleb is? 🫵🏻

Fzero
Jan 20, 2026 19:35

What’s a pleb?

A pleb is a grounded human unit, a base-layer human node, operating at a high signal frequency within a larger network.

A pleb understands that influence is not derived from status, scale, or authority, but from conscious alignment and resonance.

By contributing attention, energy, and value at the base layer, the pleb strengthens the whole system while remaining free, anti-fragile, and culturally sovereign.

Lost in the crowd by design, powerful through coordination. A pleb trades ego for leverage, status for participation, and control for resilience.

Small on their own, powerful in aggregate.
Individually modest, collectively unstoppable.

gillian
Jan 20, 2026 19:25

what’s a pleb? like what does it entail why would i want to be one?

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7. She uses the latest feature on Geyser 👇🏻

ivylumi
Jan 20, 2026 18:38

LOVE IS THE CURE is live on Geyser 💊✨

After months of reflection and creation, I’ve launched a 60-day, all-or-nothing fundraiser on @b6dcd...e5ee7 🤍

This is an experiment in music you can hodl — using Bitcoin not just as money, but as a way to support creativity, healing, and independent work directly.

I didn’t arrive at Bitcoin through charts or code. I arrived through curiosity and a deep pull toward freedom. Bitcoin gave shape to that instinct. Over time, music gave it a place to live.

Bitcoin showed me what freedom could look like.
“Love is the cure” showed me how to live it.

Many of you know me through my work across the #Bitcoin space since 2021. Working inside this ecosystem taught me proof of work, responsibility, and trust — but it also revealed something quieter: money amplifies what we carry within. Without care and inner work, conviction alone isn’t enough.

This campaign brings those worlds together.
🔗 https://geyser.fund/project/loveisthecure

On the page, you’ll find:
✏️the story behind The Cure and my journey through Bitcoin and music
💿a limited physical edition — music and small artifacts, created intentionally
💌an invitation to participate in how Bitcoin can be used to fuel creativity and healing, value-for-value

Small artifacts. Anchors.
Music you can hold, keep, or pass on.

This isn’t a pre-order or a merch drop.
It’s an all-or-nothing fundraiser — either we build it together, or it doesn’t happen.

By supporting it, you’re part of an experiment in using Bitcoin beyond speculation — value for value, artist to listener, human to human.

Shout out to @24d36...0d317 and @7b849...cd617 for the creative support along the way, and to @b6dcd...e5ee7 and @8b0a2...d369f for building cool tools for the community.

Thank you to everyone who’s been listening, sharing, resonating, and beyond — your support inspires me daily!

If this way of creating — independent, intentional, and human — resonates with you, I invite you to spend a moment with the page.

Read the story.
Watch the videos.
See if it meets you where you are.

Love is the cure 💊✨
And a life with Bitcoin is only worth living if we choose it with intention.

With love,
Ivy Lumi✨

#loveisthecure #ivylumi #geyser
https://blossom.primal.net/1f71ce5e7738a53694561541304b97d8cf0a4eca010df11c7485163f9ece5bc9.mp4

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8. Got rid of almost two decades slavery and embrace freedom 😍

Bfgreen
Jan 22, 2026 02:21

Just deleted 19 years worth of Twitter/X - goodbye!

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9. Well said by Derek Ross 👌🏻

Derek Ross
Jan 21, 2026 23:57

Nostr isn’t just a reaction to what’s broken with legacy social media. Nostr is an active effort to build what comes next. We’re laying the foundation for a future where communities are owned by the people in them, where communication is open by default, and where freedom is designed into the system from day one. Every app we build is a conversation and every conversation we have is a brick laid on that foundation. Keep vibing.

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10. This is 💯% true. Do you agree?

Shortfiat
Jan 22, 2026 11:31

In the physical world, we have power because we can pay for things.


We can make things happen.


We can ask others to do work for us.


We can own land, tools, machines, and goods.

We can earn money by doing things for others.


We can sell what we produce.


We can own things.


Money is the mechanism that turns effort into agency.

In the digital world, most people still live in a feudal system.

There has been no native money and no native ownership.

We could create, but not own.


We could build, but only if we gave it away for free.

So something else became the currency.

We became the currency.

Our time.
Our attention.
Our data.

Digital systems had to extract from us in order to be viable businesses.


To make money they had capture our focus, shape our behavior, and sell access to our minds.

Bitcoin is money in the digital world that we can actually own.


We can use it to pay other directly for their work.

Nostr gives us identity and connection that we own.


No platforms standing between us and the people we choose to connect with.

In this new, uncontrollable environment, we can buy digital content with our own money.


Every payment is a vote for the future that we want to exist.

We can own what we create.


We can sell copies directly to others.


We can earn Bitcoin for our work.

Fanfares.io

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11. We should encourage devs like this 💪🏻

Stirling Forge
Jan 22, 2026 07:57

So I made a Nostr Rideshare Protocol, and two apps: Ridestr and Drivestr

It relies on no company and no proprietary servers. All communication and synchronization is Nostr. All ride fares are calculated locally by your phone using routing map data delivered via blossom on first launch, and It uses the locally running android geocoder and or GrapheneOS geocoder for name to address search experience. Default payment method is Cashu over Bitcoin/Lightning, but I plan to expand with Nostr Wallet Connect options, as well as a pay in cash option (that drivers can filter out if they don’t want to deal with it). Wallets are synced via NIP-60 nostr wallets for cashu. All other app profile features are synced cleanly with nostr.

I will be open sourcing it of course when it’s ready to launch. Android only so far, but I fully plan to make an IOS version if people like the idea.

The cashu implementation has been buggy, so I’m working through the bugs on that one day at a time, but let me know if you wanna see it!

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Stirling Forge
Jan 23, 2026 04:00

Okay everyone, here is a demo! https://blossom.primal.net/4a719ee6a659c9a653134b86ca7af3fbfa2883794cf63c853d629f262d34ce0a.mp4

Stirling Forge
Jan 22, 2026 07:57

So I made a Nostr Rideshare Protocol, and two apps: Ridestr and Drivestr

It relies on no company and no proprietary servers. All communication and synchronization is Nostr. All ride fares are calculated locally by your phone using routing map data delivered via blossom on first launch, and It uses the locally running android geocoder and or GrapheneOS geocoder for name to address search experience. Default payment method is Cashu over Bitcoin/Lightning, but I plan to expand with Nostr Wallet Connect options, as well as a pay in cash option (that drivers can filter out if they don’t want to deal with it). Wallets are synced via NIP-60 nostr wallets for cashu. All other app profile features are synced cleanly with nostr.

I will be open sourcing it of course when it’s ready to launch. Android only so far, but I fully plan to make an IOS version if people like the idea.

The cashu implementation has been buggy, so I’m working through the bugs on that one day at a time, but let me know if you wanna see it!

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12. A great news from Plebeian Market 😍

13. This is the life which most of the people spend 👇🏻

VitorPamplona
Jan 23, 2026 00:18
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14. A Nostrich asks for recommendations from the Community 👇🏻

Danish
Jan 19, 2026 12:42

I been testing lot of the new newer clients for Nostr and I will say wow we really starting to see lot of really amazing looking both simple and super advanced clients ..

The nerd in just love to see this ..

But as I’m working on articles I would love some feedback from all you out there

What is your Favorite Mobile client

What is your favorite Desktop client

What is your favorite Web client

And of course why do you like them ..

Add anything else you wanna say about Nostr good or bad ..

#asknostr #grownostr #feedback

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15. A great news from a Nostrich 🤩

laoc42
Jan 23, 2026 06:08

GM
From March on I will be working full-time nostr.
No grant. I went around the last two years on every conference of my profession and someone listened and it clicked. We will be building a platform for religious education learning materials and we will build it fully on nostr and probably #communikey
You can just create the jobs you want to work on.
You can’t imagine how much I look forward to it.
#grateful

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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 950 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.

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

👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 296.7k (+15%)

👉🏻 New Users Last week : 257.4k (+18.6%)

👉🏻 All time Zap Count : 6.41M

👉🏻 All time Sats Amount : 41.69 BTC

👉🏻 All time Zap Senders : 168.6K

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

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 2,604, compared to 1,712 users the week before

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Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights.

🎓 Educational Guides

1. NOSTR: Why Jack Dorsey Put Millions Behind This Censorship Resistant Protocol!

@Constant

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yX7HeBl5V8

2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 56: Denúncias Reporting

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hsIHuPYF8k

3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 57: Lightning Zaps

@Agiota

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUseKL7xDc

4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 58: Emblemas

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bztk96YGtiA

5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 59: Gift Wrap (Embrulho de Presente)

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jbvEYKSVQ

6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 60: Carteiras Cashu

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-QseP0idI

7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 61: Nutzaps

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZhqlrsGXnM

📅 Upcoming Events

1. nostr live talk radio - January 2026

📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM GMT 📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio (Online)

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @c0rn…tlvg

🔗 Event: https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzps78xgf0kmxc35dvcx8ksjwxvrzx50yh9066wek9jwxsvj0amjmuqq3kxmmjdeukx6rpwshxxmmd94hx7um5wfexzerfduknzdek8yur2vekxqcqn3jf4g

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 - February 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 @05d3…uhce @bitkite

🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. PBJ: Unpacking Bitcoin’s Underperformance, Vibecoding with Nostr, Prediction Markets

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

2. From Recipes to Relays: Seth’s Zap.Cooking Playbook for Building on Nostr

@ZapCooking @heatherlarson @seth

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3URnFKrkus

3. Nostr Rebellion Kill Rage Bait, Own Your Social Wouter Constant S2 EP4

@Havok

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFhIjfBOFu0

4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 21: Another Notch on Your NPUB

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaIYkSz4IY

⚡ 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: 539
    • Sats Earned: 73k

  2. Name: @uno

    • Zaps Received: 239
    • Sats Earned: 40k

  3. Name: @Gigi

    • Zaps Received: 239
    • Sats Earned: 17k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 313
    • Sats Spent: 19k

  2. Name: @piotr

    • Zaps Sent: 176
    • Sats Spent: 43k

  3. Name: @lemon

    • Zaps Sent: 147
    • Sats Spent: 35k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @fountainboostbot

    • Sats Earned: 473k
    • Zaps Received: 217

  2. Name: @BitBetBot

    • Sats Earned: 415k
    • Zaps Received: 60

  3. Name: @justinmoon

    • Sats Earned: 224k
    • Zaps Received: 119

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: @BitBetBot

    • Sats Spent: 301k
    • Zaps Sent: 99

  2. Name: @leo

    • Sats Spent: 190k
    • Zaps Sent: 5

  3. Name: @MartyBent

    • Sats Spent: 142k
    • Zaps Sent: 10

😂 Nostr Memes

  1. corndalorian
    Jan 23, 2026 17:57
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  2. corndalorian
    Jan 23, 2026 15:35
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  3. corndalorian
    Jan 19, 2026 22:38

    Yall are killin it

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  4. DuneMessias
    Jan 22, 2026 09:24

    GM. Twist and shout.

    Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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  5. IntuitiveGuy☯️
    Jan 23, 2026 15:34
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  6. Delete this 🔥
    Jan 23, 2026 11:21

    Gm Yes or #Nostr ? What do you think ?

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  7. Delete this 🔥
    Jan 22, 2026 01:53
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  8. Delete this 🔥
    Jan 20, 2026 12:25

    GM 🫡

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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Nonboard - New Tool

Nonboard is a lightweight Nostr onboarding widget built with MithrilJS, designed to seamlessly guide new users through getting started on Nostr with minimal friction.

Developed by: @jlrs…ynqn

2. Ridestr - v0.1.3 (Back Handler & Edit Profile Fixes) - New Tool

Ridestr is a decentralized rideshare platform built on Nostr that enables peer-to-peer ride coordination without centralized control. This release improves Android usability by adding proper back-gesture handling and refining the profile flow, separating profile setup from editing with clear titles, buttons, and correct responses to the system back button, making navigation smoother and less confusing for users. This was the latest and there were also the releases of v0.1.2 (Wallet Balance Check for Fare Boost), v0.1.1 and v0.1.0 (Initial Release) last week.

Developed by: @Stirling Forge

3. Pathos - v0.0.19 - New Tool

Pathos is a decentralized activist platform built on Nostr and Bitcoin that enables communities to organize, collaborate, and take coordinated action in a censorship-resistant way. This release introduces an Android APK for direct installation, making Pathos easier to access and use on mobile devices without relying on app stores. This was the latest and there was also the release of v0.0.18 last week.

Developed by: @Derek Ross

4. Amber - v4.1.0-pre3

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that allows users to securely generate, manage, and sign Nostr events. This release introduces a refreshed UI for login, events, and permissions screens, refactors relay counters using the updated Quartz library, fixes relay connection issues and datastore handling, exposes datastore errors, adds a loading indicator during login, removes old migration code, and improves private key error reporting, resulting in a more robust, user-friendly, and reliable signing experience. This was the latest release and there was the release of v4.1.0-pre2 also last week.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

5. Aegis - v0.3.6

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that supports multiple connection methods. This release introduces running the local relay as a foreground service on Android, adds bottom padding to prevent overlap with the navigation bar, shows the connection count for the local relay, and fixes an event count issue, resulting in improved usability and more accurate relay monitoring for users.

Contributed by: @ZharlieW

6. Flotilla - 1.6.3

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client built around the concept of “relays as groups.” This release improves user experience and reliability by fixing UI issues like scroll button layering, tooltips on mobile, chat list responsiveness, and image fullscreen dialogs, enhancing video embeds, room editing, and profile selection. It also strengthens functionality with support for blocked relays, authentication policy settings, reporting pending signers, default relay updates, memory leak fixes, and login with a key when no signer is detected, making the app more stable, user-friendly, and secure.

Contributed by: @jlrs…ynqn

7. 0xchat App - v1.5.3

0xchat App is a secure chat application built on the Nostr protocol. This release enhances messaging and file handling by adding automatic draft saving for Moments, default file storage via FileDropServer and BlossomServer, and better reply context by moving replied-to messages to the top. It also fixes tag-based topic search, note search responsiveness, reply display issues, and pending Cashu proofs handling, ensures the Cashu wallet is available before claims, and fully aligns with NIP-55, resulting in a more reliable, secure, and user-friendly chat experience. This was the biggest release and there was the release v1.5.3 desktop release also last week.

Contributed by: @0td4…x2wl

8. Primal Android App - 2.6.21

Primal Android App is Primal’s Android client for Nostr. This release fixes multiple issues including handling local signer requests from deleted apps, resolving race conditions when loading uncached articles, ensuring valid pubkey hex for local signer login, allowing external signer login with hex pubkey, correcting malformed NostrConnect relay parameters, caching LocalApps names, fixing session event row order, preventing crashes from missing Cronet R8 rules, enforcing wss prefixes for relay URLs, correcting Nostr Connect screen layout overflow, fixing replies published as root notes under low connectivity, and adding support for reading NIP-92 dimensions, improving stability, reliability, and Nostr compatibility.

Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic, Marko Kocic

9. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.26.74

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral and persistent chat client built on the Nostr protocol, bridging with Bitchat for anonymous, temporary messaging. Release v2.26.74 is a hotfix that deprecates nostrmedia.com in favor of blossom.band, ensuring media links now point to the updated, supported service for more reliable content handling.

Contributed by: @Luxas

🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

1. Nostr Java - v1.2.1

Nostr Java is a Java library for generating, signing, and publishing Nostr events, enabling developers to integrate Nostr functionality into Java applications. This release refactors NIP-44 key derivation for improved reliability, enhances error handling, and updates several dependencies, resulting in a more robust and maintainable library for building Nostr-based applications.

Contributed by: @398ja

2. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.7.0

Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library designed to enhance the Nostr development experience by providing tools for event handling, relay communication, and Nostr protocol integration. This release improves relay handling and reconnections, fixes NWC deserialization and event tampering vulnerabilities, adds wildcard tag search, introduces isolates for compute-heavy tasks, updates NIP-44 encryption detection, deprecates old filters, and unifies cache event APIs, resulting in a more secure, efficient, and developer-friendly environment for building Nostr applications in Dart.

Contributed by: @w9ll…3tur @Russell @Anipy frnandu

3. Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades (SNSTR) - v0.2.0

SNSTR is a secure, lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol, providing a simple API with minimal dependencies. This release improves compatibility and developer experience by replacing NIP-04’s runtime require() switching with a registry pattern for clean ESM and bundler support, removing Node crypto from web builds for proper tree-shaking, fixing NIP-51 content field validation, clarifying NIP-57 zap pubkey usage, and exporting ephemeral relay utilities for easier testing, resulting in a more robust, modular, and testable Nostr development toolkit.

Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

1. Citrine - v1.0.2

Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android that enables decentralized event publishing and retrieval. This release fixes a crash that occurred when attempting to restore follows, improving app stability and ensuring a smoother relay experience for users.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

👋 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 Sixtieth 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

#grownostr #nostrrecap #nostr #newsletter
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